Tupper Saussy

Frederick Tupper Saussy III (July 3, 1936 – March 16, 2007) was an American composer, musician, author, artist, and conspiracy theorist. His contemporaries describe him as a self-styled theologian, restaurant owner, ghostwriter of James Earl Ray's biography, King assassination conspiracy theorist, anti-government pamphleteer, and ahead of its time opponent of the federal government’s taxation and monetary authority. He was born in Statesboro, Georgia; grew going on in Tampa, Florida; and graduated from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1958. His jazz combo there injured a university-subsidized album, Jazz at Sewanee, which included several native compositions. Thereafter Saussy taught English at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, co-founded an advertising agency, McDonald and Saussy, and kept his musical career alive as soon as recording dates and club sessions. With the Nashville Symphony, he composed a work called The Beast later than Five Heads (1965/66), based on "The Bremen Town Musicians", designed to replace Peter and the Wolf as a measure to teach schoolchildren nearly orchestration, which continued to be used for the adjacent fifteen years. For its 1968/69 season, the Nashville Symphony commissioned him to write a piano concerto for Bill Pursell; it was performed by the Symphony on January 14, 1969, with Thor Johnson conducting.