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avocation. World War I, Y.M.C.A. entertainer France, teamed with Elsie Janis. Lectured on French and American history to troops. Contributor of musical articles to magazines. Works: "O Heart of Mine"; "The Gypsy Trail"; "When Spring Comes Laughing"; "Where the Highway Steps Along"; "Little Boy Blue ; "My Laddie"; "Pickaninny Lullaby*; "Twenty-Third Psalm"; "Along Upon the House Tops to the North"; "The Whiffenpoof Song"; and musical settings for standard poems. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Gannaway, Albert Carlyle, Jr., composer, author; b. Charlottesville, Va., April 3, 1920. ASCAP ]948. Educ: Univ. of Arkansas, B.A., 1942. World War II, U.S. Army, 1942; directed and produced Army shows This is America and Brother Orchid; served overseas with Gen. Patton. Writer of special material for Bob Hope, Dorothy Shay, Hoagy Carmichael, King Cole Trio, Frankie Laine. Secretary-general manager music publishing firm. Now producer of film and live television programs. Songs: "Mr. Sears and Roebuck"; "Movie Tonight"; "Baby I Need You"; "Just a Friendlv Feeling"; "The Sad Cowboy"; "Uptown Saturday Night"; "Grandma Teeter Totter." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Gannon, Kim (James Kimball Gannon), composer, author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1900. ASCAP 1940. A graduate lawyer, left bar for song-writing. In Hollywood under contract with motion picture studios. Works: "So Lovely"; "Mexican Moonlight"; "For Tonight"; "Half Way Down the Street"; "The Gentleman Needs a Shave"; "Five O'Clock Whistle"; "Wrap Your Dreams in the Red White and Blue"; "I Understand"; "I'll Pray For You"; "Always in My Heart"; "South Wind"; "Moonlight |
Cocktails"; Til Be Home for Christmas"; "Old Acquaintance"; "Autumn Nocturne"; "Dreamer's Holiday"; "The Singing Sands of Alamosa." Also score for musical version of Seventeen. Home: Greenwich, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
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Ganz, Rudolph, composer, pianist, conductor, recording artist; b. Zurich, Switzerland, Feb. 24, 1877. ASCAP 1940. Educ: early musical education in Lausanne, Switzerland; Strasbourg and in Berlin with Ferruccio Busoni. Debut 1899 as pianist with Berlin Philh. Orch.; became head of piano department Chicago Musical Coll. Sept. 1900-05; then toured Europe and America as soloist; 1921-27 conductor St. Louis Symph. Orch.; guest conductor of symphony orchestras Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, Omaha, Denver, Washington, D.C., Havana, London, Paris; stadium concerts New York, Hollywood Bowl and others. Honorary degrees of Doctor of Music: De Paul Univ.; Cinn. Cons, of Music; Grinnell Coll.; Univ. of Rochester. Rejoined faculty Chicago Musical Coll. 1929; president since 1933. Conductor of Young People's Concerts, New York Philh. Symnh. 1939-48; San Francisco Sympn. Orch. 1939-49; conducted Children's Concerts Chicago Symph. Orch. 1944-45. Officier of the French Legion of Honor; corresponding member of Royal Acad, of Florence; former Pres. Edward Mac-Dowell Assn. Works: Symphony in E; Piano Concerto in E-flat; symphonic suite Animal Pictures; Overture Laughter . . . yet Love; four symphonic pieces demonstrating four sections of a symphony orchestra (Strings in Variation; Woody Scherzo; Brassy Prelude; Percussional Melee); piano variations on theme by Brahms; piano pieces, choruses for male voices, and songs. Home: 64 East Van Buren St., Chicago 5, 111. |
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