DOBBS, MATTIWILDA. Concert/opera singer ( in Atlanta, Georgia). She began studying piano at the age of seven. She obtained her musical education at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia (B.A., 1946), where she studied voice with Naomi Maise and Willis Lawrence James, and at Columbia University Teachers College in New York (M.A., 1948). She also studied privately with Lotte Leonard (1946-50); at Mannes Music School (1948-49); the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood, Massachusetts (1950);...