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Wind"; "Looking for Love"; "You're Wicky, You're Wacky, You're Woo Woo Wonderful"; "You are the Lyric"; "Wrestlers Song"; "Oh Oh Oh Ophelia"; "Flying Ghost Boogie." Home: 120 Pine Grove Terrace, Newark, N.J.
Farley, Roland, composer, b. Aspen, Col., March 17, 1892; d. New York, N.Y., May 11, 1932. ASCAP 1924. Totally blind at five, attended the State School for the Deaf and Blind, Colorado Springs. Completed studies in 1911. Early musical educ: piano with Jos. Gahm, violin with Hans Albert, both summer residents of his home town, Victor, Col. At twenty to Royal Cons, of Leipzig to continue studies in music; piano with Jos. Pembauer, theory with Gustave Schreck, completing studies at Cons.; to Berlin 1914 for advanced studies with Ernest Hutcheson. Returned to U.S. on outbreak of war, made New York his home until death. First musical compositions were quartet arrangements and first published work musical setting of Eugene Field's "Oh, Mother, My Love." Other songs: "The Night Wind", "A Lark Went Singing"; "At Sunset"; "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep"; "An Irish Mother's Song"; "Twilight Is Coming"; "The Moon"; "The Tides"; "Lullaby to the North Wind"; "Gypsy Kin." Also many choral works. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Farrar, Geraldine, author, singer, grand opera and concert star; b. Melrose, Mass., Feb. 28, 1882. ASCAP 1936. Educ.: Melrose public schools; early musical studies with Mrs. J. H. Long of Boston under whom made professional debut as concert singer at fourteen. Continued studies in Paris with Trabadello; Emma Thursby, New York; Lilli Lehmann and Graziani, Berlin. Debut Royal Opera House, Berlin, as "Marguerite" in Faust, Oct. 15, 1901; became mem- |
ber of Royal Opera House company, Berlin, 1901; member of Metropolitan, New York, 1906-22. Roles include Marguerite, Manon, Butterfly, Micaela, Elizabeth, Tosca, Zerlina, Juliet, Gilda, Violetta. During World War II, active member Red Cross, A.W.V.S., various defense organizations. Has written lyrics for music of Rachmaninoff ("Ecstasy of Spring"; "Here Beauty Dwells"; "The Tryst"; "The Alder Tree"; "The Mirage"; "Oh, Thou Field of Waving Corn"; "Morning"; "The Fountain"; "The Dream"), Kreisler ("Love Comes and Goes"; "The Whole World Knows"; "Dear Homeland"; "Fair Rosemarin") and Moussorgsky ("Tears"). Starred in motion-picture version of Carmen. Wrote autobiography in 1916 and a new version, Such Sweet Compulsion, in 1938. Home: West Lane, Ridge-field, Conn.
Farrar, Walton T., author; b. Oakland, Calif., March 5, 1918. ASCAP 1948. Songs: "Movie Tonight"; "Uptown Saturday Nite"; "Two Things to Worry About'; "Just a Friendly Feeling"; "I Cross My Fingers"; "The Last Mile Home"; "Baby I Need You"; "The Sad Cowboy." Home: West Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Farrow, Johnny, composer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Feb. 11, 1912. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Philadelphia grammar school and high school. Studied violin, Zwecker-Hahn Cons, of Music, Philadelphia; also two years in Vienna. In 1938-41 with Tony Pastor's Orch. with vocal group. On professional staff, Chicago music publisher. Now has own music publishing firm. Songs: "I Have But One Heart"; "Tara Talara Tala"; "Formal Night in Harlem"; "Swinging in a Swing"; "Catch On"; "A New Shade of Blues"; "If You Were There." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
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