In addition to his career as a concert pianist, Ellsworth Snyder taught at Milton College in Wisconsin until it closed in 1982. His unconventional new music lectures of the late 1960s drew large crowds. He wrote extensively about the Fluxus movement and gave courses in piano pedagogy. In 1971 he took the position of music director at the Frank Lloyd Wright designed First Unitarian Society of Madison, Wisconsin where he created a concert series that embraced both experimental and traditional music.