PETERSON, ELWOOD

PETERSON, ELWOOD. Concert singer/College professor (23 January 1928 in New York, New York). He obtained his musical education in the public schools of New York, New York. He began voice study at the relatively late age of twenty-four. He sang professionally, however, before that time. His first public appearance (lyric baritone) was in 1950 on a concert sponsored by Composers' Forum at Columbia University in New York. He sang art songs of Howard Swanson . During the years 1951-66 he...