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Hurd, Daniel George
The Old Nest. Songs: "Cain"; "The Roustabout"; "Bricklayer Love"; "In a Gondola"; album of ten musical settings for James Whitcomb Riley poems; "Funeral March for the American Dead"; "Jungle Blood"; "The Fog-Horn"; "The Bugle"; "The Song of Hope"; "The Rose that Bleeds." Home: 204 N. Rossmore Ave., Los Angeles 4, Calif.
Huhn, Bruno, composer, pianist, con­ductor; b. London, Eng., Aug. 1, 1871; d. New York, N.Y., May 13, 1950. ASCAP 1924. Educ: in piano with Sarah Taunton, harmony John Pointer; Certificate with Honors in Musical Knowledge at Trinity Coll., London. Concert tours Australia 1889-91; advanced studies piano S. B. Mills, New York; harmony Louis Alberti and Carl Muller; voice Mme. Anna Lankow; conducting Louis Koemmenich. Debut as pianist Stein way Hall, 1896. Fourteen years conductor N.Y. Banks' Glee Club; conductor Orpheus Club, Ridgewood, N.J. Associate Founder and conduc­tor N.Y. Junior League Glee Club and Choral Club, Forest Hills, L.I. Works: "Invictus"; The Divan, song-cycle for mixed quartet of solo voices; song-cycle, Love's Triumph, Christ Triumphant, Easter Cantata; Praise Jehovah, cantata. Songs: "The Danc­ing Girl"; "Till I Wake"; "Summer Changes"; "Echo"; "Israfer; "The Dying Christian to His Soul"; "Cour­age"; "We Fight for Peace"; "O That It Were So"; "Seafarers"; "O Mother Heart"; "The Heavenly Mystery"; "Where Angels Sing"; "Hope"; "Kathleen"; "Faith Be Strong"; "God is Enough"; "Constancy"; "Eldorado"; "My Boy"; "I Arise from Dreams of Thee"; "A Secret from Bacchus"; "Unfearing." Part songs for male, female and mixed voices: "Destiny"; "Blest Pair of Sirens"; "The Message"; "The Unknown." Duets including "Ships that Pass in the Night"; "The Hunt"; and other sacred numbers;
many other four-part choruses, duets, solos, anthems, and extensive catalog of piano and organ works. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Hupfeld, Herman, Composer, author, conductor, pianist; b. Montclair, N.J., Feb. 1, 1894; d. Montclair, N.J., June 8, 1951. ASCAP 1931. Educ.: to Germany at nine, violin student; re­turned to U.S., graduated from Mont­clair High School. Organized high school orchestra. World War I, U.S. Navy, played saxophone in Newport Naval Reserve Band. Sang and played own songs Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic; pianist and entertainer in Europe and America. Entertained at camps and hospitals, World War II. Songs: "As Time Goes By" (won Academy Award, 1944); "Get Out and Buy Those 'E' Bonds"; "Song of the Army Transportation Corps"; "Sing Some­thing Simple"; "When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba"; "Let's Put Out the Lights and Go to Sleep"; "Are You Making Any Money"; "Savage Serenade"; "Goopy Geer"; "Down the Old Back Road"; "My Little Dog Has Ego"; "Here Comes That Tiger" (new Princeton football song). Musical shows: A La Carte and Three Little Shows. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Hurd, Daniel George, composer, ar­ranger; b. Fitchburg, Mass., May 9, 1918. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: New Hampton School; Harvard Coll.; New York Univ. Studied piano, violin, banjo, and trumpet in school years; piano with Sam Saxe and Teddy Wil­son. Began career at thirteen, playing trumpet. Sold life insurance 1935-36. Arranger for various bands; original member Hal Mclntyre orchestra 1941-43. Arranger and later conduc­tor of Curtis Bay, Md. United States Coast Guard dance band for radio and hospital benefits, U.S.O. dances. Recorded with own jazz unit. World War II, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve