Mercer Cook (January 27, 1869 – July 19, 1944), better known as Will Marion Cook, was an American composer, violinist, and choral director. Cook was a...

The Will Marion Cook House is a historic townhouse at 221 West 138th Street, in the part of Harlem known as Strivers' Row in Manhattan, New York City....

singing from the fire escape of her aunt's apartment by the composer Will Marion Cook and lyricist Paul Laurence Dunbar; they cast her for a role in their...

blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." It features music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. It...

Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk opened on Broadway in New York. Will Marion Cook wrote ragtime music for the show. Black dancers mingled with white...

Marion Grasby (born 29 September 1982)[citation needed] is a Thai-Australian cook and food entrepreneur. She is also a television presenter, cookbook...

music by Ludwig Engländer, Will Marion Cook, Will Accooe, Harry Truman MacConnell and Arthur Nevin, lyrics by Engländer, Cook and MacConnell, and a book...

Carolina Willie Cook (1923–2000), American jazz trumpeter Antony Tudor (William Cook, 1908–1987), English choreographer Will Marion Cook (1869–1944), American...

staged in 1987 Abyssinia (1906 musical), 1906 Broadway musical by Will Marion Cook, Bert Williams, Jesse A. Shipp, and Alex Rogers "Abyssinia", a song...

by Will Marion Cook. It is often wrongly attributed to vocalist Ethel Waters, who first recorded it on September 18, 1926, with Will Marion Cook's Singing...

Hall Johnson. Her PhD dissertation was titled The life and music of Will Marion Cook. She has spoken of a serendipitous meeting in 1970 with the musicologist...

in vaudeville. These included several musicals created by composer Will Marion Cook, lyricist Paul Laurence Dunbar, and the playwright Jesse A. Shipp;...

Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk is a one-act musical by composer Will Marion Cook and librettist Paul Laurence Dunbar. The piece premiered in 1898 and...

Publishing Company. The Gotham Music Company was founded by composer Will Marion Cook and songwriter Richard Cecil McPherson (aka Cecil Mack) and the Attucks...

Earl of Minto and Lady Mary Caroline Grey. He married Marion Cook, daughter of George William Cook, on 19 January 1921. He died in 1975. Lord Minto (whose...

and self-referential humour. Will Marion Cook and Bob Cole brought black-written musical comedy to Broadway in 1898. Cook's Clorindy, or The Origin of the...

police officer Whitfield Cook (1909–2003), American writer Will Marion Cook (1869–1944), American composer and violinist William Cook (disambiguation), multiple...

Will Mercer Cook was born on March 30, 1903, in Washington D.C., to Will Marion Cook, a famous composer of musical theatre, and Abbie Mitchell Cook,...

contributions to the university. In 1968, Arrillaga married Frances Marion Cook, a teacher and librarian. She died on October 13, 1995, in their Palo...

first published in 1907, with lyrics by Alex Rogers and music by Will Marion Cook. It was introduced in the 1908 musical Bandanna Land. Today the best-known...

addition to giving it a perfect four-star rating. Penguin authors Richard Cook and Brian Morton describe the release as "a model effort, masterminded by...

known for bringing Black musicians to the UK. The group was founded by Will Marion Cook. Members of the group included New Orleans clarinetist Sidney Bechet...

to play at Carnegie Hall in 1912. Vaughan wrote songs for several Will Marion Cook musical productions. He and James Reese Europe organized the Clef Club...

Nancy Cook at Westfield Cemetery, Westfield, New York. "Marion Dickerman (1890-1983)". Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project. Retrieved 2023-09-14. "Marion Dickerman"...

Abyssinia is a musical in one act with music by Will Marion Cook and Bert Williams, and both book and lyrics by Jesse A. Shipp and Alex Rogers. Created...

also orchestrated George Gershwin's one-act opera Blue Monday. With Will Marion Cook, he wrote the show Swing Along (1929). Vodery was an important influence...

Johnson and Luckey Roberts. Later in New York, he took advice from Will Marion Cook, Fats Waller, and Sidney Bechet. He started to play gigs in cafés and...

composer, lyricist, and pianist Alvin Bragg, attorney and politician Will Marion Cook, composer Stepin Fetchit, comic actor W. C. Handy, composer Fletcher...

Sons of Ham was a 1900 musical staged in the United States. Will Marion Cook wrote the music and Jesse A. Shipp the book. It was a farce, with Bert Williams...

edition, 1979. 811 pp. ("Revised by Marion Cunningham with Jeri Laber") 13th edition, 1990. 874 pp. ("By Marion Cunningham") "Toasting Fannie Farmer...