Draft:James David Malloch
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JAMES DAVID MALLOCH
James David Malloch was born October 14, 1934, at Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama as the only child of James Edward Malloch (1907-1973) and Scrilla Coleman (1910-2001). His ancestry is primarily Scottish and English, although his paternal great grandmother, Eleonore Levesque (1849-1928) descended from early French settlers in Quebec, Canada. Premier Rene Levesque (1922-1987) is a cousin.
Malloch’s early life included public recognition of his musical talent. At age 12, he was organist at his church and accompanied the Gadsden Public School’s city-wide Christmas concert at age 13. Malloch’s family then moved from Alabama to Texas in 1948 where he graduated high school and college.
With a career focused on church music, Malloch graduated Union Theological Seminary, New York in 1958. While in seminary, he served as organist and choirmaster at Washington Square Methodist Church where Leontyne Price (1927- ) of Metropolitan Opera fame sang with the church choir. His first appointment after seminary was at First Methodist Church, Houston, Texas, the largest Methodist congregation at that time. He was also the first seminary-trained musician in the Texas Conference.
In Houston, Malloch became acquainted with Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977), conductor of the Houston Symphony (1955-1961). Stokowski was once organist at St. Bartholomew’s in NYC before focusing on orchestral conducting (without a baton). Malloch’s creativity produced compositions for choir and organ. Stokowski influenced his interest in new composers whose works were performed by the Houston Symphony.
Malloch’s first national exposure was a Mormon Tabernacle Choir performance of his “Christmas Chimes” on the CBS television network. The text was the creation of Philip S. Watters, D.D., once pastor of Washington Square Methodist Church in NYC.
After more than three decades serving local churches, Malloch embarked on a career with the Houston-Galveston Area Council of Governments (H-GAC) where he established the Cooperative Purchasing Program. Rapid expansion of the program now includes local governments throughout the nation. In 2000, British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent a committee to Houston on a factfinding mission to determine how the purchasing program might be implemented in the UK. Malloch is retired and living in Texas.