Will Marion Cook
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Will Marion Cook
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William Mercer Cook, better known as Will Marion Cook, was an American composer, violinist, and choral director. Cook was a student of Antonín Dvořák. In 1919 he took his New York Syncopated Orchestra to England for a command performance for King George V of the United Kingdom, and tour. Cook is probably best known for his popular songs and landmark Broadway musicals, featuring African-American creators, producers, and casts, such as Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk (1898) and In Dahomey
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American composer and violinist
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Marion_Cook
date created:
2005-01-05T21:35:07Z
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2024-09-03T16:34:47Z
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