Clarence Cameron White
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Clarence Cameron White was an American neoromantic composer and concert violinist. Dramatic works by the composer were his best-known, such as the incidental music for the play Tambour and the opera O
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Joseph Douglass
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Joseph Henry Douglass was an American violinist, the son of Charles Remond Douglass and Mary Elizabeth Murphy, and grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass.
Clarence Cameron White
…one of pure joy, and it was during this period that I definitely made up my mind to be a violinist." White continued his private studies in 1894 with Joseph Douglass, another notable black violinist and grandson of abolitionist Frederick Douglass, at Howard University. He attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the…
Joseph Douglass (left, standing, in morning dress) with grandfather Frederick Douglass (right, sitting in frock coat) (ca 1890s).
Broadside advertising a concert by Joseph H. Douglass, ca. 1895. MS Thr 1590, Houghton Library, Harvard University.