Clarence Cameron White

Clarence Cameron White ( born August 10, 1880 in Clarksville / Tennessee, † June 30, 1960 in New York City ) was an American composer.

White had first violin lessons from Will Marion Cook. He studied from 1891 to 1901 at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and was a student of Samuel Coleridge- Taylor in London and Raoul Laparra in Paris. Since 1912 he worked as a violin and composition teacher. From 1916 to 1920 he was conductor of the Victorian Chamber Orchestra in Boston, 1924-1931 Music Director of the West Virginia State College. Since 1933, he led the Hampton Institute Choir.

Works

  • Forty Negro Spirituals
  • Kutamba Rhapsody
  • Symphony in D Minor
  • A Night in Sans Souci, ballet music
  • Violin concerto
  • Ouanga, opera based on the biography of Jean -Jacques Dessalines
  • Heritage, cantata

Swell

  • Library of Congress - Clarence Cameron White, 1880-1960 ( biography )
  • Alfred Baumgartner Propylaea world of music. The composers, Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3549078358, pp. 530-31
  • American composer
  • Born in 1880
  • Died in 1960
  • Man
Clarksville (Tennessee) Jean-Jacques Dessalines Name Authority File
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