COLUMBUS BOYCHOIR
It was in 1940 that Herbert Huffman, with the support of the Kiwanis Club of Columbus, Ohio, and of the Broad Street Presbyterian Church, where he was minister of music, founded the Boychoir School. Almost immediately, through radio performances broadcast first locally and then nationally, the school began to build its excellent reputation. After a most successful concert in New York's Town Hall in 1943, the choir began its annual tours, appearing in all the principal cities and with many of the finest orchestras of the country. Pressure of applications from all over the United States led to the establishment of a boarding school in 1950 in Princeton, N.J., where the Boychoir occupies the former Lambert estate known as "Albemarie." The curriculum differs from that of most schools only in its emphasis on music. Even on tour, the twenty-six selected singers from the student body of seventy, accompanied by teachers, travel in a specially equipped bus, a "schoolhouse on wheels," and maintain a nearly normal school schedule.
Donald T. Bryant, who succeeded Mr. Huffman as director in 1956, had been accompanist and associate director of the choir, and is head of the piano and theory department of the school. A Capital University graduate, he has a master's degree from the Julliard School of Music, where he majored in piano.