Introduction

Biography

Carlton was the son of J. Ot­is Young and Mary Lei­brook, and hus­band of M­ar­jorie Lind­ner.

He at­tend­ed the Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio, Col­lege-Con­ser­va­to­ry of Mu­sic (BME), Bo­ston Uni­ver­si­ty School of Theo­lo­gy (STB), and Ohio Nort­hern Uni­ver­si­ty, Ada, Ohio (DMus 1969). He al­so stu­died at Un­ion Theo­lo­gic­al Se­mi­na­ry, New York Ci­ty, and in Vi­en­na, and Prague, Czech­ia.

He served on the fa­cul­ties and di­rect­ed gra­du­ate stu­dies in church mu­sic at the Per­kins School of Theo­lo­gy, South­ern Me­tho­dist Uni­ver­si­ty, Dal­las, Tex­as, and Scar­ritt Col­lege (now Scarr­itt Ben­nett Cen­ter), Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see, and was eme­ri­tus pro­fes­sor of church mu­sic at the Cand­ler School of Theo­lo­gy, Emo­ry Uni­ver­si­ty, At­lan­ta, Geor­gia.

He al­so served as cho­ral di­rect­or and lec­tur­er in mu­sic at Graz Uni­ver­si­ty, Aus­tria (1969–72), and di­rect­ed the Unit­ed Me­tho­dist Youth Chor­ale (1980–90) in con­cert tours of Eng­land, Wales, France, Swit­zer­land, Aus­tria, and Ger­ma­ny.

Works

• The Me­tho­dist Hym­nal (ed­it­or) (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Me­tho­dist Pub­lish­ing House, 1964)
• The Unit­ed Me­tho­dist Hym­nal (ed­it­or) (Nash­ville, Ten­nes­see: Unit­ed Me­tho­dist Pub­lish­ing House, 1989)
• Companion to the Unit­ed Me­tho­dist Hym­nal (Nas­hville, Ten­nes­see: Ab­ing­don Press, 1993)