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Eliscu, Edward |
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America as concert pianist, settled in New York. Spent many years studying primitive music of Haiti and became authority in that field. He and his daughter, lily, became two-piano concert team; also a conductor. Works: Danse Tropicales; Les Chants de la Montagne; Voudou (ballet); Legende Creole (for violin and piano); Piano Concerto; Quisqueye (symphonic suite); musical poems Aphrodite and Cleopatra; and many songs. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Eliscu, Edward, author, actor, stage and screen director, producer, playwright; b. New York, N.Y., April 2, 1902. ASCAP 1930. Educ: public schools, City Coll. of New York, 1921, Bachelor of Science (social science). Author of plays: The Holdup Man; They Cant Get You Down. Appeared in plays: The Racket; Quarantine; TJie Dybbuk. Producer: Meet the People. Special material and lyrics for stage productions: Great Day; Nine-Fifteen Revue; Meet the People (three editions); Merry-Go-Round; Sweet and Low; Murray Andersons Almanacs; Crazy Quilt; Sticks and Stones; They Cant Get You Down; Garrick Gaieties. Motion pictures: Flying Down to Rio; Gay Senorita; Hey Rookie. Songs: "Without A Song"; "More Than You Know"; "Great Day"; "Flying Down to Rio"; "Carioca"; "Orchids in the Moonlight"; "You Forgot Your Gloves"; "A Fellow and a Girl"; "They Cut Down the Old Pine Tree"; "Four Freedoms"; "Meet the People"; "Lonely Street." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Elkus, Albert, composer, pianist, educator; b. Sacramento, Calif., April 30, 1884. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Univ. of Calif.; studied with Hugo Mansfeldt, Harold Bauer, Josef Lhevinne, Oscar Weil, Carl Prohaska, Robert Fuchs, George Schumann and Franz Schalk. Bachelor of Letters 1906; Master of |
Letters 1907, Univ. of Calif. Teacher San Francisco Cons, of Music, Mills Coll., Dominican Coll. Lecturer Univ. of Calif. 1931-35; Professor of Music, chairman Department of Music Univ. of Calif, since 1935. Conductor Univ. of Calif. Symph. Orch. 1934-46. Works for orchestra: Impressions from a Greek Tragedy (Juilliard Award 1921); On A Merry Folk Tune; Concertino on Lezione of Ariosti for cello and string orch.; Lines of Francesca, for voice and orch.; for chorus I Am the Reaper; Sir Patrick Spens; three choral compositions on texts of the Synagogue. Serenade for string quartet; violin Sonata; piano pieces and songs. Home: 1209 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, Calif.
Ellington, Duke (Edward Kennedy Ellington), composer, director, recording artist; b. Washington, D.C., April 29, 1899. ASCAP 1935. Educ.: Washington schools; art scholarship Pratt Inst., Brooklyn. Always interested in music, gave up art school to become pianist. Began musical career as pianist in Washington cafes, then organized own orchestra 1918. Original group augmented to fourteen, became stage, radio and screen attraction. Played in American cities, then European tours 1933 and 1939 followed, and on Jan. 23, 1943, gave first of several concerts at Carnegie Hall, New York. Works: "Solitude"; "Mood Indigo"; "Creole Love Call"; "Black and Tan Fantasy"; "Sophisticated Lady"; "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"; "Black Beauty"; "Subtle Lament"; "Way Low"; "Reminiscing in Tempo"; "Rocking in Rhythm"; "Saturday Night Function"; "Caravan"; "Pyramid"; "Echoes of the Jungle"; "Blue Bells of Harlem"; "Creole Rhapsody"; "Boy Meets Horn"; "I'm Checkin Out, Good Bye"; "Don t Get Around Much Any More"; "Cotton Tail"; "In a Sentimental Mood"; "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good"; "I'm Beginning to See the |
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