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years. Works: comic operas Yankee Consul; A Yankee Tourist; Princess Beggar; All for the Ladies. Songs: "A Heart That's Free"; "Answer"; "You"; "It Was a Dream"; "I'm a Gypsy Wild and Free"; "Amo." Also Symphony in D Minor; Pompeii, symphonic poem; Concerto in C Minor; ManzaniUa, for orch. and accordion; The Ascension; The Mass of the Sacred Heart. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Rochinski, Stanley R., author; b. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 31, 1906. ASCAP 1949. Songs: "Powder Your Face with Sunshine"; "Heavenly Honeymoon"; "Hail to the Legion", "My Marine." Home: Washington, D.C. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Rodeheaver, Homer, composer, author, singer, trombonist, recording artist, music publisher, lecturer, philosopher; b. Union Furnace, Ohio, Oct. 4, 1880. ASCAP 1941. Educ: Ohio Wesley an Univ. Sang way through college; gave up law studies for music. In Spanish American war as trombonist Fourth Tennessee Regimental Band. World tours with evangelist; founder summer school of music at Winona Lake, Ind. Leader of community song programs in large assemblies in evangelical work. In radio for many years; first man to conduct a community sing program on radio. Books: Song Stories of the Sawdust Trail, Twenty Years with Billy Sunday, Singing Black. Songs: "Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord"; "O Twas in Vain"; "Somebody Cares"; "How It Saves"; "He's a Mighty Reality to Me"; "Confidence"; "Pure White Ribbons"; "List to the Bells"; "Well Be Waiting When You Come Back"; "Carry On"; "Lonesome"; "Goodbye France, Hello Miss Liberty"; "Good Night, Good Morning"; "Seeking"; "You Must Open the Door"; "I Just Keep a-Living Along"; "Then Jesus Came"; "Christmas In My |
Heart"; "Forgive Me For Forgetting." Home: Winona Lake, Ind.
Roder, Milan, composer, conductor, arranger, piano-accompanist; b. Osijek, Slavonia, Dec. 5, 1878. U.S. citizen 1920. ASCAP 1935. Educ: high schools, Osijek and Vienna; cons, in Vienna (scholarship from government) advanced studies in music, Hellmesberger, Graedener, Fuchs and Loewe. Conducted in Austria, Russia, Poland, Germany, Holland, and Czechoslovakia in fields of symphony, grand opera and operetta. To U.S. 1914 writing for motion pictures, scored Silver Dollar; Sign of the Cross; Souls at Sea; Spawn of the North. Conducted performances before King Edward VII, England. Works: opera, Jelka; comic opera, Round the World; Four Symphonic Sketclies, Rondo Cajmccioso; Moto Perpetuo; Vindohona, suite in seven movements. Songs: "By a Waterfall"; "In the Afteryears"; "I Am Proud to be an American"; "I Will Sing in the Spring", "Sand and Boots"; "Tonight and Every Night"; "Do I Dare"; "My Tree"; "My Inspiration"; "Music in Heaven", "New World"; "Just a Little Bit of This." Also piano solo works: "Lullaby" (on Brahms orig. comp.); "Vienna Memories" (Concert waltz); "Festival March"; and violin, English horn solos with piano or orch. accompaniment. Home: Burbank, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Rodgers, Jimmie, composer, author, singer, guitarist, radio and recording artist, b. Meridian, Miss., Sept. 8, 1897, d. New York, N.Y., May 26, 1933. ASCAP 1933. Educ.: Meridian public schools. Railroad brakeman, self-educated in music. Made many recordings of own songs. Writer of songs in the hillbilly idiom. Composer and author of special folios and albums of own songs. Works: "Blue Yodels" (Nos. 1 to 12); "Daddy and Home"; "Lullaby Yodel"; "Mississippi |
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