Louise E. Simpson Stairs (March 24, 1892 - November 1975) was an American composer, organist, and pianist, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Sidney Forrest. She composed several cantatas, as well as piano and vocal works for children.
Biography Stairs was born in Troupsburg, New York, to Alice Clare Stephens and Colonel Ellsworth Simpson. She married Alpheus Wade Stairs on September 3, 1912, and they had a daughter (Ruth). Little is known about Stairs’ education.
Career Her music was published by Carl Fischer Music, Hall-Mack Co., Oliver Ditson, and Theodore Presser Co. Her compositions include:
Cantatas Choral Cantata Infant Holy: Christmas Cantata Light O’er Bethlehem: Christmas Cantata
Organ Advent Prayer Arietta Bright and Morning Star He Shall Be Their Shepherd Manger’s Gift Master Call Sabbath Morning White Lillies
Piano Clocks in the Hall (with E. B. Marks) Floating Clouds Peach Blooms Soldiers at Play Sunday Morning To Whit, To Whoo Uncle Ben
Vocal “His Loving Call” “Hush-a-bye Dolly” “Finding Fairies” “Lazy Frog” “Lift Up Your Heads” “Lord, Speak to Me” (text by Frances Ridley Havergal) “Nest of Baby Bunnies” “Robin Redbreast’s Song” “Robin’s Song” “Sailboats” “So Longeth My Soul for Thee” “There is an Eye that Never Sleeps” “When the Robin Sings” “Woodland Concert”
External links Hear works for organ by Louise E. Stairs
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