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Knew Then"; "My Last Goodbye"; "A Million Dreams Ago"; "Now I Lay Me Down to Dream"; "Something Old—Something New"; "For Sale"; "So Long for Now"; "With Love"; "Lonesome Tonight"; "Lynn." Home: Chicago, 111. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Howard, John Tasker, composer, author, radio commentator; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 30, 1890.
ASCAP 1926 (director 1945-------).
Educ: Williams Coll. (honorary Master of Arts 1937), music with Paul Tidden, Howard Brockway, and Mortimer Wilson. Writer on musical subjects, music editor McCall's Magazine, 1928-30, editor music section, Wee-don's Modern Encyclopedia, 1931; editor music division U.S. George Washington Bicentennial Commission (medal of award 1933); editor, music division, U.S. Constitution Sesqui-centennial Commission, music editor, Cue Magazine 1937-38; curator, Americana Music Collection, New York Public Library since 1940; member Soc. of American Historians; Author's League ot America, Zeta Psi; advisory editor Encyclopedia Americana, 1950; lecturer in music Columbia Univ., 1950. Vice-president Natl. Assn. for Amer. Conductors and Composers, 1947-50; member Board of Trustees Glen Ridge, N.J. Public Library. Books on music: Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour; Ethelbert Nevin; Our Contemporary Composers, American Music in tlw Twentieth Century; This Modern Music; The World's Great Operas. Pamphlets: Studies of Contemporary American Composers; A Program Outline of American Music; The Music of George Washington's Time; Music Associated with the Formation of the Constitution and with the Inauguration of George Washington. Editor and compiler: A Program of Early American Piano Music; A Program of Early and Mid-19th Century American Songs; A |
Program of Stephen Foster Songs; A Treasury of Stephen Foster; vol. 9 of "The Scribner Radio Music Library." Musical Works: Fantasy on a Choral Theme for piano and orch., Foster Sinfonietta, March of the Grenadiers; Mosses From an Old Manse for string orch.; From Foster Hall for string quartet. Choral music: St. Augustine's Prayer; Early Ameii-can Lullaby; The Virgins Cradle Hymn; The Little Bay Mare; Old Satan; Joseph Seely and Isaac Osborn; Most Holy and Gracious God; O Master Let Me Walk with Thee; I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, Jesus Meek and Gentle; I Love Thy Kingdom Lord, Your Magic Note. Piano Pieces: Intaglio Waltzes; Pastorals; Still Waters; Serenade en forme detude; Minuet on an Old Song; Cloud Banks; Calendar Suite (twelve pieces, one for each month). Songs: "In the Valley at Home"; "There Is Sweet Music There", "The Farmer's Son"; "Others Call It God"; "O Did You Hear the Meadow Lark", "Beyond the Stars"; "Ann Mary"; "Choric Song." Composer and adapter of music for Percy MacKaye's folk masque, Wakefield. Home. 47 Lincoln St., Glen Ridge, N.J.
Howard, Joseph £., composer, author, actor, radio and recording artist, theatrical producer, b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 12, 1878. ASCAP 1921. At eight, ran away from home to Midwest. At eleven, debut in vaudeville as boy soprano; engagement as "Little Eva" in touring stock company. At nineteen, returned to New York, in vaudeville. Developed song and dance routine; at turn of century, producer and songwriter in Chicago. Many years musical comedy star, vaudeville headliner. In recent years in theaters and night clubs. Wrote, directed, staged many musical productions, chiefly in Chicago: The Time, the Place and the Girl; Stubborn Cinderella; Prince of Tonight; |
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