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Songs: "Egypt"; "Other Eyes"; "Blushing June Roses"; "Somebody's Eyes"; "Thro All the World"; "Only With You"; "The Bluebird"; "Garden of Dreams"; "Sunset"; "The Road to Yesterday"; "Sweetheart"; "Today"; "Lover of Mine." Home: Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Kurtz, Manny (Emanuel Kurtz), author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1911. ASCAP 1936. Songs: "In a |
Sentimental Mood"; "Romance Runs in the Family"; "I Must Have One More Kiss, Kiss, Kiss"; "Apple Blossoms and Chapel Bells"; 'A Prairie Fairy Tale"; "Never a Dream Goes By"; "Devil in the Moon"; "Put Put Put (Your Arms Around Me)"; "My Dreams Are Getting Better All the Time"; "The Whole World is Singing My Song"; "With a Hey and a Hi and a Ho-Ho-Ho." Home: Brooklyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
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Lada, Anton, composer, recording artist; b. Chicago, 111., Sept 25, 1890; d. Santa Monica, Calif., Aug. 28, 1944. ASCAP 1920. Educ: private lessons in music. Played in Milwaukee Symph.; organized own band, "Lada's Louisiana Five," in New Orleans; played in various theater orchestras, vaudeville, and night clubs throughout U.S. Arranged Mikado into Mikado in Swing. To Hollywood scoring motion pictures 1941. Works: "Arkansas Blues"; "Church St. Sob-bin Blues"; "Yelping Hound"; "Swanee Dream"; "Golden Rod Blues"; "Blue Flame"; "Oh, Joe, Get Your Fiddle and Your Bow"; "Thunder Bolt"; "Havana Moonlight"; "Dreary Weary Blues"; "He's My Man"; Til Get Him^Yet"; "Yesterday, Now and Forever"; "Town Topic Rag"; "Lilac Twilight." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
La Forge, Frank, composer, pianist, educator; b. Rockford, 111., Oct. 22, 1879. ASCAP 1932. Educ: in music with sister, Ruth La Forge Hall; Harrison Wild, Chicago; four years with Leschetizky, Vienna; Labor and Navratil, composition. Honorary degree doctor or music, Detroit Foundation Music School, 1939. Accompanist and assisting artist with Sem-brich 1908-18 touring Europe and America; similarly with Schumann-Heink, Matzenauer, Gadski and Lily |
Pons. In 1920 with Ernesto Berumen founded La Forge-Berumen Studios, New York. Among pupils: Bori, Matzenauer, Anderson, Otero, Crooks, Tibbett. Made first piano recording for Victor phonograph (Liszt's Liebes-traum). Works: Valse de Concert; Improvisations; Gavotte and Musette; Romance; Camp Sketches. Songs: "Retreat"; "I Came With a Song"; "To a Messenger"; "Before the Crucifix"; "Supplication"; "In a Forest'; "Bird Song"; "Hills." Home: 1100 Park Ave., New York 28, N.Y. |
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La Freniere, Charles Frederick,
author, editor, choral director; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Tan. 12, 1914. ASCAP 1942. Early musical educ. with grandfather, Prof. Frederick Schneider, and with mother, Emma P. La Freniere (q.v.). Educ.: Harvard Univ. 1936, Bachelor of Science; voice Herman Annable. Associated with mother in music publishing house. Works: "A Valley in Valparaiso"; "White Sands"; "Mia Vene-zia"; "Long After Midnight"; "Midnight Kiss"; "Meet Me at the Football Game"; "Suitcase Susie"; "You Can't Escape From Me"; "Strolling on the Boulevard"; "The Tide Has Turned at Last"; "There Won't Be Any Santa Claus (Over There This Year)." Home: Hempstead, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
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