Clifford A. Bennett

Clifford A. Bennett grew up in Rochester, New York. He attended Saint Andrew's High School and Saint Bernard's Theological Seminary and College, where he received a Ph.B. in philosophy. He received a A.B. degree from Saint Bonaventure University with a major in English and a minor in business education, and a New York state teacher's license. He received an M.A. degree in humanities, life sciences and philosophy fro the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in humanities, philosophy, an psychology. He also studied at the Eastman School of Music and the Pius X School of Liturgical Music of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, as well as studying church music in Europe. He taught at the State University of New York at Oswego, Seton Hill College, and the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon University). He had a love of chant and church music and organized the Gregorian Institute of America as a publishing firm, but it also offered instruction in all phases of church music through a correspondence course.Along with Paul Hume, he edited Hymnal of Christian Unity along with several other books and professional journals.

Dianne Shapiro, from "Clifford A. Bennett: the passing of an era," by Catherine Downer, in Sacred Music, Vol. 114, No. 3, Fall 1987, pp 11-16 (accessed online 8/12/2020)