Clyde Winkfield (June 9, 1918 - ?) was a concert pianist[1] and piano teacher in the Ubited States.[2] He taught at Roosevelt College in Chicago. He taught piano at Kimball Hall in Chicago[3] then in 1946 he joined Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri's teaching staff.[4]
He was born in Watonga, Oklahoma.[5] Innthe 1930s studied at the Chicago College of Music and American Conservatory of Music.[5]
He was friends with Florence B. Price.[6] He was a guest of the Civi Symphony in Philadelphia.[7]
In the early 1940s he was a "Negro Fellow" of the Rosenwald Fund.[5] He received a Civic Achievement Award from Chicago and was a soloist with the Detroit Civic Orchestra.[8]
References
edit- ^ Black, Timuel D. (2007). Bridges of Memory Volume 2: Chicago's Second Generation of Black Migration. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-2295-6.
- ^ "Negro College Quarterly". 1946.
- ^ "The Negro College Quarterly". 1946.
- ^ https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll52/id/3078/
- ^ a b c Fund, Julius Rosenwald (1940). "Review for the Two-year Period".
- ^ Brown, Rae Linda (22 June 2020). The Heart of a Woman: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-05211-8.
- ^ Young, Nancy Beck (26 January 2022). M.E.Sharpe Library of Franklin D.Roosevelt Studies: V. 1: Franklin D.Roosevelt and the Shaping of American Political Culture. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-000-15851-9.
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=EZofAQAAMAAJ&q=clyde+winkfield+piano
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