[When billows dark around me roll] (Christie)

Composer: H. R. Christie

Harvey Robert Christie, 1848-1925 Born: June 29, 1848, Mon­roe Coun­ty, West Vir­gin­ia. Died: March 19, 1925, Wil­low­ton, West Vir­gin­ia. Buried: Rest Ha­ven Me­mor­i­al Park, Prince­ton, West Vir­gin­ia. Christie taught sing­ing class­es from 1871 to 1874, which led him to a mu­sic­al ca­reer. He stu­died un­der Rig­don Mc­In­tosh, who at the time was in the mu­sic de­part­ment at Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty. Christie re­mained in Ten­nes­see un­til 1876, when he re­turned to West Vir­gin­ia. Around 1877, he con­duct­ed a two month course at the Con­cord Nor­mal School, in Athens, West Vir­gin­ia, fol­lowed by a sim­i­lar course in Prince­ton, West Vir­gin­ia; Rur­al Re­trea… Go to person page >