MOORE, UNDINE SMITH

MOORE, UNDINE SMITH. Composer (5 July 1904 in Jarrat, Virginia). Her family moved to Petersburg, Virginia, when she was a child, and there she began piano study with Lillian Allen Darden (aunt of William Duncan Allen ). When she was eight years old and only a fifth-grader, she was invited to accompany the singing for the high-school commencement exercises. She obtained her musical education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (B.A., B. Mus.), where she studied piano and...