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and motets. The Bells, a cantata; White Silence, for chorus, St. Nicholas Mass for three-part chorus. Author of Essentials in Sight Singing and The Art of A Cappeua Singing. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Mooney, Harold, composer, author; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Feb. 4, 1911. ASCAP 1936. Educ: Jamaica High School; St. John's and Brooklyn Law Schools. Private instructions on piano; studied arranging privately witn Or-ville Mayhood, Jos. Schillinger. Chief arranger for Hal Kemp and Jimmy Dorsey until entry into Armed Forces; U.S. Army 1943-46. Free lance arranger in radio and recording since 1947. Member Amer. Fed. of Musicians; Amer. Society Music Arrangers. Works: "Swamp-Fire"; "Riga-marole"; "Hodge Podge"; "Jumpin' Jiminy"; "Sing, It's Good For Ya"; "Goin to Town." Home: 2098 Mound St., Hollywood, Calif.
Mooney, James A., composer, author; b. Auckland, New Zealand, Dec. 4, 1872; d. New York, N.Y., Sept. 26, 1951. ASCAP 1950. To U.S. (San Francisco) 1901; citizen 1944. Began career in show business at age of seven. Featured in vaudeville with wife, around the world three and a half times. Wrote special material for vaudeville acts. Songs: "I Had a Hat When I Came In"; "I Won't Take Off Me Hat." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Moore, Douglas Stuart, composer, organist, educator, conductor; b. Cutchogue, N.Y., Aug. 10, 1893. ASCAP 1938. First studies in music, Brooklyn, and at Hotchkiss School. Continued music study with Horatio Parker and David Stanley Smith, at Yale, Bachelor of Arts 1915 and Bachelor of Music 1917. Naval service World War I, then resumed study under Vincent d'Indy, at Schola Can-torum, Paris, and later with Ernest |
Bloch, Cleveland, and Nadia Bou-langer, Paris. Organist, lecturer, Curator of Mus. Arts, at Cleveland Museum of Art 1921-25. Debut as composer, conductor, Cleveland Symph. Orch., with Four Museum Pieces for orchestra 1923. Won Pulitzer Scholarship in music 1925; returned to Paris for further study. To U.S. joined faculty 1926, department Music, Columbia Univ. and now MacDowell Professor Music and Executive Officer. Guggenheim fellowship 1934. Works for orch.: Village Music; In Memoriam; Symphony of Autumn; Symphony in A. Major Operas: White Wings; The Headless Horseman; The Devil and Daniel Webster; Giants in the Earth (Pulitzer Prize 1951). Chamber music works incl.: a String Quartet; Violin Sonata; a wind Quintet; Down East Suite for violin and piano; also numerous songs and compositions for piano and organ. Author: Listening to Music; From Madrigal to Modern Music. President, Natl. Inst. Arts and Letters; member American Academy Arts and Letters. Home: 464 Riverside Dr., New York, N.Y.
Moore, Elizabeth Evelyn, author, b. Poughkeepsie, N.Y., June 22, 1891. ASCAP 1925. Ot musical parentage. Educ.: Lyndon Hall ana Quincy School, studied music, voice and composition. Won national poetry prizes and wrote numerous short stories. Music critic, Poughkeepsie Eagle News for nine years; Asst. Society Editor, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Songs: "Let All My Life Be Music"; "Moonlight In Old Granada"; "In the Night"; "Boys"; "My Rosary of Roses"; "Laroo, Laroo, Lilli Bolero." Home: Rochester, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Moore, Francis, composer, pianist, educator; b. El Paso, Tex., July 3, 1886; d Pelham Manor, N. Y., July 11, 1946. ASCAP 1935. Musical from |
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