Horace Clarence Boyer

BOYER, Horace Clarence.  b. Winter Park, Florida, 28 July 1935; d. Amherst, Massachusetts, 21 July 2009.  Boyer was an African-American teacher, pioneer scholar in black sacred musical traditions, conductor and performer.  He was born into a Pentecostal family, and from childhood, performed gospel music with his brother James. The two became known in church circles as ‘The Boyer Brothers’. Their recording career began when the gospel great Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972) granted their request to sing as the opening act on one of her concerts in Nashville, Tennessee. The brothers traveled widely throughout the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, giving hundreds of performances and recording on...