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author of Clarinet Method in Three Parts. Home: East Northport, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Langstroth, Ivan, composer; b. Alameda, Calif., Oct. 16, 1887. ASCAP 1947. Educ: Royal Acad, of Music, Berlin 1910-14; composition, Prof. Paul Juon; conducting, Prof. Rudolf Krasselt. Studied piano with Josef Lhevinne, Wannsee, Berlin 1910-13. Scholarship Royal Acad, of Arts, Berlin 1913-16; master-class for composition, Prof. Engelbert Humper-dinck. Kappellmeister, Kiel Opera House, Kiel, Germany 1914-15. Choirmaster, American Church, Berlin 1916-17. Concert pianist Stockholm, Sweden and Denmark, 1917-21. Prof, of composition and theory, New Vienna Cons., Vienna, Austria 1921-32; Austro-American Intl. Cons, of Music, 1932-34. Head of Composition Dept., Chatham Square Music School, New York 1940-43. Lecturer, instructor, conductor, New York City Coll. 1942-43; Brooklyn College 1943-45. Now teaching piano, composition at own studio. Member: Austrian Society of Composers; Austrian Composers' League; Austrian Teachers' Society; Amer. Guild of Organists; New York Musicians Club. Works: Fantasie and Fugue (John Haussermann prize 1940); Piano Sonatina, for young people; Piano Concerto; String Quartet; Aria for Soprano and Orchestra; A Cappella Mass; Cradle Song; Butterfly; Chorale, Toccata and Double Fugue (Amer. Guild of Organists Prize 1950). Also Opus 1 to 33, orchestra, choral, organ, piano and chamber music and songs. Home: 447 E. 89 St., New York 28, N.Y.
Laramore, Vivian Yeiser, author; b. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 8, 1895. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: private and public schools, Jacksonville, Fla.; Columbia Univ. Teacher of poetry at Miami, Fla., winters; at Hendersonville, N.C., |
summers. Conducted column "Miami Muse" on Miami Daily News fourteen years. Editor and publisher of eight Fla. anthologies. Became Poet Laureate of Florida by appointment, 1931. Author of six books of verse: Poems, Green Acres, Flamingo, Had Sappho Written Sonnets, Ballad of the Silver Flute, The Beggar and the Star. Songs: "My Florida"; "When You Are Near"; "Together and Alone"; "Mango Moon"; "Beneath a Southern Sky ; "Wind Song"; "Autumn"; "Little River"; "Not Enough"; "White Jade." Home: 8260 East Dixie Highway, Miami 38, Fla.
Lardner, Ring W., composer, author, sportswriter; b. Niles, Mich., March 6, 1885; d. East Hampton, N.Y., Sept. 25, 1933. ASCAP 1933. Educ.: Niles High School, Armour Inst, of Technology, Chicago 1901-02. Reporter on Niles, Chicago, and Boston newspapers; for many years from 1913, on Chicago Tribune. Sports-writer and creator of fictional characters in baseball. Author of Bib Ballads; You Know Me, Al; Gullible s Travels; How to Write Short Stories; Round Up; Big Town; First and Last. Plays: June Moon; Elmer the Great. Songs: "Little Puff of Smoke"; "Goodnight"; "How Far Is Heaven From Here?"; "Teddy, You're a Bearj "Prohibition Blues"; "June Moon"; "Montana Moon"; "If I Were You, Love." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
La Rocca, Dominick James (Nick), composer, author, cornetist, recording artist; b. New Orleans, La., April 11, 1889. ASCAP 1936. Of musical parentage. Educ.: St. Alphonsus Parochial School, and high school, New Orleans. Became cornetist and pioneer jazz musician. Leader and manager of original Dixieland Jazz Band. Toured U.S. and Europe with band until 1926. Forced to give up music career because of illness; went into building business. Reorganized |
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