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Baron, Paul
"Dear Little Marie"; "What Do You Do to Me?"; "I've Lost My Heart to You"; "The Call of Love"; "Perhaps"; "Hawaii by Moonlight"; "Sing a Song of Senoritas"; "Pretty Little Gypsy. Address: 3711 Euclid Ave., Cleve­land 15, Ohio.
Barnes, Edward Shippen, composer, organist, choirmaster; b. Seabright, N.J., Sept. 14, 1887. ASCAP 1950. Educ.: Lawrenceville School; Yale Univ., B.A. 1910. Music with David Stanley Smith, Horatio Parker, Harry B. Jepson; in Paris with Louis Vierne, Abel Decaux and Vincent D'Indy. Fellow of American Guild of Organ­ists. Organist and choirmaster Rutgers Presbyterian Church, N.Y., eleven years, St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Philadelphia, thirteen years; at pres­ent and for past thirteen years at First Presbyterian Church, Santa Monica, Calif. Editorial work, music publish­ing houses. Works: Two symphonies for Organ; Three Suites; School of Organ Playing; Modulation in Theory and Practice and Interludes for the Church Organist; Bach for Beginners in Organ Playing. Also: "Finale"; "Father Whate er of Earthly Bliss"; "Kneel Before the King"; "He Who Would Valiant Be"; "Benedictus es Domine"; "Abide With Me"; "Chan­son"; "Shining Shore." Home: Santa Monica, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Barnett, Alice (Mrs. George Roy Stevenson), composer; b. Lewiston, 111., May 26, 1886. ASCAP 1924. Educ.: in music first with her father, Orrin Barnett, then at Chicago Mu­sical Coll., American Cons., Chicago, and in Berlin. Studied with Borowski, Weidig, Middelschulte, Ganz and others in Chicago, and Hugo Kaun, Berlin. From 1917-26 taught music theory, history, and harmony in San Diego High School. Long active in civic, musical and cultural enterprises; music chairman of San Diego Symph. Orch. for fourteen years. Works: many
musical settings of standard poems beginning in 1916 with Clinton Scol-lard's "Serenade"; cycle of eieht songs In A Gondola (Browning); Chanson of the Bells of Oseney (Rice); "A Caravan from China Comes" (Le-Gallienne); "In May" (Dunbar); "Harbor Lights"; etc. Home: 4310 Randolph Ter., San Diego, Calif.
Baron, Maurice, composer, conductor, publisher; b. Lille, France, Jan. 1, 1889. ASCAP 1926. As child mastered many instruments, playing in father's band. Educ.: Natl. Cons, of Lille, honors in violin, composition, coming to America to make music his career. General music director Roxy Theater, New York, three years and 1932-45 staff composer Radio City Music Hall. Has scored many motion pictures, The River; Ben Hur; What Price Glory!; The Big Parade. Conducted many symphonic series on national radio network. Received title Officier dAcademic from French government for "services rendered to French music in America." In 1949 formed the So­ciety for French and American Sym­phonic Music Abroad, consisting of most prominent American composers; now president. In 1950 to Paris and organized Association Musicale Franco-Americaine of noted French composers, which is affiliated with SFASMA, Inc. Works: has more than 350 published compositions; Ode to Democracy, a setting of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (premiere given by the New York Philh., 1949); Villon, grand opera; Fosterianna, rhapsody for grand orchestra; Susan at the Zoo, choreographic suite. Songs: "Kissamiss"; "I Must Be Going to the Dogs." Home: Laurel Cove, Oyster Bay, N.Y. Business Address: 8 West 45 St., New York, N.Y.
Baron, Paul, composer, conductor, arranger, radio and recording artist; b. Baltimore, Md., Oct. 1, 1910. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Baltimore pub-