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Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi. Works for band: Suite for Symphonic Band (Little March, second movement); American Folk Rhapsody; Two Moods; A Walking Tune; March Processional; The Blue-Tail Fly; The Green Domino. Also: Bagatelle, clarinet quartet, and incidental and background music for radio and television. Home: R.F.D. No. 5, Ridge-field, Conn.
Grunn, (John) Homer, composer, pianist; b. West Salem, Wis., May 5, 1880; d. Los Angeles, Calif., June 6, 1944. ASCAP 1927. Educ: piano with Emil Liebling, Chicago, theory with A. Brune, E. Jedlicka, Stern's Cons., Berlin. Taught piano Chicago Music Coll. 1903-07, 1907 director Piano Department Arizona School of Music, Phoenix. Debut as piano con-certist, Chicago, 1900. Founded Brahms Quintet, especially interested in Indian music which influenced number of his orginal compositions. Piano soloist, Los Angeles Symph. Orch. Works incl. Ballets, Xochitl and The Flower Goddess (both on Aztec subjects). Operettas. The Mars Diamond; The Golden Pheasant. Comic operas: The Isle of Cuckoo; In Woman's Reign. For orch.: March Heroique for piano and orch., Hopi Indian Dance; Zuni Indian Suite; symphonic poem, The Shadow World; Humoresque Negre, also 'Tis Raining for piano; Peyote Drinking Song (featured in London production of Hiawatha); numerous piano teaching pieces, and songs. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Guion, David W., composer, pianist; b. Ballinger, Texas, Dec. 15, 1895. ASCAP 1927. Mother, pianist singer. Began musical career at eight. Educ.: Whipple Acad., Jacksonville, 111.; Polytechnic Coll., Fort Worth, Texas. Three years under Leopold Godow-sky, Royal Cons, of Music, Vienna. To New York for further study. Pub- |
lished first composition, 1918. Stage presentations of own cowboy compositions; then on radio. All-Guion program, 1936, Carnegie Hall. Writer and lecturer on Western and Southern folk music. Wrote music for Cavalcade of Texas. In 1950, State of Texas, Howard Payne College of Brown-wood, Texas, Texas Fed. of Music Clubs and Dallas Fed. of Music Clubs proclaimed Tan. 28-Feb. 4 as David Guion Week, this honor to be an annual affair. Rec'd hon. Doctor of Music from Howard Payne College, 1950. Works: Western Ballet, made up entirely of western tunes; Shin-gandi, Primitive African Ballet-Suite. Other orch. works: Alley Tunes; Arkansas Traveler, Turkey In the Straw, Sheep and Goat Walkin to the Pasture; Mother Goose Suite; Suite for Orchestra, Pastoral Also about two hundred songs, incl. "Home On the Range"; piano concert numbers. Home: "Home On the Range," Poho Poco Valley, Route 3, Lehighton, Pa.
Guiu, Jose Melis, composer, author, b. Havana, Cuba, Feb. 27, 1920. ASCAP 1946. To U.S. 1937; citizen 1944. At six entered Havana Cons.; at ten, teacher. At seven first public concert. Scholarship from Cuban Government to study in Paris; won competition there; piano, Alfred Cortot, Paris. To Havana, concert work, Havana Symph. Orch. To Boston, study with European harpsichordist and concert pianist, Erwin Bodky. Awarded scholarship. To New York, study under Jos. and Rosina Lhevinne, Juilliard Graduate School. World War II, one year U.S. Army. Toured U.S. as Musical Director for U.S.O. Camp Shows. Six months piano and conducting N.A.T.T.C. Naval Band at Norman, Okla. To New York playing night clubs, composing for motion pictures. Works: "Night Fall"; "Fantasia Cubana"; "Modern Piece"; "El Vendedor"; "El Pregon de Santiago"; "Amor Tropical ; "Rhumba |
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