| Share page | Visit Us On FB |
|
|
|||
|
327 |
MacLeish, Archibald |
||
|
|
|||
|
1947. Trap drummer with popular orch., then organized own orch. Works: "Beat Me Daddy, Eight to the Bar"; "Hoodie Addle"; "My Guy's Come Back"; "Cornm Out (Drums Away)"; "Arizay"; "Howdy Friends." Home: Levittown, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
McKinney, Howard D., composer, educator; b. Pine Bush, N.Y., May 29, 1890. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Litt. B; Music Doctor, Rutgers Univ. Professor of music at Rutgers Univ. Has made many arrangements and adaptations of familiar classics. Works: "Four Crumbs from Peacock Pie"; "A Mystery for Christmas", 'The Three Maries"; "The Bagpipe Man." Home: 66 Harrison Ave., New Brunswick, N.J.
McLaughlin, John, composer, author, b. Lynn, Mass., Feb. 17, 1897. ASCAP 1930. Educ. Holy Cross Coll., New England Cons, of Music, Boston. Pianist for George M. Cohan lor twenty years. Songs: "At the End of the Day With You", "Stepping on the Ivories"; "Little Brown Shoes"; "I Can't Forget"; "I'm Tired of Making Believe", "When the Moon is High", "I'll Let the World Know I Love You"; "One Kiss, One Smile, One Tear"; "Like An Angel You Flew Into Everyone's Heait"; "A House of Hospitality", "Fooling the Piano", "The Old Toy Man"; "This is America"; "At the Church of Notre Dame." Home: 3457 82 St., Jackson Heights, N.Y.
MacLean, Ross, composer, author, singer, b. Burghead, Scotland, April 9, 1904. ASCAP 1948. To Canada 1913; to U.S. 1925; citizen 1945. Educ.: John Oliver High School, Vancouver, B.C.; British Columbia Normal School. Studied vocal music with A. J. Foxall, Vancouver. In 1923 won highest honors in vocal solo |
class in B.C. Music Festival. Studied and played in opera several years, mostly with Natl. Opera Co. on tour. Later played in vaudeville; George White's Scandals three seasons. Featured singer on radio. Songs: "Too Fat Polka"; "Rain or Shine." Home: 66 Knickerbocker Rd., Manhasset, N.Y.
MacLeish, Archibald, author, poet; b. Glencoe, 111., May 7, 1892. ASCAP 1942. Educ.: Hotchkiss School, Lake-ville, Conn.; Yale Univ., Bachelor of Arts 1915. World War I, private, U.S. Army, 1917, captain 1919 after twelve months in France. Editor of Fortune, 1929-38; Librarian of Congress, 1939-44; Director, U.S. Office of Facts and Figures, 1941-42; Asst. Director, Office of War Information 1942-43; Assistant Secretary of State, 1944-45; Chairman of U.S. Delegation to United Nations Conference at London to establish a Cultural, Scientific, and Educational Organization; Boyls-ton Professor, Harvard Univ. from 1949. Poet in Residence at Princeton, 1937, Curator, Nieman Foundation in journalism, Harvaid, 1938-39. Member Natl. Institute of Arts and Letters, American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of verse: The Happy Marriage, The Pot of the Earth; Nobodaddy, verse play; Streets in the Moon, The Hamlet of A. MacLeish, New Found Land; Conquistador (Pulitzer poetry prize $1000); Frescoes for Mr. Rockefellers City; Union Pacific, a ballet; Panic, verse play; Public Speech, verse; The Fall of the City, verse play for radio; Land of the Free; Air Raid, verse play for radio; America Was Promises, verse; Act five, verse; The Irresponsibles, prose; The American Cause; A Time to Speak; A Time to Act Songs: "Freedom's Land"; "Western Sky" (musical setting by Roy Harris); "The Woman on the Stair" (musical setting by Ross Lee Finney); "Invoca- |
||
|
|
|||