Undine Smith Moore: The Dean of Black Woman Composers

Undine Smith Moore was known as the “Dean of Black Woman Composers,” and she was a talented composer and music educator.  Undine was born in 1904 in Jarratt, Virginia to James William Smith and Hardie Turnbull Smith. Undine grew up in a musical household. She started learning piano from Lillian Allen Darden when she was …