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Berezowsky, Nicolai T. |
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15, 1894. ASCAP 1935. Of musical family; studied piano with mother; violin, trumpet, and other instruments with father, who had band and orchestra and for whom he often filled vacancies. Stricken with infantile paralysis as child, went through high school and began composition study at fifteen with Carl Busch, conductor Kansas City Symph. Orch. In 1916 copyist and arranger in New York, then entered World War. Returning to New York in 1919 began orchestrating for theater and dance, then to Paris to work in larger forms in music with Nadia Boulanger in 1926. Guggenheim Fellowship in 1927 and 1928, living in Paris, Berlin, and London. Honorable mention for a symphony in the Musical America contest in 1926; two awards in the R.C.A. Victor contest in 1930 for symphonic works Abraham Lincoln and Sights and Sounds. Opera Maria Malibran produced 1935 by the opera department of the Juilliard School of Music. In 1936 commissioned by the League of Composers to write an orchestral work (Hollywood), performed by N.B.C. orch.; 1938 commissioned by Columbia Broadcasting System to write Eight Etudes for Symphony Orchestra. Other works: Charleston Rhapsody; Concerto Grosso; A Symphonic Picture of Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess"; The Four Freedoms Symphony; Adagio Eroico, Organ sonata; Water Music for string quartet. Arranges many stage misicals. Radio conducting since 1941 beginning with Russell Bennett's Notebook over Mutual, continuing in radio network musical productions. Address: 530 Park Ave., New York 20, N.Y.
Benter, Lieut. Charles, USN, composer, band leader; b. New York, N.Y., April 29, 1887. ASCAP 1937. Educ: New York public schools. Honorary musical degree Columbia Univ., 1929. Entered Navy as Apprentice Boy Musician 1905; at nine- |
teen became bandmaster. In 1919 organized Navy Band Washington, D.C., and was leader from 1919 to retirement, 1942. Commissioned lieutenant of USN by act of Congress March 1925; first musician to attain officer's rank in music branch of the Navy. Many decorations for services in World War I, Cuba, Vera Cruz; also has order of St. Sava, fourth class, Jugoslavia. Member American Bandmasters' Assn., founder and officer in charge of the US Navy School of Music. Now leader of Metropolitan Police Dept. Band in Washington, D.C. Works: Fantasia; A Day Aboard an American Man of War. Many marches for band: including Irresistible; Lure of Alaska; Major Denby; Washington Times; Light Cruisers; Our Navy; Class of 91; U.S.N.A.; Shenandoah National Park; All Hands; A Great American; The Submarine Force; Comairons; Navy Blue, Chief of Naval Operations; Amarillo; Commander Battle Force; also many arrangements for band. Editor and publisher of Lieut. Charles Benters Book of National Airs. Address: 8615 Bacas PL, Chevy Chase, Md.
Berch, Jack, composer, author, singer of stage, screen and radio; b. Sigel, 111., Aug. 26, 1907. ASCAP 1949. Songs: "I'm a-Whistlin "; "Thanks to Your Mother"; "I'm Feelin Kinda Neighborly"; "Arkansas"; "Fee Fi Fo Fum"; "Do You Know Your Mommie Loves You"; "Brotherly Love"; "I'm on a Heart-to-Heart Hookup"; "Do a Good Deed"; "Let Your Heart Sing"; "Are You Doing Good in Your Neighborhood." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Berezowsky, Nicolai T., composer, conductor, violinist; b. St. Petersburg, Russia, May 17, 1900. ASCAP 1945. Educ: Imperial Cappella, St. Petersburg, with Klimov, graduated with honors 1916. Concertmaster National |
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