David Dusing

DAVID DUSING, 71, passed away peacefully on May 14, 2014 at his home in New York City, after a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease. He was born March 22, 1943 in Pemberville, Ohio, and grew up in Toledo. He studied music at Mount Union College and New England Conservatory of Music, and after graduating taught conducting there. He then moved to New York, where he enjoyed a lively and active career. As singer, he performed with Robert Shaw, Norman Luboff, Robert DeCormier, and Peter Schickele, among others. He was an accomplished composer and arranger of choral works. He formed and directed his own group, The Dusing Singers, as well as conducting annual performances of music theater at the Muse Machine in Dayton, Ohio. David is survived by uncle Clifford Philo, cousin Dan Philo and his wife Andrea, cousin Diane Debien and her husband Jim, all of Perrysburg, Ohio; cousin Anna Mosler and Brian McCarthy of Toledo, Ohio; cousin Barbara Johnson of Newark, Ohio; and by a loving community of performers and musicians in New York City and Dayton, Ohio.

Memorial donations may be made to The Muse Machine, or to any of several organizations who generously assisted David in his last year: the Actors Fund, Musicares, The Musicians Foundation, the Bagby Foundation for the Musical Arts, and The Melvin Weinstein Parkinson's Foundation.