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Cooke, Charles L. |
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Boston Symph. Dec. 16, 1932); California (all tone poems); Three Symphonies; incidental music for Percy MacKaye's plays Jeanne dArc and The Scarecrow; Flivver Ten Million; American Sketches (Suite); Two concertinos for Piano and Orchestra. Chamber music: String Quartet in E minor. Also many choral works and songs. Address: Estate, v/c ASCAP.
Cook, Phil, composer, author, radio artist; b. Coldwater, Mich., Sept. 27, 1893. ASCAP 1924. Educ: East Orange, N.J., public schools. Began caieer as advertising artist; from 1923, radio performer and script writer. Musical comedies: Peek-a-Boo, Mollie Darling; Chuckles of 1922; Plain Jane, The Girl from Childs. Home: Far Hills, N.J.
Cook, W. Mercer, composer, author, educator, b. Washington, D.C., March 30, 1903. ASCAP 1932. Ot musical parentage, father Will Marion Cook (q.v.) composer; mother Abbie Mitchell, concert singer. Educ: Am-hurst College, A.B.; Brown Univ., A.M., Ph.D., Univ. of Paris, Univ. of Havana. Decorated by Haitian Government. Fellowships. Simpson Fellowship (Amhurst), Univ. Junior Fellowship (Brown); Rosenwald Fellowship; General Education Board Fellowship. Author of Education in Haiti; Haitian American Anthology; Five French Negro Authors; Portraits Americains. Editorial Board of Journal of Negro History, Handbook of Latin American Studies. Now Prof, of Romance Languages, Howard Univ.; Jan. to March 1950, visiting lecturer Haiti for U.S. Dept. of State. Teacher of languages Atlanta Univ., Univ. of Haiti. Songs: "Stop the Sun, Stop the Moon"; "Is I in Love, I Is"; "Roamin' for Romance"; "Hold Up Your Hands (In the Name of the Law of Love)"; "Georgia Lee and Me"; "How Can I Hi-di-hi When I Feel So Low-de-Low?"; "In Be- |
tween"; "Troubled in Mind"; "A Little Bit of Heaven Called Home"; "Take Me Along With You." Home: 127 W St., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Cook, Will Marion, composer, violinist, conductor; b. Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 1869; d. New York, N.Y., July 19, 1944. ASCAP 1924. Educ.: Oberlin Coll., Ohio; advanced musical studies in Europe with Joachim. Boy soprano, early mastered violin. Illness forced return from Europe during student days; studies resumed at National Cons, of Music under Anton Dvorak. Began original composition with music for Clorindy, all-Negro show at New York Casino Roof 1898, Cook presiding as musical director; then stage shows for Negro comedians Williams and Walker. Other shows: In Dahomey (during its six-month London run, gave command performance for King Edward VII); Abyssinia; Bandana Land; The Traitor; Darkeydom; Casino Girl. Organized 1919 American syncopated orchestra, all-Negro group, toured Europe and America. In 1929 trained singing chorus of Vincent Youman's Great Day. Songs: "Exhortation" (a Negro sermon with musical setting); "On Emancipation Day"; "That's How the Cake Walk's Done"; "The Rain Song"; "Swing Along Children"; "I May Be Crazy But I Ain't No Fool"; "Happv Jim"; "Wid De Moon, Moon, Moon*; "Jump Back, Honey, Jump Back"; "Darktown is Out Tonight"; "Hottest Coon in Dixie"; "Mandy Lou"; "Down de Lover's Lane"; "Brownskin Baby Mine"; ]'Bon Bon Buddy"; "Red Red Rose"; "Mammy"; "Lovey Joe"; "A Little Bit of Heaven Called Home"; "I'm Coming Virginia." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Cooke, Charles L., composer, arranger; b. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 3, 1891. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: Louisville and Detroit public schools. Early musical education with mother, a music |
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