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MOORE, Undine Smith

Undine Smith Moore
Image courtesy of Indiana University LIbraries Archives of African American Music and Culture Collections, No. SC 102

Born in Jarratt, VA, Aug 25, 1904 
Died in Petersburg, VA, Feb 6, 1989 

  • Moore was educated at Fisk University and Columbia University Teachers’ College. She also received honorary doctorates from Virginia State University and Indiana University.1
  • Moore was a professor at Virginia State University in Petersburg, where her educational accomplishments included co-founding and co-directing the university’s Black Music Research Center.2
  • Moore specialized in choral compositions and sacred music.3
  • Her oratorio on the life of Dr Martin Luther King Jr., Scenes from the Life of a Martyr, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 1981.4

Biographical sketch from the Undine Smith Moore Collection at Indiana University, Bloomington 

Biography from African American Registry 

Biography from the African Diaspora Music Project 

Sources

  1. Olivia Mattis, “Moore, Undine Smith,“ Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 24, 2022, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000047040.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Ibid.
  4. “Undine Smith Moore Collection, 1951-1981” Indiana University Archives Online, accessed February 24, 2022, https://archives.iu.edu/catalog/VAE0300.

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