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wood Bowl Prize). Also Oriental Rliapsody, for oboe solo, str. orch. and harp; Quasi Ballata, Mazurka, and Dance Caprice, for violin and piano; Mazurka, piano solo. Vocal solos: Tapestry Symphony; Twenty-Third Psalm; and Hundred Steps to Heaven, hymnal book. Home: Van Nuys, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Reisfeld, Bert, composer, author; b. Vienna, Austria, Dec. 12, 1906. ASCAP 1939. Educ: College, Vienna; Vienna Cons, of Music; piano Oscar Dachs; composition Carl Prohaska. To Berlin, to score pictures and write for stage production; later in Paris for revues at Casino de Paris and Folies-Bergere; scored pictures. To U.S. 1938; American citizen 1944. Scored motion pictures Hollywood. Present activities include music for television pictures, writing articles, writing English lyrics for French songs. Songs: "Call Me Darling"; "You Rhyme with Everything that's Beautiful"; "The Singing Sands of Alamosa"; "The Three Bells" ("Les Trois Cloches"). Instrumental: Hollywood Impressions; Basque Fantasy; California Vistas; Hands Across the Border; also History in Song; Bible Stories in Song; A Lincoln Song Book for Young America. Home: 424 N. Sierra Bonita Ave., Hollywood 36, Calif.
Remsen, Alice, composer, author, publisher, radio artist; b. London, Eng., Nov. 24, 1896. ASCAP 1940. At fourteen on stage in England, then in Folies-Bergere, Paris, as magician's assistant; engagements in vaudeville, musical comedy, and stock. An early radio entertainer, continuity writer, actress, and librarian. U.S. citizen by marriage. Columnist on N.Y. Morning Telegraph; radio news editor Radio World. Works: "Arizona Moonlight"; "Prairie Wind"; "Vagabond of the Prairie"; "Dream I Dreamed Last Night"; "One Time"; "Lovely Is the Lee"; "Methus Lah's Buthday Pahty"; |
"Let Me Board"; ."Irish Rain"; "Beyond the Blue Mountains"; musical stories for children; two cantatas, The Three Wise Men and The Story of Easter; four albums: Magic Door; Tinkle-Tonkle-Town; Granny Patch; Little People of the Forest; and thirty musical stories. Home: 427)4 E. 52 St., New York 22, N.Y.
Ren£, Leon T., composer, author, publisher; b. Covington, La., Feb. 6, 1902. ASCAP 1940. Of musical parentage. Educ.: Xavier Univ., New Orleans; Southern Univ., Baton Rouge; Wilberforce Univ., Xenia, Ohio. Self-taught in piano. To Los Angeles 1922. Studied music; became finished bricklayer, worked with father during day, and played piano with own orch. at night. Won $600 prize in amateur songwriting contest 1928. At present has own music publishing company. Wrote songs for musical comedy Lucky Day. Songs. "My California Maid", "Sweet Lucy Brown"; "That's My Home", "Sleepy-time Down South"; "Dusty Road", "Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat", "I Sold My Heart to the Junkman"; "If Money Grew on Trees', "Chapel in the Valley"; "I Lost My Sugar in Salt Lake City"; "Beyond the Stars", "Sleepytime in Hawaii; From Twilight Till Dawn"; "Gloria"; "What's the Score"; "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus"; "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Rene, Otis J., Jr., composer, author; b. New Orleans, La., Oct. 2, 1898. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: Wilberforce Univ., Graduate Pharmacist, Bachelor of Science, 1921, Wilberforce, Ohio, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago, 1924. Began music career at Wilberforce Univ. writing songs for school plays. Owner, operator own drug business, Los Angeles 1924-34. First attracted to writing popular songs 1926; won first prize $500 in song contest. Currently |
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