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"What the Engine Done." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Copland, Aaron, composer, lecturer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 14, 1900. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Boys High School, Brooklyn; harmony and composition with Rubin Coldmark; Fon-tainebleau School of Music, France, 1921. Advanced studies in music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris 1921-24. To New York 1924. Winner of Guggenheim Fellowship 1925-27; lecturer at New School for Social Research for ten years; guest lecturer at Harvard Univ. 1935-44. Organized with Roger Sessions Copland-Sessions concerts 1928-31, dedicated to works of young, unrecognized American composers. Founder of American Festivals of Contemporary Music at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and member of faculty of Tangle wood School of Boston Symph. Orch. at Lenox, Mass. Author of What to Listen for in Music and Our New Music. Won Pulitzer Prize and New York Music Critics' Award for ballet score Appalachian Spring 1945. Won Motion Picture Academy Award for best dramatic film score, The Heiress, 1950. Orch. works: Symphony for Organ and Orch.; Music for the Theater (suite for small orch.); Piano Concerto; Dance Symphony; Danzon Cubano; Short Symphony (No. II); El Saldn Mexico; Quiet City (incidental music); Our Town (film suite); Lincoln Portrait (for speaker and orch.); tetter from Home; Third Symphony; Clarinet Concerto. Chamber music: Piano Variations; Piano Sonata; Violin Sonata, Sextet. Also one high school opera, The Second Hurricane; the ballets Billy the Kid and Rodeo; and motion-picture scores Of Mice and Men, North Star, The Red Pony. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Corday, Leo, author, lawyer; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 31, 1902. ASCAP |
1943. Educ.: New York Univ., Bachelor of Laws 1925; admitted to Bar 1927. Author of special material for vaudeville acts; radio-script writer. Songs: "Blue Flame"; "Leap Frog"; "Let's Put the Axe to the Axis"; "A Guy Named Joe"; "Be Not Disen-couraged"; "Night of Nights"; "Horse and Buggy Serenade"; "Peace and Love for AH"; "Gotta Get to St. Joe"; "Your Socks Don't Match"; "There's No Tomorrow"; "Three Little Rings"; "The Turtle Song"; "If You Smile at the Sun", "I'm Not Too Sure of My L'Amour." Home: 723 E. 27 St., Brooklyn 10, N.Y.
Cornett, Alice, composer; b. Plant City, Fla., July 21, 1911. ASCAP 1946. Edna: Hillsboro High School, Tampa, Fla.; Florida State Coll. for Women, Bachelor of Music, majoring in voice and piano. Organizer National Non-Academic Cultural and Literary Sorority in Florida; taught voice and piano Lakeland, Fla.; first prize voice contest Florida State Music Assoc. Soloist radio orchestras, then became radio entertainer singing, playing, and reading with six programs weekly. Songs: "My Serenade"; "It's Time to Say Hello"; "I Found a Bit of Heaven ; "Tic-Toe"; "You're Everything I Dreamed You'd Be"; "Who Said There's No Santa Claus"; "There's a Tear in My Beer"; "Man Bites Dog"; "Private Billy", "Cool Blue Waters"; "All That Glitters Is Not Gold"; "Slap 'Er Down Again, Pa." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Coslow, Sam, composer, author, publisher, producer, recording artist; b. New York, N.Y., Dec. 27, 1902. ASCAP 1923. Educ.: Erasmus High School. Began songwritjng on leaving high school. Became active in publishing business; then to Hollywood as writer for film studios. Co-founder, 1940, in partnership with Col. James Roosevelt "Soundie" industry, pro- |
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