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Lange, Arthur
Square, N.Y., Jan. 22, 1951. ASCAP 1925. Educ.: public schools; Syracuse Univ. (nongrad.). Self-educated in music. Assistant concert director Wanamaker Auditorium concerts, New York for twenty-three years. Honorary member Sinfonia. Author of articles for music periodicals. Works: Boston Fancy, ballet; Sea Burial, tone poem; Dirge for Jo In­dian. Suites for piano: Sleepy Hollow; Adirondack Sketches; Fourth of July; Here Are Ladies; Five American Dances; Sold Down the River. Three pantomime pieces: Abelard and Heloise; From Eastern Seas; Caravan from China. Novelty pieces: Persim­mon Pucker; The Enchanted St. Bishop. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Lane, Edward, author; b. Newark, N.J., Feb. 19, 1915. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: Ridge St. Grammar School, Central High School, Newark; New York Univ.; Oberlin Coll. (scholar­ship), Bachelor of Arts, 1937; music at Oberlin Cons. Organized and sang with college dance band, co-founder of Oberlin Mummers Club, co-writing musical comedies. Business executive for Abe Lyman's orch.; advertising, promotion, and publicity executive with music publishers, recording com­panies, advertising agencies. Works: Bless You (For Being an Angel)"; "Let's Dream This One Out"; "Let's Play House"; "The Two Little Squir­rels"; "When the Lilacs Bloom Again"; "Rainbow Rendezvous"; "Lovely"; "It's Always You"; "Lyrics by My Lips, Music by My Heart"; "Smoke in the Wind"; "That Night of Mem'-ries"; "The Sample Song"; "When the Moonlight Fell on the Waterfall"; "Boulevard of Memories"; "Candle­light and Kisses"; "Bittersweet Sep­tember." Home: 105-05 69 Ave., Forest Hills, N.Y.
Lang, Philip E. J., composer; b. New York, N.Y., April 17, 1911. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: St. Agnes Acad.;
Oceanside, N.Y., High School; Ithaca Coll. of Music, Bachelor of Science; Tuilliard School of Music, canon and fugue. World War II, en­sign U.S.M.S. 1942-45, officer in charge of music. Arranger for popu­lar radio performers, motion pictures, and musical comedies, including Bil­lion Dollar Baby, Annie Get Your Gun. Staff arranger for radio station. Music consultant for O.W.I. Guest professor, Univ. of Michigan. Works: Jay Walk; Promenade; The Hare and the Hounds; Bric-a-Brac; Plymouth Rock; I've Been Dreaming; Dixie Polka; The Light Fantastic; Sheeps-head Bay March; Do-Si-Do. Trans-scriptions for band: Sea Medley; El Relicario; La Sorella; Gavotte (Pro-kofieffs Classical Symphony); Polka and Dance (Shostakovich's Golden Age); Salute to the Allies; Irish Washerwoman; Christmas Fantasy; Gay Nineties; Funiculi Funiculi; Polonaise (Chopin); Dark Eyes. Home: 113 Putnam Ave., Freeport, N.Y. New York Address: 1650 Broad­way, New York, N.Y.
Lange, Arthur, composer, author, ar­ranger, director; b. Philadelphia, Pa., April 16, 1889. ASCAP 1924. Mas­tered piano and violin at early age. Became arranger for dance orchestras and musical comedies. Author of books: Arranging for the Modern Dance Orchestra; Spectrotone. Musi­cal director in Hollywood film studios, scored: The Great Victor Herbert; The Great Ziegfeld; The Woman in the Window; Along Came Jones; Casanova Brown and many others. Musical director of Keep Smiling; Kidnapped; Submarine Patrol; Hold That Co-Ed; Gateway; Rebecca of Sunnyhrook Farm; Married and in Love. Now musical director and con­ductor of the Santa Monica Civic Symphony. Works: arrangements of classics for dance orchestras; Sym­phonette Romantique; Symphonette Spirituelle; In the Evening; Way