RYDER, GEORGIA ATKINS

RYDER, GEORGIA ATKINS. College professor (30 January 1924 in Newport News, Virginia). She began piano study at the age of six. She received her musical training in the public schools of Newport News, Virginia, where she played violin in the high-school orchestra and accompanied the choir and concert band; at Hampton Institute in Virginia (B.S., 1944), where she was accompanist, soloist, and student conductor of the college choir; at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (M. Mus.,...