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Dickinson, Helen Adell Snyder
Guggenheim Fellowships 1938, 1941; Prix de Rome cash award 1942; Paderewski Prize 1943; cash award of Amer. Acad, of Arts and Letters 1944; Music Critics Circle of N.Y. Citation for Rounds and Third String Quartet; Ernest Bloch Choral Award. Works: Two Violin Concertos; Four Symphonies; Psalm for orch.; Con­certo for Four String Instruments; Tom, ballet-suite; Quintet in B Minor for flute, string trio and piano; Con­certo for Two Solo Pianos; Chaconne for Violin and Piano; Canticle and Perpetual Motion for violin and piano; Aria and Hymn for orch.; Overture for orch.; Variations for small orch.; Cello Sonata; Elegy in Memory of Ravel; Heroic Piece for small orch.; Concerto for chamber orch.; Quartet for piano and strings; Cello Concerto, Rounds for str. orch.; Music for Shakespeare's The Tempest; Three String Quartets; Concert Piece for Orch.; Violin Sonata; The Tomb of Melville for Piano; The Enormous Room for Orch.; Timon of Athens for Orch.; Music for Romeo and Jtdiet; The Dream of Audubon, Bal­let; Young Joseph; Choruses to poems of Melville, Cummings, Agee; fifty songs (1940-50). Film scores: A Place to Live; Strange Victory; Anna Lucasta. Home: 249 Edgerton St., Rochester 7, N.Y. Studio: 544 Hud­son St., New York 14, N.Y.
Dickinson, Clarence, composer, edu­cator; b. Lafayette, Ind., May 7, 1873. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Doctor of Letters Miami Univ.; Master of Arts and Doctor of Music North­western Univ.; Doctor of Music Ohio Wesleyan Univ. Studied music with Wild in Chicago; Reiman and Singer in Berlin; Guilmant, Vierne, and Moszkowski in Paris. Many organ re­citals in Europe and America. Has presented annually for twenty years two notable series in New York— Historical Lecture-Recital Course at Union Theological Seminary and Fri­day Noon Hours of Music at the Brick Church. Conductor of Musical Art Soc. of Chicago; Chicago English Opera Co.; Aurora Oratorio Society; Bach Festival at Montclair, N.J., and Mendelssohn Glee Club, N.Y. In col­laboration with Helen Adell Snyder Dickinson (his wife) has written sev­eral books on musical subjects: Excur­sions in Musical History; Troubadour Songs; The Choir Loft and Pulpit; Technique and Art of Organ Play­ing. Works are largely pieces for or­gan and voice; series of sacred choruses numbering more than two hundred; historical recital series of more than forty works and some twenty sacred solos; Storm King Symphony for organ and orchestra. Choral: Nowell; Music When Soft Voices Die; In Joseph's Lovely Gar­den. Home: 7 Gracie Square, New York 28, N.Y.
Dickinson, Helen Adell Snyder,
author, educator; b. Port Elmsley, Ontario, Can., Dec. 5, 1875. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: Master of Arts, Queens Univ., Ontario, Canada; Doctor of Philosophy, Heidelberg Univ., Ger­many. Lecturer in History of Art at Union Theological Seminary, New York. Has written original texts and translated foreign texts for hundreds of sacred works set to music by hus­band, Dr. Clarence Dickinson, q.v. Guest lecturer at many universities
Dick, Dorothy (Mrs. Dorothy Dick Link), author; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 29, 1900. ASCAP 1934. Educ.: George School, Pa.; Sternberg School of Music, Philadelphia; Acad, of Arts; Acad, of Design. Songs: "Call Me Darling"; "By My Side"; "Until We Meet Again Sweetheart"; "The Kiss That You've Forgotten"; "A Star is Born"; "Must We Say Goodnight So Soon"; "Remember Tonight"; "There is No Breeze." Home: New Hyde Park Road, R.F.D. New Hyde Park P.O., North Hills, New York.