*1935
Composer / Conductor
A.k.a. Eugene Sanders Butler
Composer, conductor, educator and church musician. Born January 13, 1935 in Durant, Oklahoma. His undergraduate degree was earned at Oklahoma University in 1957. His masters degree in Sacred Music is from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1960 and his Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition was earned in 1974 from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He has published over 1000 compositions with some 50 different publishers. As a composer, Dr. Butler has received various honors such as Kansas "Composer of the Year" and the coveted ASCAP Standard Music Panel Award. In May of 2011, all of his manuscripts, music publications, letters and memorabilia were transferred to the American Composer Archives of the Miller Nichols library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.