Tufts University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Music. Family Anderson has three children: Janet, Anita, and Thomas J. Anderson, III (who also goes by "T.J."), is a poet and professor of English at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. The younger Anderson is married to Pauline Kaldas, a poet, author, and fellow English professor at Hollins University. Unitarian Universalism Anderson served from 1986 to 1991 on the commission that produced Singing the Living Tradition, a hymnal published by the Unitarian Universalist Association in 1993. He is a member of the U.U. congregation at Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Notes References Perkins Holly, Ellistine. Biographies of Black Composers and Songwriters; A Supplementary Textbook. Iowa: Wm. C. Brown Publishers, 1990. External links T.J. Anderson's website Bates College: Thomas Jefferson Anderson Database of Recorded American Music: Anderson, T.J. Interview with T.J. Anderson, January 26, 1987 1928 births Living people American male conductors (music) African-American conductors (music) American male classical composers Pupils of Darius Milhaud African-American classical composers American classical composers African-American male classical composers 21st-century American conductors (music) Penn State College of Arts and Architecture alumni University of Iowa alumni West Virginia State University alumni Tennessee State University faculty Langston University faculty Tufts University faculty Penn State College of Education alumni