Murray, Thomas (Mantle)
Murray, Thomas (Mantle)
Murray, Thomas (Mantle), American organist and choral conductor; b. Los Angeles, Oct. 6, 1943. He studied with Clarence Mader (organ) and Howard Swan (choral conducting) at Occidental Coll. (B.A., 1965), then was organist at Los Angeles’s Immanuel Presbyterian Church (1965–73) and organist and choirmaster at Boston’s St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (1973–80). He taught at the Yale Univ. School of Music from 1981 and toured widely as a recitalist, acquiring a fine reputation as an interpreter of the Romantic organ repertoire.
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