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Sessions, Roger |
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Two Movements, for winds, brass and percussion; Six Dance Designs; Suite for Orch.; Transylvania Suite, for chamber orch.; Mischianza, Ballet music for orch.; Sonata for Violin Solo; Elegy; Rhapsody for Viola and Orchestra; Sonata Concertante. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: 10 W. 58 St., New York 19, N.Y.
Sessions, Roger, composer, educator; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 28, 1896. ASCAP 1938. Educ: Harvard Univ., Bachelor of Arts 1915; Yale School of Music, Bachelor of Music 1917. Advanced study with Ernest Bloch. Taught theory Smith College; head of theory department, Cleveland Inst, of Music. Held Guggenheim Fellowship 1926-27. Fellowship American Academy in Rome and Carnegie Fellowship 1931-32. Member of Natl. Inst. Arts and Letters. Returned to U.S.; taught in New York; Univ. of Calif.; Assistant Professor Music Princeton Univ. Works: Three symphonies; Violin Concerto; String Quartet; Piano Sonata; Three Choral Preludes for organ; many songs. Home: Berkeley, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Severn, Edmund, composer, violinist, teacher, lecturer; b. Nottingham, Eng., Dec. 10, 1862; d. Melrose, Mass., May 14, 1942. ASCAP 1924. To U.S. 1866. Studied violin with father, Edmund Severn and Franz Mileke in Hartford, Conn., Bernard Listemann, Boston. In Berlin, 1888-90 violin with Emanuel Wirth, composition, Philip Scharwenka. Returning U.S., adv. studies composition George W. Chadwick, Boston 1890-91. Leader of theater orchestra and Springfield Orchestral Club, Severn String Quartet and Severn Trio. Contributed to Musical Observer "Things Fiddlistic and Otherwise." Lectured for Board of Education, New York 1907-14. President of N.Y. State Teachers' Association 1909-10, |
Works: orchestral tone poems, Lancelot and Elaine and Abelard and Eloise; Festival Overture; Violin Concerto; Violin Sonata; String Trio; three String Quartets; Suite for two violins and piano; songs, piano pieces and violin solos. Suites: From Old New England; Italian Suite; Puck and Ti-tania. Two Russian Dances; teaching pieces, Polish Dance and La Brunette. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Seymour, John Laurence, composer, playwright, lecturer; b. Los Angeles, Calif., Jan. 18, 1893. ASCAP 1940. Educ: Univ. of Calif., Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy. Musical theory Fannie Charles Dillon, violin Lalla Fagge; critical studies in opera d'Indy, Piz-zetti, Boghen, Europe 1922 and 1928. Lecturer on opera and drama for Univ. of Calif. Head of drama de-
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artment of Sacramento Junior Col-?ge 1926-50. Works: opera In the Pasha's Garden, produced Metropolitan Opeia House 1935 (won Bispnam Memorial Medal). Operas: The Devil and Tom Walker, Antigone; A Protegee of the Mistress; The Affected Maids; Ramona. Operettas: The Two Gentlemen of Verona; The Bachelor Belles; Golden Days; Hollywood Madness. Ballet-pantomime in four acts, The Maid, the Demon and the Samurai; String Quartet, String Trio; Piano Concerto; chamber music and songs; sonatas for violin, flute, bassoon, oboe and English horn. Author of farce, Dynamic Art; plays and translations from Russian drama; musical comedy, Ming Toy. Home: Las Vegas, Nevada. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Seymour, Tot, author; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 23. ASCAP 1921. Of musical parentage. Educ.: Misses Ely School. Became staff lyricist in New York publishing house. Wrote lyrics for Johnny Dooley and Jimmy Hussey shows and also special material for Fannie Brice, Mae West, Sophie |
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