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Federation. Virginia vice-president National League American Pen-women 1930. Works: "Wild Geese"; "An Old Song"; "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies"; "The Lamp"; "My Candle"; "A May Madrigal"; "April"; "Wood Song"; "Place of Dreams"; "Jesus Born in Bethloa"; "The Hebrew Children"; "Wondrous Love"; "Retirement", "Santy Anna"; "Brother Green"; "O, Jesus, My Savior"; "Honor Baffin", "Alabama"; "New Jordon"; White Top Folksong Series; Early American Psalmody Scries; "Wings"; "The Lord Is My Shepherd"; "Song of Joy"; other songs, folk music settings and choral works, oratorio Rex Christ us. Contributor to International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians ("Anglo-American Folk Music"; and "American Folk Hymnody"). Honorary member of National Phi Beta Music Fraternity; Eugene Field Society, and International Mark Twain Society. Now engaged in field and library research and writing in preparation of series on folklore and folk music. Home: Paducah, Ky. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Bucharoff, Simon, composer, pianist, educator; b. Kiev, Russia, April 20, 1881. ASCAP 1925. Educ: Vienna Cons, of Music, 1902, piano, Julius Epstein and Emil Sauer, Vienna, composition, Stephen Stocker and Rubert Fuchs, Vienna. Head of Piano Dept. of Wichita Coll. of Music 1907. Piano concertist 1906-16. Lecturer on musical subjects; master classes piano and composition 1931-36. From 1937 music editor and arranger, Hollywood. Works: Operas: A Lovers Knot, Sakahra, Jewel, Addio, Wastrel, (received David Bispham Medal for A Lovers Knot and Sakahra). Chorus and Orch.: Salute to a Free World; Freedom on the March; Hear My Voice, O Lord; Jerusalem. Orch.: Four Tone Poems; The Wanderers Song; The Trumpeters Death (Pf. & |
Orch.); America; Moses; Prelude; Valse Brillante; Das Sterbe Gloecklein (trans.), Capriccio (trans.). For baritone and orch.: Parable of Nothin and Somethin; O Ye Peoples and Nations; Rejoicing, 1 Laugh and Laugh and Laugh (Ballad). Also many compositions for piano, voice, violin and various combinations; and Thz Modern Pianist's Text Book. Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Buck, Gene (Edward Eugene Buck), author, artist, theatrical producer; b. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 8, 1885. ASCAP 1914 (charter member; director 1920
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president, George Maxwell, 1924-41). Educ.: Univ. of Detroit, Detroit Art Acad. As student was playwright and producer of school shows; left short business career as bank clerk to pursue career in art. Designed many hundreds of covers for popular songs (pioneer in this field). To Ne*v York 1907, and after four years as illustrator, began songwriting with the success of his first number "Daddy Has a Sweetheart, and Mother is Her Name." Became chief librettist and producer of more than thirty of the Ziegfeld Follies and Midnight Frolics, writing several hundred songs for these and other musicals. Originated for Ziegfeld the Midnight Frolics, a type of intimate stage entertainment that set a pattern for a new theatrical development throughout the world. During his long associatijn with Ziegfeld, discovered and exploited artists who became world celebrities (Will Rogers, Ed Wynn, etc.). Left Ziegfeld in 1926 to become producer of own shows Yours Trtdy; Take the Air; Ringside. Produced Zig Zag at London Hippodrome. Winner of N.A.A.C.C. Award for services to American music. Songs: "In the Cool of the Evening"; "Some Boy"; "Hello Frisco"; "Tulip Time"; "Sally Won't You Come Back"; "No Foolin"; "Hello My Dearie"; " 'Neath the South |
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