Peter Wilhousky
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Peter Joseph WilhouskyTemplate:Efn (13 July 1902 – 4 January 1978) was an American composer, music educator, and choral conductor of Rusyn descent.[1][2][3] During his childhood he was part of the New York Russian Cathedral Boys Choir and gave a performance at the White House to President Woodrow Wilson.[4] He was featured on several broadcasts of classical music with Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra, including the historic 1947 broadcast of Verdi's opera Otello.
In 1936, Wilhousky wrote a popular English version of the Ukrainian song "Shchedryk" by Mykola Leontovych and called it "Carol of the Bells". It has been performed and recorded by a wide variety of singers in different genres.
Wilhousky's 1944 choral arrangement of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" reached #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1959 with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's Grammy-winning performance. It has become "arguably the most well-known choral arrangement of a hymn or anthem in the United States."[5][6][7]
Former students
As a choral director in New York City, he influenced the future careers of musician Julius La Rosa and scientist Stephen Jay Gould.[8]
Personal life
Wilhousky died on January 4, 1978, at the age of 75, from cancer at Norwalk Hospital. Wilhousky Street in Manville, New Jersey, is named after him.[9]
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External links
- Peter J. Wilhousky (1902–1978), Prominent Carpatho-Rusyns
- Wilhousky biography
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- 1902 births
- 1978 deaths
- Musicians from Passaic, New Jersey
- American people of Lemko descent
- Ukrainian composers
- Ukrainian conductors (music)
- American male conductors (music)
- 20th-century American conductors (music)
- 20th-century American composers
- 20th-century male musicians
- Rusyn-American history
- Slovak people of Rusyn descent