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oratorio, David and Abraham; overture-fantasy, Stalingrad; and numerous piano-teaching pieces, instrumental compositions, and songs. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Leventhal, Herbert, composer, author; b. New York, N.Y., Nov. 18, 1914. ASCAP 1949. Educ: New York public schools; City College of New York (business administration major). In 1938 became associated with music publishing firm, later became salesman. World War II, U.S. Air Force, two and one-half years. Songs: "I Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded"; "The Things You Left In My Heart"; "The Yoo^Hoo Song"; "If I Give You My Love." Home: Brooklyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Levey, Harold, composer, conductor, radio and recording artist; b. New York, N.Y., June 17, 1898. ASCAP 1925. Educ.: National Cons, of Music (scholarship). Studied conducting and composition with Soffaroff; piano with Joseffy. At fourteen first clarinetist with N.Y. Symph. Studied with Victor Herbert. Conductor for Henry W. Savage, Shuberts, Victor Herbert, and Ziegfeld. Composer and arranger of music for motion pictures and radio networks, including Cavalcade of America, Armstrong Theatre of Today, Theater Guild of the Air. Conducted N.B.C. Symph. Orch. 1949, 1950. Composer of music for musical productions including: Lovely Lady; The Magic Ring; The Clinging Vine; Lady Bitty; Greenwich Village Follies (1927); The Magnolia Lady; Rainbow Rose; The Little Dutch Girl; Lolly-pop; Head Over Heels. Home: 7 West 81 St., New York 24, N.Y.
Levine, Marks, author; b. New York, N.Y., Aug. 19, 1890. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: high school and junior college (gymnasium) in Russia; Cooper Union, New York, B.C.E. Engaged in newspaper work 1906-14; mining, |
highway, and civil engineering 1914-21; concert manager 1922 to date. Concert tour to Australia with brother, late Mischa Levitzki (q.v.). Works: "Do You Remember?"; "When I Love You"; "Spring Came"; "We Love and Dream." Home: New York, N.Y. Address; % NCAC, 711 Fifth Ave., New York 22, N.Y.
Levinson, Bob, see Robert Wells.
Levitzki, Mischa, composer, pianist; b. Krementchug, So. Russia (of American parents), May 25, 1898; d. Avon-by-the-Sea, N.J., Jan. 2, 1941. ASCAP 1940. Early musical education with Michailowski, Warsaw; on return of parents to U.S. studied at Inst, of Musical Art, New York, with Stojow-ski; Berlin Hochschule under Doh-nanyi. Twice awarded Mendelssohn prize in piano. At fifteen, debut Berlin 1914. New York debut 1916. Concert tours throughout the world included more than one hundred appearances in New York and forty in the Orient. Works: Waltz in A Major; Valse Brilliante; Gavotte; Cadenza to Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto; ballet, The Enchanted Nymph; Arabesque Valsante; Valse Tzigane. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Levy, Sol Paul, composer, clarinetist, publisher; b. Chicago, III, July 22, 1881; d. New York, N.Y., Feb. 14, 1920. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Salt Lake City high school and All Hallows College. Studied clarinet under father; history of music with Anton Petersen, pupil of Grieg. Played first clarinet with Pryor Band. In charge of Foreign Orchestrating Dept. of Victor. Wrote original musical score for film Sealed Orders (1912) and The Barrier (1916). Entered music publishing field 1917. Works chiefly concert and motion picture music. Songs: "The Naughty Waltz"; "Roses That Die Bloom Again"; "Because You Say Goodbye"; "Why?"; "Memories ; |
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