Burke, T. Francis

Life

Born: Jan. 15, 1888 Brockton MA

Died: Dec, 20, 1966 Allston MA

Biography New England Conservatory 1905-1908. Thomas Burke and Mae Gormley were married August 7, 1912 at St. Joseph's Parish, Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, 6 children Moved to Brighton MA 1931. "Formerly Organist and Choir master, Holy Cross Cathedral, Boston" (before 1934). Organist at Sacred Heart Church, Woonsocket, RI, 1933- Prof. of Music Regis College, Weston, Mass., in 1934. Founded Brockton Symphony Orch, was an assistant music director in Boston schools (as of 1937). Buried in St. Joseph Cemetery, Medway.

List of sacred works

• Mass in honor of "the Little Flower" (St. Therese of Lisieux) Edition A: Unison or 2-pt, org. MLR 1929
  • Edition B: SATB org MLR 1934
• Requiem mass : for 1, 2 or 4 voices, complete with Libera, responses and De profundis (org) MLR 1933 Excerpts in Caecilia, v. 60/6, 1933

Publications

"A practical plan for teaching Gregorian chant". Caecilia, 60/6, June 1934, p. 247

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