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Inst, of Arts and Letters; Phi Beta Kappa; Astronomical Society of France. Works: In the South, piano suite; Variations and Double Fugue; At the Fair, suite; Sonata Psycholo-gique; Violin Concerto in E Major; Sonata Teutonica; Sonata Virginian-esque for piano and violin; Rhapsodie Ndgre for piano and orch.; In Old Virginia, overture for orch.; Second Sonata for piano and violin; From a Loved Past for violin and piano; Natchez-on-the-Hill (three Virginian country dances for orch.); Set of Three for orch.; Symphony in A, based on American folk themes (comm. by N.F.M.C. first performed at Federation Biennial Convention, Detroit, 1947); five Virginia Folksongs for baritone and piano; also choral settings, hymns, orchestral suites. Home. Richmond, Va. Address: c/o ASCAP.
PoweD, Laurence, composer, conductor, educator, organist; b. Birmingham, Eng., Jan. 13, 1899. ASCAP 1945. To U.S. 1923; citizen 1936. Educ: Ratcliffe Coll., Leicester, 1909-15; Ushaw Coll., Durham, 1915-17; scholarship student at Birmingham and Midland Inst. School of Music and Birmingham Univ., 1919-22, Bachelor of Music; Univ. of Wis. 1924-26, Master of Arts. Special instruction, composition and orchestra with Bantock. Fellow Trinity Coll. of Music, London, 1935. British Army and Royal Air Force 1917-19. Organized own school boy orchestra; at fourteen gave concert of own works. Music critic Boston Transcript, 1923-24. Instructor, Univ. of Wis., 1924-26; associate professor of theory, Univ. of Arkansas, 1926-34; head of music dept. Little Rock Junior Coll., 1934-39; organized and conducted Little Rock Symph. Orch.; conductor Grand Rapids WPA Symph. Orch., 1939-41. Organist and choirmaster, St. An- |
drew's Cathedral, Grand Rapids 1941-47; then at St. Mary's and Our Lady of Lourdes Churches, Director of Music at St. Joseph's High School, Victoria, Texas since 1947. Works for Orch.: The Ogre of the Northern Fastness, suite; two Symphonies; Keltic Legend; Deirdre of the Sorrows, romantic prelude, Variations on an Original Theme; Charivari, suite, County Fair, suite; Sam Houston, symphonic poem. Duo-Concert ante for recorders and orchestra. Other works, chamber music, piano pieces, cantatas and part-songs, and church music including several Masses. Made large collection of Arkansas folk songs. Home: 156 Castle Court, Houston 6, Tex.
Powell, Teddy, composer, author, guitarist, violinist, radio, recording, and film artist, b. Oakland, Calif., March 1, 1906. ASCAP 1935. Edna: in music with Signor De Grassi, San Francisco; Music Cons., San Francisco; Heald's Business Coll., Oakland, Calif. Played in popular orchestras, produced radio shows. Organized own orchestra 1940, became radio, stage and screen attraction. At present on tour with orch. Wrote scores tor floor shows. Songs: "Take Me Back To My Boots and Saddles"; "I Couldn't Believe My Eyes"; "March Winds and April Showers"; "If My Heart Could Only Talk"; "Precious Little Ones", "Sundown In Peaceful Valley"; "Love of My Lite"; "Heaven Help This Heart of Mine"; "Tears In My Heart"; "Singin' In the Saddle"; "Rollm Plains"; "I'll Never Be Without a Dream"; "You Only Want Me"; "You Won't Be Satisfied Until You Break My Heart"; "Oh! My Aching Heart"; "Two Little New Little Blue Little Eyes"; "Bewildered"; "I'm Conna Paper the Wall With Your Love Letters"; "You Broke the Only Heart That Ever Loved You." Home: 395 Riverside Dr., New York, N.Y. |
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