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Quadling, Lew, composer, conductor, arranger, pianist; b. Cedarville, N.J., June 7, 1906. ASCAP 1942. Educ.-.. public school; high school; also music at Univ. of S. Calif. In music business since 1925; played pianc and ar-langed for various orchestras. Staff arranger Station WBBM, Chicago. Two years in Army; scored two overseas army shows: "Yanks a Poppm "; also a jeep show for the European theater; then wrote C.B.S. army cue shows Assignment Home and WAC's on Parade. Composed, scored, and conducted sixty-piece orchestra for seventeen Army Signal Corps motion pictures at Astoria, L.I. Currently free-lance composing and arranging m Los Angeles. Works: "A Million Dreams Ago"; "I Do, Do You?"; "Missing You Darling"; "Is That the Reason Why"; "Careless", "Do You Care?"; "I'm at the End of My Dream"; "Sam's Song"; "Timeless"; "I Haven't Been Home in Three |
Whole Nights"; "Sugar Sweet"; "I Still Miss You"; "When Are You Going Back to Heaven"; "That's My Kinda Music." Home: 4539 Long-ridge Ave., Sherman Oaks, Calif.
Quenzer, Arthur, author; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 20, 1905. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: Columbia Univ. Saxophonist with various orchestras. Currently free-lance radio and studio musician in Hollywood. Founder and director of Calif. Academy of Music in North Hollywood. Many of his songs used in motion pictures. Songs: "Without a Dream to My Name"; "Easy to Say"; "The Cowboy and the Lady"; "Er Ru Ti Tu Ti"; "Trade Winds"; "The Cricket Song"; "Merrily We Live"; "I Can't Get Over the Alps"; "I Live But to Love You"; "Moon Ray"; "Poor Pinocchio's Nose"; "So It's Love"; "I Can't Carry a Tune." Home: 3661 Alomar Dr., Sherman Oaks, Calif. |
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Rachmaninoff, Sergei Vassilievitch, composer, conductor, pianist; b. Onega, Novgorod, April 2, 1873; d. New York, N.Y., March 28, 1943. ASCAP 1925. Of musical family. Educ: St. Petersburg Cons, and Moscow Cons., personal instruction from Sverev, in whose household he lived while student in Moscow. At Jourteen made two-piano arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony which Tchaikovsky praised, becoming patron of the young student. Won gold medal on graduation irom Moscow Cons, at nineteen (1892) for orchestral score Aleko which was produced the following year at Grand Theater in Moscow. Same year, composed Prelude in C-Sharp Minor and made first appearance as concert pianist. Adverse |
reception of first symphony St. Petersburg 1897 lessened interest in musical career; virtually retired for nearly two years. Returned to music 1899 and thenceforth progress as composer, conductor and pianist was rapid. Conductor Grand Theater, Moscow 1905-06. Then retired for compositional work to Dresden for two years, among works of this period being symphonic poem The Island of tlie Dead. Resumed concert tours 1908 and in 1909 played twenty concert engagements in America. Remained in Russia until collapse of old regime late 1917, escaping to Finland with meager resources, leaving behind many valuable manuscripts. Made American tour 1918 and resided in America with exception of summers spent in Switzerland until |
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