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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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Professor Fred Hall, music director at Gammon Theological Seminary, Clark, and Morris Brown Colleges, receives foreign scholarship to study Welsh folk music and culture for a year, sailing September 23 on S.S. American Liner. Includes his educational and professional background in music.
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By JESSE O. THOMAS
Professor Fred Hall, director of music at Gammon Theological Seminary, Clark and Morris Brown Colleges, has been given a scholarship by the education board abroad.
He will be traveling to study folk music with reference to the manner in which the Welsh people have developed mass appreciation of the Welsh music as reflected in the congregational singing that characterizes their worship as well as their general musical culture.
Professor Hall will sail on September 23, on the S. S. American Liner, and gone for a year.
He began his career with a private tutor. Was a student and a pupil of Harreld. He left from The Chicago College and Columbia University. He received his A. M. degree at the former and a diploma as Supervisor of public school music at the latter.
He was employed for five years as Director of Music at Jackson College, Jackson, Miss., and as Supervisor of public school music at that city. He returned to his home several years ago to take the department of music at the three above mentioned schools.
He has distinguished himself in music field through his keen understanding, sense of close harmony, sympathetic interpretation.
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September 23
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Professor Fred Hall awarded scholarship by education board abroad to study Welsh folk music and congregational singing for one year, sailing on S.S. American Liner on September 23. Career began with private tutor and as pupil of Harreld; A.M. from Chicago College, diploma from Columbia University; five years as music director and supervisor in Jackson, Miss.; now directs music at Gammon Theological Seminary, Clark and Morris Brown Colleges.