James Hotchkiss Rogers

James Hotchkiss Rogers was an American organist, composer, teacher, music critic, and publisher.

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James Hotchkiss Rogers was an American organist, theorist, and teacher, noted as “one of the foremost” in the United States (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900). He served as organist of the First Baptist Church in Brooklyn, New York, starting in 1887, and later became Ritter’s successor as professor of music at Vassar College from 1891 to 1895. In 1895, Rogers organized the “fine ‘Temple Choir’” in Brooklyn, a 200-voice ensemble which he continued to conduct, alongside leading the Newark, N.J., Harmonic Society and the Cecilian Choir. His published works include “Bowman’s-Weitzmann’s Manual of Musical Theory” (1877), an English compilation of Weitzmann’s principles of harmony, which was approved by Weitzmann himself and later translated into German. As of 1899, he was organist and musical director at the Baptist Temple, Brooklyn (A Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1900).