BAMPTON, Ruth

BAMPTON, Ruth American organist, choir conductor, professor and composer. Boston, MA, March 7, 1902. From the New England Conservatory of Music she obtained a diploma with advanced honors in 1927. In 1931 she attended Boston University (B.Mus.) and in 1933 the Union Theological Seminary, from which she obtained a master of sacred music. She studied at the Eastman School of Music and was a pupil of Nadia Boulanger (q.v.) and Marcel Dupre in Paris in 1928 and 1930. She taught at Vermont College…