![]() Antoinette Handy (1930–2002) was also a musician and music scholar. Her dissertation was about composer John Field's piano concertos. in piano performance, at the University of Iowa. In 1966, she became the first woman to earn a Ph.D. In 1954, she began a master's program at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. She graduated from Dillard University, majoring in music, in 1945, and was active in Delta Sigma Theta. ![]() Peyton and of Mississippi state legislator Emanuel Handy. She was the great-great granddaughter of Mississippi Supreme Court justice Ephraim G. ![]() Her father was a Methodist minister and a trained singer, and her mother was a music teacher. ![]() William Talbot Handy and Dorothy Pauline Pleasant Handy. Dillard University (B.A.), Chicago Conservatory of Music (M.F.A.), University of Iowa (Ph.D.)įrances Geneva Handy Southall (Decem– January 2, 2004) was an American musicologist, pianist, and college professor.įrances Geneva Handy was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Rev. ![]()
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