Art&Seek presents This Week in Texas Music History. Every week, we’ll spotlight a different moment and the musician who made it. This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman celebrates a music teacher who helped launch dozens of successful careers.

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Miriam Gordon Landrum died on Jan. 2, 1967. Born in Waco on Nov. 25, 1893, she studied piano in Paris, France. During the 1920s, Landrum taught at the University of Texas and went on to help found the Austin Chapter of the Music Teachers’ Association and the Texas School of Fine Arts. While serving on the board of the National Guild of Piano Teachers, she continued to teach, perform and publish educational materials. Landrum also played a leading role in making the Austin Symphony the oldest continuously performing symphony orchestra in the state of Texas.

Miriam Landrum taught piano for the remainder of her life and earned numerous teaching awards. Her students won multiple honors, and many went on to successful professional careers.

Next time on This Week in Texas Music History, we’ll remember a man who helped make others famous while avoiding the spotlight himself.