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Man"; "The Girl On the Isle of Man." Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Gould, Morton, composer, conductor, arranger; b. Richmond Hill, New York, Dec. 10, 1913. ASCAP 1936. Educ: N.Y. Univ.; piano with Abby Whiteside; composition with Dr. Vincent Jones. At four, started piano; at six had first composition published ("Just Six"); concertized until seventeen. Staff arranger Radio City Music Hall; later becoming staff member N.B.C. From twenty-one, with own large orch. in radio, conductor and arranger. Frequent guest conductor symphony orchestras and musical organizations in programs of own works. Wrote music for and appeared with own orchestra in motion picture, Delightfully Dangerous. Works. Three Symphonies; four American Sympho-nettes; Pavanne (second movement from American Symphonette No. 2); Latin-American Symphonette, Foster Gallery; Little Symphony, Lincoln Legend (premiere N.B.C. Symph. with Arruro Toscanini), Homespun Overture; Cowboy Rhapsody, Spirituals for String Choir and Orchestra; Concerto for Viola, Concertette for Viola; Interplay for Piano and Orchestra, Piano Concerto, Concerto for Orchestra; Ballad for Band; Harvest for Strings, Harp and Vibraphone; Minstrel Show; Holiday Music, Fall River Legend, Ballet Suite; Philliar-monic Waltzes; Serenade of Carols. Also scores for musical revues, Billion Dollar Baby; Arms and the Girl. Home: Forest Hills, N.Y. Address: R.K.O. Bldg., Rockefeller Center, New York, N.Y.
Goulding, Edmund, composer, author, scenarist, motion-picture producer; b. Feltham, Middlesex, Eng., Mar. 20, 1891. ASCAP 1947. To U.S. 1919. Songs: "Love, Your Magic Spell Is Everywhere"; "You Are a Song"; |
"Alone in the Rain"; "Oh, Give Me Time for Tenderness"; "Mam'selle"; "To Rest in the Glory"; "Fury of the Sea"; "The Lovely Song My Heart is Singing"; "Sweetest Moment." Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Graff, George, author, business executive; b. New York, Aug. 5, 1886. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ: De Witt Clinton High School. Made music chief avocation of business career. Chance acquaintance with Ernest R. Ball brought him opportunity for collaboration, their first work being: "As Long as the World Rolls On." Other works: "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling"; "To the End of the World with You"; "In the Garden of Tomorrow"; "I Love the Name of Mary"; "Out Where the Blue Begins"; "Wake up America"; "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold"; "Teach Me to Pray"; "I Come to Thee", "Mother of Pearl"; "Little Man"; "Who Else but God"; "Hymns of Happiness." Home: Stroudsburg, Pa.
Grainger, Percy Aldridge, composer, pianist; b. Brighton, Melbourne, Australia, July 8, 1882. U.S. citizen 1918. ASCAP 1924. Until ten studied piano with mother; then Prof. Louis Pabst, Melbourne, James Kwast and Busoni, Germany. In concert field since 1901. Protege of Grieg, has devoted large part of concert work to Grieg's compositions. Made many arrangements of folk-song themes from the traditional music of Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and America. American debut, recital, New York, Feb. 11, 1915. In U.S. Army, 1917; bandsman playing oboe, saxophone; then instructor Army music school. Since 1892 experimented with "Free Music"—music without scales (using sliding intervals), without coordinated rhythmic pulse (each voice follows |
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