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(1) Jas. Cutler Dunn, Boston, Ma ., June 2, 1828—1916; studied Leipzig Cons.; lived in Boston and Brook line; 1862, ‘Parker Club,” vocal soc.; 1864-91, organist Trinity Ch., and for years organist Handel and Haydn Soc.; prof. Boston Univ. Coll. of Mus., and Examiner N. E. Cons.; writer and transl.; c. “Redemption Hymn’? (1877); cantata “The Blind King’ (1886); “St. John,” with orch.; oratorio, “The Life of Man’’; church-services, etc. (2) H., b. London, Aug. 4, 1845; pupil of Leipzig Cons., and of Lefort, Paris; singing-teacher and _ cond. London; wrote treatise ‘The Voice’; c. comic opera don, 1889); ‘‘Mignonette’ “Jerusalem,” (Lonfor ba olo and chorus (Albert Hall, 1884); gavottes, etc., for orch.; pf.-pcs. (3) Horatio Wm., Auburn dale, Ma ., Sept. 15, 1863—Cedar hurst, N. Y., Dec. 18, 1919; prominent American composer; pupil of his mother, later of Emery (theory). J. Orth (pf.), and Chadwick (comp.), Boston; organist Dedham and Boston; studied 1882- 85 with Rheinberger (org. and comp.) and L. Abel (cond.), Munich; organist and prof. of mus. St. Paul’s Sch., City, New York; 1886, organist St. Andrew’s, Harlem; 1888, Ch. of the Holy Trinity, N. Y.; 1894, prof. of mus., Yale Univ.; 1800, cond. his notable oratorio ‘‘ Hora Nov is sima” at Worcester (Engl.) Festival with great succ. (first given at Worcester>[U. S. A.] Festival, 1893). Pub. coll. of org.-pcs. May, to11, ‘Mona,’ libretto by Brian Hooker (b. N. Y. Nov. 2, 1880, a graduate of Yale, 1902, and instructor there 1905-10), won the $10,000 prize offered by the Met. Op. Co. for the best grand opera in English by an American. It was prod. with succ., 1912; his opera “Fairyland” (text by Hooker) won prize offered by Nat'l. Fed. of Women’s Clubs and was perf. at the fest. of this body at Los Angeles, 1915; Mus. D., Cambridge Univ., 1902; c. oratorios, “‘ Hora Nov is sima”’ (1893), and “St. Christopher’’ (1896); cantatas “King Trojan’’ (Munich, 1885), “The Holy Child,” ‘The Kobold” and “Harold Harfager,” prize-cantata, “Dream King’ (1893); symph. in C.; concert-overtures heroic-overture ‘‘Regulus’’; overture to “Count Robert of Paris,” “Cohal Mahr,” for bar.-solo and_ orch. (1893); “Commencement Ode,” Yale Univ. (1895); McCagg prize chorus a cappella (1898); “‘A Northern Ballad” for orch. (1899); alse saany other choruses; string quintet; string quartet; suite for piano trio; violin suite, songs, etc. (4) Henry Taylor, Boston, 1867—March 30, 1934; music and dramatic critic; after 1905 until his death, the distinguished critic of the Boston Transcript, noted for a highly analytic if somewhat involved literary style.