choirmaster

One said the former choirmaster had been a "pillar of the music community in Brentwood", then added: "We are disgusted in you."

Albert Russell, an acclaimed organist and choirmaster who was the music director of St. John’s Episcopal Church on Lafayette Square in Washington from 1966 to 1984, died Jan. 23 at his home in Washington.

According to the National Confectioners Association, the minty confection is believed to have been introduced in 1670 by a German choirmaster.

The Church of England Portsmouth Diocese, where Burgess worked as an organist and choirmaster until 1992, described Burgess' abuse of trust as "abhorrent".

At the time he was a choirmaster and music teacher in the city.