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While at Harvard, Ferris has given a number of outside organ performances and travelled to the West Indies to direct choral groups and instruct organ students.
A search committee, including Allen, gas been convened to advise Gomes on the selection of a replacement for Ferris. About 40 American and British organists have applied for the position, Allen said.
Ferris directs the church's four-part mixed choir, which he created upon his arrival in 1958, and plays the organ at church services. He also edited the University's third hymn book and designed the Isham Organ, heralded upon its installation as the largest American-built tracker action organ...
Gomes, who has worked with Ferris since 1970, praised Ferris's work with the choir, saying, "It is not for the sake of the clergy that undergraduates give up their Sunday mornings and their early mornings six days a week to sing: it is for John and what he does...