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Blaufuss, Walter
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Brought Me Can't Send Me"; "Every-time"; "I Know You By Heart"; "Shady Lady Bird"; "What D'Ya Think I Am?"; "My First Promise"; "Where Do You Travel"; "Buckle Down, Winsocki"; "Wish I May"; "You're Lucky"; "Alive and Kicking"; "Love"; "Brazilian Boogie"; "The Joint is Really Jumpin'"; "The Con­tinental Polka"; "Gonna Fall in Love With You"; "Weekend in Manhat­tan"; "Dangerous"; "Love on a Grey­hound Bus"; "Pass That Peace Pipe"; "The Weary Blues"; "Afraid to Fall in Love"; "The Stanley Steamer"; "As I Remember You"; "Spring Isn't Everything"; "Connecticut ; "Skip to My Lou"; "The Boy Next Door"; "The Trolley Song"; "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"; "Someone Like You"; "My Dream is Yours"; "Love Finds a Way"; "One Sunday Afternoon"; "Someday"; "Live Hard, Work Hard, Love Hard"; "I'm a Ruler of a South Sea Island"; "Who Will It be When the Time Comes"; "When You're in Love"; "Back Where I Come From." Home: 207 N. Do-heny Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Blaufuss, Walter, composer, pianist, conductor, arranger; b. Milwaukee, Wis., July 26; d. Chicago, 111., Aug. 24, 1945. ASCAP 1921. Educ: Mil­waukee and Chicago public schools. Studied piano, harmony, composition, and orchestration at Chicago Musical Coll., and Sherwood Music School; piano under Sherwood; composition and orchestration, Adolph Brune. Ac­companist to Mary Garden, Fritzi ScheflF, Emma Calve, etc. Conducted orch. in Chicago's Orch. Hall and theaters, and conductor of N.B.C.'s daily Breakfast Club program, also conductor of the Farm and Home Hour, and the Viennese String En­semble of N.B.C. Songs: "Your Eyes Have Told Me So"; "My Isle of Golden Dreams"; "My Cathedral"; "Sometime When Lights are Low";
"Daisy Days." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Blitzstein, Marc, composer, pianist, lecturer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., March 2, 1905. ASCAP 1939. Educ: Univ. of Pa., Curtis Inst., and in Europe, piano with Siloti; composition with Rosario Scalero, Boulanger, and Schoenberg. Soloist with Philadelphia Symph. at fifteen. Lectured at Colum­bia, Vassar, Brooklyn Inst, for Arts and Sciences, and Phila. Art Alliance. Taught at New School for Social Re­search; helped organize and taught at Downtown Music School, New York. Vice President Arrow Music Press. World War II, Eighth Air Force, 1942-45. Won Guggenheim Fellow­ship 1940-41; 1941-42; Newspaper Guild Page One Award 1946. Grant by American Academy of Arts and Letters 1946. Works: Triple Sec (Garrick Gaieties); I've Got the Tune, radio song play; The Cradle Will Rock, play with music; Regina, Opera; No For an Answer, opera; The Harpies, one-act opera; musical score for Spanish Earth; Freedom Morning, symphonic poem; The Airborne, choral sym­phony. Incidental Music: Julius Caesar (1938); Danton (1939); Androcles and the Lion (1947); King Lear (1950). Home: New York, N.Y. Address: % Wm. Morris, 1270 Sixth Ave., New York 20, N.Y.
Bloch, Ernest, composer, educator; b. Geneva, Switzerland, July 24, 1880. ASCAP 1929. U.S. citizen 1924. Had first musical instruction from Jaques-Dalcroze; at fifteen wrote string quar­tet and symphony; at seventeen to Brussels, studying under Ysaye and Rasse; in 1900 studied under Ivan Knorr at Frankfort-on-Main, and spent two years in Munich, then in Paris. First published work 1903. Composed several works for orches­tra and voice while at work on lyric drama, Macbeth. Appointed conduc­tor symphonic concerts Lausanne and