Haldor Lillenas

LILLENAS, Haldor. b. Stord Island, near Bergen, Norway, 19 November 1885; d. Aspen, Colorado, 18 August 1959. Lillenas came to the USA as an infant with his family who eventually settled in Astoria, Oregon. After hearing a call to the ministry, he was educated at Deets Pacific Bible College in Los Angeles, and became an elder in the Church of the Nazarene. His formal musical training consisted of voice lessons at the Lyric School of Music, Los Angeles, and correspondence courses in theory and composition with the Welsh composer Daniel Protheroe (1866-1934) and violinist/conductor Adolph Rosenbecker (1851-1919) of the Siegel-Myers School of Music in Chicago. He worked as a traveling singing...