E.S. Hosmer: Cantilene

Phillip Sear plays Rob Roy Peery's 1942 piano arrangement of an organ piece by the American organist, composer, and teacher Elmer Samuel (Saul) Hosmer (1862–1945).
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Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, Hosmer received his Master of Arts degree from Brown University in 1885, where he had studied music under distinguished teachers including J. C. D. Parker, Carl Faelton, S. B. Whitney, George E. Whiting, and Percy Goetschius. His professional career was centred in the Boston and Rhode Island area, where he served as an organist. He devoted much of his life to music education, teaching at the Institution for the Blind in South Boston, Massachusetts, and, from 1924, serving as professor of music at the Rhode Island College of Education. His dual commitment to performance and pedagogy reflected the broader American tradition of musician-educators who shaped musical life in New England's cities and towns. Hosmer died in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. I believe that he was best known for choral works, including 'Columbus' and 'Pilgrims of 1620'. (Principal source of information: https://tinyl.co/3uRT ).

Born in Japan, the arranger, Rob Roy Peery (1900–73) studied at Lenoir Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina, Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska, and at Oberlin Conservatory (with Rubin Goldmark). He became best known for his work as a composer of religious music, contributing numerous anthems, cantatas, and choral arrangements widely performed in church and academic settings.

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