Between 1880 and 1925 the choir of men and boys passed from a few city parishes into cathedrals, parish churches, schools, and Catholic and Lutheran congregations from Boston to Los Angeles. This register names 132 choirmasters and organists who trained such choirs, or taught those who did. 26 of them are already in the index of this site; 106 are new to it. It records 150 posts and 141 churches and schools, 108 of them with a boy choir stated in print. Every entry rests on a passage read in The Diapason, 1909 to 1925, or in the International Who’s Who in Music of 1918, and the passage is quoted.
The inquiry began at St. Paul’s, Akron, with Mr. John Gordon Seely. Born at Las Vegas, N. M., in 1882, he studied the organ with Dean Lutkin at Northwestern, his teacher for four years
. At Akron he followed Mr. Sydney Webber, a pupil of Arthur Priest of Hartford and of Prof. G. Edward Stubbs of New York; Mr. Webber had followed Mr. John B. Norton. From 1919 Mr. Seely was at Trinity, Toledo, for more than 25 years, where The choir of fifty men and boys bears testimony
to his work. His first post, St. Peter’s, Chicago, kept its boys after him: in 1920 Mr. Hyde left it because the demands of a boy choir interfered
with his other duties, and in 1924 Mr. Willard L. Groom advertised it as St. Peter’s Church (50 Men and Boys)
.
Certain masters recur. Prof. Stubbs taught the training of boys’ voices to 4 men in this register. Father William J. Finn’s Paulist Choristers trained William Ripley Dorr, who in 1925 formed The new choir of sixty boys and men of the Wilshire Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles
. Mr. Channing Lefebvre of Trinity, New York, began as a choir boy in Baltimore under Dr. Farrow
. Mr. Edwin Arthur Kraft of Cleveland taught boy-choir work
to Paul Allen Beymer.
The boy choir was not an Episcopal possession alone. Prof. Edmund G. Hurley, for 47 years at St. Paul the Apostle, New York, was said at his death in 1918 to have first introduced boy choirs in Catholic churches of America
. Under the Motu Proprio, Dr. Ernest T. Winchester directed the new choir of men and boys at St. Paul’s church
, Washington, for nearly 9 years. Mr. Arthur G. Young led a Lutheran choir of sixty-five men and boys
at Rochester, and Mrs. Grace Chalmers Thomson was named one of the few woman organists in the United States
to succeed with a boy choir.
England sent many of the choirmasters. Mr. Walter E. Hall, chosen in 1882 among more than ninety musicians of London
for the cathedral at Denver, later founded the vested choir of Epiphany church
in Chicago and worked at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Columbus. Others came from Canterbury, York, Manchester, Ipswich and Liverpool, and from Hamilton, Ont.
13 churches and schools appear only as choirs: a boy choir is recorded, but no choirmaster could be named from the passages read. 23 entries carry a caution on names, where two men share a surname or the print is uncertain. The gaps are listed at the end, so that the search may continue.
Who taught John Gordon Seely, whom he followed and who followed him, and the neighbouring Ohio choirs. Each step is quoted from the source.
John Gordon Seely (1882–1945) Documented. Born Las Vegas, N.M.; trained at Northwestern under Lutkin; St Paul’s Akron 1914–18; Trinity Toledo from 1919 for over 25 years. Caution: Printed once as “John L. Scely” (Diapason, May 1917): a misprint or OCR error for the same man.
The position of organist and choir master of St. Paul’s church, Akron, Ohio, made vacant by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn.(Diapason May. 1914)
Seely of Oswego, Ill, has the position of organist of Episcopal church at Akron,(Diapason Jun. 1914)
the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William . Zeuch.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
school Mr. Seely was fortunate in being able to obtain the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William .(Diapason Apr. 1929)
Monthly festival services have been resumed at St. Peter’s Church, Chicago, of which Herbert E. Hyde is organist and choirmaster, beginning Sept.(Diapason Oct. 1912)
Mr. Hyde was compelled to relinquish the St. Peter’s position because the demands of a boy choir interfered with the rapidly growing work he is doing as superintendent of the(Diapason May. 1920)
He is succeeded by Ellis E. Chase, who for some years has held the position at Christ Church, Winnetka, and formerly was at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and at(Diapason May. 1920)
WILLARD L. GROOM A. A. G, O. O. and C, St. Peter’s Church (50 Men and Boys) Dir.(Diapason Dec. 1924)
Requiem,” by Verdi, was given under the direction of Herbert Foster Sprague by the Toledo Oratorio Society and the Trinity choir boys March 16 at Toledo.(Diapason May. 1919)
The choir of fifty men and boys bears testimony in the services of the church that its leader successfully strives for the betterment of church music.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
Harold Rivenburg, organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Sandusky, Ohio, has gone to his old home at Hudson, N. Y., for a brief visit before(Diapason Jul. 1918)
The “ two numbers by the choir of twenty- ° seven men and boys were rendered Electric Controlled Tubular Chimes(Diapason Apr. 1920)
the choir of St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Canton, Ohio, consisting of fifty-two men and boys, under the direction of Ralph E. Clewell, organist and choirmaster, sang “The Seven Last Words,” by Dubois.(Diapason May. 1920)
by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn. Mr. Webber is a young man of great musical ability and has been over(Diapason Apr. 1913)
of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn. At trinity extensive improvements are under way, which include an(Diapason May. 1914)
and choirmaster of St. Mark’s Church, New Britain, where he will reorganize and train a large choir of boys and men.(Diapason Dec. 1919)
of music John Gordon Seely at Northwestern University, studying organ with Dean Peter C. Lutkin, his teacher for four years.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
His first teacher was Miss Alice G. Doty, with whom he studied piano and theory and from whom he received thorough and conscientious training.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William . Zeuch.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
He was trained under Arthur Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of(Diapason Apr. 1913)
Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of the Intercession), New York.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
St. Paul’s church, Akron, Ohio, made vacant by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn.(Diapason May. 1914) Webber resigned spring 1914; Seely appointed by June 1914.
under the direction of Herbert Foster Sprague by the Toledo Oratorio Society and the Trinity choir boys March 16 at Toledo.(Diapason May. 1919) Sprague at Trinity in spring 1919; Seely’s 25 years there were reckoned to Nov. 1944.
He is succeeded by Ellis E. Chase, who for some years has held the position at Christ Church, Winnetka, and formerly was at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and at(Diapason May. 1920)
Harold Rivenburg, organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Sandusky, Ohio, has gone to his old home at Hudson, N. Y., for a brief(Diapason Jul. 1918)
1, to become organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s Church, New Britain, where he will reorganize and train a large choir of boys and men.(Diapason Dec. 1919) Not immediate successors; Webber left in 1913.
Not found: the “Fuller” of the earlier notes on Seely’s circle. Isabel Pearson Fuller of Duluth is entered below in her own right; no tie to Seely was found. The later Akron posts said in local histories to have been held by Mr. Varley and Mr. Clewell were not checked in a period source.
27 ties in which one man taught another, or trained him as a choir boy. These ties are added to the lineage graph of the site.
| Teacher | Pupil | Tie | Quotation | Source | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter C. Lutkin | John Gordon Seely | Teacher (organ, four years) | of music John Gordon Seely at Northwestern University, studying organ with Dean Peter C. Lutkin, his teacher for four years. | Diapason Apr. 1929 | Documented |
| Alice G. Doty | John Gordon Seely | First teacher (piano and theory) | His first teacher was Miss Alice G. Doty, with whom he studied piano and theory and from whom he received thorough and conscientious training. | Diapason Apr. 1929 | Documented |
| Arthur Priest | Sydney Webber | Teacher | He was trained under Arthur Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of | Diapason Apr. 1913 | Documented |
| George Edward Stubbs | Sydney Webber | Teacher (choir training) | Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of the Intercession), New York. | Diapason Apr. 1913 | Documented |
| S. Wesley Martin | John Norton | Teacher (organ and voice); Norton was his alto soloist | He studied organ and voice with Mr. Martin and later took voice work with Arthur Beresford at the University of Illinois. | Diapason Jan. 1925 | Documented |
| Arthur Beresford | John Norton | Teacher (voice) | He studied organ and voice with Mr. Martin and later took voice work with Arthur Beresford at the University of Illinois. | Diapason Jan. 1925 | Documented |
| William J. Finn, C.S.P. | William Ripley Dorr | Teacher (two years); Dorr was organist of the Paulist Choristers | This choir has been organized and trained by William Ripley Dorr, who was for two years a pupil of Father William Joseph Finn and organist of the famous Paulist Choristers of Chicago. | Diapason Jun. 1925 | Documented |
| William E. Fairclough | George Herbert Fairclough | Brother and first master (choir boy and assistant organist) | He was a choir boy in the Episcopal Cathedral choir at Hamilton and assistant organist to his oldest brother, William FE, Fairclough. | Diapason Oct. 1918 | Documented |
| Stanley R. Avery | Harold Land | Choirmaster; Land was his choir boy | Mark’s Church, and Harold Land, baritone soloist of St. Thomas’ Church, New York, and a former choir boy of Mr. Avery’s, On Sunday afternoon, Jan. | Diapason Feb. 1920 | Documented |
| H. W. Richards | Isabel Pearson Fuller | Teacher (organ and boy-choir work, London, 1911) | Alexandre Guilmant, in Paris, 1910-1; organ and boy-choir work w. Dr. H. W. Richards in London, 1911; m. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Edwin Arthur Kraft | Paul Allen Beymer | Teacher (piano, organ and boy-choir work, Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland) | C. and Daisie B. (Newhard) B. ; stud, piano, organ and boy-choir work w. Edwin Arthur Kraft at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, O. ; unmarried. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Frederic Gunton | Walter E. Hall | Teacher (from age 16) | At 16 he began studying under Frederic Gunton of Chester cathedral, England, an intimate friend of Mendelssohn. | Diapason Feb. 1914 | Documented |
| Harold Tower | Walter Blodgett | Teacher; Blodgett was his choir boy | Young Blodgett began piano lessons as a choir boy under Mr. Tower, who discovered his interest in the organ and who has for several | Diapason Oct. 1925 | Documented |
| George Edward Stubbs | Abram Butler Jr. | Teacher (boys’ voice training) | H. D. Wilkins in Rochester, N. Y. ; boys' voice training w. Dr. G. Edward Stubbs in New York. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Miles Farrow | Channing Lefebvre | Teacher; Lefebvre was his choir boy in Baltimore and his assistant in New York | Mr. Lefebvre began his musical training as a choir boy in Baltimore under Dr. Farrow, then organist of one of the largest Episcopal churches in that | Diapason Apr. 1922 | Documented |
| Beecher Aldrich | Hugh Allan MacKinnon | Teacher (boy-choir training, 1915–16) | Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w. Beecher Aldrich, 1915-6; stud, in Trinity School of Church Music, New York, 1914-6, associate Am. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Felix Lamond | Hugh Allan MacKinnon | Teacher (organ) | Prof. Charles H. Morse of Dartmouth Coll., 1912-3; organ w. Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| George Edward Stubbs | John Eduard Riley | Teacher (training of boys’ voices) | Harry Rowe Shelley, training of boys' voices w. G. Edward Stubbs, etc.; m. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| George Edward Stubbs | Walter Earle Hartley | Teacher (training boy choristers, one year) | fore the King" (Montreal, 1890), opera j Widor, Dr. G. E. Stubbs, New York; Paris, orquil" (Montreal O H., 1896), choral idyll training boy choristers, 1 yr., associate Am. | IWWM 1918 | Probable |
| Frank Wright | George Arthur Wilson | Teacher (a past or present pupil; some of these pupils had also been his choir boys) | All the organists taking part are either past or present pupils, some of whom also sang as choir boys. | Diapason May. 1922 | Documented |
| Horace A. Branscombe | Frank Wright | Teacher (Liverpool) | mentioned in Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers.” He received his musical training in Liverpool under the tuition of Horace A. Branscombe, organist and choirmaster of St. Margaret’s Church and chorus master of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society. | Diapason May. 1922 | Documented |
| Charles Macpherson | Lewis A. Wadlow | Teacher (London) | in music; stud. w. Lacey Baker, Minton Pyne, I. J. Morgan, Charles Macpherson and S. Paulo, London Constantin von Sternberg, Philadelphia; m. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Henry S. Fry | Julian Francis Adger | Teacher (boy choir training) | Minton Pyne, John W. Pomner, Jr., David D. Wood; boy choir training w. Henry S. Fry; m. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| William A. Staples | Francis Amory Spurr | Choirmaster; Spurr was a boy in his vested choir | He was a member of the boys’ vested choir and was trained to play on the organ by William A. Staples. | Diapason Oct. 1912 | Probable |
| Charles W. Perkins | Arthur Davis | Teacher (Birmingham) OCR: “C. W. Perkins, organist of the Corporation of the City of Birmingham”. | In England he studied under |nent, has been cordially received by C. W. Perkins, organist of the pe Mane choirmasters and directors of | Diapason Sep. 1911 | Documented |
| Alfred Brinkler | Mr. Hanchett (Dallas) | Teacher (a former St Matthew’s organist) | piano and theory under F. Hutson Wright, Samuel Jessup and Alfred Brinkler, all former organists at St. Matthew’s. | Diapason Mar. 1922 | Documented |
| Wallace Goodrich | Birt Summers | Teacher (organ) | Percy Goetschius, organ w. Wallace Goodrich, etc; boy choir training diploma, Sherwood School, Chicago; m. | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
15 cases where one man followed another at the same church. The earlier holder is named first. These are shown here and in each person’s notes; they are not counted as teaching.
