also the vice president of the Dominion College of Music during the 1920s and 1930s. In 1933 to 1934 O'Neill served as the president of the American Bandmasters Association. From 1935 to 1937 he was the conductor of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's orchestra in Quebec. He also worked as a guest conductor with several orchestras in Canada and the United States. In 1937 he was a guest conductor at the coronation of George VI of the United Kingdom in London. Later career and retirement O'Neill resigned from his post with the Royal 22nd Regiment in 1937 in order to take a position on the faculty of the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam where he taught music composition and conducting through 1947. He served as the head of the school's music department from 1942 to 1947. During these years he also served as the director of the summer music program and a summer school instructor at the University of Wisconsin. In 1948 O'Neill returned to Canada to join the music theory and composition faculty at The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. He taught there until his retirement in 1954. He served as honorary president of the Canadian Band Association from 1960 to 1964. He lived the remainder of his life in Quebec City and continued to compose up until his death in September, 1964 at the age of 82. References 1882 births 1964 deaths Alumni of the Royal Military School of Music Canadian composers Canadian male composers Male conductors (music) Canadian organists Male organists Canadian trumpeters Male trumpeters McGill University School of Music alumni Canadian music educators State University of New York at Potsdam faculty The Royal Conservatory of Music faculty University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty People from West Dunbartonshire Canadian Army personnel 20th-century organists 20th-century trumpeters 20th-century Canadian conductors (music) 20th-century Canadian male musicians Scottish emigrants to the United States Scottish emigrants to Canada Scottish people of Irish descent Canadian people of Irish descent Canadian military musicians