| 词条 | Pearl Williams-Jones |
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Pearl Williams-Jones ({{nee|Williams}}) (June 28, 1931 – February 4, 1991) was an American gospel musician. A native of Washington, D.C., Williams was the daughter of Smallwood Edmond Williams, pastor of the Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ.[1] She attended public schools in the District, graduating from Charles Young Elementary, Brown Junior High School and Dunbar High School.[2] She studied piano with Hazel Harrison and Natalie Hinderas while attending Howard University, from which she received both a bachelor's degree and a master's of music,[1] and from which she graduated magna cum laude.[3] She served as minister of music at her father's church and performed as a singer and pianist throughout the United States and Europe,[1] appearing in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall in London and the Suphiensalle in Munich.[4] A well-regarded scholar of gospel music, she spent decades as a professor of music at the University of the District of Columbia, where she developed the first degree program in the United States dedicated to the study and performance of gospel.[1] She taught jazz history and music appreciation as well, and directed the university's gospel choir.[3] She served as a technical advisory on the film Say Amen, Somebody.[5] For two decades she consulted with the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and worked as an administrative staff member of its African Diaspora Advisory Group.[1] Williams-Jones published a number of works, including a study of the work of Roberta Martin written with Bernice Johnson Reagon.[1] As a composer she was especially known for her performance of "Jesus, Lover of My Soul" to the accompaniment of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Jesu, joy of man's desiring".[6][7][8] Williams-Jones received an honorary degree from Lynchburg College in 1972.[1] She died in 1991 after an 18-month battle with cancer.[3] She was married to Williams V. Jones, MD, with whom she had two children, Yvonne and Virgil, Jr.[2] References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite book|title=The Grove Dictionary of American Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQiiDAEACAAJ|date=January 2013|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-531428-1}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Williams-Jones, Pearl}}2. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://myspiritdc.hellobeautiful.com/1043248/washington-dc-ready-to-honor-dr-pearl-williams-jones/|title=Washington, DC Ready to Honor DR. PEARL WILLIAMS JONES|date=7 February 2013|publisher=|accessdate=13 November 2016}} 3. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1991/02/09/gospel-community-loses-a-pivotal-voice/b2711efd-697b-493b-bbe4-ebe0562e779b/|title=GOSPEL COMMUNITY LOSES A PIVOTAL VOICE|first=H. R.|last=Harris|date=9 February 1991|publisher=|accessdate=13 November 2016|via=washingtonpost.com}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.last.fm/music/Pearl+Williams+Jones/+wiki |title=Pearl Williams Jones’s Biography — Free listening, videos, concerts, stats and photos at |publisher=Last.fm |date= |accessdate=2016-11-13}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/1545954%7C0/Pearl-Williams-Jones/filmography.html|title=Filmography for Pearl Williams-Jones|publisher=|accessdate=13 November 2016}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Horace Clarence Boyer|title=The Golden Age of Gospel|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EzZ7GjkQixkC&pg=PA240|year=1995|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-06877-5}} 7. ^{{cite book|author=Bernice Johnson Reagon|title=If You Don't Go, Don't Hinder Me: The African American Sacred Song Tradition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AgxejIFLShgC&pg=PA30|year=2001|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-8983-9}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/AAHH2001/453|title=African American Heritage Hymnal 453. Jesus, lover of my soul - Hymnary.org|publisher=|accessdate=13 November 2016}} 12 : 1931 births|1991 deaths|American gospel singers|African-American singers|American Pentecostals|Singers from Washington, D.C.|American female singers|20th-century American singers|Howard University alumni|University of the District of Columbia faculty|Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C.|20th-century women singers |
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