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Goldman, Richard Franko
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Band Betterment; also Facing the Music, autobiography. Works incl. clarinet solos, cornet solos, band pieces and songs. Band compositions: On the Mall; Emblem of Freedom; On the Air; On the Campus; On Parade; On the Farm; Central Park; Sunapee; Sagamore; Eagle Eyes; In­dian March; Radio City; Mother Goose; Boy Scouts of America; Young America; League of Com­posers; On Guard; Golden Rule; Ever-Ready; Kentucky, V.F.W. (Vet­erans of Foreign Wars). Songs: "The Love I Have For You", "Why?"; "In the Twilight"; "In the Springtime"; "My Heaven of Love." Home: 1 University Place, New York 3, N.Y.
Goldman, Richard Franko, composer, author, conductor; b. New York, N.Y., Dec. 7, 1910. ASCAP 1945. Of musical parentage. Educ: Columbia Coll., Bachelor of Arts, 1930; piano Clarence Adler and Ralph Leopold; composition Pietro Floridia, Special Fellow, Fine Arts, Columbia Univ., 1930-31. Member Phi Beta Kappa; American Musicological Soc; Ameri­can Bandmasters Assn.; Natl. Assn. Amer. Composers and Conductors; Music Library Assn. Associate con­ductor Goldman Band since 1937. Executive Board and Board of Direc­tors, League of Composers since 1941; Exec. Dir. 1948-50. Consultant to Music Division, Pan-American Union, 1941; music consultant to Joint Army-Navy Command on Welfare and Recreation, 1941-43; to USO 1942. World War II, Master Sergeant OSS; three years. Member of Faculty, Juilliard School of Music since 1947. Author of books, The Bands Music; Landmarks of Early American Music; The Concert Band; Staff Contributor, Musical Quarterly; also articles for periodicals. Works: Piano Sonatina; The Lee Rigg, orch.; Divertimento for Flute and Piano; Hymn for brass choir; three Duets for clarinets (or violin and viola); Curtain Raiser and
Country Dance for band; he Bobino, Suite for orch. Other works for band, chamber ensembles, choral works, piano pieces, songs. Has also revived and edited band literature, including Berlioz Symphony for Band. Home: Amawalk, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Goldsworthy, William Arthur, com­poser; b. Cornwall, Eng., Feb. 8, 1878. ASCAP 1934. To U.S. at ten. Educ.: Kingston, N.Y., public schools; music in U.S. with J. Rem­ington Fairlamb and S. P. Warren; composition with Sir Chas. E. Jolley, London, and Paris. Organist, director St. Mark's-In-the-Bouwerie 1926-42. Composer of music used in services there. Contributor to various music magazines. Organist, Board of Edu­cation, New York 1917-27; organist Waldorf Astoria Hotel, 1932-35; di­rector, Rubinstein Club, 1934; mem­ber American Guild of Organists. Works: Majesty; Scherzo for organ; Te Deum; one hundred fifty Anthems; eight male Choruses, edited (with special descants) a series of anthems for junior choirs; opera for women's voices, The Queen of Sheha; The Prophet, a mystical oratorio; and a music drama for chorus, soloists and orch., The Return of the Star. Also many organ recital numbers; a series of organ and piano duets. Edited series of Bach Cantatas. Home: 42 Remsen St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Gomez, Vicente, composer, arranger, guitarist, recording artist; radio, screen, concert, theater, and night­club artist; b. Madrid, Spain, July 8, 1911. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Cons, of Madrid. To U.S. 1937; citizen 1943. Since thirteen has appeared in con­certs throughout Spain, North Africa, Europe, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and the U.S. Works: "Granada Arabe"; "Cancion de la Primavera"; "Lamento Gitano"; "Panaderos de la Flamenca"; "Melody of Spain"; "El Albaicin"; "Carnival in Spain"; "La