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own rhythmic beat, uncoordinated with the other voices, and without harmony in accepted sense of word). Works: Molly on the Shore; Shepherds Hey; Irish Tune from County Derry; Clog Dance (Handel in the Strand); Marching Song of Democracy; for chorus, organ and orch.; Kipling "Jungle Book" Cycle, for mixed chorus and chamber orchestra; The Warriors, for three pianofortes and orchestra; In a Nutshell, suite for piano and orch.; Lincolnshire Posy, for Wind Band; The Christian Heart and the Power of Rome, for Wind Band, string orchestra and organ; Hillsongs (No. 1 and 2), for twenty-two solo instruments. Other orch. works: Colonial Song; Danish Folk Music Suite; Youthful Suite; Spoon River; To a Nordic Princess. Home: 7 Cromwell PL, White Plains, N.Y.
Grandjany, Marcel, composer, harpist; b. Paris, France, Sept. 3, 1891. ASCAP 1947. To U.S. 1936; citizen 1945. Educ: Conservatoire National de Musique, Paris, 1900-10, pupil of Rougnon (solfeggio), Hasselmans (harp), Taudou (harmony), Caus-sade (counterpoint), Paul Vidal (fugue and composition); private pupil of Mile. Juliette G. Grandjany, studied solfeggio, piano, and harmony. Studied also with Mile. Hen-riette Renie. Awarded First Medal for solfeggio-theory at the age of ten; First Prize of Harp at thirteen; First Harmony Prize at seventeen. At thirteen awarded Premier Prix at Paris Conservatoire. Organist and choirmaster for several years, Sacred Heart Basilica, Paris. Made debut as harp soloist 1909; recitalist at Wig-more Hall, London 1922; debut as recitalist at Aeolian Hall, New York 1924. Harp soloist with various symph. orchs. including Concerts-Colonne, New York Symph., Boston Symph., Cincinnati Symph., Los Angeles Symph., Montreal Symph., |
Toronto Symph. Member of the Jury at Paris Conservatoire since 1921. Head of Harp Department, Fontaine-bleau, from 1921-35. Head of Harp Department, Juilliard School of Music since 1937. Conducted Master Classes at Summer School, Mills College, California. Since 1943 Master Classes at Conservatoire de Musique et d'art Dramatique of the Province of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. Song5: "Le Vanneur"; "Basier d'Enfant.' For harp: "Deux Chansons Populaires Francaises"; "Rhapsodie"; Aria for harp and string orch.; "Chorale Fan-taisie" for harp and organ (comm. by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation), "Poem Symphonic" for harp, French horn, and orch.; and many transcriptions. Home: 235 W. 71 St., New York 23, N.Y.
Grant, Allan, composer, pianist, radio artist, b. Newcastle-on-Tyne, Eng., July 2, 1892. ASCAP 1939. To U.S. at five. Of musical family (mother, Sarah Lewis, diva). Educ.: high school, Chicago, 111., Balatka Music Coll., Chicago, Inst, of Musical Art, N.Y. (scholarship); postgraduate of same; theory, Percy Goetschius and Franklin Robinson. At four invited by Paderewski to give piano concert at Cardiff, South Wales. Pianist concert stage and symphony orchestras. Works for Piano. Gramercy Square, In a Chinese Tea Room; Serenity; Jade; Lantern Parade; High Adventures on a Hobby Horse; E Minor Piano Concerto; Piano suites: Jungle Land; Paul Revere; Arabian Nights; Marco Polo; Paul Bunyan, E Minor Symphony, Southland, (performed at N.Y. World's Fair). Songs: "To You, My Love, To You"; "Always Mine." Home: 1-628 W. Sherwin Ave., Chicago 26, 111.
Grant, Bert, composer, pianist; b. New York, N.Y., July 12, 1878; d. New York, N.Y., May 10, 1951. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). A |
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