Dr. Nathan Carter, Morgan State Univ. choir director, Succumbs at 68

Jet, August 9, 2004

Dr. Nathan Carter, the Morgan State University choir director whose widely acclaimed choirs performed before presidents and a pope and entertained all over the world, recently died of pancreatic cancer after a prolonged illness at his home in Baltimore. He was 68.

Carter, a native of Selma, AL, was Morgan State University's chairperson of the Department of Fine Arts, Director of the Performing Arts Series and director of the internationally renowned Morgan State University Choir.

Under Carter's splendid guidance of more than three decades, his choirs recorded with the Chicago Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic/Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

Survivors include his wife of 44 years, Jean; a daughter, Lynn; a son, Ryan; a brother and three sisters.

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