DIXON, LUCILLE

DIXON, LUCILLE. Symphony bassist (27 February 1923 in New York, New York). She studied piano as a child with local teacher Carmen Shepperd and played for her father's church services. During her high-school years she began to play the bass viol and performed in her high school orchestra and in the All-City High School Orchestra of New York. She studied bass with Fred Zimmerman of the New York Philharmonic . Beginning in 1941 she played in various symphonic groups, among them,...