MCADOO, ORPHEUS MYRON

McADOO, ORPHEUS MYRON. Vocal ensemble director (1858 in Greensboro, North Carolina; summer 1900 in Sydney, Australia). He obtained his musical education at Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia (graduated 1876), and thereafter taught for ten years in Virginia schools, including Hampton. In 1886 he joined the Fisk Jubilee Singers (as baritone), which at that time no longer was sponsored by Fisk University but was directed by Frederic Loudon, although it was composed primarily of original...