MAYNOR, DOROTHY

MAYNOR, DOROTHY (née DOROTHY LEIGH MAINOR). Concert singer (3 September 1910 in Norfolk, Virginia). She sang in her father's church as a child. She began voice study formally at the age of fourteen, attending Hampton Institute in Virginia. She obtained her musical education also at Hampton (B.S., 1933), where she came under the guidance of R. Nathaniel Dett , and later attended the Westminister Choir School in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1935 she went to New York, where she studied...