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Best known as a composer of choral music, Henderson has also written for organ, piano, string orchestra, and for winds, brass and percussion.

Ruth Watson Henderson has an international reputation as a leading Canadian composer of choral music, and as an admired pianist and organist.

Ruth Watson Henderson has often been described as a “Canadian national treasure”.

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Ruth Watson Henderson has an international reputation as one of Canada’s leading composers and as an admired pianist and organist.

Known especially as a composer of choral works, she has done much to promote the artistry of children through her wealth of compositions for treble voices, using the expertise gleaned over the 28 years she served as the accompanist of the Toronto Children’s Chorus under Jean Ashworth Bartle, until they both retired in She has at the same time written a wide spectrum of works for adult choirs - an activity started while she was accompanist of the Festival Singers under Dr. Elmer Iseler.

Her works are acclaimed, performed and recorded worldwide. Her pieces are often featured as the title track on recordings, such as My Heart Soars (TCC), Come, Ye Makers of Song (TCC), The Last Straw (Amabile Boys Choirs) and When Music Sounds (Oriana Singers). The Elmer Iseler Singers released a CD, Sing All Ye Joyful, devoted to the works of Ruth Watson Henderson. William Littler, writing in the Toronto Star, refers to this recording as "long overdue", and states that Ruth’s "years as an accompanist for Elmer Iseler contributed to an understanding of the expressive possibilities of choral sound that has given birth to some of the most singable choral music in t

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ruth watson henderson biography of donald

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Born the same year as Glenn Gould, and sharing his piano teacher Alberto Guerrero at the Toronto Conservatory of Music is Ruth Watson Henderson &#; organist, accompanist, composer and one the many modest, busy, talented ambassadors of music appreciated well beyond Toronto&#;s city limits.

John Terauds

John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in , was the classical music critic from to , and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.