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travels. World War I, played in orchestra in armed forces. Flutist, San Francisco Symph.; New York Symph.; Sousa's Band; Metropolitan and Chicago Opera companies; Russian Symph. Guggenheim Fellowship 1927 and 1928. Conductor Silvermine Music Festival, Norwalk Symph. Orch.; also series of children's concerts, Greenwich, Conn.; Scarsdale, N.Y., and Norwalk, Conn. Taught counterpoint, orchestration at Columbia Univ. Lecturer on music at many schools. President of own music publishing firm, New York. Works: Tuolumne, rhapsody for trumpet and orch. (Pulitzer Prize 1927); South-wind; Sonate Gaulois for flute and piano; The Argonauts, an opera cycle (David Bispham Medal for American Opera, 1941); Four Orchestral Songs; -A Suite of Music by Royalty for orch.; Ladies of the Ballet, for string orch.; A Sylvan Symphony; Genevieve, a romantic rhapsody for orch.; The Cathedral at Sens for chorus, cello and orch.; An Ornithological Suite for chamber orch.; also compositions for various combinations of wind instruments. Home: Greenwich, Conn. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Magidson, Herbert (Herb), author, composer; b. Braddock, Pa., Jan. 7, 1906. ASCAP 1929. Educ: Braddock High School; Univ. of Pittsburgh (journalism). Began songwriting in high school. Wrote articles and poetry for magazines. Became special material writer for New York music publishing firm. Was among first songwriters in Hollywood when sound came to screen. Wrote songs for motion pictures: The Gay Divorcee; The Great Ziegfeld; Show of Shows; No, No, Nanette; Lillies of the Field; Bright Lights; Here's to Romance; Music for Madame; Here to Hold; Song of the Thin Man. Broadway shows: George White's Scandals; George Whites Music Hall Varieties; George White's Varieties; Michael |
Todd's "Peep Show." Songs: "The Continental" (Acad. Award 1934); "Music, Maestro, Please"; 'Til Buy That Dream"; "I'll Dance at Your Wedding"; "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)"; "Gone With the Wind"; "Midnight in Paris"; "Roses in December"; "I'm Stepping Out with a Memory Tonight"; "Say a Prayer for the Boys Over There"; "Black-Eyed Susan Brown"; "Singin' in the Bathtub"; "Here's to Romance"; "Life of the Party"; "I Can't Love You Any More (Any More Than I Do)"; "A Pink Cocktail for a Blue Lady"; "Barrel House Bessie from Basin Street"; "Hello Baby"; "Is There Anything Wrong in That"; "Beau Night in Hotchkiss Comers"; "Johannesburg." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Magine, Frank, composer, pianist, singer; b. Chicago, 111., Oct. 7, 1888. ASCAP 1921. Educ: Chicago public and parochial schools. Boy soprano. Pianist, singer in Chicago entertainment places, then staff pianist and composer for publishing houses and vaudeville; radio artist. Songs: "Dreamy Melody"; "Adoration Waltz", "Baby, Oh Where Can You Be?", "Hallulejah, Things Look Rosy Now"; "Venetian Moon"; "Lonely Gondolier" "Home Again"; "Save the Last Dance for Me." Home: 5041 Maypole Ave., Chicago, Illinois.
Mahler, Gustav, composer; b. Ka-lischt, Czechoslovakia, July 7, 1860, d. Vienna, Austria, May 18, 1911. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Vienna Cons.; piano with Epstein and composition with Bruckner; philosophy, Vienna Univ.; conducting at Kassel, Prague, Leipzig, and Hamburg. Director, Royal Opera, Budapest. Director, Vienna Court Opera 1897. Resigned 1907; to New York as principal conductor of Metropolitan Opera House. Conductor, New York Philh. Soc. 1909. Works: nine symphonies; two |
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