| Earlier | Later | Post | Quotation | Source | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| William E. Zeuch | John Gordon Seely | Predecessor at the same post (St Peter’s, Chicago) | the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William . Zeuch. | Diapason Apr. 1929 | Documented |
| John B. Norton | Sydney Webber | Predecessor at the same post (St Paul’s, Akron) | St. Paul’s church, Akron, Ohio, made vacant by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn. | Diapason Apr. 1913 | Documented |
| Sydney Webber | John Gordon Seely | Predecessor at the same post (St Paul’s, Akron) Webber resigned spring 1914; Seely appointed by June 1914. | Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn. | Diapason May. 1914 | Probable |
| Herbert Foster Sprague | John Gordon Seely | Predecessor at the same post (Trinity, Toledo) Sprague at Trinity in spring 1919; Seely’s 25 years there were reckoned to Nov. 1944. | under the direction of Herbert Foster Sprague by the Toledo Oratorio Society and the Trinity choir boys March 16 at Toledo. | Diapason May. 1919 | Probable |
| Herbert E. Hyde | Ellis E. Chase | Predecessor at the same post (St Peter’s, Chicago) | He is succeeded by Ellis E. Chase, who for some years has held the position at Christ Church, Winnetka, and formerly was at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and at | Diapason May. 1920 | Documented |
| Harold Rivenburg | Ellis C. Varley | Predecessor at the same post (Grace, Sandusky) | Harold Rivenburg, organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Sandusky, Ohio, has gone to his old home at Hudson, N. Y., for a brief | Diapason Jul. 1918 | Probable |
| Clarence Dickinson | John Norton | Predecessor at the same post (St James’, Chicago) | The place was made vacant by the departure of Clarence Dickinson for New York. | Diapason Dec. 1909 | Documented |
| Edmund G. Hurley | William J. Finn, C.S.P. | Predecessor at the same post (St Paul the Apostle, New York) | Father Finn succeeds the late Professor Edmund J. Hurley, who was knighted by the Pope for his work in developing the use of | Diapason Oct. 1918 | Documented |
| William J. Finn, C.S.P. | Nicola A. Montani | Predecessor at the same post (St Paul the Apostle, New York) Paulist Choristers dissolved the same autumn. | Official announcement of the dissolution of the Paulist Choristers, led by Father William J. Finn—said to be due to financial difficulties—is made. | Diapason Oct. 1923 | Probable |
| George Henry Day | Eugene Devereaux | Predecessor at the same post (St John’s, Wilmington) | The choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del., composed of men and boys under the direction of Eugene Devereaux, F. A. G. O., is giving a musical service on the third Sunday | Diapason Dec. 1925 | Probable |
| Victor Baier | Channing Lefebvre | Predecessor at the same post (Trinity, New York) | Dr. Baier was at Trinity about thirty-five years. Mr. Lefebvre is not yet 30 years old. | Diapason Apr. 1922 | Documented |
| Parvin Titus | Stanley W. VanWart | Predecessor at the same post (St Paul’s) | Mr. VanWart, who succeeded Parvin Titus a year ago at St. Paul’s, is doing excellent work with his male choir of forty men and boys. | Diapason May. 1925 | Documented |
| Sydney Webber | Malcolm G. Humphreys | Earlier holder of the same post (St Mark’s, New Britain) Not immediate successors; Webber left in 1913. | 1, to become organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s Church, New Britain, where he will reorganize and train a large choir of boys and men. | Diapason Dec. 1919 | Probable |
| Arthur H. Ryder | Ernest H. Sheppard | Earlier holder of the same post (Christ Church, Quincy) Ryder 1914–16; Sheppard from 1919. | Andover, Mass.; Christ Ch., Quincy, 1914-6; org. | IWWM 1918 | Probable |
| Henry H. Darby | Arthur Davis | Predecessor at the same post (Christ Church Cathedral, St Louis) | LOUIS English Organist Succeeds H. H.|Organists of European Cathedrals Darby at Cathedral. | Diapason Sep. 1911 | Documented |
26 persons of the earlier categories appear in this one: as choirmasters with boy choirs, as teachers of the new men, or as their predecessors. Their site identifiers are shown.
Every person in this category, by region of first recorded post, then by name. A green rule marks a person already in the index.
From Moncton, N.B.; All Saints’ Worcester, Mass., choir of men and boys (1925).
Mr. Glynn has a fourmanual Skinner organ and a choir of men and boys.(Diapason Aug. 1925)
St Thomas’ Taunton, Mass.: organist and choirmaster for forty years by June 1925, and the organizer of the choir; a founder of the AGO and for several years dean of its New England chapter.
observed also with a special musical service last Sunday, the full vested choir under Mr. Clemson’s direction being augmented by trumpet, trombone and drums.(Diapason Jul. 1925)
Born Fredericton, N.B.; taught singing (boys’ voices); St John’s Jamaica Plain, Boston.
Teacher of piano, organ and singing (boys' voices) ; at present organist and choirmaster of St. John's Ch., Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.(IWWM 1918)
Church of the Advent, Boston: forty boys and men (1923); Tenebrae with boys and men (1925).
the last nine months Mr. Hamer has made remarkable progress in developing and training his choir of forty boys and men.(Diapason Dec. 1923)
St Stephen’s Ridgefield, Conn.; St Mark’s New Britain, to “reorganize and train a large choir of boys and men” (1920).
and choirmaster of St. Mark’s Church, New Britain, where he will reorganize and train a large choir of boys and men.(Diapason Dec. 1919)
1, to become organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s Church, New Britain, where he will reorganize and train a large choir of boys and men.(Diapason Dec. 1919)
Haven, and later was called to fill a similar position at the Church of the Ascension, where he trained his first boys’ choir.(Diapason Nov. 1924)
C. and Daisie B. (Newhard) B. ; stud, piano, organ and boy-choir work w. Edwin Arthur Kraft at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, O. ; unmarried.(IWWM 1918)
From Memphis; St Paul’s Burlington, Vt., boy choir (1919).
He will have a boy choir and a fine three-manual Austin organ.(Diapason Nov. 1919)
Christ Church Fitchburg: surpliced choir of boys and men (1922–25).
The surpticed choir of boys and men sang the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in EF flat (Barnby), “Lord, Thou Art God’’ (Stainer), and “To God on High’(Diapason Jun. 1922)
Cathedral Church of St Paul, Boston: choirs of men and boys and of men and women (Lent 1925).
of St. Paul on Friday evenings during Lent the music under the direction of Arthur M. Phelps was of the highest order. Choirs of men and boys and men and women, either as single groups or with combined forces,(Diapason May. 1925)
All Saints’ Ashmont, Boston: fifty-two men and boys (1923).
The choirs of All Saints’ Church (Ashmont), Boston, fifty-two men and boys, with George C. Phelps, organist and choirmaster, and of the Church of Our Savior, Brookline men and women) with E. Rupert Sircom, organist(Diapason Mar. 1923)
Organist of Christ Church, Hartford; teacher of Sydney Webber.
He was trained under Arthur Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of(Diapason Apr. 1913)
Former organist of Southwark Cathedral; Institute of Musical Art; demonstrations with choir boys at the 1922 summer conference.
York, and former organist of Southwark Cathedral, London, will give practical demonstrations with choir boys, and instruction in keyboard composing and improvisation.(Diapason May. 1922)
Grace Church Providence 1901–10, choirmaster from 1904, inaugurated the choir of boys and men; Christ Church Quincy 1914–16.
Mass., 1900-1; Grace Ch., Providence, R. I., 1901-10; choirmaster from 1904, inaugurated the choir of boys and men; organist Arion Club, Providence, 1902-10; dir.(IWWM 1918)
Andover, Mass.; Christ Ch., Quincy, 1914-6; org.(IWWM 1918)
Andover, Mass.; Christ Ch., Quincy, 1914-6; org.(IWWM 1918)
Okmulgee, Okla.; Christ Church Quincy (“a fine boy choir”) 1919; St Paul’s Brockton (men and boys) 1919; St Paul’s Muskegon; Christ Church East Orange, N.J. (boy choir) 1921.
Here he has a fine boy choir and a broad field for his activities.(Diapason Feb. 1919)
There is a good choir of men and boys.(Diapason May. 1919)
Mr. Sheppard will have a fine three-manual organ of forty-two stops and a boy choir.(Diapason Oct. 1921)
Andover, Mass.; Christ Ch., Quincy, 1914-6; org.(IWWM 1918)
Church of Our Saviour, Brookline: “boys and men (and half a dozen women)” (1923).
The choir of boys and men (and half a dozen women) belonging to the Church of our Saviour, Brookline, and All Saints’ Church, Boston (Ashmont), combined under(Diapason Apr. 1923)
that in addition to his present choir of fifty voices, a second choir of men and boys will be organized in the fall.(Diapason Jun. 1924)
A boy in St Peter’s Salem vested choir; organist at Peabody, Mass., at 14 (1912).
He is also choirmaster of sixteen boys and a quartet that assists in the musical exercises of the church.(Diapason Oct. 1912)
He was a member of the boys’ vested choir and was trained to play on the organ by William A. Staples.(Diapason Oct. 1912)
St Peter’s Salem, Mass.: trained Francis A. Spurr, a boy of the vested choir, at the organ (reported 1912).
He was a member of the boys’ vested choir and was trained to play on the organ by William A. Staples.(Diapason Oct. 1912)
He was a member of the boys’ vested choir and was trained to play on the organ by William A. Staples.(Diapason Oct. 1912)
St Mark’s New Britain; St Paul’s Akron 1913–14; Trinity Waterbury from 1914. “Over ten years in choir work.”
by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn. Mr. Webber is a young man of great musical ability and has been over(Diapason Apr. 1913)
Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn.(Diapason May. 1914)
of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn. At trinity extensive improvements are under way, which include an(Diapason May. 1914)
He was trained under Arthur Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of(Diapason Apr. 1913)
Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of the Intercession), New York.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
St. Paul’s church, Akron, Ohio, made vacant by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn.(Diapason May. 1914)
1, to become organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s Church, New Britain, where he will reorganize and train a large choir of boys and men.(Diapason Dec. 1919)
Church of the Epiphany, Winchester, Mass.: “the large boy choir” (1922).
The large boy choir in this church is directed by J. Albert Wilson.(Diapason Oct. 1922)
18, Mr. Avery program of sacred comformer church, St. Yonkers, N. Y., Robert H. presented a positions at his Andrew’s Memorial, where he was assisted by Huntington Terry,(Diapason Feb. 1920)
Mark’s Church, and Harold Land, baritone soloist of St. Thomas’ Church, New York, and a former choir boy of Mr. Avery’s, On Sunday afternoon, Jan.(Diapason Feb. 1920)
Cathedral Chapel of Queen of All Saints, Brooklyn: organized a choir of boys and men (1920); Catholic Diocesan Choristers of Brooklyn, 100 boys and men (1925).
Since his appointment Mr. Biggs has organized a most successful choir of boys and men, who sit in the organ rallery at the west end of the church, where(Diapason Mar. 1920)
Calvary Church New York: choir of fifty men and boys (1920); “master of the boy choir” (1924).
John Bland will continue as master of the boy choir.(Diapason Oct. 1924)
St Peter’s Peekskill: forty-one men and boys (1924).
choir of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Peekskill, N. Y., with forty-one men and boys, under the direction of Ernest T. Bond, organist and choirmaster, rendered Stainer’s ‘Crucifixion’? on Good(Diapason Jun. 1924)
Canterbury Cathedral chorister; Hoosac School 1908–16; St Stephen’s Pittsfield, 1916.
St. Columba's Coll., Dublin, Ireland, 1902, Hoosac Sch., Hoosac, N. Y., 1908-1916; organist and choirmaster St. Stephen's Ch., Pittsfield, Mass., 1916.(IWWM 1918)
Columbus avenue and Sixtieth street, New York, and has taken to New York twenty-five of his boy choristers as a permanent addition to the choir.(Diapason Oct. 1918)
This choir has been organized and trained by William Ripley Dorr, who was for two years a pupil of Father William Joseph Finn and organist of the famous Paulist Choristers of Chicago.(Diapason Jun. 1925)
Father Finn succeeds the late Professor Edmund J. Hurley, who was knighted by the Pope for his work in developing the use of(Diapason Oct. 1918)
Official announcement of the dissolution of the Paulist Choristers, led by Father William J. Finn—said to be due to financial difficulties—is made.(Diapason Oct. 1923)
He had two or three boy choirs in the chancel and I had -perhaps seventy-five mixed voices in the west end gallery.(Diapason Mar. 1923)
Born Coventry; organist and master of choristers, Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck, N.Y., 1912.
festival given by Kingston Symphony Soc., May, 1914; organist and master of choristers, Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck, N. Y., 1912.(IWWM 1918)
Trinity Church, Lenox Avenue, New York: mixed and boy choirs (1925).
Cushing is the organist and choirmaster of this church and has under his direction both a mixed and a boy choir.(Diapason May. 1925)
Born Salford; Manchester Cathedral choir school; St Peter’s Stockport; Church of the Incarnation, Philadelphia; Grace Church Buffalo (choir boys) 1923.
C. M., Buffalo, N. Y.—Mr. ardy, assisted by the choir boys, gave a recital in Grace Episcopal Church May 15, the organ selections being as follows: grand Chorus (Sonata(Diapason Jun. 1923)
prof, of singing, Municipal High Sch., Stockport, 1912-15; now organist and choirmaster Ch. of the Incarna tion Philadelphia, Pa.(IWWM 1918)
St Paul’s Brooklyn: choristers in boys’ and men’s choruses (1925).
the parish auditorium, Brooklyn, on the evening of May 1, directed by Ralph A. Harris, organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Jun. 1925)
Grace Church New York; founder and director of the Choristers’ School, 1894.
of music, Grace Church, New York; founder and dir., Choristers' Sch., 1894.(IWWM 1918)
Born in London; came to America in 1869; organist of St Paul the Apostle, New York, for forty-seven years; knighted by the Pope in 1909. His Diapason obituary (May 1918) says he first introduced boy choirs in Catholic churches of America.
Father Finn succeeds the late Professor Edmund J. Hurley, who was knighted by the Pope for his work in developing the use of(Diapason Oct. 1918)
Edmund G. Hurley, for forty-seven years organist of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York City, died April 11 in his home, 170 Mead avenue, Passaic,(Diapason May. 1918)
He first introduced boy choirs in Catholic churches of America.(Diapason May. 1918)
Father Finn succeeds the late Professor Edmund J. Hurley, who was knighted by the Pope for his work in developing the use of(Diapason Oct. 1918)
Born London; York Minster choir school; Leipzig and Guilmant; St Paul’s Chapel, New York.
Organist and hoirmaster St. Paul's Chapel, New York.(IWWM 1918)
Organist of Trinity Chapel; director of the Trinity School of Church Music (1913).
Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w.(IWWM 1918)
Prof. Charles H. Morse of Dartmouth Coll., 1912-3; organ w. Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w.(IWWM 1918)
Baritone soloist of St Thomas’ New York (1920); a former choir boy of Stanley R. Avery.
Mark’s Church, and Harold Land, baritone soloist of St. Thomas’ Church, New York, and a former choir boy of Mr. Avery’s, On Sunday afternoon, Jan.(Diapason Feb. 1920)
and master of the choristers, will be assisted by the choir of Trinity Church, Channing Lefebvre, organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Nov. 1924)
Mr. Lefebvre began his musical training as a choir boy in Baltimore under Dr. Farrow, then organist of one of the largest Episcopal churches in that(Diapason Apr. 1922)
Dr. Baier was at Trinity about thirty-five years. Mr. Lefebvre is not yet 30 years old.(Diapason Apr. 1922)
Trinity School of Church Music 1914–16; boy-choir training with Beecher Aldrich; trainer of boys in Trinity Chapel choir 1915–16; St Andrew’s, St Johnsbury, Vt., 1907–9 and 1912–14; assistant at “The Little Church Around the Corner”, New York, 1916.
