Calvin Edouard Ward

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Dr. Calvin Edouard Ward in 2011, photo by Vincent Bryant

Calvin Edouard Ward (April 19, 1925 – February 10, 2018

music theorist
and educator.

Biography

He was born in

Atlanta, GA, and educated at Morehouse College, Northwestern University and the University of Vienna in Austria.The second child and first son of Effie Elizabeth Crawford Ward (graduate of Spelman College, where she was a classmate of Alberta Williams King, mother of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and sewing instructor at Atlanta's Evening School) and Jefferson Sigman Ward (graduate of the Haynes Institute in Augusta, GA, World War I veteran, Pullman porter and small businessman), Ward demonstrated musical prowess, including the ability to memorize tunes, from two years of age. As a four-year-old kindergartner at Atlanta's Oglethorpe School, he attracted his teacher's attention when he played the hymn "Just as I Am" in thirds on the classroom toy piano. He began formal music lessons when he entered first grade and within a year was playing complete sonatas. By the age of 10, Ward was accompanying the church choir and performing throughout Atlanta.[2]

After graduating from high school, Ward studied piano at

Staatsakademie und Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, and earned his Doktorat in Musical Research from the University of Vienna
in 1955.

Ward taught at

Coppin State College
.

In 1977, a Fulbright-Hays fellowship provided the opportunity to do research in Paris, France and

St. Petersburg State Conservatory
in the USSR, where he lectured in African-American classical composers, and to St. John's Theological College in New South Wales, Australia in 1990. In 1998, he accompanied the Street Theatre Dance Ensemble on the piano in concerts at the Island Center for the Performing Arts in St. Croix, Virgin Islands.

Ward administered music activities for the

Willingboro, New Jersey community.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Dr Calvin Edouard Ward - View Obituary & Service Information". Dr Calvin Edouard Ward Obituary. Retrieved April 14, 2018.
  2. ISBN 9780195160192
    .
  3. The Daily Triplicate. Archived from the original
    on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2014.
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