Vernon Post

At the farewell festival for General-Elect Evangeline Booth at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1934, a seven-year-old Vernon Post sat entranced as bands and songsters from all corners of the territory played and sang their praises. But he wondered, “Why does the music of some groups make you want to march, dance, cry or clap your hands, while other efforts are disappointing?” He has spent his life finding out what makes music effective.

In high school, he received a scholarship to study cornet with the renowned Dr. Frank Simon. He was an award-winning student at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition. Later he was awarded a Master of Arts from Trenton State College.

As a Salvation Army officer, he was appointed to the Eastern Territory Music Department where he continued composition and arranging studies with Erik Leidzèn. He served in the New York Staff Band as principal cornet, deputy bandmaster from 1954-63 and bandmaster from 1963-72. He led the Staff Band Male Chorus for eighteen years and the Temple Chorus for nine years. His arrangements have been played and sung around the Army world. For seventeen years he also served as program or camp director for the famed Star Lake Musicamp.

Vernon’s arrangements for band, chorus and orchestra were featured throughout his twenty-four-year tenure as a music educator in the Summit, NJ public schools. For twenty-two seasons he was music director for ‘Broadway Shows’ such as Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof and Bernstein’s West Side Story, all performed by students. His orchestras featured the simpler symphonies of Schubert and Haydn. Post was chosen as conductor for the New Jersey All-State High School Opera concert presentation of Verdi’s Aida.

About Musical Offerings 4

The Salvationist’s heritage in song is rich with gems that have been used as a basis for worship. The piano miniatures that comprise this volume, used as offertories, were not written to display technique but to bring to the listener the soul, the spirit and essence of the songs. These arrangements have been field tested at Montclair Citadel, NJ, sensitively played in the meetings by Vernon’s wife Dorothy.

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