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Mine"; "The Forgotten Land"; "The Princess of the Morning"; "Wind and Lyre"; "Stars"; In An Old Garden, song-cycle; Cycle for Children—A City Child In the Country; Mountain Pictures, suite for piano; Song of the Sea, piano solo; Victory Prelude for piano; Midnight Waltz, piano; and operetta, Waltz For Three. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Ware, Leonard, composer, author; b. Richmond, Va„ Dec. 28, 1909. ASCAP 1947. Educ: Tuskegee Inst., Alabama; studied brick masonry, and played oboe in coll. band. Began career playing with popular orch. as guitarist 1934, then in New York with Benny Goodman and Count Basie's bands. Organized own trio and made short subject for "The March of Time." Songs: "Giddap Mule, We've Got to Farm to Win This Fight" (accepted by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture); "Hold Tight"; "Ooh, Wee, Ooh Wee, the Bumble Bee"; "Heh, Heh, Little Doggie"; "Keep Your Big Mouth Shut"; "Donuts with the Hole in the Middle"; "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Harlem." Home: 351 W. 123 St., New York 27, N.Y.
Warford, Claude, composer, singer, educator; b. Newton, N.J., July 11, 1877; d. Keyport, N.J., March 11, 1950. ASCAP 1925. Educ: Newton High School, Newton Coll. Inst. At nineteen, Royal Cons, of Stuttgart, piano and voice with Max Pauer and Axel Sanberg. Then advanced studies with private tutors in Berlin and in Paris with Wm. Elliot Haslam. Sang tenor roles in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in amateur productions. Gave up course of architecture to make music a career. Concertized in U.S. In 1926-31 conducted summer school, Paris, France. Retired 1942. Works: "Pieta"; "Earth is Enough"; "Dream Song"; "Three Ghosts." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP. |
Waring, Fred, composer, conductor, television, radio, recording, stage, and screen artist, inventor, manufacturer, teacher; b. Tyrone, Pa., June 9, 1900. ASCAP 1940. Educ.: Tyrone public schools; Penn State Univ. As boy scout led Drum and Bugle Corps, Tyrone, from which evolved college orchestra known as The Banjazzatra. Played with orchestra at Univ. of Mich. 1921 for which engagement was coined name, "Pennsylvanians." Became stage attraction 1922; played sixteen-week engagement at Cafe des Ambassadeurs in Paris as America's outstanding swing band 1928; returned to New York to make Broadway musical Hello Yourself and The New Yorkers; followed by first all-musical movie, Syncopation and Varsity Show. First musician to record rhumba tune, waxing songs Hoagy Carmichael brought from Cuba. Began regular radio shows in 1933; entered television 1949. Organized Fred Waring Music Workshop for promotion of choral singing in Amei-ica. Has personally instructed over 2,000 amateur directors in FWMW's four years' operation. Works: "Song Is the Thing*; a series of nearly one hundred and twenty-five college songs and service songs written "to order"; "Please Don't Tell Me"; "Early In the Morning"; "Spearhead"; "Bond Jungle"; "Monday, Washing Day", "I Hear Music"; "I'm All Fouled up In Love"; "The Time Is Now"; "More Power to America." Home: Shawnce-on-Delaware, Pa. Address. 1697 Broadway, New York 19, N.Y.
Waring, Tom, composer, author, singer; b. Tyrone, Pa., Feb. 12, 1902. ASCAP 1935. Educ.: Penn State Univ. At sixteen, began musical career as pianist in band organized by elder brother Fred; always member of the unit, pianist and singer. Soloist of Cumberland, Md., Glee Club, Penn. State Glee Club, radio and concert singer and artist of stage and |
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