WORK, JULIAN C. Composer ( in Nashville, Tennessee). See also WORK, JOHN WESLEY III. He came from a family of professional musicians. His father, John Wesley Work II , was a folksong collector, singer, and college music teacher at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. His mother, a singer, helped to train singing groups at Fisk, and his brother, John Wesley III, was a composer and college music teacher. He studied music as a child with local teacher Mary E...