The distinguished American composer and organist was employed for a time at St. Ann's Episcopal Church, in Brooklyn Heights — a building that now serves as the chapel of the Packer Collegiate Institute. The St. Ann's congregation later moved to the Church of the Holy Trinity, on Montague Street, where Buck also played for a number of years. The latter is now known as St. Ann's and the Holy Trinity. Buck wrote any number of weighty works, including the Centennial Meditation of Columbia (with a text by Sidney Lanier), but he is best remembered today for his slightly zany variations on the "Star-Spangled Banner."