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Strauss, R. Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakoff. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: W.Q.X.R., The New York Times, New York 18, N.Y.
Chattaway, Thurland, composer, author; b. Springfield, Mass., April 8, 1872; d. Milford, Conn., Nov. 12,
1947. ASCAP 1929. Educ: Springfield and Philadelphia public schools. Boy soprano in Church of the Incarnation, Philadelphia, for four years. To New York 1896 with musical magazine edited by Theodore Dreiser, brother of Paul Dresser. A natural pianist, became a songwriter. Songs: "Mandy Lee"; "Little Black Me"; "When the Blue Sky Turns to Gold"; "I've Grown So Used to You"; "Red Wing"; "My Honey Lou"; "Cant You Take It Back and Change It For a Boy"; "We've Been Chums For Fifty Years"; "Singing Baby's Toes to Sleep"; "Outside the Heavenly Gates"; "Kerry Mills Barn Dance"; "Pals, Good, Old Pals." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Chavez, Carlos, composer; b. Mexico City, Mexico, June 13, 1899. ASCAP
1948. Educ.: m music with brother Manuel; studied with Asuncion Parra, Manuel M. Ponce, and Pedro Luis Ogazon. Director of National Cons, of Music 1928-34; Chief of the Dept. of Fine Arts of Secretariat of Public Education, 1933. To U.S. 1935, guest conductor various symphony orchestras; teacher of piano and composition, Mexico City. Toured Germany and France to study. Commissioned by Vasconcelos to write El Fuego Neuvo, ballet. Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship 1938. Works: Third Piano Sonata; choral works, Tierra Mojada, El Sol, Llamadas* Sin-fonia India; Concerto for Four Horns; First Piano Concerto, Four Mexican Pieces for Piano; Four Suns, ballet. Home: Mexico, D.F. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
Chenette, Edward Stephen, composer, director; b. London, Ky., Aug. 17, 1895. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Master of Arts, High Park Cons., Des Moines, la.; post grad. Bush Temple Cons., Chicago. At seventeen director of own band and orchestra; conducted own band on road and at Chautauquas, etc., until 1916 when entire band enlisted with the 211th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Forces. Unit was known as "American Band," also "Concert Band" of the Canadian Army. Later became director of music of Iowa State Coll.; director of Chicago Regimental Band; Illinois State Legion Band. Twice winner first prize Chi-cagoland Music Festival. Diploma Societe Academique, Paris. Hon. life President of Florida Bandmasters Assn., hon. life member A.F.M. Judge in band contests throughout the country; member of American Bandmasters Assn. Author of many articles on band music. Member faculty of Florida Southern Coll., Lakeland, Fla. Composer of more than three hundred pieces for band, orchestra and voice, including the Four World Suite; Parade of the Republic; Gala Night; Aces of the Air; Blaze of Glory. Collections: National Band Book; Building the Band; Advanced Technique; Up Front Band Book. Home: Durham, Okla. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Chenoweth, Wilbur, composer, pianist, organist, musicologist; b. Tecum-seh, Nebr., June 5, 1899. ASCAP 1932. Educ.: Lincoln, Nebr., public schools. Scholarship in piano with May Pershing and Aloys Kremer at Lincoln, Nebr., Musical Coll., 1914-16. Scholarship in piano with Sidney Silber at Univ. of Nebraska School of Music, Lincoln, 1916-18; Bachelor of Music 1918. Studied piano in New York with Sigismond Stojowski and Alexander Lambert; organ and composition with Pietro Yon, New York and Europe. Professor of piano, organ |
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