{"id":99131,"date":"2023-09-13T17:50:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=99131"},"modified":"2023-09-13T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T21:51:30","slug":"memoriam-organist-choir-director-catherine-mary-palmer-dies-age-95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2023\/09\/13\/memoriam-organist-choir-director-catherine-mary-palmer-dies-age-95\/","title":{"rendered":"IN MEMORIAM | Organist, Choral Conductor Catherine Mary Palmer Dies At Age 95"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_99133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99133\" style=\"width: 1200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99133\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Copy-of-IN-MEMORIAM.jpg\" alt=\"Yorkminster Baptist Church, interior (Photo courtesy of the Yorkminster Baptist Church)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Copy-of-IN-MEMORIAM.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Copy-of-IN-MEMORIAM-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Copy-of-IN-MEMORIAM-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Copy-of-IN-MEMORIAM-768x402.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yorkminster Baptist Church, interior (Photo courtesy of the Yorkminster Baptist Church)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Catherine Mary Palmer, a talented Toronto organist and choral conductor, passed away peacefully at the age of 95 on the morning of September 13. In a career that spanned several decades, Catherine left her mark on the city\u2019s musical community.<\/p>\n<p>She is perhaps remembered by most as the Director of Music at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church in Toronto, a position she held from 1970 until her retirement in 1996. Her work during those years is immortalized in two releases, including a recording of Bach vocal works titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00001OH1Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bless Ye The Lord (Marquis Classics, 2010)<\/a>, where she directs the Yorkminister Park Baptist Church Choir and Ronald S. Jordan (organ). She likewise directs the Yorkminster choir and Ronald Jordan on the 1996 recording <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/za\/artist\/catherine-m-palmer\/253607078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Joy Of God<\/a>, a compilation of hymns.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j386EufpdlM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<h3>Catherine M. Palmer<\/h3>\n<p>Catherine was born to British parents in the United States. Her father was a priest in the Church of England. She first studied music at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and graduated with a LIAM diploma in piano, and a GRSM designation as a musical educator.<\/p>\n<p>After several years of teaching she came to Canada, and not long after, took up the position of organist at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Toronto. Catherine became a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Healy Willan, a noted English-Canadian organist and composer.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She founded the Holy Trinity Singers;<\/li>\n<li>Largely self-taught as an organist, she became the first woman in Canada to obtain the Fellow of the Royal College of Organists diploma;<\/li>\n<li>She also won the Turpin prize from the Royal College of Organists;<\/li>\n<li>Catherine was a frequent performer in Toronto, including on the CBC;<\/li>\n<li>She was appointed to the faculty at the Royal Conservatory of Music;<\/li>\n<li>She served as Chairman of the Examination Committee for the Royal Canadian College of Organists for an eight-year period.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Catherine also founded the Palmer Singers, a choral group that performed in Toronto and the region for about eight years, and helped to develop many young organists as an educator.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em><b>#LUDWIGVAN<\/b><\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily \u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/ludwig-van.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4f785cb3f9058f2393ccad035&amp;id=57cdb68eac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>HERE<\/em><\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Mary Palmer, a talented Toronto organist and choral conductor, passed away peacefully at the age of 95 on the morning of September 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":99133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40430,39,41,44,63],"tags":[40766,40767,2527,40688],"yst_prominent_words":[10121,17123,14063,29798,6616,17079,10122,10115,8283,21089,6741],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/09\/Copy-of-IN-MEMORIAM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-pMT","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99131"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99135,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99131\/revisions\/99135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99131"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=99131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}