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 his first violin lessons with 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. From 1912 he worked as a violin and composition teacher. From 1916 to 1920 he was conductor of the Victorian Chamber Orchestra in Boston, from 1924 to 1931 music director of West Virginia State College . From 1933 he directed 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
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- Library of Congress - Clarence Cameron White, 1880-1960 (biography)
- Alfred Baumgärtner Propylaea World of Music. The Composers , Volume 5, 1989, ISBN 3549078358 , pp. 530-31
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| SURNAME | White, Clarence Cameron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Clarksville, Tennessee |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 30, 1960 |
| Place of death | New York City |