St. Andrew's Ch., St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1907-9, 1912-4; trainer of boys in Trinity Chapel Choir, New York, 1915-6; ass't.(IWWM 1918)
Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w. Beecher Aldrich, 1915-6; stud, in Trinity School of Church Music, New York, 1914-6, associate Am.(IWWM 1918)
Prof. Charles H. Morse of Dartmouth Coll., 1912-3; organ w. Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w.(IWWM 1918)
T. Tertius Noble is the organist and choirmaster of St. Thomas’ Church, and has in his school thirty boys.(Diapason May. 1925)
St James’, Manhattan: fifty men and boys (1925).
Mr. Richards has a choir of fifty men and boys, which for special occasions is augmented by a second choir of twentytwo women.(Diapason May. 1925)
Training of boys’ voices with Stubbs; posts in New York, New Jersey and Troy, 1897–1913.
Heavenly Rest, New York, 1901-3, St. John's, Troy, 1903-4, Church of the Ascension, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., 1904-6, Grace-Emmanuel, New York, 1906-8, St. Paul's Congl., Nutley, N. J.,(IWWM 1918)
Harry Rowe Shelley, training of boys' voices w. G. Edward Stubbs, etc.; m.(IWWM 1918)
St Peter’s Albany from 1892; 25th anniversary 1917, 30th 1922 (vested choir of boys and men). Trained in Munich and Dresden.
March 26 in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at Albany, N. Y., by the vested choir of boys and men of St. Peter’s, the Mendelssohn Club and other musicians, in honor of the thirtieth(Diapason Jun. 1922)
senior Dr. Stubbs is widely known as a trainer of boys’ voices.(Diapason Jul. 1917)
Priest, organist of Christ church, Hartford, Conn., and under Professor G. Edward Stubbs of Trinity Parish (Chapel of the Intercession), New York.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
H. D. Wilkins in Rochester, N. Y. ; boys' voice training w. Dr. G. Edward Stubbs in New York.(IWWM 1918)
Harry Rowe Shelley, training of boys' voices w. G. Edward Stubbs, etc.; m.(IWWM 1918)
fore the King" (Montreal, 1890), opera j Widor, Dr. G. E. Stubbs, New York; Paris, orquil" (Montreal O H., 1896), choral idyll training boy choristers, 1 yr., associate Am.(IWWM 1918)
Succeeded Parvin Titus at St Paul’s; male choir of forty men and boys (1925).
who succeeded Parvin Titus a year ago at St. Paul’s, is doing excellent work with his male choir of forty men and boys.(Diapason May. 1925)
Mr. VanWart, who succeeded Parvin Titus a year ago at St. Paul’s, is doing excellent work with his male choir of forty men and boys.(Diapason May. 1925)
Church of the Redeemer, Astoria: thirty men and boys (1925).
Mr. Walker will have a choir of thirty men and boys.(Diapason Jun. 1925)
Mark, Brooklyn); John Hammond (Strand Theater, Brooklyn); George Arthur Wilson, F. A. G. O. (Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn), and Harry H. Whittaker (All Saints’ Church, Brooklyn).(Diapason May. 1922)
All the organists taking part are either past or present pupils, some of whom also sang as choir boys.(Diapason May. 1922)
Born Cambridge, Mass., c.1874; after the Motu Proprio directed the new choir of men and boys at St Paul’s, Washington, D.C., for nearly nine years; St John’s Wichita; St Mary’s Albany from 1914.
Becomes Organist of St. Mary’s Church at Albany, N. Y. Dr. Ernest T. Winchester of Wichita, Kan., has been engaged as organist and choirmaster of St. Mary’s church, at Albany, N. Y(Diapason Nov. 1914)
all Catholic parishes to abandon women and mixed choirs, Dr. Winchester was engaged by Mgr. Mackin of Washington to direct the new choir of men and boys at St. Paul’s church, that city, which he continued to do for nearly nine years.(Diapason Nov. 1914)
Born Ipswich; choir boy at St Clement’s, Ipswich; trained in Liverpool under Horace A. Branscombe; Brooklyn choirmaster honoured in 1922 by former choir boys and pupils, George Arthur Wilson among them.
In 1892 he became organist and choirmaster of St. John’s Church, Brooklyn, and later organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Brooklyn(Diapason May. 1922)
and choirmaster of St. John’s Church, Brooklyn, and later organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights.(Diapason May. 1922)
All the organists taking part are either past or present pupils, some of whom also sang as choir boys.(Diapason May. 1922)
mentioned in Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers.” He received his musical training in Liverpool under the tuition of Horace A. Branscombe, organist and choirmaster of St. Margaret’s Church and chorus master of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society.(Diapason May. 1922)
Church of the Reformation, Rochester: sixty-five men and boys (1925).
G. Young, organist and choirmaster of the Church of the Reformation, Rochester, N. Y., with his choir of sixty-five men and boys has been trying out putting on a musical service every Wednesday night in place of the Sunday evening service.(Diapason Dec. 1925)
Philadelphia organist (posts in Philadelphia, New York, Milwaukee); boy choir training with Henry S. Fry.
Minton Pyne, John W. Pomner, Jr., David D. Wood; boy choir training w. Henry S. Fry; m.(IWWM 1918)
St John’s Wilmington, Del., 1917–25 (thirty-five men and boys; annual choir boys’ concert); Christ Church Rochester, N.Y., 1925.
John’s, Church choir of mington, Del., consisting of thirtyfive men and boys, under the direction of George Henry Day, organist and choirmaster, will again present a series of the best(Diapason Dec. 1918)
Dr. Day will have charge of a choir of fifty to sixty men and boys and preside over a splendid organ.(Diapason Feb. 1925)
The choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del., composed of men and boys under the direction of Eugene Devereaux, F. A. G. O., is giving a musical service on the third Sunday(Diapason Dec. 1925)
St John’s Wilmington after Day: men and boys, 1925.
choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del., composed of men and boys under the direction of Eugene Devereaux, F. A. G. O., is giving a musical service on the third Sunday(Diapason Dec. 1925)
The choir of St. John’s Episcopal Church, Wilmington, Del., composed of men and boys under the direction of Eugene Devereaux, F. A. G. O., is giving a musical service on the third Sunday(Diapason Dec. 1925)
later dral in Four years he resolved to train boy choirs, and accepted a position at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church, from which he went to St. Paul's, where remained fifteen years, at(Diapason Jul. 1911)
and the last four years of his residence in Baltimore he head master of St. Paul’s Choir School, the first of its kind in this country.(Diapason Jul. 1911)
The cathedral choir, of which Dr. Miles Farrow is organist and master of the choristers, will be assisted by the choir of Trinity Church, Channing Lefebvre,(Diapason Nov. 1924)
Mr. Lefebvre began his musical training as a choir boy in Baltimore under Dr. Farrow, then organist of one of the largest Episcopal churches in that(Diapason Apr. 1922)
Philadelphia (St Clement’s); taught boy-choir training to J. F. Adger.
Minton Pyne, John W. Pomner, Jr., David D. Wood; boy choir training w. Henry S. Fry; m.(IWWM 1918)
Every month both men and boys pay in a percentage of their month’s salaries to the treasury.(Diapason Oct. 1919)
St Mary’s Philadelphia: trained the boy soprano A. W. Howes Jr. (1921).
a boy soprano in St. Mary’s choir, under the tutelage of Harry S. Banks, Jr., organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Nov. 1921)
St Stephen’s Harrisburg: recital with a boy soprano and the choir (1921).
the large four-manual Hutchings organ, May 17, assisted by Master Walter E. Sickles, boy soprano, and the choir of the church.(Diapason Jul. 1921)
Calvary Church (Germantown): choristers (1922).
James E. Lord with his choristers from Calvary Church assisted.(Diapason Mar. 1922)
of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Philadelphia, where he established a model liturgical choir of boys and men.(Diapason Feb. 1925)
A new choir of boys and men will be organized.(Diapason Oct. 1923)
Official announcement of the dissolution of the Paulist Choristers, led by Father William J. Finn—said to be due to financial difficulties—is made.(Diapason Oct. 1923)
Church of the Ascension Pittsburgh: boy choir in the combined Epiphany service, 1922.
6 the combined boy choirs of Trinity, Ascension and. Calvary Episcopal churches, under the direction of.(Diapason Feb. 1922)
St James’ Philadelphia and head of its choir school; visited English and German choir schools in 1911; forty men and boys (1925).
S. Wesley Sears, organist of St. | Christ Church Cathedral, arrived in| James’ Episcopal Charch, PhiladelSt. Louis early in August. Mr. Davis} phia, and head of the St. James Choit is an Englishman, about 35 years old,(Diapason Sep. 1911)
The mass was sung by the choir of forty men and boys accompanied by about forty members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.(Diapason Jun. 1925)
From New Orleans; St Luke’s Roselle and Trinity Cranford, N.J., boy choirs (1922); then St Paul’s (Brooklyn area) to 1924.
will act as choirmaster of Trinity Church, Cranford, N. J. In both places Mr. Titus is in charge of boy choirs.(Diapason Sep. 1922)
Mr. VanWart, who succeeded Parvin Titus a year ago at St. Paul’s, is doing excellent work with his male choir of forty men and boys.(Diapason May. 1925)
and headmaster of choir sch. Old St. Peter's Ch., 1909-15.(IWWM 1918)
The boy choir of St. Mark's Church sang selections from the “St. Matthew Passion” music of Bach on P —_ Sunday evening(Diapason May. 1919)
in music; stud. w. Lacey Baker, Minton Pyne, I. J. Morgan, Charles Macpherson and S. Paulo, London Constantin von Sternberg, Philadelphia; m.(IWWM 1918)
St Luke’s Germantown; directed combined AGO choirs (1922).
George Alexander A. West directed the combined choirs.(Diapason Mar. 1922)
Choirmaster of the boy choir at Grace Church, Cincinnati, while organist at Christ Church; conductor of the Orpheus Club (1924).
Mr. Symons is still to act as choirmaster of the boy choir at Grace Church, with Alvin J. King as organist.(Diapason Mar. 1924)
First Lutheran Church, Rockford, Ill., with a boys’ vested choir (1924).
organist of the First Lutheran Church, was assisted by the boys’ vested choir, Mrs. Julie M. Sporr, soprano, and Karl Sporr of Stockholm, violinist, in a recital at the church June 23.(Diapason Aug. 1924)
Vested choir of Grace Church, Chicago chapter service, 1913.
The service was sung by the vested choir of Grace Church, under direction of Kennard Barradell.(Diapason Jun. 1913)
Voice teacher at the University of Illinois.
He studied organ and voice with Mr. Martin and later took voice work with Arthur Beresford at the University of Illinois.(Diapason Jan. 1925)
Church of the Redeemer, Chicago: one of five Episcopal boy choirs in the joint service of Feb. 1924.
The choirs which will take part are those of St. James’, under John W. Norton; Church of the Redeemer, Robert R. Birch; Christ Church, Mason Slade; St. Mark’s, Evanston, Stanley Martin, and the Church of the Atonement, Frank W. Smith.(Diapason Feb. 1924)
Choir boy under Harold Tower; at 17 managed the St Mark’s choir during Tower’s leave (1925); to Oberlin.
During Mr. Tower’s six months’ leave of absence the choir was successfully managed by Walter Blodgett, 17 years old.(Diapason Oct. 1925)
Young Blodgett began piano lessons as a choir boy under Mr. Tower, who discovered his interest in the organ and who has for several(Diapason Oct. 1925)
Christ Church Winnetka; formerly SS Peter and Paul Cathedral and Emmanuel La Grange; succeeded Hyde at St Peter’s Chicago, 1920.
He is succeeded by Ellis E. Chase, who for some years has held the position at Christ Church, Winnetka, and formerly was at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and at(Diapason May. 1920)
He is succeeded by Ellis E. Chase, who for some years has held the position at Christ Church, Winnetka, and formerly was at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and at(Diapason May. 1920)
St Paul’s Canton: 52 men and boys (1920), 60 (1921).
the choir of St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Canton, Ohio, consisting of fifty-two men and boys, under the direction of Ralph E. Clewell, organist and choirmaster, sang “The Seven Last Words,” by Dubois.(Diapason May. 1920)
Christ Church Cathedral, St Louis, a quarter century to 1911; made its boy choir famous.
Darby, }who had served for a quarter of a jeentury.(Diapason Sep. 1911)
LOUIS English Organist Succeeds H. H.|Organists of European Cathedrals Darby at Cathedral.(Diapason Sep. 1911)
During that time he has been organist of Christ Church ° } Cathedral at Salina, Kan. Mr. Davis succeeds HH.(Diapason Sep. 1911)
The boy choir which Mr | Darby made famous will be continued.(Diapason Sep. 1911)
In England he studied under |nent, has been cordially received by C. W. Perkins, organist of the pe Mane choirmasters and directors of(Diapason Sep. 1911)
LOUIS English Organist Succeeds H. H.|Organists of European Cathedrals Darby at Cathedral.(Diapason Sep. 1911)
Emmanuel La Grange, Ill., from 1919 (sixty boys and men); Wilshire Presbyterian, Los Angeles, 1925. Diapason articles on sight-reading (1920) and discipline (1921).
He is devoting his time to making a fine choir of men and boys.(Diapason Mar. 1919)
The new choir of sixty boys and men of the Wilshire Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles made its first appearance on Sunday, May 3.(Diapason Jun. 1925)
This choir has been organized and trained by William Ripley Dorr, who was for two years a pupil of Father William Joseph Finn and organist of the famous Paulist Choristers of Chicago.(Diapason Jun. 1925)
Aurora, Ill., teacher; Seely’s first teacher. Not herself documented as a choirmaster.
His first teacher was Miss Alice G. Doty, with whom he studied piano and theory and from whom he received thorough and conscientious training.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
St Peter’s Cathedral and St Mary’s Seminary, Cincinnati; trained a special choir of men and boys for J. Lewis Browne’s mass (1923).
The new mass was sung by a special choir of men and boys, trained for the occasion by John Fehring, organist of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cincinnati.(Diapason Nov. 1923)
Choir boy and later choirmaster at St Luke’s (Evanston); at his death organist-choirmaster of Grace Church, Oak Park.
Arthur Randolph Frazer, who began his musical career as a choir boy and later was choirmaster at St. Luke’s Church.(Diapason Aug. 1925)
Duluth. Studied organ and boy-choir work with H. W. Richards in London (1911); Trinity Pro-Cathedral Duluth 1912–14.
Ch., 1908-10, Trinity Pro-Cathedral, 1912-4); has given numerous organ recitals.(IWWM 1918)
Alexandre Guilmant, in Paris, 1910-1; organ and boy-choir work w. Dr. H. W. Richards in London, 1911; m.(IWWM 1918)
Concert organist of the Paulist Choristers, Chicago (1919–20).
m.—Recital by Hugo Goodwin of Chicago, organist of Paulist Choristers and of First Congregational Church Evanston.(Diapason Aug. 1919)
Moved from Chicago to Texas c.1920 (Brenham and Bellville); St David’s Austin, with a choir of men and boys, 1921; St Peter’s Chicago, advertised as “50 Men and Boys”, 1924–25.
