Professional Positions
From 1953 to 1992, he was the conductor of the Yale Glee Club. This chorus consisted of male undergraduate students in their second, third, and fourth years, and sang classical music as well as spirituals and folk songs.
The chorus was composed of men only (as Yale's undergraduate college was all-male). In 1969, Yale admitted its first women undergraduates. That same year Heath helped to organize the auditions for the first all-female a cappella group at Yale, "The New Blue." The following year, Heath changed the Glee Club from an all-male chorus to a mixed chorus.
During his term as director of the Yale Glee Club, Heath also held the post of "Marshall Bartholomew Professor of Choral Conducting" at the Yale School of Music.
Heath retired in 1992 and the directorship of the Glee Club passed to David H. Connell, another graduate of the Yale School of Music (D.M.A. 1991).
After his retirement from Yale, Heath continued to conduct at choral festivals and alumni get-togethers, and to compose choral music.
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