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Dunkley, Ferdinand Luis
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tion pictures; for past five years scor­ing motion pictures Hollywood. Academy Award nominee for Jolson Sings Again. Songs: "Sunrise in Siam"; "I Can't Remember to For­get"; "To Be Continued"; "Popo-catapetr; "Why Cry Baby?"; "Tell It to the Marines"; "I Don't Want to do it Alone." Home: Clendale, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
organ, piano. Home: 1915 Calhoun St., New Orleans 18, La.
Dunn, James Philip, composer, or­ganist; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 10, 1884; d. Jersey City, N.J., July 24, 1936. ASCAP 1924. Educ.: Citv Col­lege of New York, Bachelor of Arts; Columbia Univ. with MacDowell, later Rybner. Church organist for many years, New York, Jersey City, Bayonne. Program annotator of Man­hattan Symphony Orchestra, con­tributor to music magazines. Works: Piano Quintet; Violin Sonata; Trio; Annabel Lee (ballad for voice and orchestra); two String Quartets; We (tone poem dedicated to Lindbergh); The Phantom Drum (cantata) Over­ture on Negro Themes; Mass in C; The Galleon (opera). Songs: "The Bitterness of Love"; "Serenade"; "Come Unto Him"; "A Fairy Song"; "Heart to Heart"; "Under the Green­wood Tree"; "A White Rose"; "Weary." Part songs: "It Was a Lover and a Lass"; "Music of Spring"; "Song of the Night"; "Under the Greenwood Tree"; "Sing, O Sing." Also organ and piano pieces. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Du Page, Richard Porter, Jr., com­poser; b. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 10, 1908. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Wood-berry Forest School, Va., Augusta Military Acad., Ft. Defiance, Va.; Washington and Lee Univ., Lexing­ton, Va.; Vanderbilt Univ. Law School, Nashville, Tenn. Music theory, Rubin Goldmark; counter­point, Aurelio Giorni; composition, orchestration, and conducting, Tiber Serly. Studied piano, percussion, clarinet, and other instruments. Played in orchestras during school years traveling throughout South, Southwest, and France. While in law school, organized own orchestra. Ar­ranger since 1932 for various com­mercial and sustaining radio pro­grams and stage productions; com-
Dunkley, Ferdinand Luis, composer, organist, author, educator; b. Lon­don, England, July 16, 1869. ASCAP 1939. To U.S. 1893; citizen 1938. Educ: Trinity College, Royal Col­lege of Music (scholarship for com­position); composition, organ, piano, George Author Higgs, piano, Bam-bridge; counterpoint, James Higgs; organ, Turpin; composition, Parry; organ, Martin; piano, Barnett; coun­terpoint, Bridge. Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, London 1886. Organist in London. To U.S. 1893; became musical director, St. Agnes School, Albany, N.Y., 1899-1929. Organist, conductor music festivals, choral societies, Asheville, N.C., New Orleans, Vancouver, B.C., Seattle and Birmingham. Founder and Fellow, 1909, of American Guild of Organists. Professor organ and composition, Loyola Univ. of the South Coll. of Music. Organist, First Unitarian Church, New Orleans. Member, Mac-Dowell Colony; National Assn. Sing­ing Teachers; National Catholic Music Teachers Assn.; Writers Club of New Orleans. Author of The Buoyant Voice, Acquired by Correct Pitch Control. Works: Among Yon Moun­tain Fastnesses, Suite for Orch. (prize in London, 1889); The Wreck of the Hesperus, ballad for chorus and orch. (first performed Crystal Palace, Lon­don, 1893); The Elected Knight for male chorus; Sabhath Eve Services for Jewish Worship; From the Far West, suite for orch. Also songs, sa­cred, and secular choruses, pieces for