found: Rachmaninoff, S. The sea and the gulls [SR] p1988:label (James DePreist, conductor)
found: Handy, D.A. Black conductors, 1995:p. 86 (James Anderson DePreist; b. Nov. 21, 1936, Philadelphia, PA.)
found: RLIN, Sept. 21, 2006(hdg.: DePreist, James, 1936-; De Preist, James, 1936-; De Preist, James; De Priest, James, 1936- [sic]; DePriest, James [sic]; usage: James DePreist, James dePreist, James De Preist, James de Preist, J. De Preist, DePreist, James DePriest [sic], James De Priest [sic])
found: New York times WWW site, Feb. 11, 2013(in obituary published Feb. 9: James DePreist; b. James Anderson DePreist, Nov. 21, 1936, Philadelphia; d. Friday [Feb. 8, 2013], Scottsdale, Ariz., aged 76; pioneering conductor)
found: African American National Biography, accessed January 14, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(DePreist, James; composer, arranger, orchestral conductor, music educator; born 21 November 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; bachelor in pre-law and master's from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1958, 1961); studied musical history, theory of harmony and orchestration at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music; entered the Mitropoulos and became the first American to win first prize and first African American to conduct a major symphony; was an assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic (1965-1966); debuted in Europe at a Rotterdam Philharmonic Promenades concert (1969); later was an associate conductor of the National Symphony in Washington, DC (1971), music director of Quebec Symphony (1976); community leader, laureate music director of the Oregon Symphony, and director of orchestral studies at Juilliard in New York (2004); honors include, thirteen honorary doctorates, Insignia of Commander of the Order of the Lion of Finland, Officer of the Order of Cultural Merit of Monaco; died 08 February 2013 in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States)