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Steinert, Alexander Lang |
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under Fuchs, Graedener, Mahler, and Rose; awarded Gold Medal. At fourteen wrote and conducted his first operetta Beautiful Greek Girl, produced in Vienna. To England as conductor 1904; to Paris as conductor 1911. From 1914, conductor many musical shows in New York and on tour. To Hollywood 1929 as general musical director for film company; wrote and conducted musical scores for many pictures and various motion-picture firms; also wrote symphonic and popular music. Decorated by French Government for musical score of The Informer, (Acad. Award 1935), Bronze Medal by King of Belgium at Ginema Exhibition in Brussels 1936. Reed Italian Medal 1936 for musical score of So This Is Paris; Golden Globe from Foreign Corres. Assoc. 1937 for musical score of Life With Father; Statuette Award from Ginema Exhibition in Venice 1948 for The Treasure of Sierra Madre; Laurel Award 1948 from American Exhibitors for leading musical composer for motion pictures. Other motion picture scores: Lost Patrol; A Star is Born; Garden of Allah; Gone with the Wind; Now Voyager (Academy Award 1943); Since You Went Away (Academy Award 1945); Tomorrow is Forever; Mildred Pierce; Johnny Belinda; Adventures of Don Juan; Winter Meeting; Fighter Squadron; The Fountain-head; Flamingo Road; The Glass Menagerie; The Flame and the Arrow. Home: Hollywood, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Steinert, Alexander Lang, composer, pianist, conductor; b. Boston, Mass., Sept. 21, 1900. ASCAP 1945. Educ: Harvard Univ. (magna cum laude) 1922. Musical studies at Harvard; composition with Loeffler. Counterpoint with Gedalge, Paris Conservatoire 1923. Private lessons with d'Indy, Koechlin, Gedalge. Awarded American Prix de Rome; three years |
at American Academy there, received degree. Conducted and arranged score of Walt Disney's Bambi 1941. Coached and conducted Porgy and Bess in New York and during tour 1935-36. Arranged and conducted incidental music of Romeo and Juliet 1940. Conductor and supervisor of Natl. Youth Admin. Orch. Los Angeles 1941. Composed and conducted various radio programs. World War II 1942-45, enlisted Army Air Forces, "Motion Picture Unit" Culver City, Calif, as private; then sergeant in charge of music for training and documentary films produced for Air Forces. Composed and directed many scores. Composed Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra at invitation of Stokowski 1945, broadcast from Hollywood Bowl. Scored various films. Works: Leggenda Sinfonica for orch.; Concerto Sinfonico for piano and orch.; Air Corps Suite for orch.; Southern Night, Symphonic Poem; Nightingale and the Rose, Symphonic Poem; Two Poems by Shelly, for soprano and orch.; Trio for piano, violin and cello; Sonata for piano and violin; Piano Sonata; Flight Cycle, Symphonic Poem. Songs: "Guns In the Sky" (official song of Aerial Gunnery School); "There's a Plane in the Sky." Home: 231 N. Layton Dr., Los Angeles 49, Calif. |
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Steininger, Franz K. W.9 composer; b. Vienna, Austria, June 12, 1906. ASCAP 1942. To U.S. 1935. Composer in Vienna, London, Berlin. European number Americanized, "Marching Along Together," 1933. Other songs: "One Night in Napoli"; "Pocket Full O' Pennies"; "Sleep My Baby Sleep"; "So Beautiful." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP. |
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Stephens, Ward, composer, pianist, conductor; b. Newark, N.J., Sept. 9, 1869; d. New York, N.Y., Sept. 11, |
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