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Dett, Robert Nathaniel |
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"Wagon Wheels"; "Rain"; "Oregon Trail"; "Lilacs in the Rain"; "Autumn Serenade"; "I Hear America Singing"; "I Heard a Forest Praying"; "God of Battles" (Poem by Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.); "Song of the Seabees"; "Marshmallow World"; "That's Where I Came In"; "You Made Me Love You"; "As Years Go By." Home: 190 Riverside Dr., New York 24, N.Y.
De Sylva, Buddy (George Gard De Sylva), composer, author, stage and screen producer; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1895; d. Los Angeles, Calif., July 11, 1950. ASCAP 1920 (director 1922-30). Educ: Citrus Union High School, Azusa, Calif., active in school theatricals; Univ. of Southern Calif. 1915-16. Began songwntmg at college, working as lifeguard. To New York with Al Jolson, who introduced first song "'N Everything." First Broadway show, La La Lucille 1919. In 1926 as member of trio—De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson, who organized own publishing house—wrote songs for series of shows, Good News; Foffow Through; Three Cheers; Fly-ing High; Hold Everything, and annual productions "George White Scandals." Became producers of own shows. On sale of publishing house 1929 to Hollywood, under contract to write for studios. Returned to Broadway 1933 to produce and write, then returned to Hollywood as motion-picture producer, continuing activities in production of musical shows. Motion-picture productions: Little Colonel; The Littlest Rebel; Captain January; Foot Little Rich Girl, Stowaway; Rage of Paris; Bachelor Mother; Sunnyside Up; Just Imagine. Stage productions: Take a Chance; Du Barry Was a Lady; Louisiana Purchase; Panama Hattie. Songs: "A Kiss In the Dark"; "Avalon"; "April Showers"; "California Here I Come"; 'JEadie Was a Lady"; "Do It Again"; "You're the Cream in My Coffee"; "Button Up Your Overcoat"; "The |
Best Things in Life are Free"; "Just a Memory"; "It All Depends on You"; "Black Bottom"; "111 Build a Stairway to Paradise"; "Together"; "When Day is Done"; "Somebody Loves Me." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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Dett, Robert Nathaniel, composer, educator; b. Drummondsville, Ont, Canada, Oct. 11, 1882; d. Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 2, 1943. ASCAP 1925. Educ: Oliver Willis Halstead Cons., Lockport, N.Y. Oberlin Cons., Bachelor of Music, 1908, returning for advanced studies in composition, Doctor of Music, 1926; Columbia Univ.; Univ. of Pennsylvania; American Cons, of Music, Chicago; Harvard Univ., Doctor of Music; Howard Univ.; Eastman School of Music, Master of Music. Church pianist, Niagara Falls 1898-1903; director of music, Lane Coll., Jackson, Tenn. 1908-11; Lincoln Inst., Jefferson City, Mo. 1911-13; Hampton Inst. Organized Musical Art Soc. of Hampton Inst. 1919. Director of School of Music at Hampton; Hampton Union Choir and conductor of Hampton Inst. Choir in U.S. and on tour. Director of Music Bennett Coll., Greensboro, N.C. 1937. Motet, Dont Be Weary Traveler, Francis Boott prize, Harvard, 1920, essay, The Emancipation of Negro Music, Howard Bowdoin prize 1920, award for creative music Harmon Foundation 1937; Palm and Ribbon Royal Belgian Band by order of Queen. Works: Symphony: Ordering of Moses (oratorio); Listen to the Ijamhs (for chorus); The Chariot Jubilee; Juba Dance (orchestrated and for piano). Piano suites: Magnolia Suite; In the Bottoms; Enchantment Suite; Cinnamon Grove; Tropic Winter Suite. Numerous choral works. Author and editor Religious Folk Songs of the Negro as sung at Hampton Inst.; published the Dett Collection of Negro Spirituals (four books) 1937. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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