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Kornblum, Isidore Benjamin
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lie schools. Songs: "Popeye, the Sailor Man"; "Burp Went the Burpy Bird"; "Drizzle, Drizzle, the Party's a Fizzle"; "Here Comes that Moon Again"; "Be a Good Soldier While Your Daddy's Away"; "Oh How I'd Love to Own a Fish Store"; "Singapore Sal"; "That Old Red Flannel Shirt My Father Wore"; "If I Took You Back Again." Home: Wald St., Holbrook, N.Y.
Kornblum, Isidore Benjamin, com­poser; b. St. Louis, Mo., June 21, 1895. ASCAP 1942. Educ: Los An-geles High School; Univ. of Califor­nia. Became active in writing while at school and University. An attorney; chief avocation music. Wrote music for Broadway productions: Blue Eyes; Twinkle Toes; Patsy. Songs for mo­tion pictures: "Nobody's Lost on the Lonesome Trail"; "If I Were King"; "The Things We Love Will Live Again." Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, composer; b. Brunn, Czechoslovakia, May 29, 1897. ASCAP 1939. To U.S. 1934; citizen 1943. Of musical parentage educated in music with Fuchs, Zem-linsky, and Gradener in Vienna. A child prodigy at eleven, composed pantomime, Der Schneeman, widely performed; at twelve Piano Trio and at thirteen Piano Sonata in E Major. Musical adapter and conductor Max Reinhardt's stage spectacles. Scored Midsummer Night's Dream for Rein-hardt and since then active in Holly­wood scoring motion pictures—An­thony Adverse and The Adventures of Robin Hood (Academy Awards); Elizabeth and Essex; Kings Row; Juarez; The Prince and the Pauper; Sea Hawk; The Constant Nymph; Devotion; Of Human Bondage, 1945; Escape Me Never. Works for orch.: Sinfonietta; Piano Concerto for Left Hand Alone; Baby Serenade; inci­dental music for Much Ado About Nothing; Violin Concerto; Passover
Psalm for soprano, chorus and orch.; Sursum Corday overture. Operas: Ring of Polykrates; Violanta; The Dead City; The Miracle of Heliane; Kathrin. Revised Rosalinda (Strauss) and La Belle Heldne (Offenbach). Much chamber music and many songs. Address: 9936 Toluca Lake Ave., N. Hollywood, Calif.
Kortlander, Max, composer, pianist, recording artist, manufacturer; b. Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 1, 1890. ASCAP 1920. Educ.: high school, Grand Rapids; specialized music courses, Oberlin Cons., one year, piano, American Cons, of Music, Chi­cago. Professional piano-roll recording artist 1916; became president record­ing company 1931. Songs: "Tell Me"; "Any Time, Any Day, Any Where"; "Red Moon", "Bygones." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Kountz, Richard, composer; b. Pitts­burgh, Pa., July 8, 1896; d. New York, N.Y., Oct. 14, 1950. ASCAP 1927. Pioneer in radio broadcasting, wrote weekly feature program for KDKA, Pittsburgh. Exec. New York music publishing house 1927-39. Contributor to musical magazines. Songs: "The Sleigh" (first prize Mu­sicians Club of Pittsburgh); "Be With Us Still"; "By Love Alone"; "Come Thou at Dawning, My Love"; "Come Thou at Night, My Love"; "Cossack Love Song"; "Elf Dance"; "God Bless Our Land"; "Lilac"; "Love, When Your Eyes Are Smiling Down at Me"; "Prayer of the Norwegian Child"; "A Robin Sang in the Elm-Wood Tree"; "Spanish Love Song"; "Sleepy Hollow Tune"; also choral and instrumental works. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Koutzen, Boris, composer, violinist; b. Uman, Russia, April 1, 1901. ASCAP 1947. To U.S. 1924; citizen 1929. Educ.: Moscow Cons., with Lee Zetlin. Made debut as concert violin­ist at eleven; at seventeen awarded