CUMBO, CLARISSA BURTON

CUMBO, CLARISSA BURTON. Concert manager (15 January 1903 in Roseau, Dominica, West Indies). She came from a musical family: her father was a church organist and choir director. She studied piano as a child with teachers of the local Catholic schools and later studied voice with Otto Bohanon, Marshall Rusk, and Harry Williams . In 1917 she went to New York, where she became active in musical circles of the Harlem community and sang in local community choirs. She first became involved...