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Stout, Clarence |
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Tales, suite; Tales from Arabian Nights, suite; Dreams; A Rose Gar-den in Samarkand; Within a Chinese Garden. Three sacred cantatas: Esther; The Woman of Sychar; The Resurrection and the Life; secular cantata, The Wind of the West. Songs: "Can This Be Love"; "A Bowl of Blue"; "Dark Eyes that Dream"; "Down the Trail of Dreams to You"; "April Love." Home: 89 Chester St., Allston, Mass.
Stout, Clarence, composer, author; b. Vincennes, Ind., Oct. 19, 1892. ASCAP 1941.'Educ.: public schools, played in high school orchestra as drummer; self-taught in music. Played drums in circus, vaudeville, and road shows. Organized own dance orchestra, toured Middle West. Wrote and produced amateur productions; song editor Writer's Digest two years, contributed articles to magazines and newspapers on music. Songs: "O Death Where is thy Sting" (Ziegfeld Follies); "Suez ; "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"; "Brother, You Win"; "Old Chief Walla Hoo"; "Jerry the Junker"; "Death of Smokie Joe"; "Flop House Fanny"; "I'm a Hill Billy Boy from the Mountains"; "Long Tall Bessie From Basin Street"; "Machine Gun Butch"; "Fooling Me"; "Hey, Tojo, Count Yo Men"; "There'll Be a Time"; "Sun Down on the Prairie"; "Back in Indiana Where I Was Born"; "Get Hep to the Lawd"; "Tears Today and Blues Tomorrow"; "Wabash Waltz." March: Voice of America. Home: 505 DuBois St., Vincennes, Ind.
Straight, Charley, composer, conductor; vaudeville, radio, and recording artist; b. Chicago, 111., Jan. 16, 1891; d. Chicago, 111., Sept. 21, 1940. ASCAP 1920. Educ.: Forestville Elementary School; Wendell Phillips High School. Played in vaudeville circuits then became recording artist |
and musical director of player-piano-roll company. From 1920 with own orchestra played in various night clubs and hotels. Songs: "Everybody Calls Me Honey"; "I Love You Sunday"; "Red Rose"; "Funny Dear What Love Can Do"; "I'm Going to Stay on Solid Ground"; "That London Rag"; "Everything is Ragtime Now"; "Mississippi Lou"; "June Moon"; "When You Went Away"; "The Whole World is Dreaming of Love"; "Mocking Bird Rag"; "Red Raven Rag"; "Bless Your Little Heart"; "Kiss Your Baby Goodnight"; also series of piano numbers. Address: Estate, *o ASCAP.
Straker, John Arthur, author; b. London, Eng., Nov. 7, 1908. ASCAP 1950. To U.S. 1937; citizen 1942. Educ.: Doon House School, Westgate-on-Sea, Kent 1918-22; Mill Hill School, near London 1922-26; Kings College, London 1931-33; Worcester College, Oxford, 1933-36; B.A. (Oxon) 1936; M.A. (Oxon) 1942. World War II, U.S. Navy 1944-45. Has held positions in various fields: insurance salesman, schoolmaster, printer, and importer, with music as avocation. Songs: "Oh My Darling." Home: La Canada, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Stravinsky, Igor Fedorovitch, composer; b. Oranienbaum, Russia, June 17, 1882. ASCAP 1940. U.S. citizen 1942. Educ: Univ. of St. Petersburg (studied Jaw); took advice Rimskv-Korsakoff to give up law for music. First Symphony performed in 1907. Lived in many European capitals, chieflv Paris, with frequent visits to U.S. 'Member of SACEM (French Society) before admission to ASCAP. Early in career wrote three ballets for Diaghileff Russian Ballet, The Firebird, 1910; Petrouchka, 1911; The Rite of Spring, 1913. Works incl.: VHistoire du Soldat; Renard; Les Noces; Octet for Wind Instruments; |
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