JONES, ROBERT C.
> CHORAL CONDUCTOR
JONES, ROBERT C. Choral conductor (fl. mid-nineteenth century in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Little is known of his career except that he was “leader of the vocal department of the Sacred Music Society” of the black Second Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In December 1840 the Society performed an Overture by Jones on its sacred-music concert. The black New York press identified him as a “distinguished vocalist” when he lectured on sacred music there at the Presbyterian Church…