Programme 5. Philippa Schuyler American pianist-composer and international journalist Philippa Schuyler (1931–1967) was the daughter of a black journalist and a white heiress. Called ’Harlem's ...

The judges had no alternative—they awarded both first and second prize to Manhattan’s 14-year-old Philippa Duke Schuyler, brightest young composer in the U.S. (TIME, July 1, 1940). Harlem-born ...