WORK, JOHN WESLEY II.

WORK, JOHN WESLEY II. Composer/College professor (6 August 1872 in Nashville, Tennessee; 7 September 1925 in Nashville). 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 sang with the original Fisk Jubilee Singers . He attended Fisk University (B.A., 1895, M.A. 1898) in Nashville, Tennessee, where he was active in musical organizations, and Harvard...