Charles Henderson; Professor, Editor of Journal for Organists
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Charles Henderson, 84, editor of the American Organist, died July 24 in New York City.
Henderson, who edited the journal for more than a decade starting in 1973, conducted a production of Benjamin Britten’s “Noye’s Fludde” broadcast nationally on CBS television in 1964.
He was on the faculty of the Union Theological Seminary’s School of Sacred Music, and from 1976 to 1983 was the organist at the First Presbyterian Church in Milford, N.J.
Born in West Chester, Pa., Henderson studied music at Bucknell University, the Juilliard School, Syracuse University and the Fontainebleau School in France.
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