Richard Thomas Proulx

PROULX, Richard Thomas. b. Saint Paul, Minnesota, 3 April 1937; d. 18 February 2010. Proulx was educated in the school system of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. He attended MacPhail College and the University of Minnesota with further studies undertaken at the American Boychoir School, Saint John’s University and the Royal School of Church Music in England. In 1994 he received a doctorate honoris causa from the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Between 1980 and 1994 Proulx was Organist and Music Director at the Cathedral of the Holy Name in Chicago where he developed a course of musical study that became a model for cathedrals across the USA. Earlier significant...