Obituary: Bruce Gordon McInnes
AUBURN - Bruce Gordon McInnes, 85, of Farmington, died on April, 15, 2021, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn. Born ...
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Bruce Gordon McInnes
AUBURN – Bruce Gordon McInnes, 85, of Farmington, died on April, 15, 2021, at the Androscoggin Hospice House in Auburn. Born on Feb. 18, 1936, in North Smithfield, R.I., to William and Beatrice (Ellis) McInnes, he spent his early life in Woonsocket. As a youngster, he was recruited for a prestigious position as a choirboy at New York City’s Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, an experience that would constitute the formation for a life of making music. Bruce graduated from Burrillville HS and Moses Brown School, after which he matriculated at Dartmouth College from which he received his bachelor’s degree majoring in music and romance languages. Upon his graduation, he was named a Fulbright fellow providing for his study at the Conservatoire de Paris and with the world-renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, as well as with Pierre Cocherau, Olivier Messiaen, and Darius Milhaud. He returned to the United States to earn his master’s in pipe organ studies and choral conducting at Yale University at which he also conducted the Apollo Glee Club.