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Little White Cane"; "My Land"; "Midsummer Night's Dream"; "Cinderella." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: The Blue Network, R.C.A. Bldg., New York 20, N.Y.
Wilder, Alec, composer, author; b. Rochester, N.Y., Feb. 17, 1907. ASCAP 1943. Educ: Rochester pub-lip schools and Eastman School of Music. Works: for chamber orchestra: Theme and Variations; Slow Dance; Air for Oboe; Air for Bassoon; Air for English Horn; Air for Flute. Piano solos: Seldom the Sun; A Debutante's Diary; Neurotic Goldfish; Such a Tender Night; Shell Be Seven in May; Walking Home in the Spring. Octets for woodwinds; ballet Juke Box. Songs: "It's So Peaceful in the Country"; "Stop That Dancin' Up There"; "Who Can I Turn To"; "J. P. Dooley III"; "Soft as Spring ; "Moon and Sand", "At the Swing Shift Ball"; "I'll Be Around." Home: New York, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Wilhite, Monte, composer; b. Wichita, Kan., Nov. 22, 1899. ASCAP 1942. Songs: "Yesterday"; "Tomorrow"; "Will The Angels Play Their Harps for Me?"; "When Summer is Gone"; "Now That I Have You." Home: Wichita, Kan. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Willadsen, Gene, author; b. Wee-hawken Heights, N.J., July 24, 1915. ASCAP 1943. Educ.: private schools, New York. Upon graduation, entered show business with father. At present in Florida doing newspapei work and feature stories. Songs: 'But I Never Do"; "Just To Be Near You"; "My Best To You"; "Just Like You. Home: Islamorada, Fla. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Williams, Clarence, composer, publisher, recording artist; b. Plaquemin, La., Oct. 6, 1893. ASCAP 1927. Mastered guitar and organ as child and played in hotels and became |
professional entertainer at twelve. Ran away with minstrel show and on return to New Orleans became protege of "Jelly Roll" Morton, substituting for Morton as orchestra leader in vaudeville. As professional entertainer organized radio and recording units in New York 1923; became active in publishing business, New York. Works: "Brownskin"; "Royal Garden Blues"; "Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None of this Jellyroll"; "Shout Sister Shout"; "Sugar Blues"; "Baby Won't You Please Come Home"; "Gulf Coast Blues"; "Papa De-da-da"; "West End Blues." Home: Brooklyn, N.Y. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Williams, David McK., composer, organist; b. Carnarvonshire, Wales, Feb. 20, 1887. ASCAP 1943. To U.S. 1887. Educ.: Denver, Colo., and Schola Cantorum, Paris; composition Vincent d'Indy; organ, Vierne and Widor. Mus. Doc. King's College, Nova Scotia, 1926. Teacher at Columbia Univ. 1920-24; teacher Juilliard School of Music 1942-48. Organist St. Bartholomew's Church, New York 1920-48. Works: opera Florence Nightingale; operetta Enchanted Waters; and church music. Home: New York, N.Y. Address: St. Bartholomew's Church, Park Ave. and 51 St., New York 22, N.Y.
Williams, Frances, composer; b. Waenfawr, Wales, June 4. ASCAP 1948. To U.S. in youth; citizen. Educ.: Cornish School of Music, Seattle, Wash, (scholarships in piano and composition). Studied with Calvin Brainard Cady and Anna Brant Dall; Juilliard Graduate School (fellowships) New York, composition with Rubin Goldmark, piano with James Friskin. Member Board of Governors, Musicians' Club of New York;' N.A.A.C.C., N.F.M.C. Works: To the Dawn (festival chorus with orchestration); Night (for women's voices); Step Lightly o'er the Hal- |
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