Introduction

Biography

Christopher was the son of Charles Hud­son and Bath­she­ba Whit­tak­er Booth.

He emi­grat­ed to Am­er­ica in 1895, be­com­ing a na­tur­al­ized ci­ti­zen in 1905. He lived in New York Ci­ty, worked with the Vic­tor Talk­ing Ma­chine Com­pa­ny (1905), played for Red Seal artists, and was or­gan­ist and choir­mas­ter at Church of the Adv­ent (1909–39). He was al­so a con­duc­tor and com­pos­er, with works in­clud­ing:

Works

• Mass in E♭ (La­tin), 1892
• Second Mass in G, 1893
• Divine Tra­ge­dy, 1929
• Symphony in F Mi­nor, 1933
• The Re­sur­rec­tion and As­cen­sion, 1935
• Second Sym­pho­ny in C Ma­jor, 1936
• Arrangement of the Lord’s Pray­er for the op­en­ing of the 1939 World’s Fair