LEW, WILLIAM EDWARD

LEW, WILLIAM EDWARD. College professor (1 July 1865 in Dracut, Massachusetts; 30 January 1949 in New York, New York). He belonged to the musical dynasty of the Lew family, whose ancestry reached back into the eighteenth century with Primus and Barzillai Lew . As a child he and his sister Edith played piano duets on local recitals in Boston, Massachusetts. Beginning in the 1880s he was active as choral conductor, serving at the Charles AME Church in Boston and as director of...