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"There's Honey on the Moon Tonight"; "You Go To My Head." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Gillespie, Marian, composer, author, journalist, pianist, radio director and actress; b. Muncie, Ind., Jan. 26,1889; d. New York, N.Y., Dec. 26, 1946. ASCAP 1920 (among first women to be elected to ASCAP). Educ: Muncie public schools; New York and Columbia Univ. In music with Clarence Carson; voice Georgia Galvin. Accepted for Metropolitan chorus, prevented by illness from entering. Turned to composition, studying with Kathryn Allan Lively, St. Louis Cons. Pioneer in radio, program director and actress. Conducted educational program for schools, Municipal Station WNYC. Author of special articles newspapers. Wrote comic opera, Blue Rose, scheduled for production 1918, not produced, from which came song hit "When You Look Into the Heart of a Rose." Other productions, libretti and lyrics for Greenwich Village; Bandbox Follies; Bare Facts of 1927. Other songs: "The Want of You"; "Japanese Garden"; "Twilight Lullaby"; "Doubts"; "Ashes of Dreams"; "Bring Back the Golden Days"; "Assurance"; "Soul of a Rose"; "Just Lovin "; "Raggedy Rose"; "Tahiti Rose." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Gillis, Don, composer, music director, trombonist; b. Cameron, Mo., June 17, 1912. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Texas Christian Univ., Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music; N. Texas Teachers, Master of Music. Studied composition and arranging. Student conductor and scholarship trombonist at Texas Christian Univ., seven years member of music faculty; taught theory, musicology, and band. Staff radio trombonist, arranger and composer, radio station, Fort Worth, Texas. Music director in production department same radio station 1942; then Chicago Network; New York |
production director, N.B.C. Symph. Orch. Works for orchestra: five symphonies; The Panhandle, Suite; Portrait of a Frontier Town; Thoughts Provoked on Becoming a Prospective Papa, Suite; The Raven; To an Unknown Soldier; Citizen Tom Paine; Intermission—10 Minutes; Prairie Poem; The Alamo; Scherzo-frenia; Short Overture to an Unwritten Opera; Perpetual Emotion; Moto Pei-petuo; and Rliapsody for Harp and Orch.; Cantata for Radio; The Crucifixion; Music for Tonight. Chamber music; five Quartets; Piano Quintet. Home: 111-17 75 Rd., Forest Hills, N.Y.
Gilmore, Elizabeth McCabe, author, publisher, critic; b. Tipton, Iowa, Sept. 20, 1874. ASCAP 1941. Educ. Nemlo, Iowa, intermediate and high school, nurses training, Drake Sanitarium, Des Moines, postgraduate surgery Women's Hospital, New York. Taught painting and arts. Established Lyric Arts Studio and Gardens, Los Angeles. Author of books of poems, Musical Musings; Harbor at Dawn Member Nat'l Musical Club, Southern Calif.; Women's Press. Songs: "Skies are Dark When You're Away"; "It Is You", "Love Is Calling You", "Because I Walk With Thee." Home: Long Beach, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Gindhart, Thomas J., composer, author; b. Philadelphia, Pa., July 10, 1908. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: St. Anne Grammar School; St. Anne Commercial School, Mastbaum; Kensington and La France Night Schools; U.S. Army schools. Varied business experience with music as avocation. Wrote acts, special material and serious compositions. Armed Forces World War II, 1942-46. Member Songwriters Protective Assn. Songs: "Blue Illusion"; "Sweet Night"; "Plans"; "I'm In the Business"; 8Too Bad"; "Looney Little Tooney"; "The |
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