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Hoffman, Dave A.
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"Little Man, YouVe Had A Busy Day"; "I Saw Stars"; "I Apologize''; "Black-Eyed Susan Brown"; AShe Shall Have Music"; "I'm In a Dancing Mood"; "Jimmy Had a Nickel"; "Who Walks in When I Walk Out?"; "The Cop On the Beat, The Man in the Moon, and Me"; "Why Don't You Practice What You Preach?"; "On the Bumpy Road to Love"; "Romance Runs In the Family"; "Close to You"; "What's the Good Word, Mr. Blue­bird?"; "Story of a Starry Night"; "Goodnight, Wherever You Are"; "Mairzy Doats"; "Chi-Baba Chi-Baba"; "Don't You Love Me Any More?"; "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo"; "A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes"; "So This Is Love"; "Cinderella Work Song"; "There's No Tomorrow"; "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked a Cake"; "Ashby De La Zooch." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: K ASCAP.
Hoffman, Dave A. (David A. Grimes), composer, author, b. Phila­delphia, Pa., Sept. 29, 1890. ASCAP 1950. Songs: "It I Could Steal You From Somebody Else"; "Gimme Gimme Gimme Some Gilfilta Fish." Home: 250 South Broad St., Phila­delphia, Pa.
Hoffmann, Max, composer, b. Gnesen, Poland, Dec. 8, 1873. ASCAP 1939. To U.S. 1875. Educ: St. Paul, Minn. Mastered piano and violin as youth. At fifteen, violinist Minneapolis Symph. Orch. Advanced studies har­mony; conductor vaudeville theaters, Chicago; music publishing executive and arranger. While in music business in Chicago, became pioneer in rag­time arrangements making orchestra­tions in this new idiom which were played throughout the country. Pianist Keith's, Boston 1900. Composed and conducted first George Ade musical, The Night of the Fourth. Composed for Klaw and Erlanger; produced series of musical shows 1902-05: Rogers Brothers in London; Rogers
Brothers in Paris; Rogers Brothers in Ireland; Rogers Brothers in Panama, etc. Composed and directed Ziegfeld's Parisian Model 1906; directed original Ziegfeld Follies 1907. Directed first Russian Ballet in U.S., brought to America by wife Gertrude Hoffmann, first ballerina. Conducted 1912 Broad­way to Paris, New York Wintergarden; then for several years musical director vaudeville tours Gertrude Hoffmann. Organized, conducted Gertrude Hoff­mann girls, Ziegfeld Follies 1923, and four World Tours. Since 1939 chief of orchestras New York theaters, Okla­homa!, etc. Songs: "A Bunch of Rags"; "Dixie Queen"; "Rag Med­ley"; "By the Sycamore Tree"; "San Francisco Bay"; "If You Want to Learn to Kiss Me"; "In Washington", "Panama", "Colon Town"; "The Gertrude Hoffmann Glide"; "Bom-ba-Shay"; "Ching-a-Ling-a-Loo"; "The Honolulu Dance." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: r/< ASCAP.
Hokanson, Margrethe, composer; b. Duluth, Minn., Dec. 19, 1893. ASCAP 1949. Educ.: American Cons., Chicago. Private study with Heniot Levy, Arthur Olaf Anderson, Marcel Dupre, Wilhelm Middelshulte. Or­ganizer Manuscript Section, Compo­sers Club of Duluth, 1925. Awarded first prize for orchestral number, Natl Federation of Music Clubs, Minn. Works. "O Praise Him," choral; "Butterflies at Haga," ar­rangement; "In the Primeval For­est"; "Ring Dans"; "Nordic Song"; "A Summer Idyl"; "Song Without Words"; "Song of the Shepherd"; ^Ring Noel"; "Snow"; "Tribute"; "Gethsemane"; vocal ensemble; "Come, Close the Curtains of Your Eyes." Home: Meadville, Pa. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Holden, Anne Stratton, composer; b. Cleburne, Tex., April 17, 1887. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Univ. of Texas; music in youth with Etta Wilson. At