Maud Cuney Hare was a multidimensional intellect and virtuoso: pianist-lecturer, composer, playwright, biographer, poet, editor, Black music historian and collector of music. She was also the founder and director of the Allied Arts Center in Boston.[1] She moved to Jamaica Plain in 1904 and lived there for over thirty years. Living in a period of legal segregation, disenfranchisement and lynchings, Maud Cuney Hare stood up to the racism of the time.
Read MoreJimmy McHugh, the great songwriter was a Jamaica Plain native who never forgot his family back at home even when he was hobnobbing with the movie stars out in Hollywood.
Read MoreTyrannical, temperamental, handsome, and avant-garde, Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, lived in Jamaica Plain at the beginning of his American career.
Read MoreThis presentation by Richard Vacca, author of The Boston Jazz Chronicles, looks at the career of songwriter Jimmy McHugh, who was born in Jamaica Plain in 1894 and grew up there.
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