DE PRIEST, JAMES ANDERSON

DE PRIEST, JAMES ANDERSON. Symphony orchestra conductor (21 November 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). He came from a musical family: his mother sang, and his aunt was world-renowned contralto Marian Anderson . As a child he studied piano and percussions. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Philadelphia, where he played percussions in the City-Wide High School Orchestra; at the University of Pennsylvania (B.S., 1958; M. A., 1961), where he did not major in music...