WILLARD L. GROOM A. A. G, O. O. and C, St. Peter’s Church (50 Men and Boys) Dir.(Diapason Dec. 1924)
Mr. Groom has an excellent Pilcher organ, he writes, and a choir of men and boys.(Diapason Jan. 1921)
WILLARD L. GROOM Organist — Accompanist Choral Conductor Organist and Choirmaster St. Peter’s Church, Brenham; St. Mary’s Church, Bellville, Texas.(Diapason Jan. 1921)
Trinity Church Chicago: choir of men and boys, 1913–21.
The teh vested choir of forty men and boys, MERRIAM under Irving C. Hancock’s direction, C0., will sing the service and Master Sam Springfield,(Diapason Oct. 1918)
Yale; studied with Stubbs; “training boy choristers, 1 yr.”
George choirmaster St. Marks Pro-Cathedral, Grand vid and Mary Catherine (Donaldson) H.; I Rapids, Mich., 1911-5; University Meth.(IWWM 1918)
fore the King" (Montreal, 1890), opera j Widor, Dr. G. E. Stubbs, New York; Paris, orquil" (Montreal O H., 1896), choral idyll training boy choristers, 1 yr., associate Am.(IWWM 1918)
Gave up St Peter’s Chicago in April 1920 because “the demands of a boy choir” clashed with his work as superintendent of the Civic Music Association.
Mr. Hyde was compelled to relinquish the St. Peter’s position because the demands of a boy choir interfered with the rapidly growing work he is doing as superintendent of the(Diapason May. 1920)
Monthly festival services have been resumed at St. Peter’s Church, Chicago, of which Herbert E. Hyde is organist and choirmaster, beginning Sept.(Diapason Oct. 1912)
Herbert E. Hyde, organist of St. Peter's Episcopal church, took twenty men and boy singers from his choir for the serenade.(Diapason Jan. 1913)
He is succeeded by Ellis E. Chase, who for some years has held the position at Christ Church, Winnetka, and formerly was at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul and at(Diapason May. 1920)
Born in Holland. Boys’ voice training with G. Edward Stubbs; St James’ Rochester 1912–15; Church of the Messiah, Detroit (1918).
Emanuel Reformed Ch., 1915-6, all of Rochester, N. Y. At present organist and choirmaster Church of the Messiah, Detroit, Mich.(IWWM 1918)
H. D. Wilkins in Rochester, N. Y. ; boys' voice training w. Dr. G. Edward Stubbs in New York.(IWWM 1918)
St Paul’s Cathedral Detroit, organist and master of the choristers (1919–20).
at St. Paul's Cathedral in Detroit under the direction of F. A. Mackay. the organist and master of the choristers Selden Dickinson presided at the organ The Boston Music Company has(Diapason May. 1919)
Choirmaster at St Luke’s Dixon, Ill., where John W. Norton was a choir boy, and at St Chrysostom’s Chicago.
He was a choir boy in St. Luke’s Church at Dixon, IIl., and alto soloist under S. Wesley Martin, who at that time was also choirmaster of St. Chrysostom’s Church in(Diapason Jan. 1925)
He studied organ and voice with Mr. Martin and later took voice work with Arthur Beresford at the University of Illinois.(Diapason Jan. 1925)
St Mark’s Evanston boy choir, 1924.
John W. Norton; Church of the Redeemer, Robert R. Birch; Christ Church, Mason Slade; St. Mark’s, Evanston, Stanley Martin, and the Church of the Atonement, Frank W. Smith.(Diapason Feb. 1924)
St Alban’s School and St Peter’s, Sycamore, Ill.; Grace Church Port Huron, Mich., 1925.
Church, Sycamore, IIl., is located at Grace Church, Port Huron, Mich., where he has a choir of sixty men. women and boys.(Diapason Sep. 1925)
Christ Church St Paul (fifty boys and men) c.1918–22; St Paul’s Minneapolis, which “boasts the only boy choir in the city” (1922).
The choir of fifty boys and men of Christ Episcopal Church, St. Paul, Minn., under the direction of Harry Irwin Metzger, organist and choirmaster, is giving a series of monthly musical(Diapason Dec. 1919)
This church is one of the largest in Minneapolis and boasts the only boy choir in the city.(Diapason Jan. 1922)
Organist of St Paul’s Akron to 1913 (F.A.G.O.).
The position of organist and choir master of St. Paul’s church, Akron, Ohio, made vacant by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
St. Paul’s church, Akron, Ohio, made vacant by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn.(Diapason Apr. 1913)
The position of choirmaster is an important one in St. James’, as the choir is large—fifty-six men and boys—and the services are impressive.(Diapason Dec. 1909)
The place was made vacant by the departure of Clarence Dickinson for New York.(Diapason Dec. 1909)
He studied organ and voice with Mr. Martin and later took voice work with Arthur Beresford at the University of Illinois.(Diapason Jan. 1925)
He studied organ and voice with Mr. Martin and later took voice work with Arthur Beresford at the University of Illinois.(Diapason Jan. 1925)
St Luke’s Kalamazoo: choir boys’ camp concert (1923); St Luke Choristers, thirty boy sopranos (1925).
The chorus is one of sixty voices, of whom thirty are boy sopranos and thirty men and women.(Diapason Jun. 1925)
Grace Church Sandusky; left for military service, 1918.
Harold Rivenburg, organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Sandusky, Ohio, has gone to his old home at Hudson, N. Y., for a brief visit before(Diapason Jul. 1918)
Harold Rivenburg, organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Sandusky, Ohio, has gone to his old home at Hudson, N. Y., for a brief(Diapason Jul. 1918)
“The veteran Chicago organist and trainer of boy choirs” (1924).
Henry B. Roney, the veteran Chicago organist and trainer of boy choirs, has been giving radio concerts with his Masonic quartet from(Diapason Apr. 1924)
Born Las Vegas, N.M.; trained at Northwestern under Lutkin; St Paul’s Akron 1914–18; Trinity Toledo from 1919 for over 25 years.
school Mr. Seely was fortunate in being able to obtain the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William .(Diapason Apr. 1929)
Seely of Oswego, Ill, has the position of organist of Episcopal church at Akron,(Diapason Jun. 1914)
The choir of fifty men and boys bears testimony in the services of the church that its leader successfully strives for the betterment of church music.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
of music John Gordon Seely at Northwestern University, studying organ with Dean Peter C. Lutkin, his teacher for four years.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
His first teacher was Miss Alice G. Doty, with whom he studied piano and theory and from whom he received thorough and conscientious training.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William . Zeuch.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Paul’s Church, Akron, Ohio, has resigned to accept a similar position in Trinity Church, Waterbury, Conn.(Diapason May. 1914)
under the direction of Herbert Foster Sprague by the Toledo Oratorio Society and the Trinity choir boys March 16 at Toledo.(Diapason May. 1919)
St Andrew’s Chicago (choir camp at Phantom Lake, Wis., 1911); Christ Church Chicago boy choir, 1924.
Mason Slade returned to Chicago from Phantom Lake, Wis., where with the choir of St. Andrew’s in encampment.(Diapason Sep. 1911)
are those of St. James’, under John W. Norton; Church of the Redeemer, Robert R. Birch; Christ Church, Mason Slade; St. Mark’s, Evanston, Stanley Martin, and the Church of the Atonement, Frank W. Smith.(Diapason Feb. 1924)
Trinity Church Toledo; Trinity choir boys sang with the Toledo Oratorio Society (1919).
Requiem,” by Verdi, was given under the direction of Herbert Foster Sprague by the Toledo Oratorio Society and the Trinity choir boys March 16 at Toledo.(Diapason May. 1919)
under the direction of Herbert Foster Sprague by the Toledo Oratorio Society and the Trinity choir boys March 16 at Toledo.(Diapason May. 1919)
St Lawrence Church, Price Hill, Cincinnati; retired 1912.
Adolph H. Stadermann, organist and director of the choir of St. Lawrence Church, Price Hill, Cincinnati, terminates his duties with that church(Diapason Sep. 1912)
Boy choir training diploma, Sherwood School, Chicago; First Presbyterian Muncie, Ind.
20 yrs., First Presbyt. Ch., Muncie, Ind., 12 yrs.; pianist past 25 yrs.(IWWM 1918)
Percy Goetschius, organ w. Wallace Goodrich, etc; boy choir training diploma, Sherwood School, Chicago; m.(IWWM 1918)
St Mark’s Pro-Cathedral, Grand Rapids, 1915–25+; choir camp of 85 acres at Little Bostwick Lake.
Mark’s Episcopal Procathedral, Grand Rapids, Mich., might be placed in this class, for the splendid work he does with his choir boys and his influence for good in the parish have brought him pronounced recognition.(Diapason Oct. 1925)
Young Blodgett began piano lessons as a choir boy under Mr. Tower, who discovered his interest in the organ and who has for several(Diapason Oct. 1925)
Grace Church Sandusky: choir of 27 men and boys, 1920.
The “ two numbers by the choir of twenty- ° seven men and boys were rendered Electric Controlled Tubular Chimes(Diapason Apr. 1920)
Harold Rivenburg, organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Sandusky, Ohio, has gone to his old home at Hudson, N. Y., for a brief(Diapason Jul. 1918)
Church of the Epiphany Chicago: fifty men and boys, 1923.
Pictures Supplement “Crucifixion.” The choir of fifty men and boys at the Church of the Epiphany, Chicago, under the direction of C. Gordon Wedertz, organist and choirmaster, sang Stainer’s “Crucifixion” March 25.(Diapason May. 1923)
Formerly a Baltimore organist; Plymouth Church, Shaker Heights, Cleveland — choir boys sing from the tower at Easter (1924).
hymns from the church tower on Easter Sunday afternoon by the choir boys. The singing was under the direction of Alfred R. Willard, organist and director at this church.(Diapason May. 1924)
Seely’s predecessor at St Peter’s Chicago; later in Boston (Skinner demonstration, 1920).
the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William . Zeuch.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William . Zeuch.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
Choir boy at St Matthew’s Cathedral Dallas; pupil of F. Hutson Wright, Samuel Jessup and Alfred Brinkler; St Paul’s Cathedral Oklahoma City 1922; St Edward’s College Austin (fifty boys and young men) 1925.
Mr. Hanchett began his career as a choir boy in St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Dallas.(Diapason Mar. 1922)
studies, he will hold the post as professor of organ, and will have charge of the college choir of fifty boys and young men.(Diapason Mar. 1925)
piano and theory under F. Hutson Wright, Samuel Jessup and Alfred Brinkler, all former organists at St. Matthew’s.(Diapason Mar. 1922)
Choir boy at 10 in New England; St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Macon, Ga. (1925).
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Macon called him to Georgia, where he has been professor of musical theory and history in(Diapason Jul. 1925)
During his service at St. Matthew’s he has built one of the finest boy choirs in that section of the country.(Diapason Oct. 1925)
C. and Daisie B. (Newhard) B. ; stud, piano, organ and boy-choir work w. Edwin Arthur Kraft at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, O. ; unmarried.(IWWM 1918)
A former organist of St Matthew’s Cathedral, Dallas; later at Portland, Maine (A.R.C.O.).
piano and theory under F. Hutson Wright, Samuel Jessup and Alfred Brinkler, all former organists at St. Matthew’s.(Diapason Mar. 1922)
St Matthew’s Cathedral and the Scottish Rite Cathedral, Dallas; the boys’ choir (1919).
Mr. Grove will continue his work in Dallas with the Scottish Rite, St. Matthew’s and the boys’ choir.(Diapason Apr. 1919)
Christ Church, Norfolk, Va.: organist and choirmaster for twenty-five years by December 1914; the first permanent boy choir there was organized during his tenure.
Work of D ol M. Decsiiinen During Mr. Miller’s tenure in office the first permanent boy choir was organized in Christ Church, and it has(Diapason Feb. 1920)
J. J. Miller has completed twentyfive years as organist and choirmaster of Christ church at Norfolk, Va., and the parish joined Dec.(Diapason Jan. 1915)
Grace M.E. Church New York (boy choir planned, 1923); St Philip’s Cathedral Atlanta (1925).
Grace Chalmers Thomson is one of the few woman organists in the United States who have mate a success of conducting a boy choir.(Diapason Sep. 1925)
Episcopal Church, New York City, will have a solo quartet, a selected motet choir, a St. Cecilia girls’ choir and a boy choir when activities get under way in the autumn.(Diapason Aug. 1923)
Grace Cathedral San Francisco (1916); Christ Church Poughkeepsie, thirty boys and 25 adults (1920).
m., Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Alfred J. Chaplin-Bayley, with Alexander Bevani, soloist; Sunday afternoon, May 21, at 3:30(Diapason Jun. 1916)
and choirmaster of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Here a choir of thirty boys and twenty-five adult singers.(Diapason Feb. 1920)
FRCO 1881; Denver cathedral from 1882; founded the vested choir of Epiphany, Chicago, 1890; Trinity Pittsburgh 15–16 years; St Clement’s Philadelphia 1910; Trinity Cathedral Cleveland 1914; Trinity Columbus 1915.
hands of one of the foremost musicians of our country.” In 1882 Mr. Hall was chosen among more than ninety musicians of London to be organist of the Episcopal cathedral at Denver.(Diapason Feb. 1914)
In 1890 he was called to Chicago, where he founded the vested choir of Epiphany church and where he was for three years one of the five organists at the(Diapason Feb. 1914)
Mr, Hall for fifteen years wag at Trinity Church, Pittsand brought the vested choir of that church into prominence.(Diapason Nov. 1910)
of the American Guild of OrganYork, has received the appointment of organist and choirmaster of St. Clement's Episcopal church, Philadelphia, of which the Rey.(Diapason Nov. 1910)
— The new organist of Trinity Cathedral gave the following selections after the evening services, Jan.(Diapason Feb. 1914)
Save a concert A Overture, Fricker; pril 6 in the Methodist Bach; Variations on Ohio, with his choir boys from Trinity ’ Johnston; “Evensc MAY 1, 1915 dailies(Diapason May. 1915)
At 16 he began studying under Frederic Gunton of Chester cathedral, England, an intimate friend of Mendelssohn.(Diapason Feb. 1914)
St Luke’s Long Beach 1901–06; St Athanasius Los Angeles 1906–16; taught the training of boys’ voices.
