LEWIS, J. HENRY

LEWIS, J. HENRY. Choral conductor (13 November 1860 in Washington, D.C.; 19? in Washington). He studied with John Esputa , director of the United States Marine Band. In 1891 he organized the Amphion Glee Club in Washington, D.C., which remained active for over forty years. Another of his groups, the Dvorak Musical Association, produced Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance in 1900 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.