1935 - 2009 Person Name: Horace Clarence Boyer (b. 1935) Arranger of "BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC" in Lift Every Voice and Sing II Horace Boyer (b. Winter Park, Flordia, July 28, 1935; d. Amherst, Massachusetts, July 21, 2009) was professor of music at the University of Massachussetts, Amhurst, editor of the African American hymnal Lift Every Voice and Sing, Lift Every Voice and Sing II, and author of How Sweet the Sound: The Golden Age of Gospel (Elliot & Clark, 1995).
Sing! A New Creation
Horace Clarence Boyer