Jenkintown, Pa., 1895-1901; choirmaster St. Luke's Ch., Long Beach, Gal., 1901-6, St. Athanasius Ch., Los Angeles, 1906-16, and various choral societies; has given organ recitals in western U. S. ; has taught piano, organ, harmony and(IWWM 1918)
Born Northamptonshire; St Luke’s San Francisco 1894–1906; directed the Vested Choir Association of San Francisco and Vicinity.
all Saints Ch., Warwick, 1893-4; St. Luke's Ch., San Francisco, 1894-1906; Temple Emanuel, San Francisco, since 1895, First Church of Christ, Scientist, San Francisco, since 1906.(IWWM 1918)
Taught boy-choir training (1915–16).
Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w. Beecher Aldrich, 1915-6; stud, in Trinity School of Church Music, New York, 1914-6, associate Am.(IWWM 1918)
A choir of boys and men under his direction sang a chapter service, March 1923 (church not named in the passage read).
The service was sung by a choir of boys and men under the direction of Herbert W. W. Downes, organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Apr. 1923)
Trinity Church (city not in the passage read): organized an association of former choir boys, some connected with the choir for over fifty years (1922).
during Mr. Foote’s tenure at Trinify include the organization of a choir association composed of former choir boys, some of whom had been connected with the choir for over fifty years; the building of the large threemanual Austin(Diapason Oct. 1922)
A Catholic organist describing his Sunday: 11 o’clock mass “with a boy choir consisting of some fifty boys” (1921). Church not named.
New Year’s Day with 10 o’clock mass with a mixed volunteer choir and at il o’clock mass (with a boy choir consisting of some fifty boys), services ending about 12:30.(Diapason Jan. 1921)
Born London; St Paul’s Cathedral choir school and boy soloist under Stainer; “choirmaster in leading churches in America, 1889–99”; later Washington, D.C.
As a boy was soloist of St. Paul's Cathedral under Sir John Stainer; choirmaster in leading churches in America, 188999; mus.(IWWM 1918)
Born Hamilton, Ont.; choir boy at the Anglican cathedral there under his brother; fifty boys and men at All Saints’ Toronto as a student; St John the Evangelist, St Paul, Minn. (sixty boys and men).
At the latter church he was also choirmaster, having charge of a choir of fifty boys and men.(Diapason Apr. 1925)
At St. John’s he has a choir of sixty boys and men and at the Temple a mixed quartet.(Diapason Oct. 1918)
He was a choir boy in the Episcopal Cathedral choir at Hamilton and assistant organist to his oldest brother, William FE, Fairclough.(Diapason Oct. 1918)
Organist of the Anglican cathedral, Hamilton, Ont.; oldest brother of G. H. Fairclough.
He was a choir boy in the Episcopal Cathedral choir at Hamilton and assistant organist to his oldest brother, William FE, Fairclough.(Diapason Oct. 1918)
St Margaret’s Liverpool; chorus master, Liverpool Philharmonic.
mentioned in Dickens’ “Pickwick Papers.” He received his musical training in Liverpool under the tuition of Horace A. Branscombe, organist and choirmaster of St. Margaret’s Church and chorus master of the Liverpool Philharmonic Society.(Diapason May. 1922)
Organist of Chester Cathedral.
At 16 he began studying under Frederic Gunton of Chester cathedral, England, an intimate friend of Mendelssohn.(Diapason Feb. 1914)
London teacher of organ and boy-choir work.
Alexandre Guilmant, in Paris, 1910-1; organ and boy-choir work w. Dr. H. W. Richards in London, 1911; m.(IWWM 1918)
Dr. Baier was at Trinity about thirty-five years. Mr. Lefebvre is not yet 30 years old.(Diapason Apr. 1922)
The place was made vacant by the departure of Clarence Dickinson for New York.(Diapason Dec. 1909)
Percy Goetschius, organ w. Wallace Goodrich, etc; boy choir training diploma, Sherwood School, Chicago; m.(IWWM 1918)
of music John Gordon Seely at Northwestern University, studying organ with Dean Peter C. Lutkin, his teacher for four years.(Diapason Apr. 1929)
in music; stud. w. Lacey Baker, Minton Pyne, I. J. Morgan, Charles Macpherson and S. Paulo, London Constantin von Sternberg, Philadelphia; m.(IWWM 1918)
In England he studied under |nent, has been cordially received by C. W. Perkins, organist of the pe Mane choirmasters and directors of(Diapason Sep. 1911)
Filter by region, denomination, boy-choir evidence, grade or text. The quotation for each post is in the register above.
| Person | Church or school | Place | Years | Role | Boys | Source | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George C. Phelps | All Saints' Church, Ashmont | Boston, Mass. | fl. 1923 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Mar. 1923 | Documented |
| Arthur M. Phelps | Cathedral Church of St Paul | Boston, Mass. | 1925 | Director of music | boys stated | Diapason May. 1925 | Documented |
| Alfred Hamer | Church of the Advent | Boston, Mass. | 1923– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1923 | Documented |
| Francis W. Snow | Trinity Church | Boston, Mass. | 1924– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1924 | Documented |
| Ernest H. Sheppard | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Brockton, Mass. | 1919–c.1920 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1919 | Documented |
| E. Rupert Sircom | Church of Our Saviour | Brookline, Mass. | fl. 1923 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Apr. 1923 | Documented |
| Ernest Dawson Leach | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Burlington, Vt. | 1919– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Nov. 1919 | Documented |
| Herbert C. Peabody | Christ Church | Fitchburg, Mass. | by 1922–25+ | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1922 | Documented |
| John Bayard Currier | St John's Church | Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. | fl. 1918 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Malcolm G. Humphreys | St Mark's Church | New Britain, Conn. | 1920– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1919 | Documented |
| Sydney Webber | St Mark's Episcopal Church | New Britain, Conn. | to 1913 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Apr. 1913 | Documented |
| Edwin Arthur Kraft | Church of the Ascension | New Haven, Conn. | c.1900 | Organist | boys stated | Diapason Nov. 1924 | Documented |
| Francis Amory Spurr | St Paul's Church | Peabody, Mass. | 1909–12+ | Organist; choirmaster of sixteen boys and a quartet | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1912 | Documented |
| Arthur H. Ryder | Grace Church | Providence, R.I. | 1901–10 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Arthur H. Ryder | Christ Church | Quincy, Mass. | 1914–16 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Ernest H. Sheppard | Christ Episcopal Church | Quincy, Mass. | 1919 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1919 | Documented |
| William A. Staples | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Salem, Mass. | c.1905–12 | Organist; trained Spurr, a boy of the vested choir, at the organ | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1912 | Probable |
| Walter J. Clemson | St Thomas' Church | Taunton, Mass. | 1885–1925+ | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Jul. 1925 | Documented |
| Sydney Webber | Trinity Church | Waterbury, Conn. | 1914– | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | Diapason May. 1914 | Documented |
| A. Madeley Richardson | Summer conference for church music (demonstrations) | Wellesley, Mass. | 1922 | Teacher of choir-boy training | boys stated | Diapason May. 1922 | Documented |
| J. Albert Wilson | Church of the Epiphany | Winchester, Mass. | 1922 | Choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1922 | Documented |
| Mr. Glynn (Worcester) | All Saints' Church | Worcester, Mass. | 1925– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Aug. 1925 | Documented |
| Ernest T. Winchester | St Mary's Church | Albany, N.Y. | 1914– | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | Diapason Nov. 1914 | Documented |
| T. Frederick Candlyn | St Paul's Church | Albany, N.Y. | fl. 1922 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Mar. 1923 | Documented |
| Frank Sill Rogers | St Peter's Church | Albany, N.Y. | 1892– | Organist and master of choristers | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1922 | Documented |
| R. Grant Walker | Church of the Redeemer | Astoria, N.Y. | 1925– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1925 | Documented |
| Richard Keys Biggs | Cathedral Chapel of Queen of All Saints | Brooklyn, N.Y. | 1920– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Mar. 1920 | Documented |
| George Arthur Wilson | Church of the Messiah | Brooklyn, N.Y. | fl. 1917–22 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason May. 1922 | Documented |
| Frank Wright | Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights | Brooklyn, N.Y. | later | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason May. 1922 | Documented |
| Frank Wright | St John's Church | Brooklyn, N.Y. | 1892– | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason May. 1922 | Documented |
| Ralph A. Harris | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Brooklyn, N.Y. | 1925 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1925 | Documented |
| Edward Hardy | Grace Episcopal Church | Buffalo, N.Y. | by 1923 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1923 | Documented |
| Frank Charles Butcher | Hoosac School | Hoosac, N.Y. | 1908–16 | Musical director | boys probable | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| John Eduard Riley | Church of the Ascension | Mount Vernon, N.Y. | 1904–06 | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Stanley W. VanWart | St Paul's Church | New York area | 1924– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1925 | Documented |
| John Bland | Calvary Episcopal Church | New York, N.Y. | by 1920–24+ | Master of the boy choir | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1924 | Documented |
| Miles Farrow | Cathedral of St John the Divine | New York, N.Y. | 1909– | Organist and master of the choristers | boys stated | Diapason Nov. 1924 | Documented |
| Edmund G. Hurley | Catholic churches of America (claim in obituary) | New York, N.Y. | — | First introduced boy choirs in Catholic churches of America (as stated) | boys stated | Diapason May. 1918 | Reported |
| Edmund G. Hurley | Church of St Paul the Apostle | New York, N.Y. | to 1918 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Oct. 1918 | Documented |
| Nicola A. Montani | Church of St Paul the Apostle | New York, N.Y. | 1923– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1923 | Documented |
| Edmund G. Hurley | Church of St Paul the Apostle | New York, N.Y. | c.1871–1918 (forty-seven years) | Organist | boys probable | Diapason May. 1918 | Documented |
| William J. Finn, C.S.P. | Church of St Paul the Apostle (Paulist Choristers) | New York, N.Y. | 1918–23 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1918 | Documented |
| James Morris Helfenstein | Grace Church and Choristers’ School | New York, N.Y. | 1894– | Organist and director of music | boys stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Grace Chalmers Thomson | Grace Methodist Episcopal Church | New York, N.Y. | 1923 | Organist and director | boys stated | Diapason Aug. 1923 | Documented |
| George Edward Stubbs | St Agnes' Chapel, Trinity Parish | New York, N.Y. | 1892– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jul. 1917 | Documented |
| G. Darlington Richards | St James' Church | New York, N.Y. | 1925 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1925 | Documented |
| Edmund Jaques | St Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish | New York, N.Y. | fl. 1918 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| T. Tertius Noble | St Thomas' Church and Choir School | New York, N.Y. | 1913– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1925 | Documented |
| Hugh Allan MacKinnon | Trinity Chapel | New York, N.Y. | 1915–16 | Trainer of boys | boys stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Felix Lamond | Trinity Chapel and Trinity School of Church Music | New York, N.Y. | fl. 1913–18 | Organist; director of the school | boys stated | IWWM 1918 | Probable |
| Channing Lefebvre | Trinity Church | New York, N.Y. | 1922– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Nov. 1924 | Documented |
| John Cushing | Trinity Episcopal Church, Lenox Avenue | New York, N.Y. | 1925 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1925 | Documented |
| Ernest T. Bond | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Peekskill, N.Y. | 1924 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1924 | Documented |
| Alfred J. Chaplin-Bayley | Christ Church | Poughkeepsie, N.Y. | 1920– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1920 | Documented |
| Norman Coke-Jephcott | Church of the Messiah | Rhinebeck, N.Y. | 1912– | Organist and master of choristers | boys stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| George Henry Day | Christ Church | Rochester, N.Y. | 1925– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1925 | Documented |
| Arthur G. Young | Church of the Reformation | Rochester, N.Y. | 1925 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1925 | Documented |
| Stanley R. Avery | St Andrew's Memorial Church | Yonkers, N.Y. | before c.1915 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Feb. 1920 | Probable |
| Miles Farrow | Mount Calvary Church | Baltimore, Md. | c.1890s | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jul. 1911 | Documented |
| Miles Farrow | St Paul's Church and Choir School | Baltimore, Md. | c.1894–1909 | Organist and choirmaster; head master of the choir school | boys stated | Diapason Jul. 1911 | Documented |
| Ernest H. Sheppard | Christ Episcopal Church | East Orange, N.J. | 1921– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1921 | Documented |
| James E. Lord | Calvary Church | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. | 1922 | Choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Mar. 1922 | Documented |
| George Alexander West | St Luke's Church | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. | fl. 1912–22 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Mar. 1922 | Documented |
| Alfred C. Kuschwa | St Stephen's Episcopal Church | Harrisburg, Pa. | fl. 1921–25 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Jul. 1921 | Documented |
| Nicola A. Montani | Church of St John the Evangelist | Philadelphia, Pa. | c.1906–23 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1925 | Documented |
| Edward Hardy | Church of the Incarnation | Philadelphia, Pa. | c.1916–21 | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Lewis A. Wadlow | Old St Peter's Church and Choir School | Philadelphia, Pa. | 1909–15 | Organist, choirmaster, headmaster of the choir school | boys stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Walter E. Hall | St Clement's Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | 1910–13 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Nov. 1910 | Documented |
| S. Wesley Sears | St James' Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | 1925 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1925 | Documented |
| S. Wesley Sears | St James' Church and Choir School | Philadelphia, Pa. | by 1911–25+ | Organist and choirmaster; head of the choir school | boys stated | Diapason Sep. 1911 | Documented |
| Lewis A. Wadlow | St Mark's Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | 1915– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1919 | Documented |
| Harry C. Banks Jr. | St Mary's Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | fl. 1921 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Nov. 1921 | Documented |
| Harvey B. Gaul | Calvary Church | Pittsburgh, Pa. | fl. 1919–22 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1919 | Documented |
| Daniel R. Philippi | Church of the Ascension | Pittsburgh, Pa. | by 1922– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1922 | Documented |
| Walter E. Hall | Trinity Church | Pittsburgh, Pa. | c.1894–1910 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Nov. 1910 | Documented |
| Parvin Titus | St Luke's Church (and Trinity Church, Cranford) | Roselle, N.J. | 1922– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Sep. 1922 | Documented |
| Ernest T. Winchester | St Paul's Church (Catholic) | Washington, D.C. | c.1904–13 (nearly nine years) | Director of the new choir of men and boys | boys stated | Diapason Nov. 1914 | Documented |
