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Hillis was also founder and music director of the American Choral Foundation (now Chorus America), an organization that sought to raise the standards of choral performance. In 1992, Hillis conducted the Interlochen Arts Academy Orchestra and Choir as part of the Mozart Bicentennial Celebration in Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center , New York.
Born Howard Shelton Swan in Denver, Colorado, Swan was the son of D. Shelton Swan and Ethel Katherine Miller Swan. [5] His father was a math teacher who eventually became the principal of Fairfax High School in Los Angeles, California [5] The family moved to Southern California before Howard began elementary school, [5] and in 1913 the family established a residence in Hollywood, California. [4]
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In 1934, Marier began fifty-two years of musical service at The Church of St. Paul (Harvard Square) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, first as organist and from 1947 as choir director. In 1963, with Monsignor Augustine F. Hickey, he founded a choir school associated with the parish, St. Paul's Choir School, and directed it until his retirement in ...
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Jessop was named Associate Director of the Choir in 1995 and became its director in 1999. Under Jessop's direction the Choir won many awards, including the Special Recognition Award from the International Radio and Television Society Foundation and a National Medal of Arts presented by George W. Bush. He served in that position until suddenly ...
Jul. 20—"One of the joys of my life is directing choir," says Cathy Gillhouse, the new director of the Mission Valley Choral Society. "I love it." She also brings loads of experience to the post ...
He worked as a choir director and as an employee of the FDGB, the Kulturbund and other institutions. Kurzbach re-entered the teaching profession and was, among other things, head of the Karl-Marx-Stadt Folk Music School. From 1951 to 1975 he was chairman, then honorary chairman, of the composers' association in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district.