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Nolte, Roy E. |
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"Rise Up, O Men of God"; Chorale-Preludes on "Melcombe" and "St. Ann"; Fantasy on "Ton-y-botel"; Prelude to Gloria Domini; Toccata and Fugue in F Minor; Introduction and Passacaglia for orch.; many other compositions, for church and organ. Home: Old Garden Rd., Rockport, Mass.
Nolte, Roy E., composer; b. Louisville, Ky., July 25, 1896. ASCAP 1938. Educ.: piano; pipe organ, with local teachers. At fourteen, started study of harmony and composition— self-taught. First compositions, Sunday School songs; then music for church choirs, including anthems and cantatas. In 1927 awarded prize in "Anthem Competition" held by music publication The Volunteer Choir; became contributing editor of same 1928. Choir cantatas: Hosanna; His Natal Day; King All-Glorious; The Resurrection Song; Christ Victorious; The Song of Triumph; The Lord of Life; The Heavenly Message; The Christmas Vision; The Child Divine; Victorious King; Star of the Christ-Child; The Glory of Easter; The Nativity Song; Hail the Easter King; The Light Celestial; The Easter Alleluia; The Exalted Christ; Glory in the Highest; Christmas Bells; The Risen Saviour; The Cross of Redemption; The Dawn of Christmas. Home: 272 Pennsylvania Ave., Louisville 6, Ky.
Nordoff, Paul, composer; b. Philadelphia, Pa., June 4, 1909. ASCAP 1950. Educ.: Philadelphia Cons, of Music, B.M. 1923-28, Master of Music 1930; Juilliard Grad. School, 1928-33. Piano with Olga Samaroff; composition with Rubin Goldmark. Guggenheim Fellowship 1933, 1935; Beams Prize (Columbia Univ.), 1933; Pulitzer Traveling Scholarship 1940. Private teacher 1927-33; head of Composition Dept, Philadelphia Cons, of Music 1937-42; asst. prof. |
Michigan State College, 1945-46. Lecturer on music and other subjects. Lectured for three years for Madame Samaroff Laymen's Music Courses. Now privately teaching and professor at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. Member of the League of Composers. Works: Quintet for Piano and String Quartet (Pulitzer Award 1940); Willow River; Secular Mass, for chorus and orch.; music for dance, Every Soul is a Circus; Salem Shore; incidental music for productions Romeo and Juliet; Anthony and Cleopatra; St. Joan; The Path of Love, cycle of sixteen songs. Comm. by League of Composers, St. Louis Little Symphony, Thomas Scherman's Little Orchestra Society, Eugene List and Carroll Glenn for Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra, Comm. by Louisville Philharmonic and Columbia Univ. for opera. Home: Threefold Farm, Spring Valley, N.Y.
Norman, Fred, composer, arranger; b. Leesburg, Fla., Oct. 5, 1910. ASCAP 1943. Arranger for popular orchestras. Works. "Hot Foot Shuffle"; "Monkey Business"; "Smoke House"; "Boulder Bluff"; "Man, That's Groovey"; "Bugle Boy Blue"; "How's About Teaching Me How?"; "Young and Willing"; "Keep Moving"; "Knock It Down." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
North, Alex, composer; b. Chester, Pa., Dec. 4, 1910. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Curtis Institute, under George Boyle; Juilliard School of Music (scholarship); Moscow Cons, (scholarship). Music with Ernst Toch and Aaron Copland. Rec'd Guggenheim Fellowship 1947-48. Wrote scores for Federal Theatre Project and documentary films. To Mexico 1939 as musical director and composer with ballet troupe of Anna Sokolow; conducted concerts at Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City. |
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