CAROLINE

Composer: Robert G. McCutchan

A noted hymnologist, McCutchan studied at Park College, Parkville, Missouri, and Simpson College, Indianola, Iowa (BM 1904). He went on to teach voice at Baker University in Baldwin, Kansas, and founded the conservatory of music there in 1910. After further study in Germany and France, in 1911 he became dean of music at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, serving there 26 years. He helped compile the Methodist Hymnal in 1936. His works include: Better Music in Our Churches, 1925 Music in Worship, 1927 American Junior and Church School Hymnal, 1928 The Deluge of New Hymnals (reprint from M.T.N.A. Proceedings, 1933) American Church Music Composers of the Early Nineteenth Century, Church History, September 193… Go to person page >