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ductor of orchestra. Teacher Juilliard Inst.; soloist St. Thomas Church, New York, for ten years; director Music Foundation, Newark, N.J. and Bach Cantata Club 1931. Conductor of Contemporary Choral, Maplewood community chorus; Aeolian choir, Trenton, N.J.; summer conductor Newark Symph. Orch. Soloist in Chautauqua Opera; Rochester and Worcester festivals; Oratorio. Soc. of New York and Bach Choir, Bethlehem, Pa. World War II, Major Air Transport Command. Since 1947, Assoc. Prof., Univ. of Miami, teaching voice, orchestration, orchestra conducting and composition. Composed musical settings for Biblical texts and settings for standard poems. Songs: "Pagan Prayer"; "To Everyman"; "Behold What Manner of Love." Chorus and orchestra: Orientate; Romany Rye. Orchestral: Les Etoiles (symphonic suite); Tiger Prelude and Fugue, Transcription Bach E-Minor Prelude and Fugue. Service songs: "Army Air Corps" (Liberty magazine $1,000 prize); "Mechs of the Air Corps"; "Cadets of the Air Corps"; "Born to the Sky" (official song of Air Transport Command). Home: Box 215, South Miami 43, Fla.
Creamer, Henry, author, actor, theatrical producer, instructor of dancing, b. Richmond, Va., June 21, 1879; d. New York, N.Y., Oct. 14, 1930. ASCAP 1924. Educ: New York public schools. A founder of Clef Club and early associate of Gotham-Attucks Music Publishing Co. Vaudeville entertainer in Europe and U.S., Creamer and Layton. Musical shows: Oyster Man; Memo-ries; The Traitor; Dr. Beans from Boston; Old Mans Boy; Jazz Regiment; Strut Miss Lizzie; Three Showers. Songs: "After You've Gone"; "Dear Old Southland"; "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans"; "Sweet Em-malina My Gal"; "Good-bye Alexander My Honey"; "Jersey Bounce"; |
"Down By The River"; "If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight"; "My Little Blue Bird Was Caught in the Rain." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Creston, Paul, composer, teacher, organist, director; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 10, 1906. ASCAP 1945. Educ: in piano with G. Aldo Randegger and Gaston Dethier; organ with Pietro Yon; self-taught in harmony, counterpoint, composition, and orchestration. Studies and researches on acoustics, music-therapy, Gregorian Chant, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century music, evolution of harmony, history, and science of piano technique, psychology and philosophy of music. Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship, 1938-39; Citation of Merit from National Assoc, for American Composers and Conductors 1941 and 1943; Music Award American Acad, of Arts and Letters. Teacher piano and composition, organist St. Malachy's Church, New York. Musical director radio network programs. Member of National Assoc, for American Composers and Conductors, The Bohemians. Works: Concertino (comm. by Frederick Petrides); A Rumor for Orch. (comm. by C.B.S.); Fantasy for piano and orch. (comm. by High School of Music and Art); Symphony No. 1 (won New York Music Critics' Award); Frontiers for orch. (comm. by Andre Kostelanetz); Dawn Mood for orch. (comm. by Paul Whiteman); Poem for Harp and Orch. (comm. by Alice M. Ditson Fund); Zanoni for band (comm. by G. Schirmer, Inc.); Symphony No. 2 (Federation of Music Clubs Citation); Fantasy for trombone and orch. (comm. by Alfred Wallenstein); Two Choric Dances for full or chamber orch. (Music Library Assoc. Award); Concerto for piano and orch. (comm. by Viola D. Malkin); Symphony No. 3 (comm. by Worcester Music Festival); Concerto for two pianos (comm. |
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