Barbara J. Owen

Owen, Barbara. (Utica, New York, January 25, 1933-- ). Educated at Westminster Choir College (Mus.B.) and Boston University (Mus.M.). Served as organist of several churches, and in 1963 was organist and choir director of the First Religious Society (Unitarian) of Newburyport, Massachusetts. Edited organ and choral music and wrote books on the organ. Active in the A.G.O. and other professional organizations. Appointed a contributing editor of the Journal of Church Music in 1978; also published in The Hymn.

--Information from a letter from Barbara Owen to Leonard Ellinwood, 19 July 1979, DNAH Archives.

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Barbara J. Owen is Minister of Music in the First Congregational Church, Portland, Connecticut. Born in Utica, New York, she has spent most of her life in New Haven, Connecticut. She attended the Hartt College of Music in Hartford for two years, and then went to the Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, where she received her bachelor of Music degree in 1955. Her musical experience includes service in other churches in Connecticut, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.

--Consider Your Call: Three More New Hymns by Youth for Youth, 1957. Used by permission.