| George Henry Day | St John's Church | Wilmington, Del. | 1917–25 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1918 | Documented |
| Eugene Devereaux | St John's Church | Wilmington, Del. | 1925– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1925 | Documented |
| John Gordon Seely | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Akron, Ohio | 1914–18 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Jun. 1914 | Documented |
| John B. Norton | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Akron, Ohio | to 1913 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Apr. 1913 | Documented |
| Sydney Webber | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Akron, Ohio | 1913–14 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason May. 1914 | Documented |
| Ralph E. Clewell | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Canton, Ohio | by 1920– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1920 | Documented |
| Henry B. Roney | (Chicago churches) | Chicago, Ill. | fl. 1880s–1924 | Trainer of boy choirs | boys stated | Diapason Apr. 1924 | Documented |
| Mason Slade | Christ Church | Chicago, Ill. | 1924 | Choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1924 | Documented |
| C. Gordon Wedertz | Church of the Epiphany | Chicago, Ill. | by 1923– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1923 | Documented |
| Walter E. Hall | Church of the Epiphany | Chicago, Ill. | 1890–c.1893 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1914 | Documented |
| Robert R. Birch | Church of the Redeemer | Chicago, Ill. | 1924 | Choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1924 | Documented |
| Hugo Goodwin | Paulist Choristers | Chicago, Ill. | c.1919–21 | Organist | boys stated | Diapason Aug. 1919 | Documented |
| Mason Slade | St Andrew's Church | Chicago, Ill. | by 1911 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Sep. 1911 | Documented |
| John Norton | St James' Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | 1909– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1909 | Documented |
| John Gordon Seely | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | c.1901–05 (while a student) | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Apr. 1929 | Documented |
| William E. Zeuch | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | before c.1901 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Apr. 1929 | Probable |
| Herbert E. Hyde | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | to 1920 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1920 | Documented |
| Ellis E. Chase | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | 1920– | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason May. 1920 | Documented |
| Willard L. Groom | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | by 1924– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1924 | Documented |
| Herbert E. Hyde | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | by 1912–20 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Oct. 1912 | Documented |
| Herbert E. Hyde | St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | 1912 | Organist; took twenty men and boy singers from his choir to sing carols | boys stated | Diapason Jan. 1913 | Documented |
| Irving C. Hancock | Trinity Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | by 1913–21+ | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1918 | Documented |
| Kennard Barradell | Grace Church | Chicago, Ill. (probable) | 1913 | Choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Jun. 1913 | Probable |
| Mr. Symons (Cincinnati) | Grace Church | Cincinnati, Ohio | 1924 | Choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Mar. 1924 | Documented |
| Adolph H. Stadermann | St Lawrence Church, Price Hill | Cincinnati, Ohio | c.1900–12 | Organist and choir director | boys probable | Diapason Sep. 1912 | Documented |
| John J. Fehring | St Peter's Cathedral | Cincinnati, Ohio | by 1920– | Organist | boys stated | Diapason Nov. 1923 | Documented |
| Alfred R. Willard | Plymouth Church, Shaker Heights | Cleveland, Ohio | 1924 | Organist and director | boys stated | Diapason May. 1924 | Documented |
| Walter E. Hall | Trinity Cathedral | Cleveland, Ohio | 1914 | Organist | boys probable | Diapason Feb. 1914 | Documented |
| Walter E. Hall | Trinity Church | Columbus, Ohio | 1915 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1915 | Probable |
| Abram Butler Jr. | Church of the Messiah | Detroit, Mich. | c.1916– | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Francis A. Mackay | St Paul's Cathedral | Detroit, Mich. | by 1919– | Organist and master of the choristers | boys probable | Diapason May. 1919 | Documented |
| S. Wesley Martin | St Luke's Church | Dixon, Ill. | c.1895–1900 | Choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jan. 1925 | Probable |
| Isabel Pearson Fuller | Trinity Pro-Cathedral | Duluth, Minn. | 1912–14 | Organist | boys probable | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Arthur Randolph Frazer | St Luke's Church | Evanston, Ill. | before 1925 | Choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Aug. 1925 | Probable |
| Stanley Martin | St Mark's Church | Evanston, Ill. | 1924 | Choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1924 | Documented |
| Harold Tower | St Mark's Pro-Cathedral | Grand Rapids, Mich. | 1915–25+ | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1925 | Documented |
| Walter Earle Hartley | St Mark's Pro-Cathedral | Grand Rapids, Mich. | 1911–15 | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | IWWM 1918 | Probable |
| Walter Blodgett | St Mark's Pro-Cathedral (acting) | Grand Rapids, Mich. | 1925 | Acting choir manager | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1925 | Documented |
| Henry Overley | St Luke's Church | Kalamazoo, Mich. | by 1923– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1925 | Documented |
| William Ripley Dorr | Emmanuel Episcopal Church | La Grange, Ill. | 1919–c.1925 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Mar. 1919 | Documented |
| Harry Irwin Metzger | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Minneapolis, Minn. | 1922– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jan. 1922 | Documented |
| Birt Summers | First Presbyterian Church | Muncie, Ind. | 12 years (by 1918) | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| David McClintock | Grace Church | Port Huron, Mich. | 1925– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Sep. 1925 | Documented |
| Carl G. Alexis | First Lutheran Church | Rockford, Ill. | 1924 | Organist | boys stated | Diapason Aug. 1924 | Documented |
| Arthur Davis | Christ Church Cathedral | Salina, Kan. | 1910–11 | Organist | boys not stated | Diapason Sep. 1911 | Documented |
| Ellis C. Varley | Grace Episcopal Church | Sandusky, Ohio | 1919– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Apr. 1920 | Documented |
| Harold Rivenburg | Grace Episcopal Church | Sandusky, Ohio | to 1918 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | Diapason Jul. 1918 | Documented |
| Arthur Davis | Christ Church Cathedral | St Louis, Mo. | 1911– | Organist and master of the choristers | boys stated | Diapason Sep. 1911 | Documented |
| Henry H. Darby | Christ Church Cathedral | St Louis, Mo. | c.1886–1911 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Sep. 1911 | Documented |
| Harry Irwin Metzger | Christ Episcopal Church | St Paul, Minn. | c.1918–22 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Dec. 1919 | Documented |
| George Herbert Fairclough | Church of St John the Evangelist | St Paul, Minn. | by 1910– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1918 | Documented |
| John Gordon Seely | Trinity Episcopal Church | Toledo, Ohio | 1919–45 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Apr. 1929 | Documented |
| Herbert Foster Sprague | Trinity Episcopal Church | Toledo, Ohio | to c.1919 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason May. 1919 | Documented |
| Grace Chalmers Thomson | St Philip's Cathedral | Atlanta, Ga. | by 1925 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Sep. 1925 | Documented |
| Willard L. Groom | St David's Church | Austin, Tex. | 1921– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Jan. 1921 | Documented |
| Mr. Hanchett (Dallas) | St Edward's College | Austin, Tex. | 1925– | Professor of organ; in charge of the college choir | boys stated | Diapason Mar. 1925 | Documented |
| Willard L. Groom | St Peter's Church, Brenham, and St Mary's Church, Bellville | Brenham, Tex. | c.1920 | Organist and choirmaster | boys not stated | Diapason Jan. 1921 | Documented |
| David E. Grove | St Matthew's Cathedral | Dallas, Tex. | fl. 1919 | Organist | boys stated | Diapason Apr. 1919 | Documented |
| Mr. Hanchett (Dallas) | St Matthew's Cathedral | Dallas, Tex. | to 1922 | Choir boy; then assistant organist | boys stated | Diapason Mar. 1922 | Documented |
| Mr. Bailey (Macon) | St Paul's Episcopal Church | Macon, Ga. | by 1925 | Organist | boys not stated | Diapason Jul. 1925 | Documented |
| J. J. Miller | Christ Church | Norfolk, Va. | fl. 1915–20 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Feb. 1920 | Documented |
| J. J. Miller | Christ Church | Norfolk, Va. | c.1889–1914+ | Organist and choirmaster (twenty-five years by Dec. 1914) | boys not stated | Diapason Jan. 1915 | Documented |
| Paul Allen Beymer | St Matthew's Church | Wheeling, W.Va. | 1916– | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1925 | Documented |
| Walter E. Hall | St John's Cathedral | Denver, Colo. | 1882–c.1888 | Organist | boys not stated | Diapason Feb. 1914 | Documented |
| Charles Thornton Murphy | St Athanasius' Church | Los Angeles, Calif. | 1906–16 | Choirmaster | boys probable | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| William Ripley Dorr | Wilshire Presbyterian Church | Los Angeles, Calif. | 1925– | Choir director | boys stated | Diapason Jun. 1925 | Documented |
| Alfred J. Chaplin-Bayley | Grace Cathedral | San Francisco, Calif. | fl. 1916 | Organist | boys not stated | Diapason Jun. 1916 | Documented |
| Wallace Arthur Sabin | St Luke's Church | San Francisco, Calif. | 1894–1906 | Organist and choirmaster | boys probable | IWWM 1918 | Documented |
| Sheldon B. Foote | Trinity Church | (city not stated) | fl. 1918–22 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Oct. 1922 | Documented |
| Herbert W. W. Downes | (church not named) | Massachusetts (probable) | 1923 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Apr. 1923 | Documented |
| Andrew H. Mangold | (Catholic church, not named) | USA | 1921 | Organist | boys stated | Diapason Jan. 1921 | Documented |
| Sydney Lloyd Wrightson | (leading churches, not named) | USA | 1889–99 | Choirmaster | boys not stated | IWWM 1918 | Reported |
| George Herbert Fairclough | All Saints' Church | Toronto, Ont. | c.1887–90 | Organist and choirmaster | boys stated | Diapason Apr. 1925 | Documented |
141 churches, schools and gatherings. 108 have a boy choir stated in a passage read; 13 are known only as choirs, with no choirmaster named in the passage.
| Church or school | Place | Region | Denomination | Boy choir | Choirmasters in this category | Evidence of boys |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Saints' Church, Ashmont | Boston, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | George C. Phelps (fl. 1923) | The choirs of All Saints’ Church (Ashmont), Boston, fifty-two men and boys, with George C. Phelps, organist and choirmaster, and of the Church of Our Savior, Brookline men and women) with E. Rupert Sircom, organist(Diapason Mar. 1923) |
| Cathedral Church of St Paul | Boston, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Arthur M. Phelps (1925) | of St. Paul on Friday evenings during Lent the music under the direction of Arthur M. Phelps was of the highest order. Choirs of men and boys and men and women, either as single groups or with combined forces,(Diapason May. 1925) |
| Church of the Advent | Boston, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Alfred Hamer (1923–) | the last nine months Mr. Hamer has made remarkable progress in developing and training his choir of forty boys and men.(Diapason Dec. 1923) |
| Trinity Church | Boston, Mass. | USA: New England | Not stated | boys stated | Francis W. Snow (1924–) | that in addition to his present choir of fifty voices, a second choir of men and boys will be organized in the fall.(Diapason Jun. 1924) |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Brockton, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Ernest H. Sheppard (1919–c.1920) | There is a good choir of men and boys.(Diapason May. 1919) |
| Church of Our Saviour | Brookline, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | E. Rupert Sircom (fl. 1923) | The choir of boys and men (and half a dozen women) belonging to the Church of our Saviour, Brookline, and All Saints’ Church, Boston (Ashmont), combined under(Diapason Apr. 1923) |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Burlington, Vt. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Ernest Dawson Leach (1919–) | He will have a boy choir and a fine three-manual Austin organ.(Diapason Nov. 1919) |
| Christ Church | Fitchburg, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Herbert C. Peabody (by 1922–25+) | The surpticed choir of boys and men sang the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in EF flat (Barnby), “Lord, Thou Art God’’ (Stainer), and “To God on High’(Diapason Jun. 1922) |
| St John's Church | Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys probable | John Bayard Currier (fl. 1918) | Teacher of piano, organ and singing (boys' voices) ; at present organist and choirmaster of St. John's Ch., Jamaica Plain, Boston, Mass.(IWWM 1918) |
| St Mark's Episcopal Church | New Britain, Conn. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Sydney Webber (to 1913); Malcolm G. Humphreys (1920–) | by the resignation of John B. Norton, has been offered to Sydney Webber, organist and choirmaster of St. Mark’s church, New Britain, Conn. Mr. Webber is a young man of great musical ability and has been over(Diapason Apr. 1913) |
| Church of the Ascension | New Haven, Conn. | USA: New England | Not stated | boys stated | Edwin Arthur Kraft (c.1900) | Haven, and later was called to fill a similar position at the Church of the Ascension, where he trained his first boys’ choir.(Diapason Nov. 1924) |
| St Paul's Church | Peabody, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Francis Amory Spurr (1909–12+) | He is also choirmaster of sixteen boys and a quartet that assists in the musical exercises of the church.(Diapason Oct. 1912) |
| Grace Church | Providence, R.I. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Arthur H. Ryder (1901–10) | Mass., 1900-1; Grace Ch., Providence, R. I., 1901-10; choirmaster from 1904, inaugurated the choir of boys and men; organist Arion Club, Providence, 1902-10; dir.(IWWM 1918) |
| Christ Church | Quincy, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Arthur H. Ryder (1914–16); Ernest H. Sheppard (1919) | Andover, Mass.; Christ Ch., Quincy, 1914-6; org.(IWWM 1918) |
| St Peter's Episcopal Church | Salem, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | William A. Staples (c.1905–12) | He was a member of the boys’ vested choir and was trained to play on the organ by William A. Staples.(Diapason Oct. 1912) |
| St John's Church | Stamford, Conn. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read | Vierne, received since our last accounting: Miss Mabel Knowles Gage .........$100.00 Choirboys of St. John’s Church, Stamford.(Diapason Apr. 1923) |
| St Thomas' Church | Taunton, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys probable | Walter J. Clemson (1885–1925+) | observed also with a special musical service last Sunday, the full vested choir under Mr. Clemson’s direction being augmented by trumpet, trombone and drums.(Diapason Jul. 1925) |
| Trinity Church | Waterbury, Conn. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys not stated | Sydney Webber (1914–) | — |
| Summer conference for church music (demonstrations) | Wellesley, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | A. Madeley Richardson (1922) | York, and former organist of Southwark Cathedral, London, will give practical demonstrations with choir boys, and instruction in keyboard composing and improvisation.(Diapason May. 1922) |
| Church of the Epiphany | Winchester, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | J. Albert Wilson (1922) | The large boy choir in this church is directed by J. Albert Wilson.(Diapason Oct. 1922) |
