CROKER, Catherine Munnell
(1897–1958)> CELLIST · ORGANIST · PIANIST · COMPOSER
CROKER, Catherine Munnell American cellist, organist, pianist and composer. Canonsburg, PA, November 3, 1897; Canonsburg, May, 1958. She studied at the Pittsburgh Musical Institute under Dr. Charles N. Boyd (piano and theory), Hubert Conover and Frantisek Rybka (cello) and Dr. T. Carl Whitmer (composition). She later studied composition and the organ under Dr. Harvey Gaul. In 1947 she was awarded the State Prize by the Pennsylvania Federation of Music Clubs for her composition Expectation. She…