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Murphy, Owen
"Mandy and Me"; "Any Old Night"; "That's Why My Heart is Calling You'; "Some Day I'll Steal You.* Ballet, El Brut; Fi Fi, one step inter­mezzo; waltz "Honeymoon Bells"; instrumental: Elegie, Thoughts of Home, Answer Me. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Mundy, James R., composer, ar­ranger, saxophonist; b. Cincinnati, Ohio, June 28, 1907. ASCAP 1943. Arranger and saxophonist with various popular orchestras. Organized own orchestra 1939. Works: "Take It Easy"; "Mad House"; "Cavernism"; "Swingtime in the Rockies"; "House Hop"; "Jam Session"; "The Killer Diller"; "Fat Babes"; "Bolero at the Savoy"; "Night in Sudan"; "Don Cha Go Way Mad"; "Hello, Goodbye, Forget It." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Mundy, John, composer; b. London, Eng., Dec. 19, 1886. ASCAP 1950. U.S. citizen. Songs: "The Secret"; "Where?"; "More Than These." Home: 200 West 58 St., New York, N.Y.
Murchison, Kenneth Mackenzie, com­poser, architect, banker; b. New York, N.Y., Sept. 29, 1872; d. New York, N.Y., Dec. 15, 1938. ASCAP 1925. Educ.: Columbia Univ., Bachelor of Philosophy, 1894; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1897-1900; Doctor of Letters Columbia 1929. While pur­suing architectural career, made mu­sic chief avocation. Member of Mendelssohn Glee Club. Architectural works railroad and steamship ter­minals, apartment houses, notels, clubs, hospitals and houses; active in real estate. World War I, Capt. of Engrs. 1918-19. Officer d' Academie, Legion of Honor, France; past presi­dent Architectural League of N.Y. Member board of directors Architects Samples Corporation. Works: "Cap­tain Kidd"; "In Old Nassau"; "The Kilties' March"; "Come on, Amer­ica"; "Hundred Pipers"; "Bonnie Wee Thing"; Come to Bohemia, comic opera. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Murphy, Owen, composer, scenarist, industrial motion-picture director and executive; b. Mt. Clemens, Mich., Sept. 2, 1893. ASCAP 1928. Educ.: Notre Dame, Bachelor of Arts; Univ.
Mueller, Carl F., composer, organist, choral conductor; b. Sheboygan, Wis., Aug. 12, 1892. ASCAP 1940. Educ: Sheboygan public schools; Elmhurst Coll., Elmhurst, 111. Piano at Strassberger Cons., St. Louis; piano and organ private tutors Chicago, Milwaukee, and N.Y. Voice and choral conducting with Dr. John Finley Wil­liamson, Westminster Choir Coll., Princeton, N.J. Since 1927 Minister of Music and organist, Central Pres­byterian Church, Montclair, N.J. Since 1928 Director of Choral Music, N.J. State Teachers Coll., Upper Montclair, N.J. In 1931 founded Montclair A Cappella Choir. Adviser on sacred choral music, publishing house. Former member of faculty School of Sacred Music, Union Theo­logical Seminary, N.Y.C. General mu­sical director. Church Music Work­shop, Nashville, Tenn., summer ses­sion 1950. Fellow Westminster Choir Coll., Associate American Guild of Or­ganists; Hon. Mus. D., Elmhurst Col­lege, 1946. Works: The Montclair A Cappella Choir Series (twenty-seven compositions); The Junior Chorister (two volumes); "Now Thank Wc All Our God"; "Laudamus Te"; "A Mighty Fortress is Our God"; "O God, Our Help in Ages Past"; "Christ of the Upward Way"; "Thou Art the Way"; "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah"; "We All Believe in One True God"; "The Freeborn Speak"; "Lincoln's Gettysburg Address"; "Marches of Peace"; "Sayings of Jesus"; also com­positions for piano, organ, voice. Home: 10 Overlook Park, Montclair, N.J.