| All Saints' Church | Worcester, Mass. | USA: New England | Episcopal | boys stated | Mr. Glynn (Worcester) (1925–) | Mr. Glynn has a fourmanual Skinner organ and a choir of men and boys.(Diapason Aug. 1925) |
| St Mary's Church | Albany, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys not stated | Ernest T. Winchester (1914–) | — |
| St Paul's Church | Albany, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys stated | T. Frederick Candlyn (fl. 1922) | He had two or three boy choirs in the chancel and I had -perhaps seventy-five mixed voices in the west end gallery.(Diapason Mar. 1923) |
| St Peter's Church | Albany, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Frank Sill Rogers (1892–) | March 26 in St. Peter’s Episcopal Church at Albany, N. Y., by the vested choir of boys and men of St. Peter’s, the Mendelssohn Club and other musicians, in honor of the thirtieth(Diapason Jun. 1922) |
| Church of the Redeemer | Astoria, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | R. Grant Walker (1925–) | Mr. Walker will have a choir of thirty men and boys.(Diapason Jun. 1925) |
| Cathedral Chapel of Queen of All Saints | Brooklyn, N.Y. | USA: New York | Roman Catholic | boys stated | Richard Keys Biggs (1920–) | Since his appointment Mr. Biggs has organized a most successful choir of boys and men, who sit in the organ rallery at the west end of the church, where(Diapason Mar. 1920) |
| Catholic Diocesan Choristers | Brooklyn, N.Y. | USA: New York | Roman Catholic | boys stated | not named in the passage read | This is an organization of 100 boys and men, picked from the Catholic choirs of this city, under the direction of Richard kK.(Diapason Mar. 1925) |
| Church of the Messiah | Brooklyn, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys probable | George Arthur Wilson (fl. 1917–22) | Mark, Brooklyn); John Hammond (Strand Theater, Brooklyn); George Arthur Wilson, F. A. G. O. (Church of the Messiah, Brooklyn), and Harry H. Whittaker (All Saints’ Church, Brooklyn).(Diapason May. 1922) |
| Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights | Brooklyn, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys probable | Frank Wright (later) | and choirmaster of St. John’s Church, Brooklyn, and later organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Brooklyn Heights.(Diapason May. 1922) |
| St John's Church | Brooklyn, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys probable | Frank Wright (1892–) | In 1892 he became organist and choirmaster of St. John’s Church, Brooklyn, and later organist and choirmaster of Grace Church, Brooklyn(Diapason May. 1922) |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Brooklyn, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Ralph A. Harris (1925) | the parish auditorium, Brooklyn, on the evening of May 1, directed by Ralph A. Harris, organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Jun. 1925) |
| Grace Episcopal Church | Buffalo, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Edward Hardy (by 1923) | C. M., Buffalo, N. Y.—Mr. ardy, assisted by the choir boys, gave a recital in Grace Episcopal Church May 15, the organ selections being as follows: grand Chorus (Sonata(Diapason Jun. 1923) |
| Hoosac School | Hoosac, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys probable | Frank Charles Butcher (1908–16) | St. Columba's Coll., Dublin, Ireland, 1902, Hoosac Sch., Hoosac, N. Y., 1908-1916; organist and choirmaster St. Stephen's Ch., Pittsfield, Mass., 1916.(IWWM 1918) |
| Church of the Ascension | Mount Vernon, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys not stated | John Eduard Riley (1904–06) | — |
| St Paul's Church | New York area | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Stanley W. VanWart (1924–) | who succeeded Parvin Titus a year ago at St. Paul’s, is doing excellent work with his male choir of forty men and boys.(Diapason May. 1925) |
| Calvary Episcopal Church | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | John Bland (by 1920–24+) | John Bland will continue as master of the boy choir.(Diapason Oct. 1924) |
| Cathedral of St John the Divine | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys stated | Miles Farrow (1909–) | The cathedral choir, of which Dr. Miles Farrow is organist and master of the choristers, will be assisted by the choir of Trinity Church, Channing Lefebvre,(Diapason Nov. 1924) |
| Church of St Paul the Apostle | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Roman Catholic | boys stated | Edmund G. Hurley (to 1918); Nicola A. Montani (1923–); Edmund G. Hurley (c.1871–1918 (forty-seven years)) | Father Finn succeeds the late Professor Edmund J. Hurley, who was knighted by the Pope for his work in developing the use of(Diapason Oct. 1918) |
| Church of St Paul the Apostle (Paulist Choristers) | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Roman Catholic | boys stated | William J. Finn, C.S.P. (1918–23) | Columbus avenue and Sixtieth street, New York, and has taken to New York twenty-five of his boy choristers as a permanent addition to the choir.(Diapason Oct. 1918) |
| Church of the Incarnation | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read Boy choir abandoned in 1919 when John Doane took charge. | The boy choir was abandoned when Mr. Doane took charge and he was commissioned to organize a mixed choir.(Diapason Oct. 1919) |
| Grace Church and Choristers’ School | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | James Morris Helfenstein (1894–) | of music, Grace Church, New York; founder and dir., Choristers' Sch., 1894.(IWWM 1918) |
| Grace Methodist Episcopal Church | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Methodist | boys stated | Grace Chalmers Thomson (1923) | Episcopal Church, New York City, will have a solo quartet, a selected motet choir, a St. Cecilia girls’ choir and a boy choir when activities get under way in the autumn.(Diapason Aug. 1923) |
| Guilmant Organ School (course: training of boys’ voices) | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | School | boys stated | not named in the passage read | Improvisation, Hymnology, Musical Dictation, Musical History, Keyboard Work, the Training of Boys’ Voices Organ Construction, Organ Tuning, the.(Diapason Sep. 1919) |
| Old Trinity, Trinity Parish (massed boy choirs, AGO 25th anniversary) | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read Trinity, St Thomas’ and Grace Church Brooklyn boy choirs. | bearer, past wardens, the council, officers, the warden, the boy choirs “of Trinity and St. Thomas’ churches Pof New York, and Grace Church of Brooklyn, and the clergy of the three churches, was impressive and the ever(Diapason May. 1921) |
| St Agnes' Chapel, Trinity Parish | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys stated | George Edward Stubbs (1892–) | senior Dr. Stubbs is widely known as a trainer of boys’ voices.(Diapason Jul. 1917) |
| St James' Church | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | G. Darlington Richards (1925) | Mr. Richards has a choir of fifty men and boys, which for special occasions is augmented by a second choir of twentytwo women.(Diapason May. 1925) |
| St Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys probable | Edmund Jaques (fl. 1918) | Organist and hoirmaster St. Paul's Chapel, New York.(IWWM 1918) |
| St Thomas' Church and Choir School | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys stated | T. Tertius Noble (1913–) | T. Tertius Noble is the organist and choirmaster of St. Thomas’ Church, and has in his school thirty boys.(Diapason May. 1925) |
| Trinity Chapel | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Hugh Allan MacKinnon (1915–16) | St. Andrew's Ch., St. Johnsbury, Vt., 1907-9, 1912-4; trainer of boys in Trinity Chapel Choir, New York, 1915-6; ass't.(IWWM 1918) |
| Trinity Chapel and Trinity School of Church Music | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Felix Lamond (fl. 1913–18) | Felix Lamond, organist of Trinity Chapel, New York; boy choir training w.(IWWM 1918) |
| Trinity Church | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys stated | Channing Lefebvre (1922–) | and master of the choristers, will be assisted by the choir of Trinity Church, Channing Lefebvre, organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Nov. 1924) |
| Trinity Episcopal Church, Lenox Avenue | New York, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | John Cushing (1925) | Cushing is the organist and choirmaster of this church and has under his direction both a mixed and a boy choir.(Diapason May. 1925) |
| St Peter's Episcopal Church | Peekskill, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Ernest T. Bond (1924) | choir of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Peekskill, N. Y., with forty-one men and boys, under the direction of Ernest T. Bond, organist and choirmaster, rendered Stainer’s ‘Crucifixion’? on Good(Diapason Jun. 1924) |
| Christ Church | Poughkeepsie, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Alfred J. Chaplin-Bayley (1920–) | and choirmaster of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Here a choir of thirty boys and twenty-five adult singers.(Diapason Feb. 1920) |
| Church of the Messiah | Rhinebeck, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | Norman Coke-Jephcott (1912–) | festival given by Kingston Symphony Soc., May, 1914; organist and master of choristers, Church of the Messiah, Rhinebeck, N. Y., 1912.(IWWM 1918) |
| Christ Church | Rochester, N.Y. | USA: New York | Episcopal | boys stated | George Henry Day (1925–) | Dr. Day will have charge of a choir of fifty to sixty men and boys and preside over a splendid organ.(Diapason Feb. 1925) |
| Church of the Reformation | Rochester, N.Y. | USA: New York | Lutheran | boys stated | Arthur G. Young (1925) | G. Young, organist and choirmaster of the Church of the Reformation, Rochester, N. Y., with his choir of sixty-five men and boys has been trying out putting on a musical service every Wednesday night in place of the Sunday evening service.(Diapason Dec. 1925) |
| St Andrew's Memorial Church | Yonkers, N.Y. | USA: New York | Not stated | boys probable | Stanley R. Avery (before c.1915) | 18, Mr. Avery program of sacred comformer church, St. Yonkers, N. Y., Robert H. presented a positions at his Andrew’s Memorial, where he was assisted by Huntington Terry,(Diapason Feb. 1920) |
| Mount Calvary Church | Baltimore, Md. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Not stated | boys stated | Miles Farrow (c.1890s) | later dral in Four years he resolved to train boy choirs, and accepted a position at Mount Calvary Episcopal Church, from which he went to St. Paul's, where remained fifteen years, at(Diapason Jul. 1911) |
| St Paul's Church and Choir School | Baltimore, Md. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Not stated | boys stated | Miles Farrow (c.1894–1909) | and the last four years of his residence in Baltimore he head master of St. Paul’s Choir School, the first of its kind in this country.(Diapason Jul. 1911) |
| Christ Episcopal Church | East Orange, N.J. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | Ernest H. Sheppard (1921–) | Mr. Sheppard will have a fine three-manual organ of forty-two stops and a boy choir.(Diapason Oct. 1921) |
| Calvary Church | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys probable | James E. Lord (1922) | James E. Lord with his choristers from Calvary Church assisted.(Diapason Mar. 1922) |
| St Luke's Church | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys probable | George Alexander West (fl. 1912–22) | George Alexander A. West directed the combined choirs.(Diapason Mar. 1922) |
| St Stephen's Episcopal Church | Harrisburg, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys probable | Alfred C. Kuschwa (fl. 1921–25) | the large four-manual Hutchings organ, May 17, assisted by Master Walter E. Sickles, boy soprano, and the choir of the church.(Diapason Jul. 1921) |
| St Stephen's (Harrisburg) and St James' (Lancaster), combined | Lancaster, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read | Church, Harrisburg, and St. James’ Church, Lancaster, sang a choral service with the massed choirs of seventy-five men and boys, which included: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in E flat, Baker; “In the End of the Sabbath,” Targett; “The Risen(Diapason May. 1925) |
| Church of St John the Evangelist | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Roman Catholic | boys stated | Nicola A. Montani (c.1906–23) | of the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Philadelphia, where he established a model liturgical choir of boys and men.(Diapason Feb. 1925) |
| Church of the Incarnation | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys not stated | Edward Hardy (c.1916–21) | — |
| Old St Peter's Church and Choir School | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Not stated | boys stated | Lewis A. Wadlow (1909–15) | and headmaster of choir sch. Old St. Peter's Ch., 1909-15.(IWWM 1918) |
| St Clement's Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys probable | Walter E. Hall (1910–13) | of the American Guild of OrganYork, has received the appointment of organist and choirmaster of St. Clement's Episcopal church, Philadelphia, of which the Rey.(Diapason Nov. 1910) |
| St James' Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | S. Wesley Sears (1925) | The mass was sung by the choir of forty men and boys accompanied by about forty members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.(Diapason Jun. 1925) |
| St James' Church and Choir School | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | S. Wesley Sears (by 1911–25+) | S. Wesley Sears, organist of St. | Christ Church Cathedral, arrived in| James’ Episcopal Charch, PhiladelSt. Louis early in August. Mr. Davis} phia, and head of the St. James Choit is an Englishman, about 35 years old,(Diapason Sep. 1911) |
| St Mark's Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Not stated | boys stated | Lewis A. Wadlow (1915–) | The boy choir of St. Mark's Church sang selections from the “St. Matthew Passion” music of Bach on P —_ Sunday evening(Diapason May. 1919) |
| St Mary's Church | Philadelphia, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | Harry C. Banks Jr. (fl. 1921) | a boy soprano in St. Mary’s choir, under the tutelage of Harry S. Banks, Jr., organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Nov. 1921) |
| Calvary Church | Pittsburgh, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Not stated | boys stated | Harvey B. Gaul (fl. 1919–22) | Every month both men and boys pay in a percentage of their month’s salaries to the treasury.(Diapason Oct. 1919) |
| Church of the Ascension | Pittsburgh, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | Daniel R. Philippi (by 1922–) | 6 the combined boy choirs of Trinity, Ascension and. Calvary Episcopal churches, under the direction of.(Diapason Feb. 1922) |
| Trinity Church | Pittsburgh, Pa. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys probable | Walter E. Hall (c.1894–1910) | Mr, Hall for fifteen years wag at Trinity Church, Pittsand brought the vested choir of that church into prominence.(Diapason Nov. 1910) |
| St Luke's Church (and Trinity Church, Cranford) | Roselle, N.J. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | Parvin Titus (1922–) | will act as choirmaster of Trinity Church, Cranford, N. J. In both places Mr. Titus is in charge of boy choirs.(Diapason Sep. 1922) |
| St Paul's Church (Catholic) | Washington, D.C. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Roman Catholic | boys stated | Ernest T. Winchester (c.1904–13 (nearly nine years)) | all Catholic parishes to abandon women and mixed choirs, Dr. Winchester was engaged by Mgr. Mackin of Washington to direct the new choir of men and boys at St. Paul’s church, that city, which he continued to do for nearly nine years.(Diapason Nov. 1914) |
| St John's Church | Wilmington, Del. | USA: Mid-Atlantic | Episcopal | boys stated | George Henry Day (1917–25); Eugene Devereaux (1925–) | John’s, Church choir of mington, Del., consisting of thirtyfive men and boys, under the direction of George Henry Day, organist and choirmaster, will again present a series of the best(Diapason Dec. 1918) |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Akron, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys probable | John Gordon Seely (1914–18); John B. Norton (to 1913); Sydney Webber (1913–14) | Seely of Oswego, Ill, has the position of organist of Episcopal church at Akron,(Diapason Jun. 1914) |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Canton, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Ralph E. Clewell (by 1920–) | the choir of St Paul’s Episcopal Church, Canton, Ohio, consisting of fifty-two men and boys, under the direction of Ralph E. Clewell, organist and choirmaster, sang “The Seven Last Words,” by Dubois.(Diapason May. 1920) |
