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Sousa, John Philip
Dreams"; "You Can Always Count On Me." Home: 55 Linden Blvd., Brooklyn 26, N.Y.
Solomon, Joseph, (Joe Solmon), com­poser; b. Chelsea, Mass., Nov. 11, 1897; d. New York, N.Y., June 12, 1947. ASCAP 1943. Songs: "Only Just Suppose"; "Listening"; "Jes' Dandy"; 'Oh You Little Son-uv-er-Gun"; "I Wish I Had to Listen To You"; "Let's Have an Old Fashioned Christmas"; "Stardust In the Dawn"; 4'I Just Wanna Play With You." Ad­dress: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Somohano, Arturo, composer, author, conductor, pianist; b. San Juan, Puerto Rico, Sept. ], 1910. ASCAP 1941. Educ.: Baldorioty and Central High Schools, Catholic Acad., San Juan. Music teachers include Fr. Peridiello, Belen Salgado, Rafael Mar-quez, Jr., Louis Whatts; and in har­mony, Alexander Borowsky and Bo-gumyl Sykora. Toured Latin Amer­ica on several occasions as pianist in concerts of own works. Conductor of several concert orchestras, including Havana. Pianist on radio network. During World War II, produced soldier shows for Special Service Office of U.S. Army, in camps and jungles. Official artistic delegate to Exposition Internationale de Port au Prince. Works: "Waiting for You," ballad; "La Cancion de las Amer­icas," "Medallita," "El Flamboyan," "Rumbamba," "Adios," "puke Ca-pricho," "Oracion Torera," "Vagando," ''Dime," "Esclavo Moderno," "Se Con-tento el Jibarito"; also musical com­edies, Unidas Vemceram, El Misterio del Castillo, En Blanco y Negro, Re-vista Musical de 1944; also light works, Haitian Souvenir (a petit rhap­sody), Puerto Rican Rhapsody. Home: Apartado 292, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Sosenko, Anna, composer, author; b. Camden, N.J., June 13, 1910. ASCAP 1946. Long associated with Hilde-
garde as business manager. Songs: "Ask Your Heart"; "111 Be Yours"; "Let's Try Again"; "Comme Une Boite a Musique"; "Darling Je Vous Aime Beaucoup." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Sosnik, Harry, composer, conductor, arranger, pianist, radio and recording artist; b. Chicago, 111., July 13, 1906. ASCAP 1936. At seventeen gave up study of architectural engineering Univ. of Chicago, for education in music at American Cons, of Music, Chicago, composition with Arthur Olaf Andersen and piano, Kurt Wanick; composition and conducting Leo Sowerby; composition with Dr. Ernst Toch, Chicago and Vittorio Ciannini, Juilliard School, New York. In Hollywood as composer, and con­ductor original scores for films. A pioneer with C.B.S., Chicago as mu­sical adviser and arranger. Recording company director on West Coast 1937-40; to New York for same com­pany until 1943. Conductor, arranger-composer of numerous radio shows; composer-conductor various television shows. Songs: "You Stole My Heart"; "Lazy Rhapsody"; "Out of the Night"; "Who Are We to Say"; "I'd Like to Fall in Love Again"; "Night Time in Rio." For piano: Gatjety; River Reverie; Frivolity; Tranquility; A Modem Satire. Home: 383 Park Ave., New York 22, New York.
Sousa, John Philip, composer, con­ductor; b. Washington, D.C., Nov. 6, 1854; d. Reading, Pa., March 6, 1932. ASCAP 1914 (charter member; di­rector 1924-32; vice-pres. 1924-32). Educ.: private and public schools. In music, John Esputa Conservatory, 1861-67, and George Felix Benkert, Washington. At seventeen, orchestral conductor with theatrical unit. First violinist Offenbach's orchestra, Phila­delphia Centennial Exposition, 1876. Armed Services: Leader, U.S. Marine Corps Band, 1880-92; Musical Di-