DAWSON, WILLIAM LEVI

DAWSON, WILLIAM LEVI. Composer/College professor (26 September 1899 in Anniston, Alabama). He obtained his musical education at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama (1914-21), which he entered when he was thirteen years old, and where he played in the band and orchestra, was music librarian, and traveled with the Institute Singers for five years; at Washburn College in Topeka, Kansas (1921-22); at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts in Kansas City, Missouri (b. Mus., 1925); at the American Conservatory of...