BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRICAN AMERICAN " GLORIA ROBERTS " A TRAINED CONCERT PIANIST WHO SPENT MOST OF HER LIFE IN EUROPE : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

BLACK     SOCIAL                         HISTORY                                                                                                                                 Gloria Roberts

Gloria Roberts

Dates: 1924–2011

Family: Hemings, Madison

Residence (at time of interview): Munich, Germany

Gloria Roberts, daughter of Pearl Hinds and Frederick Madison Roberts, graduated from the University of Southern California and studied at the Juilliard School of Music. She lived most of her life in Europe, where she pursued a career as a concert pianist and accompanist, specializing in African American spirituals and the music of George Gershwin as well as European classical composers.  She lived as a child in the household of her grandmother Ellen Hemings Roberts and remembers her well.