Canby, Edward Tatnall

Canby, Edward Tatnall (28 Feb 1913–21 Feb 1998) One of the founders of the Audio Engineering Society, Canby, who had a music degree from Harvard, was a choral director, teacher, and writer whose conducting specialty was Renaissance and Baroque music, but whose wide interests led him to work as a writer, folklorist, and as an advocate of electronic music. As a director and singer, he also founded the Canby Singers, in New York, and before teaching at Finch College, in the 1950s, he taught music…