EDSALL

Composer: George Henry Day

George Henry Day (1883-1966) was a choirboy at Trinity Chapel, New York City, where he studied with G. Edward Stubbs. Day was appointed choirmaster at St. Peter’s in Chelsea Square (1911) but maintained his position as an assistant auditor of the Gorham Manufacturing Company for two more years. He resigned as assistant auditor, took special courses at Columbia University, and in 1915 graduated from New York College of Music. He served as organist and choirmaster in churches in Youngstown, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware, where he studied with Edward Shippen Barnes; and Rochester, New York, before going to Trinity Church. He was awarded a Doctor of Music degree from Lincoln-Jefferson University (1923). --The Presbyterian Hymnal Companion,… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: EDSALL
Composer: George Henry Day (1940)
Meter: 10.10.10.10
Incipit: 11232 17111 33465
Key: e minor
Copyright: Copyright 1942, by The Church Pension Fund

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The Hymnal of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America 1940 #207a

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