Johannes Somary Vinyl Record Albums

Mr. Somary, an organist, composer and conductor, formed Amor Artis in response to the disbanding of the American Concert Choir, a chorus and orchestra created by the conductor Margaret Hillis. As an experiment, he and the group’s manager, Milton Goldin, staged the first complete performance in the United States of the Handel oratorio “Esther” at Town Hall in April 1961.