ALLEN, WILLIAM DUNCAN

ALLEN, WILLIAM DUNCAN. Concert pianist/Accompanist (15 December 1906 in Portland, Oregon). He came from a musical family: his mother was a pianist, his paternal aunt was a music graduate of Fisk University at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1907, and his sister Connie was an organist-pianist. He began piano study at the age of five. He obtained his musical education at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio (B. Mus., 1928; M. Mus, 1936), where he studied with Frank Shaw, and at the...