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continuous concerts since 1943 with trained group in Army and Navy hospitals. Director of radio and church choirs, conducts own voice studio. Member NYSTA. Summer class Southwest Harbor, Maine. Works: Service songs, "Mile After Mile" (U.S. Army Engineers); "True Blue and Always Ready"; "Friar Jacques" (Song of Liberation); "They Live Forever"; "On Freedom's Wings"; "Prayer of the Slavic Children"; "My Mother's Eyes"; "Moonlight Dreams'; "Artist's Life"; "Thoughts of Love"; "'Kitty Me Darlin'"; "Do You Recall"; "Emperor Waltz"; "For Thy Gifts Untold"; "Beneath the Cuban Sky"; "Smiling Again"; "Mother's Spinning Song'; "O Magical Night"; "Come, My Love"; "Roses from the South"; "Bist du Bei Mir"; "Take My Hands"; "We Lift Our Hearts'; "Prayer for the Day"; "Teach Us to Pray"; "Father of Life and Love"; "Silent Love"; also wedding texts on Gounod and Schubert "Ave Maria." Home: 160 W. 73 St., New York 23, N.Y.
Britain, Radie, composer; b. Amanita, Tex., March 17, 1904. ASCAP 1942. Educ: Began music studies at seven at Clarendon Coll., Texas, and at fourteen graduated with high honors. Studied at American Cons, in Chicago; piano with Heniot Levy; organ with Van Dusen; in 1920 received Bachelor of Music degree. Taught in Clarendon Coll., Amarillo, Texas; then went abroad for further study; organ Dupre in Paris, com-
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osition Noelte in Germany. Mem-er: Harmony Club, Sigma Alpha Iota, Tex. Fed. of Music Clubs, American Pen Women. Works: Light for orch. (first prize, Women's Boston Symph.); Heroic Poem for orch. (won Hollywood International Prize 1930; also Publication Award, Juilliard Foundation); Epic Poem for string quartet (first prize, National contest, American Pen Women); String Quar- |
tet (Four Movements); Suite for Strings (first prize, Amer. Women Composers); Nirvana for violin (first prize, Texas Fed. of Music Clubs); Noontide for women's voices (first prize Lakeview Musical Society). Also other works for orchestra, violin, chorus, string quartet, piano and stage and film compositions, notably Soutfi-ern Symphony. Home: 1945 N. Cur-son, Hollywood, 46, Calif.
Britt, Addy, author; b. New York, N.Y., Mar. 27, 1881; d. May 14, 1938. ASCAP 1934. Educ.: Coll. ot City of New York. Became member professional staff of music publishers, traveling extensively in U.S. Wrote lyrics as avocation. Songs: "Aggravate' Papa"; "Ting-a-Ling"; "Waltz of the Bells"; "Was It a Dream?", "Where's My Sweetie Hiding?"; "Hello, Swanee, Hello"; "Do You Believe in Dreams?"; "Normandy"; "May the Sun Shine Brighter"; "I'm Gonna Let the Bumble Bee Be"; "My Sugar." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Britt, Elton, composer, author, recording artist; b. Marshall, Ark., June 27, 1913. ASCAP 1946. Songs: "Chime Bells"; "Tall Cedars"; "When a Cowboy is Happy"; "Weep No More My Darling"; "Dusty Old Trunk in the Attic"; "I'll Be Crying Over You"; "Over the Trail." Home: Malba, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Brock, Blanche Kerr, composer; b. Greenfork, Ind., Feb. 3, 1888. ASCAP 1950. Educ.: Indianapolis Cons, of Music, piano and voice; American Cons, of Music, Chicago, under Carleton Hackett. Accompanist for church choir in youth; soloist and pianist for leading Evangelists. With husband, Virgil Brock, active in Evangelistic work and composer of more than one hundred gospel hymns, incl.: "Keep Looking Up"; "We Would See Jesus"; "Beyond the Sunset"; "O Wonderful Day"; "Some |
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