Louise E. Stairs

Louise E. Simpson Stairs (March 24, 1892 - November 1975) was an American composer, organist, and pianist, who sometimes published under the pseudonym Sidney Forrest. She composed several cantatas, as well as piano and vocal works for children. Stairs was born in Troupsburg, New York, to Alice Clare Stephens and Colonel Ellsworth Simpson. She married Alpheus Wade Stairs on September 3, 1912, and they had a daughter (Ruth). Oliver Ditson, and Theodore Presser Co. Her compositions include: Cantatas *Choral Cantata *Infant Holy: Christmas Cantata *Light O’er Bethlehem: Christmas Cantata Organ *Advent Prayer *Arietta *Soldiers at Play *To Whit, To Whoo Vocal *“His Loving Call” *“Lift Up Your Heads” *“Nest of Baby Bunnies” *“Robin Redbreast’s Song” *“Robin’s Song” *“Sailboats” *“So Longeth My Soul for Thee” *“There is an Eye that Never Sleeps” *“When the Robin Sings” *“Woodland Concert” *Hear works for organ by Louise E. Stairs References