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Gardner, Don (Donald Yetter Gardner), composer; b. Portland, Pa. Aug. 20, 1912. ASCAP 1949. Educ: State Teachers College, West Chester, Pa., B.S.; New York Univ. Taught music education in public school, Smith-town Branch, N.Y., ten years. Conductor Smithtown Community Chorus; Senior Choir Presbyterian Church, Smithtown Branch, New York. Since 1946 active in music department of educational publisher. Has conducted and arranged music for choral groups. Composed children's songs and piano accompaniments for educational publications. Songs: "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth"; "Weather or Not." Home: 127 Maple Ave., Smith-town Branch, N.Y.
Gardner, Samuel, composer, violinist; b. Elizabethgrad, Russia, Aug. 25, 1891. ASCAP 1937. To U.S. as child. Educ: Inst, of Musical Art, New York; composition with Percy Goet-schius; violin with Felix Wendel-schaefer, Providence, R.I.; Charles Martin Loeffler and Felix Winternitz, Boston, and Franz Kneisel, New York. Debut in 1913, New York; soloist with orchestras on tour. Member of Kneisel Quartet, 1914-15; 1916-17 member Elshuco Trio. Teacher Inst, of Musical Art, New York; 1939 honorary Doctor of Music, New York Coll. of Music. Works: Violin Concerto; String Quartet (Pulitzer Prize 1918); Hebraic Fantasie for clarinet and string quartet; symphonic poem, New Russia (Loeb Prize, 1918); Piano Quintet, 1925 Berkshire Festival; symphonic poem, Broadway; Prelude and Fugue for string quartet; violin solo, From the Canebrake. Home: 214 W. 108 St., New York 25, N.Y.
Gardner, William Henry, author, librettist; b. Boston, Mass., Oct. 28, 1865; d. Newton, Mass., March 12, |
1932. ASCAP 1920. Educ.: Dudley Grammar School; Roxbury High; in music with private tutors. Member Authors* Club, London; Soc. for Furtherance of Grand Opera in English; Boston City Club. Head of manufacturing firm; made music avocation. Conducted newspaper column, Winthrop, Mass.; director Community Hospital, Boy Scouts, and Red Cross, Winthrop. Works: comic operas. Songs: "Thy BeamLig Eyes"; "Can t Yo' Heah Me Callin, Caroline"; "Grateful O Lord Am I"; "Thy Will Be Done"; "The Crown of Life ; "The Way of Peace"; "Thou Blessed Man of God"; "Glory to God in the Highest"; "Golden Sunshine Follows Night"; "The Bells of Bethlehem"; "Victory Immortal"; "Honey if Yo* Only Knew", "Come, Love Divine"; "O Land ot Hope and Freedom"; "Sacred Songs for Little Singers"; "Merry Songs for Little Folks." Operettas: Christmas with the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; The Moon Queen. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Garland, Joseph C, composer, arranger, recording artist, saxophonist (tenor and bass), photographer; b. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 15, 1903. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Shaw Univ. (two years), Raleigh, N.C. Music educ.: Aeolian Cons., Baltimore, Md.; instruments: piano, cello, clarinet, saxophone; member of Aeolian Cons. Glee Club. Played baritone saxophone, Cosmopolitan Brass Band, Baltimore, 1920-22; member Excelsior Military Band, Norfolk, Va., 1922-29. Associated with Louis Armstrong Orch. as saxophonist, arranger and musical director. Songs: "The Stuff Is Here"; "Harlem After Midnight"; "Jazz Martini"; "Congo Caravan"; "Brown Sugar Mine"; "Once In Ev'ry Heart"; "Keep the Rhythm Going"; "In the Mood"; "Serenade to a Savage"; "Leap Frog"; "Easy Go." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
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