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"I'm Looking for a Sweetheart"; "In Siam"; "Loving"; "Temple Bells." Church Anthem: "Ho! Every One That Thirsteth." Address: Estate c/o ASCAP.
Kleinecke, August, composer; b. Waterbury, Conn., Oct. 30, 1881; d. Tucson, Ariz., May 22, 1944. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). Educ.: Waterbury public schools; Yale Univ. Music with private tutors; Dr. Bower. Pianist, orchestra leader several years theaters, Waterbury. From 1904, music director for N.Y. stage productions. World War I, 1918; band leader, Camp Hancock, Ga. Songs: "Mon Desir"; "Dream Girl"; "When Dearie Calls Me Dear"; "Harmony Baby"; "Ireland"; "Let's Get Together"; "Then I'll Know"; and instru-mentals, "Julian"; "Keep Going"; "Doyle and Dixon" (waltz), also musical comedy: Husbands Guaranteed. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Kleinsinger, George, composer; b. San Bernardino, Calif., Feb. 13, 1914. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: N.Y. Univ. Bachelor of Arts 1937; in music with Philip James, Marion Bauer, and Charles Haubiel; piano with Harrison Potter, Juilliard Graduate School (fellowship in composition) under Frederick Jacobi, Bernard Wagenaar. Worked as youth in dance bands; studied dentistry with music as avocation. Musical Director CCC camps; World War II, Music Supervisor 2nd Service Command, ASF, organized soldier musical units. Works: Life in a Day of a Secretary, opera (Natl. New Theater Prize 1939); I Hear America Singing, cantata; Jessie James, tone poem; Scherzo for orch.; Fantasy for Violin and Orch.; First Symphony; Farewell to a Hero, cantata; Victory Against Heaven, opera; String Quartet; Overture on American Folk Themes; Western Rhapsody; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings; |
Street Corner Concerto; Adventures of a Zoo; Sonatina for Flute, Cello and Piano; Baseball Cantata; Pantomime; Westward Ho! Overture; Suite* for Orchestra. Series of children's stories for narrator and orch.; including Tubby the Tuba; Story of Celeste; Fee-Wee the Piccolo; Pan the Piper; Johnny the Stranger; Pancho Goes to a Fiesta. Home: Roslyn Heights, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Klemm, Gustav, composer, educator; b. Baltimore, Md., Feb. 6, 1897; d. Baltimore, Md., Sept. 5, 1947. ASCAP 1930. At nine, started piano; began composing. Studied harmony with Howard Thatcher, at Peabody Cons, of Music; composition, orchestration and counterpoint with Gustav Strube. Awarded scholarship in cello with Bart Wirtz. World War I, bandmaster, Camp Holabird; toured the East at head of seventy-piece band. Conductor City Park Band, Baltimore 1922-25. Program director and assistant manager of radio station 1925-38. Conductor, Little Symph. Orch.; guest conductor, Stadium Civic Symphony. On editorial staflF, The Evening Sun, Baltimore, as music, dramatic and motion picture critic 1920-32. Wrote articles for various magazines and newspapers. Actively engaged in editorial work, music publishers. Won first prize in national contest conducted by The Etude, with piano composition Three Moods and a Theme, later arranged for concert orchestra. Won eighth annual Kimball Prize Chicago Singing Teachers Guild for song, "A Hundred Little Loves." Wrote program notes for new Baltimore Symphony Orch. 1942-44; resigned as assistant manager; made head of Preparatory Department of Peabody Cons, of Music. Songs: "A Child's Prayer"; "London Rain"; "Love, You Are My Music"; "O Sing Again!"; "Prayer for a Home'; "Sounds"; "September Day"; "Weary Goin\" Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
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