[1] Crumb attended successively Forest Park University and Hosmer Hall (under Louise McNair), her musical education during all this time being under the guidance of Ernest Kroeger, and included piano playing, harmony, counterpoint, and exercises in writing in the strict forms, including canon and fugue.

When Rummel traveled to Holland and Germany for a concert tour, she went to Boston and became a pupil of Carl Baermann, a leading pianist and teacher.

[1] After four years of studying under Baermann, Berenice Crumb made her debut at Steinert Hall in Boston, giving a piano recital.

[9] This work, like her earlier "Miles Standish", was built upon the leitmotif idea, with each principal character being given a musical phrase, which recurs under different guises as the emotions vary in the progress of the story.

Her solo piano compositions included "Concert Etude in D flat", the ballades "Chivalric Poem" and "Of Romance", and a Ballade in C-sharp minor that won the Prize for a Piano Composition in the 1916 St. Louis Art League Music Competition; organ works included "Etude in D minor", "Lento Assai", and "Meditation".

[9] Wyer's art songs with piano accompaniment encompassed "I Have a Rendezvous With Death", "Requiescat", "To Ships", "Remembrance", "The Mocking Bird", plus a setting from Paul Verlaine's "The Sky Above the Roofing Lies" and one from Charles Baudelaire's "Tropic Memories".

Dr. Wyer was a general practitioner who first attended Phillips Academy, Andover and then graduated from Harvard Medical School (class 1896, A.B.

Wyer, who at the time was living in Brookline, returned to active duty for World War II when Army examiners reported him fit.

Harold Wyer was a commercial broadcaster and while in the U.S. Navy during World War II was a member of the Naval Reserve Radio Division.