Obituaries

Mary Tyler Driver YoungViolinist

Mary Tyler Driver Young, 94, a violinist and violin teacher in Alexandria, died of pneumonia April 11 at Capital Hospice in Arlington County.

Mrs. Young was born in Milton, Mass., and graduated from Milton Academy and the New England Conservatory of Music, where she received diplomas in orchestral music and soloist performance as a violinist in the late 1930s. She also attended the Conservatoire Americain in Fontainebleau, France, where she studied with Nadia Boulanger, Jean Morel and Paul Bazelaire. During World War II, she was a Red Cross volunteer in New York.

After her marriage, she and her husband lived in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he worked as an engineer on the development of uranium to fuel the nation's first atomic bomb. The couple settled in Alexandria in the early 1950s.

She had a deep and sustaining love of music and was often in demand as a violinist. She played with the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra as concert master and first violin and with numerous other groups, including the Friday Morning Music Club, the Virginia Chamber Orchestra and the Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic (formerly the Mount Vernon Orchestra). She also gave private lessons in violin and viola and played in a program that brought classical music to students in more than 40 public schools in the Washington area.

Mrs. Young worked with the PTA, Rosemont Citizens Association, Colonial Dames, Mayflower Descendants and other civic and social groups.

Her husband, Clinton J.T. Young, died in 2001.

Survivors include three children, Dr. Clinton D. Young of Greensboro, N.C., Russell M. Young of Silver Spring and Eleanor A. King of Alexandria; and two grandchildren.

-- Joe Holley