Waterbrooks

1938

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Title
Waterbrooks. vol. 1
Creator
Whitmer, T. Carl (Thomas Carl), 1873-1959 (author)
Date
1938
Identifier
31735068992548
Description
T. Carl Whitmer, an American composer and organist was born in Altoona, PA, 24 June 1873 and died in Poughkeepsie, NY, 30 May 1959. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; his teachers included Charles Jarvis (piano), Samuel Prowse Warren (organ), and William Wallace Gilchrist (composition). He was organist of Pine Street Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, PA (1898-1899), director of the school of music at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri (1899-1909), director of music at Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University), Pittsburgh (1909-1916), and organist and choirmaster of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh (1916-1932). He then moved to Dramamount, his farm near Newburgh, NY, where he had been teaching composition in the summers, and where instruction in dancing, painting, and music flourished (his wife, Helen Crozier, was a painter). Whitmer was especially known for the religious music dramas written for performance at the Dramamount festivals; he also composed songs, organ pieces, anthems, and chamber and orchestral works, though few of these were published.
Extent
2 volumes (378 pages) ; 29 cm
Type
text
Genre
biographies (literary genre)
Subject
Whitmer, T. Carl (Thomas Carl), 1873-1959
Musicians--Autobiographies
Musicians--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh
Geographic Subjects
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Language
eng
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Collection
Historic Pittsburgh Book Collection
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