Music Composers, Authors & Songs

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	De Leone, Francesco Bartolomeo	116
	promoter; started writing lyrics. Won nation-wide song contest, 1940. Lyric writer since 1931. Member Song­writers Protective Assn. Songs: "Can't Get Indiana Off My Mind"; "The Miracle of Santa Anne"; "Dear Son"; "Will I Ever Learn"; "Coast to Coast"; "Absent Without Leave"; "It's My Letter From You"; "My Sacred Dream"; "You're Such a Price­less Thing"; "I Think of You"; "The Minuet Song"; "Loved One"; "The Weeping Willow Serenade"; "You Can't Fool Some People"; "I've Got a Rabbit's Foot." Home: 5934 Willow Crest, No. Hollywood, Calif. De Leone, Francesco Bartolomeo, composer, conductor, pianist, educa­tor; b. Ravenna, Ohio, July 28, 1887; d. Akron, Ohio, Dec. 10, 1948. ASCAP 1934. Educ.: Dana Musical Inst., Warren, Ohio, Dr. of Music; Royal Cons., Naples; with Ernest Bloch, Cleveland. Debut as conduc­tor, Naples 1910; founder of music department, Univ. of Akron. Conduc­tor, Cleveland Opera Guild 1927-29; Akron Symph. Orch.; Akron Civic Opera League 1930-31; Akron Light Opera 1933. Head of piano depart­ment De Leone School of Music 1939 until death. General director of Goodyear Light Opera Co. 1934-35. Operas: Alglala (David Bispham Me­morial Medal; Medal of Natl Federa­tion of Music Clubs; Dana's Bronze Medal); New York (grand opera). Orchestral: Symphony in D Minor; Six Italian Dances; Italian Rliapsody; Gibraltar Suite; Amalfi Suite; Portage Trail Suite; In Sunny Sicily Suite. Operettas: Princess Ting-Ah-Ling; A Millionaire's Caprice; Cave Man Stuff; Death Ray (one-act musical drama); The Spinner (musical fan­tasy in one act). Also oratorios, an­thems, several hundred songs, piano pieces, etc. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.	Delf, Harry, composer, author, actor, producer; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 28, 1892. ASCAP 1925. Educ.: pub­lic schools, Townsend Harris High School, De Witt Clinton High School, Columbia Univ., all in New York. In vaudeville and Broadway shows. Or- S ;anized production department of arge motion picture company; wrote and directed first three sound-on-film pictures. Later formed own company and produced talking picture come­dies (shorts). Author of plays: The Family Upstairs; The Nebblepred-ders; Atlas and Eva, and many col­laborations. Sketches for Cohan and Harris Revues, Earl Carroll Vanities. Wrote scenario and directed pictures The Family Upstairs and Harmony at Home. In music field, wrote mostly exclusive numbers for artists and vaudeville and musical comedy enter­tainers. Wrote songs for Broadway productions Sun Showers and Some Night. Home: 320 W. 86 St., New York 24, N.Y. Dello Joio, Norman, composer, pian­ist; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 24, 1913. ASCAP 1946. Soloist with New York Philh. and Cleveland Symph. Orches­tras. Concert tour in Poland, 1945. Works: Prelude to a Young Dancer, for piano; Prelude to a Young Mu­sician, for piano; Trio, for flute, cello and piano; The Mystic Trumpeter for chorus, soloists and French horn; Suite for Piano; On Stage, Ballet tele­vision, London 1946 (also piano solo version) Sonata No. 2 for Piano; Piano Sonata No. 3; A Psalm of David, for chorus, orch., also piano solo; Nocturne in E for piano solo; New York Profiles, symphony orch.; The Triumph of Joan, opera. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. Delugg, Milton, composer, author, pianist, accordionist, radio, television, and recording artist; b. Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 2, 1918. ASCAP 1949.