Gladys C. Fearing

Gladys Christine Fearing (1893-1924) was a pianist and teacher in early 20th century New Jersey and Washington, DC. Fearing was a 1911 graduate of the Washington Conservatory of Music whose life exemplifies the racial uplift ideals upon which the Conservatory was...

Reading is What? Fundamental!

Archival research is underway, and our team has begun constructing biographies of Washington Conservatory of Music graduates. Though this is my favorite part of the project, I would not have understood the context in which they lived without reading secondary sources....

A Fashionably Late Arrival

It’s already mid-June! Aghhh! Having lost all sense of time after nearly two weeks(?) of touring with the St. Olaf Choir, I am at long last joining my peers on the Musical Geography Project. I am still settling in my new townhouse and adjusting to the departure of...