Gerre Hancock, a celebrated concert organist, choral director and professor of sacred music at the university, and the Bates Recital Hall’s magnificent Visser-Rowland Tracker Organ on the UT campus are the true stars of this video.
Hancock, described as a “legend in his own time,” by Glenn Chandler, director of the Butler School of Music, passed away on Jan. 21 due to cardiac arrest. He was 77.
In this video, which debuted on the Longhorn Network, audiences get a sample of the passion Hancock brought to his music and teaching.
A funeral for the beloved professor will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 4 at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in New York City. For updated information visit: http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/about/news or the Butler School of Music.
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To know Gerre was to love him. There are so many good things to say about him I'm too overwhelmed to give them and others can do it better anyway. Just a wonderful guy, and doubtless dear Judith was a big reason. Glory to God.
This is amazing. Both my father & his father were piano tuners by trade. My dad used to tell me about pipe organs in some of the churches that he tuned in.