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Allan, Lewis, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 10, 1903. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Coll. of the City of New York, Bachelor or Arts, 1925; Harvard, Master of Arts, 1926. Has written for stage, screen, radio and television, including theme song for documentary film, The Roosevelt Story, lyrics for score of motion picture, The Romance of Rosy Ridge and lyrics for Academy Award winning film short of 1945, The House I Live In Songs. "Strange Fruit", "My Native Land"; "Beloved Comrade", "I Come From Missouri." Home: No. Hollywood, Calif. Address. <;,', ASCAP.
Allen, Barclay, composer, orchestra leader, recording artist, pianist; b. Denver, Colo., Sept. 27, 1918. ASCAP 1948. Educ.: public schools, in music with mothei. Organized own orchestra m high school. After graduation continued playing m night clubs and hotels throughout the country. Pianist with Freddy Martin's Orch Musical director various radio stations. Songs: "Cumana", "The New Look", "It Began in Havana", "Barclay's Boogie", "Beginner's Boogie." Home North Hollywood, Calif. Address. c'c ASCAP.
Alter, Louis, composer, b. Haverhill, Mass., June 18, 1902 ASCAP 1929. Educ.: Haverhill High School. Began study of piano at nine; finished study at New England Cons, of Music, Boston, under Stuart Mason. At thirteen became professional pianist in movie theater. Became pianist for vaudeville star, Nora Bayes, toured with her in America and Europe for several seasons during which first published song, "Blue Shadows," was introduced in Earl Carroll's Vanities. Among the first composers called to Hollywood with the advent of sound in motion pictures. Orchestral pieces: Manhattan Serenade, Manhattan Moonlight; Metropolitan Nocturne (Venice Film Festival Bronze Medal 1936), Side Street in Gotham* Man- |
hatten Masquerade; American Serenade. Soloist three times with Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hollywood Bowl, playing own compositions. Enlisted in U.S. Army Air Corps, 1942; coordinated entertainment for twenty-six air bases on West Coast. Songs: "Melody from the Sky", "You Turned the Tables on Me"; "Bainbow on the River"; "Make a Wish"; "Twilight on the Trail" (orig. mss. in Hyde Park Memorial Library, shown as F.D.R.'s favorite song), "The Sky Fell Down", "Dolores"; "My Kinda Love", "One of God's Children", "Morning, Noon and Night"; "Overnight"; "Circus", "Stranger in the City"; "What a Life." Has contributed music to stage productions: Vanities; Ballyhoo, Sweet and Low, Hold Your Horses; and Shubert editions of Ziegfeld Follies. Home: New York, N.Y. and Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Altaian, Arthur, composer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Sept. 28. ASCAP 1934. Educ.. Brooklyn public schools, St. John's Univ. School of Law (non-grad). Songs: "Play Fiddle, Play"; "I Fall in Love With You Every Day"; "You Can't Hold a Memory In Your Arms"; "I'll Pray for You"; "All or Nothing at All", "You're Breaking My Heart AH Over Again", "Harbor of Dreamboats", "Romance a la Mode", "Single Saddle"; "American Beauty Rose", "1 Wish I Had a Record." Home: 238-81 116 Road, Elmont, L.I., New York.
Amfitheatrof, Daniele, composer, conductor; b. St. Petersburg, Russia, Oct. 29, 1901. ASCAP 1948. Studied piano and composition as youth, harmony with Wladimir Tscherbachev, St. Petersburg; counterpoint Jaroslav Krichka, Prague, orchestration and form Ottorino Respighi, Rome. Grad. Royal Cons, of Music, Rome, 1924; pupil Pontifical Acad, of Sacred Music of the Vatican, Rome (Organ and Gregorian Music). To US. 1937, |
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