WORK, FREDERICK JEROME

WORK, FREDERICK JEROME. Folklorist/Music educator (1879 in Nashville, Tennessee; 24 January 1942 in Bordentown, New Jersey). He came from a musical family: his father, John Wesley Work I (c1830-1923), was a church choir director in Nashville, Tennessee, who wrote and arranged music for his choirs, of whom some members had sung with the original Fisk Jubilee Singers . One brother, John Wesley II, became a composer and college music educator; other siblings followed musical careers; and two...