VAN BUREN, CATHERINE

VAN BUREN, CATHERINE. (10 December 1907 in Morristown, New Jersey). Her family moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, when she was a child. She obtained her musical education in the public schools of Pittsfield; at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee (B. A., 1931), where she was a soloist with the university choir; and at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music (B. Mus., 1935), where she sang in the a-capella choir. She studied voice with Edgar Schofield , among others. Her early career development...