BROWN, LAWRENCE

BROWN, LAWRENCE. Concert accompanist (29 August 1893 in Jacksonville, Florida; 25 December 1972 in New York, New York). He studied music privately in Boston, Massachusetts, where he moved in 1914, and later studied composition in London at Trinity College (1920) and voice with Amanda Ira Aldridge . He first met Roland Hayes in London and first accompanied Hayes in 1921 at a command performance for King George V of England at Buckingham Palace. Thereafter he toured with Hayes for...