MARTIN, DAVID IRWIN, SR. Music educator ( in Asheville, North Carolina; in New York). A violinist, he established a violin studio about 1907 in New York, and in 1912 he joined forces with pianist Helen Elise Smith (Dett) to form the Martin-Smith School of Music , which covered all areas of studio teaching. He was chosen as the first director of the Music School Settlement for Colored when that institution was founded in 1911 by white philanthropists under the...