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Nemo, Henry
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You"; "One Little Kiss Did the Trick"; "You're Only in My Arms to Cry On My Shoulder"; "Don't Get Collegiate"; "You Don't Need Glasses"; "You Only Want Me When You're Lonely"; "Bouquet of Roses"; "Peter Cottontail"; "Frosty the Snow Man"; "I'm Throwing Rice"; "Easter Bouquet." Home: White Plains, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Nemo, Henry, composer, author, ac­tor; b. New York, N.Y., June 8, 1914. ASCAP 1938. Night-club and vaude­ville entertainer. Wrote Cotton Club Show 1938. Acted in motion-picture shorts, also in Song of the Thin Man. Works: "Swingtime in Honolulu"; "If You Were in My Place", "Skronch"; "I'm Slappin' Seventh Avenue"; "Carnival in Caroline"; "A Lesson in C"; "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart"; "A Bee Gezint", "Born to Swing"; "Jump Jump's Here"; "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"; "Baby Come Out of the Clouds"; "Piano Blues"; "Blame It On My Last Affair"; " 'Tis Autumn"; "Hip Hip Hooray"; "I Haven't Changed a Thing"; "I Was Dancing With Someone"; "Don't Take Your Love From Me"; "It's the Beauty of the Thing." Home: Brooklyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Nero, Paul, composer, conductor, violinist; b. Hamburg, Germany, April 29, 1917. ASCAP 1946. To U.S. 1923; citizen 1929. Educ.: elementary school; James Monroe High School, New York; Curtis Inst, of Music (scholarship). First musi­cal education with father, conductor and violinist. Played with Pittsburgh Symph. Orch. as first violinist; then became assistant conductor of C.B.S., Philadelphia. U.S. Navy, World War II; led Navy Dance Orchestra in Wash­ington, D.C. Appeared as soloist in own Concerto for Hot Fiddle, with New Orleans Symph. and New York Philh. Wrote columns for trade maga-
zines. Gave New York Town Hall re­cital and joint recital with Andre Previn, Los Angeles. Faculty member Juilliard School of Music, New York, and Los Angeles Conservatory. Soloist Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street; on other radio programs. Recorded with and arranged for vari­ous leading bands. Concertmaster of Greek Theatre Orch. Started new trend in jazz by producing serious music in jazz style tor violin. Works. Suite for Hot Fiddle; Eight Bells and AlFs Jumpin, A Cat and His Fiddle in three parts (A Bit of Jump; A Bit of Schmaltz; A Bit of Boogie); Prel­ude and Allegro for oboe and strings, The Hot Canary; Seven Etudes for Violin; Frantic Fantasy for Four Fid­dles; Duet for Two Lukewarm Fid­dles; The Hot Gavotte; Oh Fiddle­sticks! Home: North Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Nevin, Arthur Finley, composer; b. Edgeworth, Pa., April 27, 1871, d. Sewickley, Pa., July 10, 1943. ASCAP 1924. Educ- New England Cons, of Music, Boston, piano with Otto Ben-dix; voice with Nobbs; theory with Goetschius; and at Klindworth Cons., Berlin, piano with Klindworth and Jedlicka, composition with Boise and Humperdinck. Doctor of Music, Univ. of Pittsburgh 1935. Professor of Music, Univ. of Kansas 1915-20; di­rector Municipal Music Department of Memphis, Tenn., 1920-22, also conductor Memphis orch. World War I, director of Music, Camp Grant, 111. Introduced community sings throughout state of Kansas, while on lecture tours. Works: operas, Poia and Daughter of the Forest; orch. suite, Lorna Doone; masque, Night in Yaddo Land; cantatas, The Djinns and Roland; Hindu Dance, orch.; Mother Goose Fantasy; Southern Sketches for piano (inch Under the Magnolias; Sunglaze on the Water); Piano Concerto; Rhapsody for piano. Songs: "The Secret"; "Eron"; "Sleep