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Humiston was born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, in 1869. He was the son of Henry Humiston and Margaret Voris. While he was still a boy his parents moved to Chicago.
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Humiston was born in Marietta, Washington County, Ohio, in 1869. He was the son of Henry Humiston and Margaret Voris. While he was still a boy his parents moved to Chicago.
He passed in succession through the Chicago High School and the Lake Forest College, where in 1891 he received the degree of A. B. From boyhood he had shown a talent for music, and while at college he had begun the more serious cultivation of his art, studying the piano with W. S. B. Mathews, and the organ with Clarence Eddy until 1894.
He then went to New York and continued his study of the piano with R. Huntington Woodman. In 1896, when the department of music was created at Columbia University, he studied composition with Edward MacDowell.
He received a Master of Arts degree from Lake Forest College in July 1923.
During his study years and later he held a number of organ positions and was successively organist at the Lake Forest Presbyterian Church, 1889-91, 1893-94; First Congregational Church, Chicago, 1891-93; Trinity Congregational Church, East Orange, N. J. , 1896-1906; and the Presbyterian Church at Rye, N. Y. , 1906-09. By temperament and inclination, however, he was drawn to a field less restricted in its musical activities than that of sacred music. From 1909 to 1912 he gained experience as a conductor of road companies giving both grand and comic opera. After 1912 he became definitely associated with the musical life of New York City. His reputation as an authority on the music of Bach, Wagner, and MacDowell was already established.
In 1912 he became program annotator of the New York Philharmonic Society, succeeding H. E. Krehbiel, and in 1914 he conducted what was probably the first American performance of Mozart's operetta Bastien and Bastienne, given by the MacDowell Club. He was also during this time lecturing on Bach and Wagner, contributing articles to the musical journals and, as a close friend and associate of the late Henry T. Finck, writing music criticism. In 1916 he was made assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, and that same year he conducted a MacDowell Club program of "lighter Bach" music, the outstanding feature of which was a scenic version of "The Peasant Cantata. " In 1918 he conducted another Bach concert of miscellaneous numbers in which the Triple Concerto in D minor was performed. He remained with the Philharmonic Society both as program annotator and as assistant conductor until 1921.
Despite his other activities Humiston did not neglect the field of composition. His "Suite in F sharp minor" for violin and orchestra (1911, revised in 1915) had been preceded by his "Southern Fantasie" (1906), introducing American negro themes, the most popular of his orchestral numbers. In 1913 he composed his "Iphigeneia, " a dramatic scena for soprano, chorus, and orchestra, performed by the People's Choral Union of Boston. He also arranged the music to accompany the Wagner centennial film produced that year. His overture, "Twelfth Night, " written for Maude Adams' production of the drama in 1916, and a few songs complete the list.
Although these compositions were all performed, and although they showed in their workmanship a certain skill and a sense of dramatic values, they fall short, perhaps, in inspirational quality. The "Southern Fantasie" may be said to have won its favor because of the folk-flavor of its thematic material. It was rather as a direct, aggressive influence toward the cultivation of musical appreciation and performance, especially with regard to the composers to whom he had specifically devoted himself, that Humiston was important in American music. He possessed a scholarship which commanded the respect of his colleagues, and his detailed knowledge of the life and works of Bach and Wagner — he knew the Wagner scores almost note for note — made him very nearly omniscient where they were concerned.
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