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Schuster, Joseph
Aug. 4, 1910. ASCAP 1939. Educ.: New York public schools; New York Univ.; Malkin Cons.; Columbia Univ., Bachelor of Science 1935, Master of Arts 1937; harmony, pri­vately with Max Persin; composition with Charles Haubiel and Roy Har­ris; summer of 1935, Mozarteum Academy, Salzburg. First professional activities in music, in popular field. While composing lighter works, con­tinued music studies working pro­fessionally with song publishers; also writing special material for night­club entertainers. From 1935-45 on faculty Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. teaching music. Then Director of Publications for music publishing house. Since 1945, Presi­dent Juilliard School of Music. Re­ceived, awards: League of Composers Award, 1939; Two Guggenheim Fel­lowships, (1939-40, 1940-41); Cita­tion from N.A.A.C.C; New York Critics' Circle Award 1942; Pulitzer Prize, 1943; Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award; Composition Award from Amer. Acad, of Arts and Letters; Honorary Mus. D. Chicago Music College. Works: Six Sym­phonies; Three String Quartets; Con­certo for Piano and Small Orch.; Concerto for violin and Orch.; Third String Quartet; Undertow, Ballet; Night Journey; William Billings Overture; Fugue for Strings; Chorale Etude; American Festival Overture; Newsreel in Five Shots, for Symph. band or Orch.; A Free Song, cantata; This is Our Time, cantata; Sideshow, for Orch. Music for film, Steeltown. Song: "Jn Love with the Memory of You." Home: New Rochelle, N.Y. Ad­dress: 130 Claremont Ave., New York, N.Y.
Gal." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Ad­dress: c/o ASCAP.
Schuster, Ira, composer, author, pub­lisher; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 13, 1889; d. New York, N.Y., Oct. 10, 1946. ASCAP 1921. Educ.: public schools. After brief commercial career during which he devoted evenings to professional piano playing, left cleri­cal post to become member profes­sional staff music publishing house, 1913. Later organized own publish­ing business. Songs: "I Am an American"; "Mr. Radio Man"; "Did You Ever Get That Feeling in the Moonlight"; "They're Makin' Me All Over in the Army ; "Hats Off to Mac-Arthur"; "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes"; "You Know You Belong to Somebody Else"; "I'm Alone Because I Love You"; "Let's Make Up"; "Dance of the Paper Dolls"; "At the Baby Parade"; "The Bridal Waltz"; "A Shanty in Old Shanty Town"; "Vamping Rose"; "Smile"; "Old King Cole"; "Hold Me." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Schuster, Joseph, composer, author, vaudeville artist; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 6, 1896. ASCAP 1928. Educ.: high school. Currently manager in music publishing house. Songs: "Mama's Little Baby"; "Look,At Me Now"; "My Memories of You"; "Two Little Pretty Birds"; "Dance of the Paper Dolls"; "Sleep, Baby, Sleep"; "Mavbe, Who Knows?"; "Let's Grow Old "Together"; "Go Home and Tell Your Mother"; "I Know Somethin' I Won't Tell Ya"; "Take Your Finger Out of Your Mouth, I Want A Kiss From You"; "Honest, I'm in Love With You"; "In A Little Love Nest"; "Winter Interlude"; "The Christmas Polka"; "Anything Can Happen When You're Lonesome"; "I Kissed a Girl and Made Her Cry"; "I Shouldn't Love You But I Do"; "The Potato Love Song"; "Do What Your Heart Tells You To Do"; "I Wake Up Every
Schumann, Walter, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1913. ASCAP 1948. Songs: "Melancholy Moon"; "I Walk Alone"; "There Was a Uttle Girl"; "It's Dreamtimc"; "Lonesome