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Also in vaudeville. Songs: "Scatter-brain"; "Sweet Dream of You"; "Moonlight and You"; "Say When"; "Key to My Heart"; "I'm Saving You For Me"; "To Be Or Not To Be." Home: Chicago, 111. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Matos, Manuel Garcia, composer, author; b. Seville, Spain, July 18, 1904. ASCAP 1944. Early musical educ. with Rev. Eduardo Torres at Cathedral in Seville; later a member of Orquesta Betica de Camara, founded in Seville by Manuel de Falla; studied with de Falla ten years during which began composition. Conductor in Madrid, Paris, London. To U.S.; became composer of music in Spanish idiom for films. Composer and director in motion picture studios, Hollywood and at piesent in Mexico, producing two Latin American pictures. Director of Latin American Ballet. Works: "Claveles Rojos"; "Rumor Andaluz"; "Seguiriya Gi-tana"; "Silueta Cubana"; "Barrio Santa Cruz"; "Rapsodia Celta", "Ca-nasteros de Triana", "Milagro de Dios"; "Caminito de Sevilla"; also An Incan Song; From Peru, A Venezuelan Dance. Home: 1724 S. Toberman St., Los Angeles, Calif, and Balderas 54, Dto. 4, Mexico.
Matthews, Harry Alexander, composer, organist, choral conductor, b. Cheltenham, Eng., March 26, 1879. ASCAP 1935. To U.S. 1900; citizen 1923. Early musical education with father, John Alexander Matthews. Continued studies with A. West and Dr. W. W. Gilchrist. Honorary degree Doctor of Music Muhlenberg College 1920, University of Pennsylvania 1925. Organist in churches, Philadelphia. Organized Choral Art Society of Philadelphia; conductor, twelve years. Director of undergraduate music and conductor of glee club, Univ. of Pennsylvania, xten years; head of Theory Dept., Eastern |
Baptist Theological Seminary, ten years. Educational director and head of Theory Dept., Clarke Cons, of Music. Conductor, Philadelphia Music Club Chorus. Currently organist and choirmaster of St. Stephen's P.E. Church, Philadelphia. Compositions number about three hundred, including sacred cantatas: The Story of Christmas; The Triumph of the Cross; The City of God, The Conversion; The Life Everlasting; An Easter Pageant. Many secular choral works, including pageant, The Song of America; and comic opera, Hades, Inc. Numerous organ pieces, piano pieces, songs and anthems. Home: Philadelphia, Pa. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Maurice-Jacquet, H., composei, b. St. Mande, France, March 18, 1886. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Paris Natl. Cons., from the age of seven. Pupil of Thome and De Beriot, piano; Rougnon, solfeggio and musical theory, Pessard, harmony; Gedalge, counterpoint and fugue; Massenet, composition; Luigini and Vidal, conducting. Studied music in Germany with Hugo Rieman and Arturo Nikish. At nine, debut as pianist. Toured Europe as conductor, composer, and soloist. Decorated by French government, Legion of Honor. In Paris, formed and directed Union des Femmes Artistes Musiciennes. Accompanist to artists, incl. Grace Moore; music publisher and active in radio and drama. Formerly member of SACEM. Was musical director of School of Vocal Arts, New York; Acad, of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.; and the American Cons, of Music, Drama and Dance, New York. Works: American Symphony; Spanish Love; Romanitza (opera); Messaouda (opera); The Mystic Trumpeter (cantata); Le Poilu (operetta); La Petite Dactylo (operetta); incidental music to The Taming of the Shrew; Les Danses de Chez Nous (ballet comm. by French Ministry of Fine Arts for |
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