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Bivens, Burke
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Studied composition, harmony and theory with Federal Music Project; student, Schillinger composition, New York Univ. In armed forces, World War II. Works: "The Devil Sat Down and Cried j "Shh .... It's a Mili­tary Secret"; "Swing, Brother, Swing"; "There's Only One in Love"; "We Cant Go On This Way"; "Is It Love (Or Is It Conscription)"; "Dog House Polka"; "Feelin' Low"; "Pent­house in the Basement"; "The Quicker I Gets to Where I'm Coin'"; "You're Just the Sweetest Thing"; "Surprise Party"; "Bop Goes My Heart"; "Anthropology"; "Goin Back to Memphis"; also tone poem, Skyline. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Bivens, Burke, composer; b. Kirby-ville, Texas, Aug. 15, 1903. ASCAP 1948. Educ: public schools, Texas. Studied violin, saxophone, clarinet, voice and harmony with private tu­tors, and in Army. Served in U.S. Army, 1920-21; World War II, 1942-43. Has been associated with various popular orchestras, playing clarinet, and saxophone; also arranger. Songs: "The Swamp Ghost"; "Josephine"; "Annabelle"; "Don't Let Julia Fool Ya." Home: Chicago, 111. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Black, Ben, composer, author, record­ing artist, producer of stage shows; b. Dudley, Eng., Dec. 11, 1889; d. San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 26, 1950. ASCAP 1926. Musical director, Para­mount Theaters, N.Y., San Francisco, Los Angeles; Saenger Theater, New Orleans; Coliseum Theater, San Fran­cisco; Alexandria Theater, San Fran­cisco; California Theater, San Francisco. Also producer of stage shows New York, Hollywood, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Songs: "Moonlight and Roses"; "Hold Me"; "Tears"; "You and I"; "Don't Sing Aloha When I Go." Address: Estate, 7r ASCAP.
Black, Frank J., composer, pianist, di­rector, radio executive; b. Phila­delphia, Pa., Nov. 28, 1896. ASCAP 1926. Musical from early childhood. Began piano at six, formal debut at ten. Officer with Palms of the French Acad.; Doctor of Music (honorary) Missouri Valley Coll. Studied piano with Rafael Joseffy. Forsook chemis­try for music. Vaudeville pianist; piano recording artist; theater conduc­tor; orchestra director of historic Cen­tury Theater, N.Y.; assistant to Erno Rapee at Fox Theater, Philadelphia; musical director phonograph company. Pioneer in development of arrange­ments for part singing in the instru­mental manner; in radio in 1922 as director of weekly broadcast in Phila­delphia. Said to have conducted first radio symphonic concert (1925) with twenty-one piece orchestra. General music director with the N.B.C. 1932 to 1948. Has amassed large collection of musical manuscripts of great mas­ters. Credited with many thousands of arrangements. Works include many original scores for dramatic scripts: White Cliffs of Dover by Alice Duer Miller, Murder of Lidice by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Also Bells at Eventide and A Sea Tale. Home: 26 E. 63 St., New York 21, N.Y.
Black, Jennie Prince, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 10, 1868; d. New York, N.Y., Sept. 20, 1945. ASCAP 1942. Charter member Hud­son River Music School, Dobbs Ferry; manager Tarrytown and Dobbs Ferry Hospitals for thirty years. Founder fund-raising committee for Washing­ton Irving Memorial, N.Y. Author, / Remember, autobiography; also founder of Robin's Nest, home for crippled children. Songs: "Autumn Leaves"; "Lord's Prayer"; "When Arbutus Blooms"; "Old Dutch Nur­sery Rhyme"; "It is Night." Address: Estate, % ASipAP.