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song "The Moorish Tango," later introduced into Ziegfeld Follies, 1914, as "Under the Japanese Moon." Radio conductor of "American Album of Familiar Music"; "Saturday Night Serenade"; "Gus Haenschen's All-String Orchestra." Songs: "Down on the Bank of the Old Yazoo"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; "Silver Star"; "Lullaby of Love"; "Dream Serenade"; "Rosita"; "My Colleen"; "Vitality March." Home: Norwalk, Conn. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Hageman, Richard, composer, pianist; b. Leeuwarden, Holland, July 9, 1882. ASCAP 1930. U.S. citizen 1915. Studied music and piano with father until ten; protege of the Queen of Holland for ten vears. Scholarships, Brussels Cons, of Music and Royal Cons, of Amsterdam. Concert pianist at age of six; several years as accompanist Royal Opera Co., Amsterdam; at seventeen, became full conductor at Royal Opera, Amsterdam. After three years in Paris for further study, to U.S. with Yvette Guilbert 1906. Asst. conductor Metropolitan Opera 1908; first conductor 1914, serving Metropolitan eighteen years and being in charge of Sunday night concerts for eight years. Four years head of opera department Curtis Institute, Philadelphia. Musical director of Chicago Civic Opera, musical director of Ravinia Park Opera for seven years. Guest conductor of principal symphony orchestras U.S.; four years conductor of Philadelphia Symph. orch. summer concerts. To Europe 1926; returned to Metropolitan Opera 1937 to conduct American premiere of his own grand opera Caponsac-chi. To Hollywood 1938 to compose original scores for motion pictures. Academy award for best motion picture score 1939, Stagecoach; citations for pictures The Long Voyage Home; The Howards of Virginia; This Woman is Mine; The Shanghai Gesture. Other motion picture scores: |
If I Were King; Hotel Imperial; Paris Calling; Angel and The Bad Man; The Fugitive; Mourning Becomes Electro; Fort Apache; The Three Godfathers; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; Wagon Master. Conductor Hollywood Bowl six seasons. Received David Bispham Memorial Medal 1937 for Caponsacchi; French Government made him an "Officier de Tinstruction Publique" for his distinguished contributions to music; Doctor of Music (Brussels). Works: The Crucible, oratorio; / Hear America Calling, dramatic scene for baritone and orch.; Overture in a Nutshell; Suite for Strings. Songs: "Do Not Go My Love"; "At the Well"; "Miranda"; "Music I Heard With You"; "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"; "Christ Went Up Into the Hills"; "Don Juan Gomez", "Christmas Eve." Home. Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Hagen, John Milton (Milt Hagen, Sterling Sherwin), composer, author, newspaperman; b. Omaha, Neb., Dec. 3, 1892. ASCAP 1924. Educ: Stanford Univ., Bachelor of Arts, pnvate music tutors. Gold medal prize operetta winner Stanford Univ. Writes songs and musical productions for Bohemian Club; also member of Texas Folklore Society, Mark Twain Soc. (honorary), Eugene Field Society (honorary), Sigma Delta Chi, San Francisco Press Club. Writes newspaper and magazine articles and column under pseudonyms. With U.S. Infantry, World War I; U.S. Coast Guard (Security Forces) World War II. Songs published in U.S. and Canada: "Songs of the Roundup"; "Songs of the Gold Miners"; Songs of San Francisco (Golden Gate Exposition official songbook); "Singin* in the Saddle"; "Mac's Songs of the Road and Range"; also many others. In Great Britain: "American Cowboy Songs"; "Sherwin's Saddle Songs. Wrote United Nations Anthem, given |
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