RYDER, NOAH FRANCIS

RYDER, NOAH FRANCIS. College educator/Composer (10 April 1914 in Nashville, Tennessee; 17 April 1964 in Norfolk, Virginia). He came from a musical family: his father, Noah Walker Ryder , sang with the Fisk Jubilee Singers , toured for a period as accompanist with Roland Hayes , and was a college music teacher. Noah Francis studied piano and violin as a child. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, at the University of Cincinnati (one...