Edwin Coates (Charles Edwin Coates) was a pianist, composer and faculty member of the Martin-Smith School of Music in New York. In 1917, he graduated from the Institute of Musical Art, which was founded and directed by Frank Heino Damrosch, and which later merged with the Juilliard Graduate School to form the Juilliard School. In 1938 he married social worker Helena Hester Harper, the Executive Secretary of the West Harlem Council of Social Agencies. Studio portrait of Edwin Coates. Written on back of photo: He is not really this ugly but you know he is your loving Uncle Eddie.
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African American music teachers Coates, Edwin, 1895-1989 Juilliard School Martin-Smith School of Music (New York, N.Y.)
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