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Whithorne, Emerson
bourn Quartet. Works inc. Five Minia­tures; Pagan Festival Overture; Voyage of the Mayflower; Symphony in E Minor; Lake Spray; Boston Sketches; College Caprice; Lake Placid Scenes; Idyl for orch.; Sonata for violin and piano; Sinfonietta for Strings; Sea Chanty for harp and strings; Andante and Rondo for cello and orch.; Mosquito Dance. Home: 288 Mulberry St., Rochester, N.Y.
White, William Wilfred, composer, pianist, entertainer; b. New York, N.Y., June 5, 1894. ASCAP 1942. Songs: "I Wonder If She's Lonely Too"; "I'd Love to Be a Monkey in the Zoo"; "Oh How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried about You"; "Curtin' Paper Dollies"; "Six Times Six Is Thirty-Six." Home: Woodside, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Whitehouse, Fred, composer, author, singer, vaudeville and recording ar­tist; b. New York, N.Y., June 14, 1895. ASCAP 1941. Educ: public schools; wrote special material for music publishing houses, twenty years. In vaudeville many years as The Phonograph Singer. Songs: "Sam You Made the Pants Too Long"; "Dancing Marathon"; "Airy Lillian, My Faiiy", "The Wedding of Sweet Sue and Me"; "Kitty Donohue"; "At the League of Nations Ball"; "Wa Da Da (The Hot-cha Song)"; "I'm the Last One Left on the Corner (of that Old Gang of Mine)"; "The Call of Love"; "Sometime"; "If They Ever Start to Ration Love." Home: Brook­lyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Whitford, Homer, composer, ar­ranger, organist, conductoi; b. Har­vey, 111., May 21, 1892. ASCAP 1945. Educ.: Oberlin Cons., Bachelor of Music; composition, Harvard Univ.; abroad, under Widor, Vierne and Bloch, one year. Director of Music, Tabernacle Church, Utica, N.Y.; As-
sociate Professor Music, Dartmouth Coll.; currently organist and director music, First Congregational Church in Cambridge, Mass.; Director of Music Therapy, McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass.; conductor various choral organizations. Fellow of Amer. Guild of Organists; Doctor of Music, Tarkio College, Missouri 1950. Works for mixed voices: "Let All That Hath Breath"; "When Christ Awoke Vic­torious"; "Glory to God In the High­est"; "Sing Praise to God, The Al­mighty"; "Laudamus Te" (Gounod); "Gloria In Excelsis." Men's voices: "Praise Ye the Lord" (Tschaikow-sky); "Lo, A Voice to Heaven" (Bort-niansky); "Deck the Hall" (Welsh); "The Piper of Dundee" (Scotch). Women's voices: "God Be With Us" (Grazioli); "Sing, Sweet Harp" (Irish); "Peter" (Russian); "The Holly and the Mistletoe" (Bach); "While By Our Sleeping Flock" (German). For organ: Five Choral Paraphrases (Series I and II); In Hadrian Square; Notturno (Boro-dine); Awake, Thou Wint'ry Earth (Bach); Symphony From Cantata (Bach). Home: 48 Chester Rd., Bel­mont, Mass.
Whithorne, Emerson, composer, pub­lisher, editor, critic; b. Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 6, 1884. ASCAP 1924. Of musical and literary parentage. Educ.: Cleveland public schools, piano and theory with James H. Rogers. At seventeen concertized, making two annual tours of the Chautauqua circuit. At nineteen to Vienna; piano with Theodore Leschetizsky, composition and coun­terpoint Robert Fuchs. Pedagogical and critical activities, London 1907-16; N.Y. 1916-20. Editor Art Pub­lications Soc.; 1920 vice president Composers' Music Corporation, spon­soring largely work of contemporary composers. Retired to concentrate on composition 1922. Works: Greek Im-