JONES, ELAYNE

JONES, ELAYNE. Symphonic timpanist (30 January 1928 in New York, New York). She began piano study at the age of six with her mother. She received her musical education at the High School of Music and Art in New York, where she began study of the tympani; at the Juilliard School of Music in New York; and at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts (1949). She played professionally at an early age, beginning in 1949 with the orchestras of the...