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singer. Appeared as tenor soloist with Pro Musica Society of Los Angeles, and has given song recitals in New York, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, Wichita, San Diego. Active with American Guild of Musical Artists (Asst. Exec. Sec. since 1937). Songs: "Clouds"; "Let My Song Fill Your Heart"; "When I Have Sung My Songs"; "Spendthrift"; ^ "My Lady Walks in Loveliness"; "If You Only Knew"; "Sweet Song of Long Ago'; "The Sussex Sailor"; "The House on a Hill"; "Oh Lovely World"; "Save Me Oh God"; "Remembrance"; "The Twenty-Third Psalm"; "Psalm of Exaltation"; choral works: "Rejoice in the Lord"; "Christmas Song"; "Hymn to United States Navy." Home: 1210 Benedict Canyon Dr., Beverly Hills, Calif.
Chase, Newell, composer; b. West Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 3, 1904. ASCAP 1931. Educ: Roxbury Latin School; Huntington School; Boston Univ.; Harvard Univ.; and New England Cons, of Music; also advanced studies in pipe organ, orchestration, composition, and private instruction with Whelpley, Goodrich, Converse, and Serly. Wrote score for Boston Univ. show, My Juliette 1922. Church , organist, pianist and conductor of popular orchestras throughout New England; in 1924 assistant conductor Capitol Theater, New York; solo pianist "Roxy Gang." Scored many silent films; to Hollywood as com-
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)Oser, musical adviser 1928-39; free-ance composition for motion picture studios 1931-33; stage and radio appearances 1933-36; to London scoring motion pictures 1937; radio and picture scoring 1938-42. In Armed Forces 1942, Second Lt. Retired 1943 to resume composition for orchestras. Orchestral works: Concerto for Louise (for piano and orch.); Midnight in Mayfair; Tanglewood Pool Piano: Trickette; Idawanna; Classical Satire; Tiddlywinks; Bachette; In |
Chiffon. Songs: "My Ideal"; "Music in the Moonlight"; "It's a Great Life if You Don't Weaken"; "Weather Man"; "Sweet Like You"; "As Long as You Believe in Me"; "Never Say Die"; "Just a Kiss in the Moonlight'; "111 Take Care of You"; "Kitchimi-koko Isle"; "El Rancho Vegas"; "Song at Midnight." Home: Bel-Air, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Chasins, Abram, composer, pianist, radio executive, commentator; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 17, 1903. ASCAP 1932. Educ.: Ethical Culture School, Columbia Univ. Extension; Juilliard Foundation and Curtis Institute (scholarships). Piano with Hutcheson, Godowsky, Hofmann; composition with Goldmark; self-taught in orchestration; extensive research in oriental harmony, also ornamentation and styles of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Faculty member Curtis Inst., Philadelphia, 1926-35; Berkshire Music Center, 1940. Debut as soloist in own first Piano Concerto with Phila. Orch. under Gabrilo-vitsch in Phila. and New York, 1929-30. Toured Europe and America as recitalist and soloist. Contributor to musical and national magazines. First contemporary American composer to be performed by Toscanini, 1931. Music consultant at Univ. of Penn., 1934-35, collaborating in experiments on A Precision Study of Piano Touch and Tone by Sir James Jeans, 1935. July 1943 music director radio station WQXR. Three times cited by U.S. Government for "Meritorious Service rendered in radio field for financing program of World War II." Principal works: Two Piano Concertos; Period Suite, for orch.; Twenty-Four Piano Preludes: Parade for orch.; Three Chinese Pieces for orch. (A Shanghai Tragedy; Flirtation in a Chinese Garden; Rush Hour in Hong Kong); Offering to Eros, six songs; numerous two-piano transcriptions of works by Bach, Gluck, Bizet, J. |
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