| Share page | Visit Us On FB |
|
|
|||
|
179 |
Gibb, Robert W. |
||
|
|
|||
|
A Dangerous Maid; Lady Be Good; Primrose; Tell Me More; Tip Toes; Oh, Kay!; Funny Face; Rosalie; Treasure Girl; Strike Up the Band, Show Girl; Girl Crazy; Of Thee I Sing (awarded Pulitzer Prize); Pardon My English; Let 'Em Eat Cake; Porgy and Bess; Park Avenue; for screen, Delicious; Shall We Dance; Damsel in Distress; Goldwyn Follies. With other composers: for stage, Two Little Girls in Blue; Be Yourself; That's a Good Girl (London); Life Begins at 8:40, Ziegfeld Follies (1936); Lady in the Dark; Firebrand of Florence, for screen, Cover Girl, Where Do We Go From Here?, The Barkleys of Broadway. Songs written with brother George and others: "I Got Rhythm"; "Lady Be Good", "That Certain Feeling"; "Oh Me, Oh My, Oh You"; "Sweet and Low-Down"; "Sunny Disposish"; "Do-Do-Do"; "Someone to Watch Over Me"; "Strike Up the Band"; "Soon", "The Babbitt and the Bromide", "The Man I Love", "Liza"; "Bidm' My Time"; "Embraccable You"; "But Not for Me"; "Cheerful Little Earful", "You're So Dehshious"; "Of Thee I Sing, Baby", "Love is Sweeping the Country"; "Who Cares?", "Mine", "Fun to be Fooled"; "You're a Buildci-Upper"; "It Ain't Necessarily So"; "I Got Plenty of Nuttin'", "I Can't Get Started", "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off", "They Can't Take That Away From Me"; "Nice Work if You Can Get it"; "A Foggy Day", "My Ship"; "The Saga of Jenny"; "Love Walked In"; "Long Ago and Far Away"; "All at Once"; "One and Only Highland Fling." Home: 1021 N. Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Giannini, Vittorio, composer, violinist, conductor; b. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 19, 1903. ASCAP 1927. Brother of Dusolina Giannini, Metropolitan. Educ.: Royal Acad, of Music Giuseppe Verdi, Milan, Italy; American Acad., Rome; Juilliard Graduate School; |
violin, Albert Spalding; violin and chamber music, Hans Letz; composition, Rubin Goldmark and Trucco. Awarded Juilliard Publication Prize 1930; grand prize in composition American Acad., Rome, 1932; publication prizes, Society for Publication of American Music, 1932, and American Acad., Rome, 1936. Appearances throughout U.S. and Europe as violin concertist and conductor. Member faculties Juilliard School of Music; Manhattan School of Music; N.Y. College of Music. Works: Lucedia, opera, produced Germany 1934; Springtime, chamber cantata pert, over network, 1935; Theodore Roosevelt Requiem, performed over network, 1936; Requiem, performed by Soc. of Friends of Music, Vienna, 1937; Piano Concerto, performed Carnegie Hall, 1937; Triptych for voice and strings, premiere at Saratoga Festival, 1937; The Scarlet Letter, opera, Hamburg, 1938, Beauty and the Beast and Blennerhasset, radio operas, premieres 1938 and 1939 respcc. over radio; Opera Ballet, premiere, network orch., 1939; Violin Concerto, Town Hall, Jan., 1945; Concerto Grosso for Strings, Saratoga Festival, 1945, Columbia Univ. Festival, 1946, Orchestral Recreation of Vivaldi Concerto in D Minor, first perf. Cincinnati Orch., 1947; Frescobaldi-flnfl, premiere Cincinnati Orch., 1948; Concetto for Trumpet and Orch.y Brevaurd Festival; Symphony in one Movement, premiere Cincinnati Orch., 1951. Also many songs and chamber music works. Home: 180 W. 58 St., New York 19, N.Y.
Gibb, Robert W., composer, arranger; b. Dedham, Mass., May 2, 1893. ASCAP 1937. Educ.: composition with Frederick S. Converse, at New England Cons.; special courses, Boston Univ. and Harvard Univ. Many original compositions, choral arrangements, both secular and sacred; works for band, orchestra, violin* |
||
|
|
|||