Joseph Edgar Maddy (October 14, 1892 – April 18, 1966) was an American music educator and conductor.
[1] The radio program taught band and orchestra instrumentation with instruction books distributed by NBC.
[8] In 1941, Maddy became the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra's fourth music director after conductor William Champion was called into service with the United States Navy.
Maddy maintained strong ties to the National Music Camp at Interlochen and helped to establish the Langford youth scholarships along with symphony supporters.
[9] He was a member of the Epsilon chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and a recipient of the Charles E. Lutton Man of Music Award.
He was a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity,[10] and he received an honorary degree from Earlham College in 1965.