Mark Andrews,FAGO,ARCO (31 March 1875 − 10 December 1939), was a British organist, composer and conductor who spent most of his working life in theUnited States of America.[1][2]
Born inErith,Kent, Andrews studied the organ in England, having turned down a scholarship to theUniversity of Cambridge following his father's death,[2] before moving toMontclair, 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 theCongregational Church (1917−1939).[1]
A fellow of theAmerican Guild of Organists (for which he was also an examiner) and Associate of theRoyal College of Organists,[3] Andrews was also a member ofSt. Wilfrid Club in New York City.[1] As a teacher, his pupils includedCarl Weinrich,Clarence Watters, Julius Zingg, Edwin Stanley Seder and Winifred Young Cornish.[2][3]
Andrews composed over 300 works for organ and voice, including sacred and secular music.[2] He wrote the music for theglee club songJohn Peel, as well as for hymns such asTo Whom Then Shall I Liken God. He conducted the Montclair Glee Club, the Mountain Lakes Glee Club, the Public Service Glee Club ofNewark and the glee club of the University Club ofNew Haven, and in 1929 led 4,000 singers in a series of mass concerts of the Associated Glee Clubs of America held atMadison Square Gardens in New York City, at which several of his own compositions were performed.[1][4]
Andrews was married to Minnie Foreman, with whom he had a son, Mark, and daughter, Audrey.[1] Audrey was killed in a road accident in 1912, aged 9.[5]
Andrews's papers were given toMontclair State Teachers College in 1945.[6] Some of his recordings are available online.[7]
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