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Quartet No. 1 in D minor (Coolidge Foundation Award). Home: Cambridge, Mass. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Thomson, Virgil, composer, critic, author; b. Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 25, 1896. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Kansas City public schools; Harvard Univ., Bachelor of Arts 1922; advanced musical studies with Cebhard, Davison, Goodrich, and Scalero, and in Europe with Nadia Boulanger. Lived in Paris 1925-32. Music critic N.Y. Herald Tribune since 1940. Honors: Member Natl. Institute of Arts and Letters; Chevalier de la Legion d' Honneur; Doctor of Fine Arts (hon.), Syracuse Univ., 1949. Works: opera, Four Saints in Three Acts; three-act opera, The Mother of Us All; two symphonies; Six Portraits for orch.; choral works; incidental music for plays and films; many works for piano and small instrumental groups. Wrote thiee U.S. Government documentary films: The Plough That Broke the Plains, The River; Tuesday in November. Also the documentary Louisiana Story. Author of books The State of Music, 1939; The Musical Scene, 1945; The Art of Judging Music, 1948. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: N.Y. Herald Tribune, 230 W. 41 St., New York, N.Y.
Thornhill, Claude, composer, conductor, radio and recording artist; b. Terre Haute, Ind., Aug. 10, 1908. ASCAP 1947. Orchestral works: "Snowfall"; "Five Minutes With Mr. ThorntoH." Songs: "Fare Thee Well, Annie Laurie"; "I Wish I Had You"; "Buster's Last Stand"; "Memory of An Island"; "Loch Lomond." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: ^ ASCAP.
Thornton, James, composer, author, actor; b. Liverpool, Eng., Dec. 4, 1861; d. Astoria, New York, July 27, 1938. ASCAP 1914 (charter member). To U.S. 1870. Educ.: Elliott School, Boston. To work at an early |
age, became protege of Henry Wads-worth Longfellow. Night watchman at seventeen, began professional career as singing waiter in Boston; in vaudeville for fifty years as monolog-ist, singer, and comedian; introduced own songs. Songs: "When You Were Sweet Sixteen"; "My Sweetheart's the Man In the Moon"; "She May Have Seen Better Days"; "The Streets of Cairo"; "Don't Give Up the Old Love For the New"; "Going For a Pardon"; "On the Benches in the Park"; "There's a Little Star Shining For You"; "The Bridge of Sighs"; "When Summer Comes Again"; "I'm The Man Who Wrote Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay"; "The Irish Jubilee"; "It Don't Seem Like the Same Old Smile"; "Remember Poor Mother At Home"; "Dr. Pie Crust"; "It All Belongs to Morgan"; "Just For the Sake of Old Times." Address: Estate, c,<, ASCAP.
Tibbies, George F., composer, author, pianist; b. New York, N.Y., June 7, 1913. ASCAP 1947. Educ.: Los Angeles public and high schools, School of Music, Los Angeles City College. Pianist and arranger for local orchestras for many years; also singer and arranger for vocal groups. Author of special material for Ritz Bros., Eddie Cantor, Jimmy Durante, The Sportsmen, The Modernaires, and others. Songs: "The Woody Woodpecker Song" (Acad. Award nomination 1948); "Something Old, Something New"; "The Old Chaperone"; "Worry, Worry, Worry"; "My Brooklyn Love Song"; "Never Too Busy to Say Hello; "Take a Letter Miss Smith"; "This Is It"; "Goin' Around"; "111 Wait"; "The Shoe Is On the Other Foot Now"; "Senora." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Tierney, Harry, composer, pianist; b. Perth Ambov, N.J., May 21, 1895. ASCAP 1917. Educ.: Perth Amboy High School; Virgil School of Music, New York. Early musical education |
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