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Forster, Dorothy |
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N.Y., July 31, 1915. ASCAP 1939. Educ: Miami High School; Univ. of Miami, Fla. With partner Robert Wright long active in Hollywood scoring pictures, writing special material. Wrote, staged revues for stage and night clubs. Scored motion pictures Maytime; The Firefly; Sweethearts; Balalaika; Music in My Heart. Operettas; Song of Norway; Gypsy Lady. Songs: "My Treasure"; "Keepsakes'; "Always and Always"; "Donkey Serenade ; "Its a Blue World"; 'Tretty As a Picture"; "Boys Town on Parade"; "At the Balalaika"; "Strange Music." Home: Beverly Hills, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Forster, Dorothy, composer, pianist; b. Carshalton, London, Eng., Feb. 20, 1884; d. Eng., Dec. 25, 1950. ASCAP 1925. Educ.: Royal Acad, of Music; piano, Walter Macfarren; harmony and counterpoint, Frederick Corder; viola, Frank Arnold. Solo pianist for long tour throughout Creat Britain. After tour, wrote song "Rose in the Bud"; composed songs and light piano works ever since. Lived in New York some years before 1930. Instrumental works: Coquette; At Twilight; Jeannette; Happy Memo-ties; Jicky. Songs: "Perhaps"; "My-fanwy"; "I Wonder if Love is a Dream"; "Rosamond"; "Dearest I Bring You Daffodils"; "Some Day Soon"; "A Psalm of Love"; "I Heard a Sweet Song"; "Wonderful Garden of Dreams"; "Your Smile"; "Bells of Twilight"; "After the Rain"; "The Bells of Home." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Forsyth, Cecil, composer, author; b. London, Eng., Nov. 30, 1870; d. New York, N.Y., Dec. 7, 1941. ASCAP 1929. Educ.: Edinburgh Univ.; Parry and Stanford; Royal Coll. of Music, London. Violist Queen's Hall Orch., London; to New York 1914; executive with music publishing firm till 1941. Wrote extensively on musical sub- |
jects. Literary works: Music and Nationalism; A Treatise on Orchestration; A History of Music; also A History of Music, with Villiers Stanford. Musical works: Chant Celtique (tor viola and orch.), Viola Concerto (performed in London by Sir Henry Wood); four Orchestra Studies after Les Miserables; Ode to a Nightingale (for baritone and orch.); two Masses. Operas: Westward Ho!; Cinderella. Chamber music and part songs. Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Fort, Eleanor H. (Hank Fort), composer, author; b. Nashville, Tenn., June 19, 1914. ASCAP 1949. Songs: "Put Your Shoes on Lucy"; "Honky Tonk Donkey"; "Pic-A-Nic-In"; "Didn't Know the Gun Was Loaded", "Have a Heart"; "So Long Until Tomorrow." Home: Nashville, Tenn. Address: c/c ASCAP.
Fortis, Johnny, composer, arranger; b. Philadelphia, Pa., March 25, 1913. ASCAP 1946. Studied illustration at Pennsylvania Acad, of Fine Arts (scholarship); self-taught in music. Songs, mstrumentals, and arrangements: "Dancer at the Fair"; "Canteen Bounce"; "Barnyard Band"; "The Blue Serge Suit with the Belt in the Back"; "Cowboy in Khaki"; "Get in Touch with Me"; "You Oughta Learn to Dance." Special material for Ice-time. Home: Philadelphia, Pa. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Foss, Lukas, composer, conductor, pianist; b. Berlin, Germany, Aug. 15, 1922. ASCAP 1945. To U.S. 1937, citizen 1943. Educ.: Curtis Inst, of Music (scholarship), Philadelphia, with I. Vengerova, R. Scalero, Fritz Reiner; Paris Cons, (scholarship) with Lazare, Levy, Noel Gallon. Pupil of Paul Hindemith, Felix Wol-fes, Julius Herford, Serge Koussevit-sky. Guest conductor 1945-46 Pittsburgh Symph. Orch., New York City Center Symph., Los Angeles |
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