Mark Andrews,

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(31 March 1875 − 10 December 1939), was a British organist, composer and conductor who spent most of his working life in the

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.''New York Times'', "Mark Andrews, Organist, Was 64"
11 December 1939. Retrieved 19 August 2024.''The Diapason'', "Mark Andrews Dead; Famed as Composer"
vol. 31, No. 2, 1 January 1940. Retrieved 19 August 2024.

Career

Organist

Born in

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, Andrews studied the organ in England, having turned down a scholarship to the

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following his father's death, before moving to Montclair, New Jersey, in 1902. He spent the rest of his life as organist of three churches in the town: St. Luke's Episcopal Church (1902−1912), the First Baptist Church (1912−1917) and the

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(1917−1939). A fellow of the American Guild of Organists (for which he was also an examiner) and Associate of the Royal College of Organists,''The Diapason'', "Mark Andrews' Work Anniversary Subject"
vol. 28, No. 7, 1 June 1937. Retrieved 19 August 2024. Andrews was also a member of

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in New York City. As a teacher, his pupils included

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, Clarence Watters, Julius Zingg, Edwin Stanley Seder and Winifred Young Cornish.

Composer and conductor

Andrews composed over 300 works for organ and voice, including sacred and secular music. He wrote the music for the glee club song ''John Peel'', as well as for hymns such as ''To Whom Then Shall I Liken God''. He conducted the Montclair Glee Club, the Mountain Lakes Glee Club, the Public Service Glee Club of

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and the glee club of the University Club of

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, and in 1929 led 4,000 singers in a series of mass concerts of the Associated Glee Clubs of America held at

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in New York City, at which several of his own compositions were performed.

Family

Andrews was married to Minnie Foreman, with whom he had a son, Mark, and daughter, Audrey. Audrey was killed in a road accident in 1912, aged 9.

Legacy

Andrews's papers were given to Montclair State Teachers College in 1945. Some of his recordings are available online.University of California Santa Barbara, Discography of American Historical Recordings
Retrieved 19 August 2024

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andrews, Mark 1875 births 1939 deaths People from Erith People from Montclair, New Jersey British male organists 20th-century organists British composers British conductors (music)