Teacher, pianist, and accompanist to concert artists
By: William Duncan Allen ; introduction by Dr. Ruth Love. Interviews conducted by Caroline Crawford in 1995. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Love, Ruth.; Crawford, Caroline; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Online Archive of California.
Published: 1996
Subjects: Pianists -- United States -- Interviews.; African American musicians -- United States -- Interviews.
Description: Allen Duncan discusses his family background and childhood in Oregon; his studies at Oberlin and Juilliard; teaching at Howard and Fisk Universities; accompanying various singers, including Todd Duncan, Paul Robeson, Adele Addison, William Warfield, and Betty Allen; and working as a columnist for San Francisco Bay Area newspapers. He comments upon segregation in the United States as it affects Black musicians, fostering Black music and Black composers, and directing choral groups in the Bay Area.