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Finke, John, Jr. |
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Dixieland"; "If I Had My Life to Live Over"; "My Spanish Rose"; "I Can t Forget You"; "Skate With Me"; "I Want to Be Loved by a Soldier"; "Since Becky Became a Conductor"; "My Old Sweetheart is Coming Back"; "There's Something 'Bout a Uniform that Makes the Ladies Fall"; "He Would Play the Piano"; "You Are Just a Little Pansy, But You're Sweeter than a Rose"; 'Can You Say that You've Done Your Share"; 'I Wonder What My Soldier Boy is Doing Tonight"; "While I'm Fighting Over There (Won't You Help Me Over Here)"; "Egypt"; "There Must Be a Reason"; "You're More Than Heaven to Me"; "When the Rains Come in Samoa"; "Cuernavaca Sunset"; "Take Your Time, Don't Hurry Me." Home: Avenida-Jalisco 13 (Chipitlan); Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Finke, John, Jr., composer; b. Nauga-tuck, Conn., Sept. 16, 1898. Educ: Public School 5, Queens, N.Y.; Walter Damrosch Cons, (now Juilliard School). Organized dance orchestra at early age, playing hotels, night clubs, Albany, Troy, Schnectady, New York. Asso. musical director of Rose Marie company three years. Introduced Novachord with Ferde Grofe at New York World's Fair. Compiled books for Solovox use, classic and popular. Staff arranger and conductor radio station, Schnectady, N.Y., for seven and one-half years. Works: Cynthia, Lucinda, Dorinda, Silhouette, for piano; vocal solos: "At the Manger"; "All This I Pray"; "I Alone Shall Never Be"; "The Risen Lord", Easter anthem; Caprice, violin solo. Songs: "This Is It"; "Christmas Valley"; "All Ears"; "Horse and Buggy Doctor"; "Nobody Knows." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Finley, Lorraine Noel (Mrs. Theodore F. Fitch), composer, author; b. Mon- |
treal, Canada, Dec. 24, 1899. ASCAP
1936. Educ.: schools in Canada, Switzerland, Germany; Dana Hall, Wellesley; Inst, of Musical Art, New York; Columbia Univ.; violin, Prof. J. J. Goulet; piano, Ada L. Richardson, Montreal; various teachers Switzerland and Germany, including Louise Heritte-Viardot, voice; advanced studies in New York, voice, Frank La-Forge; composition, Percy Goetschius and Rubin Goldmark. Travelled extensively Europe, Near East, Africa, South America, Alaska, China and Japan. Member Bds. of Dir., Beethoven Assn., New York 1937-40; Oratorio Society of N.Y., 1949—; Drama League of N.Y., 1950—; member Natl. League of American Pen Women; N.A.A.C.C. Entered field of song translation 1934; worked for ten music publishing firms; English versions from twenty different languages, notably collection of National Anthems of United Nations and Associated Powers; a choral collection, Voices of Freedom, series of twenty-seven songs from Russia, China, and "underground movements" of twelve oppressed nations; also The Birth of Beauty, cantata by Arthur Lourie; art songs in Maggie Teyte Album of French Songs; Sandoval's Twenty-Five Favorite Latin-American Songs; and the Mozart Concert Arias. Published first song, "Dreaming, Hoping, Dreaming," 1924; more than three hundred published works. Original compositions: "Brave Horse of Mine" (male chorus); songs: "The Devil's Tail"; "Two Cat-Astrophes"; "When I Love You Best"; "Herons"; "Bondage"; Persian Miniature (orchestral suite); violin and piano pieces. Translated Milhaud's opera, Le Pauvre Matelot,
1937. Also, contributed many poems to magazines, newspapers, and yearbooks. Home: Greenwich, Conn. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Finn, Rev. William J., composer, organist, choirmaster, priest; b. Boston, |
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