LAWSON, RAYMOND AUGUSTUS

LAWSON, RAYMOND AUGUSTUS. Concert pianist (23 March 1875 in Shelbyville, Kentucky; February 1959 in Hartford, Connecticut). He came from a musical family; his father played several instruments and was a member of the Shelbyville brass band. He began organ study at the age of seven and was a church organist by the time he was ten. He studied piano with a local teacher, W. J. Harvey, then went to Fisk University at Nashville, Tennessee, for preparatory work and college. He was...