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Aug. 4, 1910. ASCAP 1939. Educ.: New York public schools; New York Univ.; Malkin Cons.; Columbia Univ., Bachelor of Science 1935, Master of Arts 1937; harmony, privately with Max Persin; composition with Charles Haubiel and Roy Harris; summer of 1935, Mozarteum Academy, Salzburg. First professional activities in music, in popular field. While composing lighter works, continued music studies working professionally with song publishers; also writing special material for nightclub entertainers. From 1935-45 on faculty Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, N.Y. teaching music. Then Director of Publications for music publishing house. Since 1945, President Juilliard School of Music. Received, awards: League of Composers Award, 1939; Two Guggenheim Fellowships, (1939-40, 1940-41); Citation from N.A.A.C.C; New York Critics' Circle Award 1942; Pulitzer Prize, 1943; Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award; Composition Award from Amer. Acad, of Arts and Letters; Honorary Mus. D. Chicago Music College. Works: Six Symphonies; Three String Quartets; Concerto for Piano and Small Orch.; Concerto for violin and Orch.; Third String Quartet; Undertow, Ballet; Night Journey; William Billings Overture; Fugue for Strings; Chorale Etude; American Festival Overture; Newsreel in Five Shots, for Symph. band or Orch.; A Free Song, cantata; This is Our Time, cantata; Sideshow, for Orch. Music for film, Steeltown. Song: "Jn Love with the Memory of You." Home: New Rochelle, N.Y. Address: 130 Claremont Ave., New York, N.Y. |
Gal." Home: Los Angeles, Calif. Address: c/o ASCAP.
Schuster, Ira, composer, author, publisher; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 13, 1889; d. New York, N.Y., Oct. 10, 1946. ASCAP 1921. Educ.: public schools. After brief commercial career during which he devoted evenings to professional piano playing, left clerical post to become member professional staff music publishing house, 1913. Later organized own publishing business. Songs: "I Am an American"; "Mr. Radio Man"; "Did You Ever Get That Feeling in the Moonlight"; "They're Makin' Me All Over in the Army ; "Hats Off to Mac-Arthur"; "Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes"; "You Know You Belong to Somebody Else"; "I'm Alone Because I Love You"; "Let's Make Up"; "Dance of the Paper Dolls"; "At the Baby Parade"; "The Bridal Waltz"; "A Shanty in Old Shanty Town"; "Vamping Rose"; "Smile"; "Old King Cole"; "Hold Me." Address: Estate, c/o ASCAP.
Schuster, Joseph, composer, author, vaudeville artist; b. New York, N.Y., Feb. 6, 1896. ASCAP 1928. Educ.: high school. Currently manager in music publishing house. Songs: "Mama's Little Baby"; "Look,At Me Now"; "My Memories of You"; "Two Little Pretty Birds"; "Dance of the Paper Dolls"; "Sleep, Baby, Sleep"; "Mavbe, Who Knows?"; "Let's Grow Old "Together"; "Go Home and Tell Your Mother"; "I Know Somethin' I Won't Tell Ya"; "Take Your Finger Out of Your Mouth, I Want A Kiss From You"; "Honest, I'm in Love With You"; "In A Little Love Nest"; "Winter Interlude"; "The Christmas Polka"; "Anything Can Happen When You're Lonesome"; "I Kissed a Girl and Made Her Cry"; "I Shouldn't Love You But I Do"; "The Potato Love Song"; "Do What Your Heart Tells You To Do"; "I Wake Up Every |
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Schumann, Walter, composer; b. New York, N.Y., Oct. 8, 1913. ASCAP 1948. Songs: "Melancholy Moon"; "I Walk Alone"; "There Was a Uttle Girl"; "It's Dreamtimc"; "Lonesome |
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