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came bass-baritone soloist in several New York churches as an avocation during a business career of investment banking and insurance. President, Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York; first president, Associated Male Choruses of Greater New York. Wrote musical settings, both solo and choral, for many standard poems, as well as his own. Works: To the Great Pyramids (an ode for men's voices and orchestra); Death in Harlem, (dramatic narrative for baritone and orchestra); Russian Picnic (arranged for solo voice, or chorus, as well as duo-piano). Songs: "On the Road to Mandalay"; "Diana"; "Hangman, Hangman"; "Vodvil"; "Trav'lin "; "I Sing My Songs for You"; "Daniel"; "Words on the Wind"; "Valgovind's Boat Song"; "These Dark Eyes"; "Three Little Chestnuts"; "Origin of Valentines"; also choral music for women's, mixed and male voices, accompanied and a cappella. Address: Estate, c/0 ASCAP.
Engel, Carl, composer, publisher, editor, musicologist; b. Paris, France, July 21, 1883; d. New York, N.Y., May 6, 1944. ASCAP 1935. To U.S. 1905; citizen. Educ: Univ. of Strasbourg and Munich; musical composition with Ludwig Thuille in Munich; Hon. Doctor of Music Ober-lin Coll. 1934. Editor and musical adviser of Boston Music Co. 1909-21; president of G. Schirmcr, Inc., 1929-32 and 1934-44; editor The Musical Quarterly 1929-44. Fellow American Acad. Arts and Sciences; member of Musical Assn. of London; hon. member of Harvard Musical Assn.; pres. American Musicological Assn. 1937-38; U.S. delegate to Beethoven Centenary, Vienna 1927; Chevalier of Legion of Honor. Chief of Music Division of Library of Congress 1922-34, and honorary consultant in musicology to the Library 1934-44. Works: Triptych (for violin and piano). Songs include setting |
for Amy Lowell's poem "Sea-Shell." Piano pieces, two band marches. Author of Mia Breve; From Bach to Debussy; Discords Mingled;, and of many articles. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
English, Granville, composer, pianist; b. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 27, 1900. ASCAP 1926. Educ.: Chicago Musical Coll., studying composition with Dr. Felix Borowski; piano, Rudolph Reuter and Glenn Dillard Dunn; Bachelor of Music 1916. Advanced studies composition and orchestration, New York. For three consecutive years won gold and diamond medals in college, annual piano playing contests; three consecutive years, first prize awards in composition contests New York Federation of Music Clubs. Prize-winning composition 1941 was symphonic score An Island Festival (ballet-suite). In the two preceding contests, first prizes for songs in the 1939 and 1940 competitions. Robin in the Rain (three-part chorus for treble voices) was also a prize work. Other works: Scherzo, Among the Hills (introduced by Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orch.); Evening by the Sea, tone picture for symphony orch; Tropicana for orch.; De Promise Lan, chorus of mixed voices; The Ugly Duckling, cantata. Songs: "If I Gave You A Rose"; "Gateway of Dreams"; "Ceasing to Care"; numerous works for piano and violin. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Ephros, Gershon, composer; b. Ser-otsk, Poland, Jan. 15, 1890. ASCAP 1950. To U.S. (from Palestine) 1911; citizen 1918. Educ.: Prof. Idelsohn's Inst, of Jewish Music, 1909-11, Jerusalem, Israel. Studied music with stepfather (cantor); also Herman Spieter and Joseph Achron. Member of Board of Governors of Jewish Music Forum in New York. Now instructing in school of Sacred Music |
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