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Preston, Walter H., author, singer, actor, radio executive; b. Quincy, 111., Feb. 9, 1901. ASCAP 1942. Educ: Public School 163, Brooklyn, N.Y.; New Utrecht High School, Brooklyn. Attended Pace Inst, of Accountancy. As a boy studied piano, later voice; three years with Sergei Klibansky. Won three-year fellowship Juilliard Graduate School, studied with Francis Rogers; continued privately with Rogers after leaving Juilliard. Won Gold Medal in N.Y. Music Week Assn. contest 1924-25; later first place in N.Y. State Federation of Music Clubs annual competition. Is third generation of newspapermen; formerly served as news editor of national trade paper, The Produce News; founded by grandfather; publisher of same since April 1944. Sang on air for first time 1925; performed in practically all branches of entertainment field. Since 1943 has written and produced own program: The Show Shop over Station W.O.R. From 1943-48 director of radio for Columbia Concerts. Now heads own New York musical talent agency. Works: "Southern Skies"; "All Day Long"; "Slumber On"; "Lamp of Love"; "Mississippi Lament"; "Cute and Sweet"; "So Long"; "The Kiss I Stole from You"; "My Dream of Love" (arrangement of Liszt's Liebestraum); original lyrics for Dvorak's Slavonic Dance and for Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 called "Dance of the Gypsies." Home: 251-56 Gaskell Rd., Little Neck, N.Y.
Price, Florence B., composer, pianist, organist, educator; b. Little Rock, Ark., April 9, 1888. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: New England Cons, of Music, Boston, Mass., studied with Cutter, Chadwick and Converse; American Cons.; Chicago Musical Coll.; Chicago Teachers Coll.; Central YMCA Coll.; Lewis Inst.; Chicago Univ. Taught by Henry Dunham, Charles |
Dennee, Arthur Olaf Andersen, Gail Martin Haake. Taught at Shorter Coll., Arkansas and Clark Univ., Atlanta, Ga. Member Natl. Assn. of American Composers and Conductors; Chicago Club of Women Organists; League of Composers; Musicians Club of Women. Works: Symphony in E Minor (Wanamaker Prize 1932); two other Symphonies; Symphonic tone poem; Piano Concerto; Violin Concerto; Quintet for piano and strings; Concert Overture on Negro Spirituals for orch.; The Wind and the Sea for chorus and string orch.; Three Little Negro Dances for piano solo or two pianos or band; Lincoln Walks at Midnight, chorus and orch.; Rhapsody for piano and orch.; Negro Folksongs in Counterpoint, string quartet; Moods for flute, clarinet and piano; Octet for brasses and piano, Organ Sonata; Passacaglia and Fugue for organ; Suite for organ; and works for organ, piano and violin, songs, and choruses. Home: Chicago, 111. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Price, George E. (Georgie Price), author, broker; b. New York, N.Y., Jan. 5, 1900. ASCAP 1923. Protege of late Gus Edwards in vaudeville act Schoolboys and Schoolgirls; first graduate of Professional Children's School. Comedian of vaudeville and musical comedy stage. Producer of play, The Songwriter; also star of radio and television. Became member of N.Y. Stock Exchange 1934. Songs: "Angel Child"; "Sing Me a Song of the South." Home: 80 Shore Lane, Bay Shore, N.Y.
Prima, Louis, composer, author, trumpeter, singer, conductor, stage, screen, radio, television, and recording artist; b. New Orleans, La., Dec. 7, 1911. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Jesuit High School. Violin under Hemmers-back, seven years; trumpet under |
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