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Wagner, Larry
Violin Concerto; Triple Concerto for Harp, Flute and Cello with Orches­tra; Violin Sonata (award of SPAM); Divertimento for Orchestra (Eastman School Publication Award); Sinfonietta for Orchestra; Operatic Comedy Pieces of Eight (Alice M. Ditson Award); Phantasietta on Three British-American Ballads (C.B.S. Commission); Three String Quartets; Sonatina for Cello and Piano; Piano Sonata; Concertino for Eight Instruments (League of Com­posers commission). Also songs and other instrumental works. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Waggner, George, author, actor, pub­lisher, motion-picture producer; b. New York, N.Y., Sept. 7, 1894. ASCAP 1942. Educ: Northeast High School, Philadelphia; Philadelphia Coll. of Pharmacy. Mexican Border 1916 with Pa. National Guard, then Cavalry Officer in U.S. Army until 1920. Producer, director, and libret­tist for motion pictures Phantom of the Opera, The Climax. Produced, Frisco Sal, Tangier, and others. Songs: "Mary Lou"; "If I Had My Way"; "'Neath a Blanket of Stars", "It's Spring Again"; "Blue Mountain Shack"; "Sweet Someone"; "Lullaby of the Bells"; "Somebody I Know'; "Now At Last"; "Love Me Tonight." Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: <-/c ASCAP.
Wagner, Joseph Frederick, composer, conductor, pianist, educator; b. Springfield, Mass., Jan. 9, 1900. ASCAP 1946. Educ.: New England Cons, of Music, 1921-23; Endicott Prize in composition 1923; Boston Univ. Coll. of Music, 1932, Bachelor of Music; to Europe for advanced musical studies, composition with Boulanger and Casella; conducting with Monteux and Weingartner. World War I, Armed Forces 1918. Founded Boston Civic Symph. Orch.
1925, conducted until 1944. Instruc­tor Boston Univ. Coll. of Music, 1929-41; member faculties Rutgers Univ., Univ. of Oklahoma, Hunter Coll. and Brooklyn Coll. Conductor of Duluth Symph. Orch., 1947-50 and Costa Rica Symph. Orch., 1950-51. Guest conductor of Philharmonic Orches­tras in Buffalo, Toronto, Havana, Finland and Sweden. Presented first ail-American program in Havana 1949. Orch. works: three symphonies; two sinfoniettas; Variations on An Old Form; Festival Processions; Northern Saga. Stage works: Hudson River Legend, ballet; Dance Divertisse­ment. Symph. band: Eulogy, overture; American Jubilee; Concerto Grosso. Choral: The Story of a Princess (with narrator); Missa Brevis, Psalm XXIX (male voices); David Jazz (male voices); Song of All Seas, All Ships (with orch.); Ballad of Brotherhood (with orch.); Gloria in Excelsis. Works for solo inst. with orch.: Fantasy in Technicolor (piano); Fugual Trip­tych (piano); Concerto in G Minor (piano); Concertino (harp); Rhap­sody (clarinet); Introduction and Rondo (trumpet). Also chamber music and works for two pianos. Home. New Brunswick, N.J. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Wagner, Larry, composer, author, ar­ranger; b. Ashland, Ore., Sept. 15, 1907. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: Univ. of Oregon, journalism. Graduate student of Schillinger System musical com­position. Arranger Glen Gray's orch., 1938-42; entered composing field as result of arranging work. World War II, U.S. Marine Corps, Fifth Div., 1943-45. Works: "The ^ Whistler's Mother-in-Law"; "A Lover's Lullaby"; "Sassin' the Boss"; instrumental, "No Name Jive"; "Two Dukes on a Pier"; "Autopsy on Schubert"; "Hearts Without Flowers"; "Sneakin Asleep"; "In the Dark of the Moon"; "Penguin at the Waldorf"; "The Men of Iwo Jima" (march); "Humpty-Jumpty";