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	163	Fowler, B. Sherman
	Philh., Boston Symph., C.B.S. Symph. Pianist with Boston Symph. Prix de Rome 1950. Orch. works: Suite from Shakespeare's The Tempest (Pulitzer Scholarship, 1942); The Prairie (New York Critic Circle Citation, 1944; Guggenheim Fellowship 1945, young­est composer awarded); Ode to Those Who Will Not Return; Pan­tomime; Symphony in G; Piano Con­certo; Gift of the Magi (ballet); Duo for cello and piano; Song of Anguish (cantata for baritone and orch.); Song of Songs (cantata for soprano and orch.); String Quartet in G; Oboe Concerto; Recordare for orch.; The Jumping Frog, opera. Also, various pieces for piano, and chamber music combinations. Home: Boston, Mass. Address: c/o ASCAP. Foster, Fay, composer, pianist, edu­cator; b. Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 8. ASCAP 1938. Educ: high school, Leavenworth; music with private tu­tors: piano and harmony, Carl Preyer of Univ. of Kansas; voice and piano, Sherwood Cons, of Music, Chicago; composition and theory, Frederic Grant Gleason at Sherwood Cons. Scholarship pupil m piano with Moriz Rosenthal, Vienna; Alfred Reisenauer (virtuosity class), Leipzig Cons.; Sophie Menter and Heinnch Schwartz, Munich; voice with Garso and Alexander Heinemann, Berlin. Scholarship pupil in counterpoint with Rhemberger, Munich Cons., and Jadassohn, Leipzig Cons. Two years study of Italian opera repertoire and song in Italy. Twelve years study abroad. Awarded International prize for waltz "Prairie Flowers" (first per­formed Berlin Royal Opera) by Die Woche, Berlin. Elected to member­ship, Soc. of German Composers. At twelve, church organist and choir director. At seventeen and eighteen toured U.S. as concert pianist; at nineteen director Onarga Cons, of Music, Onarga, 111. Ten years head of voice dept, Ogontz School, RydalL	Pa. Charter member Composers Authors Guild. Works: Etude de Con­cert (for piano, awarded The Etude prize); In the Carpenter Shop (women's chorus, prize National Federation of Music Clubs); "Are You For Me or Against Me" (prize, N.Y. American); 'A Little Boy and a Dream" (prize, The Etude); toured in programs of own compositions, in­cluding two Chinese operas, The Moon Lady and The Honorable Mme. Yen. Operettas: Land of Chance; Blue Beard; The Castaways. "Love is Made of This" (orig. music for Mar­garet O'Briens Favorite Songs and Stories); orig. music for Secret of Tickity-Tock. Songs with orch.: "The Americans Come" (song World War I); "My Journey's End"; "Heart of Freedom"; "I Want an Old Fashioned Christmas." Other songs: "One Golden Day"; "My Menagerie"; "We Are All His Children"; "Smoky River"; "Lis-sen Chillun"; "United We Are For­ever"; "Rapture"; "Place Where I Worship"; 'My Heart Keeps Singing Hallelujah"; "Faith Triumphant. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. Fotin, Larry (Larry Fotine), com­poser, author, radio and recording artist, b. Camden, N.J., April 27, 1911. ASCAP 1947. Self-taught mu­sician and arranger. Arranged for Sammy Kaye, Blue Barron orchs.; now has own orch. Songs: "Belmont Boogie"; "Hoe-Cake-Hominy and Sassafras Tea"; "Boogie Woogie Barn­yard"; "The Baseball Polka"; "You're the Only One I Care For"; "You Were Only Fooling"; "Honestly I Love You"; "You've Gotta Take the Bitter with the Sweet"; also composer of his radio theme song, "Romantic Music." Home: Audubon, N.J. Address: c/o ASCAP. Fowler, B. Sherman, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 2, 1875. ASCAP 1925. Educ: Everson and Habey's