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choral and symphonic concerts while a youth. Served as general musical secretary of the Metropolitan Opera House from 1916 to 1929 and became conductor of grand opera; also directed operas in Europe. Gave first open-air performances of opera with New York Philh. Orch. at Lewissohn Stadium, New York. In radio and motion pictures. Musical director and conductor 1938-50 Philadelphia-La Scala Opera Co., at present artistic director and conductor of Phila. Civic Grand Opera Co. Songs. "Piccola Canzone", "What Care I?"; "I Shall Not Weep" (with violin), "Son Cose Del Mondo", "II Miopc", "Landscape of Mv Dreams", "Confiteor", "Vision" (with orch.), "Vado Ben Spcsso", "Ave Maria" (with violin solo and stung orch.), "Embeis of Love"; "A Chopin Valse" (with orch.), "Cy-nino" (with orch.), "A Serenade", "In Venice" (with orch.), "Missa Maria Auxilium (for eight voices); "Missa" (a cappella lor male chorus); Six Strauss Valses for coloratura and "Roses from the South" for coloratura, both with orch. accompaniment. Home. 305 W. 72 St., New York 23, NY.
Banks, Dr. Charles O., composer, organist, choral director, b. Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Aug. 10, 1899; d. Brooklyn, N.Y., July 12, 1944. ASCAP 1942. Boy sopiano choir of St. Stephen's Church, Wilkes-Barre, Pa. To Brooklyn at seventeen, musical studies Dr. R. Huntington Woodman in organ. For more than twenty years organist and choir director Episcopal Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew, Brooklyn. Organist Apollo Club; director Polytechmc Inst. Glee Club, Brooklyn; director Brooklyn Dime Savings Bank chorus. Fellow of American Guild of Organists. Organ recitals, Brooklyn; leader in musical events. Doctor of Music New York Coll. of Music 1942. Organist Church of the Incarnation. Works: organ mu- |
sic, art songs, and anthems, including God that Madest Heaven and Earth; The Ninety and Nine, Communion Service in A, and others. Address. Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Barber, Samuel, composer; b. West Chester, Pa., March 9, 1910. ASCAP 1939. Educ: Curtis Inst, of Music, Philadelphia, 1923-32; piano with Isabelle Vengerova; voice with Emilo de Gogorza; composition with Ro-sario Scalero. Graduated Curtis Inst. 1932; honorary Doctor of Music 1945. Winner of many prizes for musical creations: in 1935, both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Prix de Rome. Next year again won Pulitzer Prize, the first composer to achieve this distinction twice. Member Natl. Inst, oi Arts and Letters. In World War II, Sergeant A.A.F. April 1945, awarded Post-Service Fellowship from Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 1933 composed Music for a Scene from Shelley, performed by the New York Philh. Symph. under Werner Janssen in March 1935. While resident American Acad, in Rome, composed Symphony in One Movement, which had its first performance by oichestra of the Augusteo, under Mo-linari, late in 1936. In summer oi 1937 Rodzinski conducted the Symphony at Cleveland and Salzburg. In Nov. 1938 Toscanini selected two of Barber's works, Adagio for Strings, and Essay for Oichestra, as first American works to be played by newly organized NBC Symph. Orch., and introduced the former in South America on his tour with NBC Orch. It has been performed by all major American symphonies. The New York Philh. Symph. gave first perfonnance of Barber's Second Essay in last program of its centenary season—1941-42 (Carnegie Hall April 16, Bruno Walter conducting). Second Symphony given premiere by Boston Symph. Orch. under Serge Kousse-vitzky in March 1944, and following |
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