Introduction

Biography

John was the hus­band of Har­ri­et Syl­ves­ter and Ali­ce Cush­ing.

He stu­died pi­ano and mu­sic the­ory at the Leip­zig Con­ser­va­tory (1847-48). Lat­er, he was an or­gan­ist and cho­ral con­duct­or in Ban­gor, Maine, then moved to Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts, and taught at Ben­ja­min F. Baker’s Bos­ton Mu­sic School (1860–75).

Works

• Church Chor­al Book, with Ben­ja­min F. Bak­er, 1860
• Child Life in Song, 1883
• The Nor­mal Mu­sic Course, 1886
• Manual for the Use of Teach­ers
• The Ce­cil­ian Ser­ies of Stu­dy and Song (New York et ali­bi, 1892)
• Common School Course, 1893
• A Handbook of Vo­cal Mu­sic (New York et ali­bi: Sil­ver Bur­dett, 1896)
• Polyhymnia, 1897