| (Chicago churches) | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Henry B. Roney (fl. 1880s–1924) | Henry B. Roney, the veteran Chicago organist and trainer of boy choirs, has been giving radio concerts with his Masonic quartet from(Diapason Apr. 1924) |
| Christ Church | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Mason Slade (1924) | are those of St. James’, under John W. Norton; Church of the Redeemer, Robert R. Birch; Christ Church, Mason Slade; St. Mark’s, Evanston, Stanley Martin, and the Church of the Atonement, Frank W. Smith.(Diapason Feb. 1924) |
| Church of the Epiphany | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | C. Gordon Wedertz (by 1923–); Walter E. Hall (1890–c.1893) | Pictures Supplement “Crucifixion.” The choir of fifty men and boys at the Church of the Epiphany, Chicago, under the direction of C. Gordon Wedertz, organist and choirmaster, sang Stainer’s “Crucifixion” March 25.(Diapason May. 1923) |
| Church of the Redeemer | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Robert R. Birch (1924) | The choirs which will take part are those of St. James’, under John W. Norton; Church of the Redeemer, Robert R. Birch; Christ Church, Mason Slade; St. Mark’s, Evanston, Stanley Martin, and the Church of the Atonement, Frank W. Smith.(Diapason Feb. 1924) |
| Five Chicago Episcopal boy choirs (joint service at St James’) | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read | 21, when five boy choirs of Chicago Episcopal churches will unite in a service at St. James’ Church.(Diapason Feb. 1924) |
| Paulist Choristers | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Roman Catholic | boys stated | Hugo Goodwin (c.1919–21) | m.—Recital by Hugo Goodwin of Chicago, organist of Paulist Choristers and of First Congregational Church Evanston.(Diapason Aug. 1919) |
| St Andrew's Church | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys probable | Mason Slade (by 1911) | Mason Slade returned to Chicago from Phantom Lake, Wis., where with the choir of St. Andrew’s in encampment.(Diapason Sep. 1911) |
| St James' Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Not stated | boys stated | John Norton (1909–) | The position of choirmaster is an important one in St. James’, as the choir is large—fifty-six men and boys—and the services are impressive.(Diapason Dec. 1909) |
| St Peter's Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | John Gordon Seely (c.1901–05 (while a student)); William E. Zeuch (before c.1901); Herbert E. Hyde (to 1920); Ellis E. Chase (1920–); Willard L. Groom (by 1924–); Herbert E. Hyde (by 1912–20); Herbert E. Hyde (1912) | school Mr. Seely was fortunate in being able to obtain the position as organist and choirmaster at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chicago, succeeding William .(Diapason Apr. 1929) |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | Chicago, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Irving C. Hancock (by 1913–21+) | The teh vested choir of forty men and boys, MERRIAM under Irving C. Hancock’s direction, C0., will sing the service and Master Sam Springfield,(Diapason Oct. 1918) |
| Grace Church | Chicago, Ill. (probable) | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys probable | Kennard Barradell (1913) | The service was sung by the vested choir of Grace Church, under direction of Kennard Barradell.(Diapason Jun. 1913) |
| Catholic parish (Fr S. J. Beckmeyer, pastor) | Cincinnati, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Roman Catholic | boys stated | not named in the passage read | These men assisted the choir of men and boys, which numbers seventy-five voices.(Diapason Nov. 1920) |
| Grace Church | Cincinnati, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Mr. Symons (Cincinnati) (1924) | Mr. Symons is still to act as choirmaster of the boy choir at Grace Church, with Alvin J. King as organist.(Diapason Mar. 1924) |
| St Lawrence Church, Price Hill | Cincinnati, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Roman Catholic | boys probable | Adolph H. Stadermann (c.1900–12) | Adolph H. Stadermann, organist and director of the choir of St. Lawrence Church, Price Hill, Cincinnati, terminates his duties with that church(Diapason Sep. 1912) |
| St Peter's Cathedral | Cincinnati, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Roman Catholic | boys stated | John J. Fehring (by 1920–) | The new mass was sung by a special choir of men and boys, trained for the occasion by John Fehring, organist of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cincinnati.(Diapason Nov. 1923) |
| Plymouth Church, Shaker Heights | Cleveland, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Congregational | boys stated | Alfred R. Willard (1924) | hymns from the church tower on Easter Sunday afternoon by the choir boys. The singing was under the direction of Alfred R. Willard, organist and director at this church.(Diapason May. 1924) |
| Trinity Cathedral | Cleveland, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys probable | Walter E. Hall (1914) | — The new organist of Trinity Cathedral gave the following selections after the evening services, Jan.(Diapason Feb. 1914) |
| Trinity Church | Columbus, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Walter E. Hall (1915) | Save a concert A Overture, Fricker; pril 6 in the Methodist Bach; Variations on Ohio, with his choir boys from Trinity ’ Johnston; “Evensc MAY 1, 1915 dailies(Diapason May. 1915) |
| Church of the Messiah | Detroit, Mich. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys not stated | Abram Butler Jr. (c.1916–) | — |
| St Paul's Cathedral | Detroit, Mich. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys probable | Francis A. Mackay (by 1919–) | at St. Paul's Cathedral in Detroit under the direction of F. A. Mackay. the organist and master of the choristers Selden Dickinson presided at the organ The Boston Music Company has(Diapason May. 1919) |
| St Luke's Church | Dixon, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | S. Wesley Martin (c.1895–1900) | He was a choir boy in St. Luke’s Church at Dixon, IIl., and alto soloist under S. Wesley Martin, who at that time was also choirmaster of St. Chrysostom’s Church in(Diapason Jan. 1925) |
| Trinity Pro-Cathedral | Duluth, Minn. | USA: Midwest | Presbyterian | boys probable | Isabel Pearson Fuller (1912–14) | Ch., 1908-10, Trinity Pro-Cathedral, 1912-4); has given numerous organ recitals.(IWWM 1918) |
| Chicago North Shore Festival | Evanston, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Civic | boys stated | not named in the passage read | EVEN performances, May 24 to 31, Festival Chorus of 600, Children’s Chorus of 1,500, Vested Boy Choir of 300, A Cappella Choir, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and(Diapason May. 1921) |
| St Luke's Church | Evanston, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Arthur Randolph Frazer (before 1925) | Arthur Randolph Frazer, who began his musical career as a choir boy and later was choirmaster at St. Luke’s Church.(Diapason Aug. 1925) |
| St Mark's Church | Evanston, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Stanley Martin (1924) | John W. Norton; Church of the Redeemer, Robert R. Birch; Christ Church, Mason Slade; St. Mark’s, Evanston, Stanley Martin, and the Church of the Atonement, Frank W. Smith.(Diapason Feb. 1924) |
| St Mark's Pro-Cathedral | Grand Rapids, Mich. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Harold Tower (1915–25+); Walter Earle Hartley (1911–15) | Mark’s Episcopal Procathedral, Grand Rapids, Mich., might be placed in this class, for the splendid work he does with his choir boys and his influence for good in the parish have brought him pronounced recognition.(Diapason Oct. 1925) |
| St Mark's Pro-Cathedral (acting) | Grand Rapids, Mich. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Walter Blodgett (1925) | During Mr. Tower’s six months’ leave of absence the choir was successfully managed by Walter Blodgett, 17 years old.(Diapason Oct. 1925) |
| St Luke's Church | Kalamazoo, Mich. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Henry Overley (by 1923–) | The chorus is one of sixty voices, of whom thirty are boy sopranos and thirty men and women.(Diapason Jun. 1925) |
| Emmanuel Episcopal Church | La Grange, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | William Ripley Dorr (1919–c.1925) | He is devoting his time to making a fine choir of men and boys.(Diapason Mar. 1919) |
| St John's Cathedral (Catholic) | Milwaukee, Wis. | USA: Midwest | Roman Catholic | boys stated | not named in the passage read Otto Singenberger, cathedral organist. | There was a special music program by the choristers and the choir men.(Diapason Jun. 1923) |
| St Paul's Church | Milwaukee, Wis. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read | St. Paul’s choir of fifty-five men and boys—the name of the organist is not on the program—sang Martin’s “Whoso Dwelleth,” one of Franck’s “Beatitudes,” Noble’s(Diapason Mar. 1925) |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Minneapolis, Minn. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Harry Irwin Metzger (1922–) | This church is one of the largest in Minneapolis and boasts the only boy choir in the city.(Diapason Jan. 1922) |
| First Presbyterian Church | Muncie, Ind. | USA: Midwest | Presbyterian | boys not stated | Birt Summers (12 years (by 1918)) | — |
| Grace Church | Port Huron, Mich. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | David McClintock (1925–) | Church, Sycamore, IIl., is located at Grace Church, Port Huron, Mich., where he has a choir of sixty men. women and boys.(Diapason Sep. 1925) |
| First Lutheran Church | Rockford, Ill. | USA: Midwest | Lutheran | boys stated | Carl G. Alexis (1924) | organist of the First Lutheran Church, was assisted by the boys’ vested choir, Mrs. Julie M. Sporr, soprano, and Karl Sporr of Stockholm, violinist, in a recital at the church June 23.(Diapason Aug. 1924) |
| Christ Church Cathedral | Salina, Kan. | USA: Midwest | Not stated | boys not stated | Arthur Davis (1910–11) | — |
| Grace Episcopal Church | Sandusky, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Ellis C. Varley (1919–); Harold Rivenburg (to 1918) | The “ two numbers by the choir of twenty- ° seven men and boys were rendered Electric Controlled Tubular Chimes(Diapason Apr. 1920) |
| Christ Church Cathedral | St Louis, Mo. | USA: Midwest | Not stated | boys stated | Arthur Davis (1911–); Henry H. Darby (c.1886–1911) | The boy choir which Mr | Darby made famous will be continued.(Diapason Sep. 1911) |
| Christ Episcopal Church | St Paul, Minn. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | Harry Irwin Metzger (c.1918–22) | The choir of fifty boys and men of Christ Episcopal Church, St. Paul, Minn., under the direction of Harry Irwin Metzger, organist and choirmaster, is giving a series of monthly musical(Diapason Dec. 1919) |
| Church of St John the Evangelist | St Paul, Minn. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | George Herbert Fairclough (by 1910–) | At St. John’s he has a choir of sixty boys and men and at the Temple a mixed quartet.(Diapason Oct. 1918) |
| Trinity Episcopal Church | Toledo, Ohio | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | John Gordon Seely (1919–45); Herbert Foster Sprague (to c.1919) | The choir of fifty men and boys bears testimony in the services of the church that its leader successfully strives for the betterment of church music.(Diapason Apr. 1929) |
| Grace Cathedral | Topeka, Kan. | USA: Midwest | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read George Barnes, choirmaster, gave the demonstration. | rehearsal of the choir boys of the cathedral.(Diapason Jun. 1923) |
| St Philip's Cathedral | Atlanta, Ga. | USA: South | Methodist | boys stated | Grace Chalmers Thomson (by 1925) | Grace Chalmers Thomson is one of the few woman organists in the United States who have mate a success of conducting a boy choir.(Diapason Sep. 1925) |
| St David's Church | Austin, Tex. | USA: South | Episcopal | boys stated | Willard L. Groom (1921–) | Mr. Groom has an excellent Pilcher organ, he writes, and a choir of men and boys.(Diapason Jan. 1921) |
| St Edward's College | Austin, Tex. | USA: South | Roman Catholic | boys stated | Mr. Hanchett (Dallas) (1925–) | studies, he will hold the post as professor of organ, and will have charge of the college choir of fifty boys and young men.(Diapason Mar. 1925) |
| St Peter's Church, Brenham, and St Mary's Church, Bellville | Brenham, Tex. | USA: South | Episcopal | boys not stated | Willard L. Groom (c.1920) | — |
| St Matthew's Cathedral | Dallas, Tex. | USA: South | Episcopal | boys stated | David E. Grove (fl. 1919); Mr. Hanchett (Dallas) (to 1922) | Mr. Grove will continue his work in Dallas with the Scottish Rite, St. Matthew’s and the boys’ choir.(Diapason Apr. 1919) |
| St Paul's Episcopal Church | Macon, Ga. | USA: South | Episcopal | boys not stated | Mr. Bailey (Macon) (by 1925) | — |
| Christ Church | Norfolk, Va. | USA: South | Episcopal | boys stated | J. J. Miller (fl. 1915–20); J. J. Miller (c.1889–1914+) | Work of D ol M. Decsiiinen During Mr. Miller’s tenure in office the first permanent boy choir was organized in Christ Church, and it has(Diapason Feb. 1920) |
| Trinity Church | Tulsa, Okla. | USA: South | Episcopal | boys stated | not named in the passage read | 28 by the combined adult and boy choirs.(Diapason Feb. 1925) |
| St Matthew's Church | Wheeling, W.Va. | USA: South | Not stated | boys stated | Paul Allen Beymer (1916–) | During his service at St. Matthew’s he has built one of the finest boy choirs in that section of the country.(Diapason Oct. 1925) |
| St John's Cathedral | Denver, Colo. | USA: West | Episcopal | boys not stated | Walter E. Hall (1882–c.1888) | — |
| St Athanasius' Church | Los Angeles, Calif. | USA: West | Episcopal | boys probable | Charles Thornton Murphy (1906–16) | Jenkintown, Pa., 1895-1901; choirmaster St. Luke's Ch., Long Beach, Gal., 1901-6, St. Athanasius Ch., Los Angeles, 1906-16, and various choral societies; has given organ recitals in western U. S. ; has taught piano, organ, harmony and(IWWM 1918) |
| Wilshire Presbyterian Church | Los Angeles, Calif. | USA: West | Presbyterian | boys stated | William Ripley Dorr (1925–) | The new choir of sixty boys and men of the Wilshire Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles made its first appearance on Sunday, May 3.(Diapason Jun. 1925) |
| Grace Cathedral | San Francisco, Calif. | USA: West | Episcopal | boys not stated | Alfred J. Chaplin-Bayley (fl. 1916) | — |
| St Luke's Church | San Francisco, Calif. | USA: West | Episcopal | boys probable | Wallace Arthur Sabin (1894–1906) | all Saints Ch., Warwick, 1893-4; St. Luke's Ch., San Francisco, 1894-1906; Temple Emanuel, San Francisco, since 1895, First Church of Christ, Scientist, San Francisco, since 1906.(IWWM 1918) |
| Trinity Church | (city not stated) | USA: (unspecified) | Episcopal | boys stated | Sheldon B. Foote (fl. 1918–22) | during Mr. Foote’s tenure at Trinify include the organization of a choir association composed of former choir boys, some of whom had been connected with the choir for over fifty years; the building of the large threemanual Austin(Diapason Oct. 1922) |
| (church not named) | Massachusetts (probable) | USA: (unspecified) | Episcopal | boys stated | Herbert W. W. Downes (1923) | The service was sung by a choir of boys and men under the direction of Herbert W. W. Downes, organist and choirmaster.(Diapason Apr. 1923) |
| (Catholic church, not named) | USA | USA: (unspecified) | Roman Catholic | boys stated | Andrew H. Mangold (1921) | New Year’s Day with 10 o’clock mass with a mixed volunteer choir and at il o’clock mass (with a boy choir consisting of some fifty boys), services ending about 12:30.(Diapason Jan. 1921) |
| All Saints' Church | Toronto, Ont. | Canada | Episcopal | boys stated | George Herbert Fairclough (c.1887–90) | At the latter church he was also choirmaster, having charge of a choir of fifty boys and men.(Diapason Apr. 1925) |
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