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Sodero, Cesare
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lege, scholarship won in piano at age of seven; Chicago Cons., Bachelor of Music; American Cons., Chicago, Master s Degree. Music with Herman Klum, Leo Sowerby and Moritz Rosenthal. On staff network Chicago, 1941-42, as member two-piano team. World War II, Army Air Corp, 1943-44. Organized own band 1944, and has played in hotels, and theaters throughout U.S. Works: Window Shoppers; Urban Twilight; Riding the Offbeat; Black Orchid; Choppin Up Chopin. Home: Chicago, 111. Address: % Schaeffer & Schaeffer, 54 W. Ran­dolph St., Chicago, 111.
Sodero, Cesare, composer, conductor; b. Naples, Italy, Aug. 2, 1886; d. New York, N.Y., Dec. 16, 1947. ASCAP 1936. To U.S. 1906. Educ: Royal Cons, of Music, Naples. Con­ductor, English grand opera com­panies; conductor, fifty-three grand operas in radio versions from Gluck's Armide to Wagner's Parsifal Season 1942-43, conductor Metropolitan Opera Assn. Twelve seasons, conduc­tor, Mendelssohn Glee Club; also conductor Mutual network; twelve years, musical director recording com­pany; seven years musical director N.B.C. network. Works: Grand opera, Ombre Russe produced on N.B.C. network and in Venice, Italy; a romantic ballet production in Alexandria, Egypt; two orchestral Suites; two Intermezzi for orch.; three Symphonic Poems; Preludio Ap-pasionato for violin and orch.; String Quartet in D Minor; two woodwind pieces (Morning Prayer and Valse-Scherzo); Invocation for cello and piano; Nocturne for oboe and orches­tra; songs with piano or orchestra accompaniment and original choral works and arrangements. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Solito de Solis, Aldo, composer, pi­anist; b. Castrovillari, Italy, May 25, 1905. ASCAP 1949. To U.S. 1940;
citizen. Educ: Royal Cons. Guiseppe Verdi of Milan (won piano scholar­ship at six), gold medal diploma for pi&no, composition, and literature. Active in concert field wliile at cons., at fourteen began concertizing exten­sively in Italy, Germany, France,. Switzerland, and England. To U.S. 1940. Concert at Carnegie Hall 1940, then radio appearances and other concerts. Symphonic works: Traume; Fiesta Mexicana; Toccata on Paga-nints Perpetual Motion; Variation and Finale on Swanee River; Por­traits of Spain; Moods of Spain. Also a group of piano pieces and songs. "Autumn Leaves"; "The Same Old Song"; "Night Fall"; "April Made a Fool of Me." Home: Van Nuys, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Solman, Alfred, composer; b. Berlin, Germany, May 6, 1868; d. New York, N.Y., Nov. 15, 1937. ASCAP 1921. Works: "If I Had a Thousand Lives to Live"; "When the Bell in the Light­house Rings Ding Dong"; "The Hvmns of the Old Churcli ; "Mine, Always Mine"; "There's a Quaker Down in Quaker Town"; "In the Sweet Long Ago"; "Blame It on the Waltz"; "Why Did You Make Me Care"; "Bells of the Sea"; "The Bird on Nellie's Hat"; "Harbor of Home Sweet Home"; "You Splash Me and 111 Splash You." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Solomon, Harold, composer; b. Brook­lyn, N.Y., March 13, 1903. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: Brooklyn public and high schools; piano with David Saperton; harmony with Angela Diller. Accompanist for radio singers, Melton, Parker, Langford, Etting. Currently on staff of music publisher. Songs: 'You Came, I Saw, You Con­quered Me"; "Like a Dream"; "That Minor Melody"; "It May Be For the Best After All"; "Hurt"; "I'd Let You Do It All Over Again"; "How Can I Pretend"; "Good Night, Sweet