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Josefovits, Teri
World's Fair, 1893; entertainer, major vaudeville circuits. Pioneer in "ragtime" school. Wrote many rag­time instrumental pieces; opera (words and music) Tremonisha, pro­duced at own expense for single per­formance in Harlem, 1911. Works: "Maple Leaf Rag"j "Palm Leaf Rag"; "Sunflower Rag"; "Euphonic Sounds"; "Paragon Rag"; "Pineapple Rag"; "Sugar Cane Rag"; "Country Club Rag"; "Wall Street Rag"; "Pleasant Moments"; "Solace"; "Magnetic Rag"; "Frolic of the Bears"; "Gladiolus Rag"; "Searchlight Rag"; "Kismet Rag"; "Entertainer Rag"; "Original Rag." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Jordan, Joe, composer, conductor, arranger; b. Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 11, 1882. ASCAP 1939. Educ: Cincinnati public schools; Lincoln Inst., Jeffer­son, Mo., specializing in music. Ap­pointed, 1903, music director, Chi­cago theater; music director and col­laborator in book and music of Rufus Rastus, 1908. Music director Ban­danna Land, 1909. Arranger, Flo Ziegfeld. Abroad several years, toured Europe with own orchestra, returned to theater in vaudeville team. Con­ducted musical revue Strut Miss Lizzie, 1922. Organized several or­chestras and during "Charleston" craze, 1925-26, composed music for R*arin to Go. Arranger for New York producer, scored numerous Broadway productions 1930-35. Co-composer Blackbirds, of 1933 and 1934. Com­posed musical settings for Macbeth and Haiti, all-Negro productions of Federal Music Project, New York. Service in World War II. Staff teacher of arranging, instrumentation and harmony at Modern Institute of Music, Tacoma. Songs: "Lovey Joe"; "Oh Say! Wouldn't It Be a Dream!"; "Got to Have My Toddy Now"; "I Want to Sing About You"; "Take Your Time ; "Sweetie Dear"; "Brother-in-Law Dan." Home: 1310 So. Cushman, Tacoma, Wash.
Jordan, Roy, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 17, 1916. ASCAP 1941. Songs: "The Booglie Wooglie Piggy"; "I Won t Give In Till You Give Out"; "Pick Your Own Lick"; "Why Go On Pretending"; "You Bring Me Down"; "Hezekiah"; "Stars Over the Campus"; "Serenade to a Wildcat"; "My Lost Horizon"; "Somewhere Beyond the Night"; "A Little Bit of Dark." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Josefovits, Teri, composer, author, pi­anist, conductor; radio, recording, and television artist, actor, educator; b. Hartford, Conn., Sept. 9, 1909. ASCAP 1947. Of musical parentage. Educ.: public schools Hartford and Painesville and Cleveland, Ohio. In music, at age of four under guidance of parents; Lake Erie College Cons, of Music with Dean Wade; Cleve­land Inst, of Music with Beryl Ru­binstein, Walter Scott, Roger Sessions, Ernest Bloch; also Wm. A. Becker, Cleveland and Erno von Dohnanyi, Budapest and Berlin. Helped finance musical studies playing organ for silent films, and selling original stories to magazines. Juvenile and character actor with dramatic stock company; also actor in film shorts. Concertist on major networks; on ocean liners, vari­ous major hotels in U.S., Bermuda, Cuba, Canada. Member of staff of New York Paramount Theatre 1936-47. On staff radio stations Cleveland, Venezuela, New York. Works: Mag­yar Fantasy; Arabesque Serenade; Caribbean Serenade; Bagatelle; The Twin Pines (tone poem for piano and orch.); Algonquin War Dance; Valse A La Mode; Sparkling Burgundy. Songs: "You're My Inspiration"; "Swell Guy"; "Goodnight To You"; "A New Day Prayer"; "Gonna Get Me Home"; "In a Dismal Mood"; "There Are Two Sides to Every Story"; "Love is Evrywhere"; "Last Night I Kissed A Dream"; "Au Revoir Again." Home: