COOK, WILL MARION. Composer ( in Washington, D.C.; in New York, New York). He revealed musical talent at an early age and was sent to study music at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio when he was fifteen years old. He studied violin further with Josef Joachim in Berlin, Germany (1887-89), and attended the National Conservatory of Music in New York (1894-95), where he studied with Antonin Dvorak (at that time director) and John...