death_date birth_place background birth_date genre image article_title name occupation
30 june 1960 clarksville , tennessee , united states non_vocal_instrumentalist 10 august 1880 classical music maud cuney hare-clarence cameron white 329.jpg clarence cameron white
 clarence cameron white composer , violinist
clarence cameron white

clarence cameron white -lrb- august 10 , 1880 -- june 30 , 1960 -rrb- was an african-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 `` ouanga '' .
during the first decades of the twentieth century , white was considered the foremost violinist of his race .
he was a member of alpha phi alpha fraternity .
