LAWSON, WARNER

LAWSON, WARNER. Choral conductor/College professor (3 August 1903 in Hartford, Connecticut; 3 June 1971 in Washington, D.C.). He came from a family of professional musicians. His paternal grandfather played in a brass band; his father, Raymond Lawson , was a concert pianist and music teacher; and his mother was a soprano soloist with the Fisk Jubilee Singers . He began piano study at the age of five with his father. He obtained his musical education at Fisk University in Nashville,...