Fenno Follansbee Heath, Jr. (December 30, 1926- December 5, 2008) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger of choral music.
Heath attended Yale University, where he majored in music and graduated in 1950. As an undergraduate he sang in the Yale Freshman Chorus, the Apollo Glee Club, the Yale Glee Club, and the Spizzwinks, the country's second-oldest a cappella singing group. In his senior year he was appointed conductor of the Whiffenpoo...
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Fenno Follansbee Heath, Jr. (December 30, 1926- December 5, 2008) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger of choral music.
Heath attended Yale University, where he majored in music and graduated in 1950. As an undergraduate he sang in the Yale Freshman Chorus, the Apollo Glee Club, the Yale Glee Club, and the Spizzwinks, the country's second-oldest a cappella singing group. In his senior year he was appointed conductor of the Whiffenpoofs, the prestigious all-senior a cappella group.
Heath's graduate studies were at the Yale School of Music. During this time he was conductor of the Apollo Glee Club. He received the M.M. degree in 1952.
From 1953-1992 he was the conductor of the Yale Glee Club. This chorus consisted of male undergraduate students in their second, third, and fourth years, and sang classical music as well as spirituals and folk songs.
The chorus was composed of men only (as Yale's undergraduate college was all-male). In 1969, Yale admitted its first women...
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