Introduction

Biography

Sanders re­ceived his mu­sic­al train­ing at the Bush Con­ser­va­to­ry, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, and the Am­eri­can Aca­de­my, Rome, It­aly.

Around 1933, he be­gan play­ing the or­gan and con­duct­ing in Chi­ca­go.

In 1938, he be­came dean of the In­di­ana Uni­ver­si­ty School of Mu­sic. In 1954, he moved to the mu­sic de­part­ment at Brook­lyn Col­lege.

He served on the com­mit­tee that pro­duced the Uni­ta­ri­an-Uni­ver­sal­ist Hymns of the Spir­it (1937) and Hymns for the Ce­le­bra­tion of Life (1964).