Stanley R. Avery
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Stanley R. Avery (1879 – September 17, 1967) was an American composer, choirmaster and organist at
St. Mark's Church for 40 years.[1] He wrote many pedagogical pieces for piano, and some of his songs and works for organ were published during his life. Among his works in larger forms is an opera, The Operatician, on a libretto by William Skinner Cooper. His compositions were performed by the Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago symphony orchestras.[2]
Biography
Avery was born in
Fontainebleau, France, in 1921.[3]
In Minneapolis, he was a member of the faculty of
Blake School for Boys (1934–43)[3] and conductor of civic pageants. His compositions include a one-act opera The Quartet, a comic opera Katrina, the operettas The Merry Mexican and Ichabod Crane, incidental music to Josephine Preston Peabody's drama The Piper, two musical comedies, and overture The Taming of the Shrew, oratorio The Raising of Lazarus, and orchestral scherzo A Joyous Prelude, and other works for chamber piano and violin, and songs.[1]
Manuscripts of Avery's musical work can be found at the University of Minnesota Music Library[4] and at the Hennepin County Library Minneapolis Central Library Special Collections department which also has biographical information, newspaper clippings, photographs, obituary, and scrapbooks.[5]
External links
References
- ^ a b c Oscar Thompson, International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1943.
- ^ a b Obituary. "Stanley Avery, Composer and Organist, Dies at 87", Minneapolis Tribune, September 19, 1967.
- ^ a b "Stanley R. Avery, Choirmaster, Dies", The Minneapolis Star, Monday, September 18, 1967, p. 35.
- ^ Stanley R. Avery Musical Americanist Robert Tallant Laudon
- ^ "Hennepin County Library Special Collections Personal Archives".
- Howard, John Tasker (1939). Our American Music: Three Hundred Years of It. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
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