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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"; |
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