HOLT, NORA

HOLT, NORA. Music critic (1885 in Kansas City, Kansas; 25 January 1974 in Los Angeles, California). She obtained her musical education from Western University in Quindaro, Kansas (B.A.), and Chicago Musical College (M. Mus., 1918), where she studied with Felix Borowski. She is credited with being the first black musician to earn the M. Mus. degree. She studied further with Nadia Boulanger at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France (1931). Before settling in Chicago, Illinois,...