DA COSTA, NOEL

DACOSTA, NOEL. Composer (24 December 1929 in Lagos, Nigeria). His parents, originally from Kingston, Jamaica, moved back to the West Indies when he was three years old. When he was eleven his family moved to New York; he began the study of violin with Barnabas Istok. His high-school teacher, poet Countee Cullen , inspired him to become a creative artist. He obtained his musical education at Queens College of the City University of New York (B.A., 1952) and Columbia University...