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mother, advanced studies New England Cons, of Music; piano, Charles F. Dennee and Mme. Dietrich Strong; organ, George Whiting; harmony and composition, Carl Riessman and Davenport Kerrison; voice, William Dunham, Clarence B. Ashenden, and David Bispham. Supervisor of music public schools, Jacksonville, Fla. Toured in vaudeville U.S. and Europe 1896-98. Composed for revues and directed orchestra Hammerstein Opera House, London, England. Appointed musical director and trustee Music School Settlement, Harlem 1914. Honorary Master of Arts Atlanta Univ. World War I, 2nd Lt., 15th Inf., New York National Guard. Author of Shout Songs; Rolling Along in Song, and many books on Negro spirituals, folk and work songs. Musical shows: Shoo-Fly Regiment; Red Moon, in which he acted; Mr. Load of Koal; Humpty Dumpty; Sleeping Beauty and the Beast; Come Over Here. Stage appearances: Porgu and Bess; Mambds Daughters; Cabin in tlie Sky. Songs: "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"; "Since You Went Away"; "The Awakening"; "L'il Gal"; "I Told My Love to the Roses"; "Song of the Heart"; "Morning Noon and Night"; "Two Eyes"; "Three Questions"; "Under the Bamboo Tree"; "Oh, Didn't He Ramble"; "The Old Flag Never Touched the Ground"; "The Maiden with the Dreamy Eyes"; "Lazy Moon"; "Come Out, Dinah, on the Green"; "Nobody's Looking but the Owl and the Moon"; "Tell Me, Dusky Maiden"; "My Castle on the Nile"; "Congo Love Song." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Johnson, James P., composer, pianist, radio, recording and piano-roll artist; b. New Brunswick, N.J., Feb. 1, 1894. ASCAP 1926. Educ: New York public schools; played piano for school minstrel shows; in music E. Aldama Jackson, composition; M. Deutsch, orchestration; B. Gianinni and E. E. |
Treumann, piano. Also with Charlie Cherry, Claude Crew, Alberta Bradley, Ernest Green, Marie Howell. While at school, became pianist at summer resorts. Jazz and swing pioneer, stage, screen, and night-club entertainer. Accompanist for Bessie Smith, Trixie Smith, Mamie Smith, Laura Smith and Ethel Waters; also appeared in concert tours. Member, League of Composers, Natl. Assoc, of Composers and Conductors. Works: Symphonie Harlem (orch.); Symphony in Brown (orch.); African Drums (symphonic poem); Piano Concerto in A-flat; Mississippi Moon (tone poem); Yama Kraw (Negro Rhapsody); Symphonic Suite on St. Louis Blues. Improvisations on "Deep River"; Etude; Fantasia in C-Minor, Sonata in C Major; Sonata in F Major, City of Steel (tone poem); De Organizer (one-act folk opera); Dreamy Kid (one-act opera); Kitchen Opera (operetta); The Husband (operetta); Manhattan Street Scene, ballet; Se-fronia's Dream, ballet. Sengs: "Old Fashioned Love"; "Don't Cry, Baby"; "Charleston"; "If I Could Be With You"; "Stop It Joe"; "Mama and Papa Blues." Home: 171-38 108 Ave., Jamaica, L.I., N.Y.
Johnson, James Weldon, author, poet, lawyer, editor, educator, diplomat, lecturer; b. Jacksonville, Fla., June 17, 1871; d. Wiscasset, Me., June 26, 1938. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ: Stanton public schools, Jacksonville; Atlanta Univ. 1894; Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts; principal Stanton School, Jacksonville; founder and editor Daily American, First Negro daily in America. Self-educated in law, admitted to Florida bar. With brother J. Rosamond Johnson (q.v.) became interested in lyrics and wrote for artists of New York musical stage. Appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt U.S. consul at Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, later at Corinto, Nicaragua. Returned to New |
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