T. Carl Whitmer, an American composer and organist was born in Altoona, PA, 24 June 1873 and died in Poughkeepsie, NY, 30 May 1959. He was educated at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA; his teachers included Charles Jarvis (piano), Samuel Prowse Warren (organ), and William Wallace Gilchrist (composition). He was organist of Pine Street Presbyterian Church in Harrisburg, PA (1898-1899), director of the school of music at Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri (1899-1909), director of music at Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University), Pittsburgh (1909-1916), and organist and choirmaster of the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh (1916-1932). He then moved to Dramamount, his farm near Newburgh, NY, where he had been teaching composition in the summers, and where instruction in dancing, painting, and music flourished (his wife, Helen Crozier, was a painter). Whitmer was especially known for the religious music dramas written for performance at the Dramamount festivals; he also composed songs, organ pieces, anthems, and chamber and orchestral works, though few of these were published.
As it is -- Brief sketches of More Friends and Places -- About us, continued -- Life with Pittsburgh! -- From my note books -- Pictures are my hobby -- Considerations on music -- A writer looks at his writing -- Here stand I -- To Helen -- List of works.
by T. Carl Whitmer.
Autobiography, with the help of Arthur B. Jennings.
Unpublished typescript.
