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Dec, 20, 1966  Alston MA
 
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'''Biography'''
 
'''Biography'''
"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. Probably still alive by 1965 (pedagogical piano pieces by Willis Music in that year) BUT at New England Conservatory i1905-1908.
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New England Conservatory 1905-1908.
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Thomas Burke and Mae Gormley were married August 7, 1912 at St. Joseph's Parish, Medway, Norfolk, Massachusetts, 6 children
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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)
  
 
==List of sacred works==
 
==List of sacred works==

Revision as of 05:48, 8 February 2018

Life

Born: Jan. 15, 1888 Brockton MA

Died: Dec, 20, 1966 Alston 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)

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

External links

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