W. Franke Harling(1887-1958)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("Beyond the Blue Horizon", "Sing You Sinners"), composer
and conductor, educated at the Grace Church Choir School in New York
and the London Academy of Music. He was also a music student of
Theodore Ysaye. His career included being chief organist at the Church
of the Resurrecion in Brussels (1907-1908). For the stage, he wrote
incidental music for the plays "Machinal", "Deep River", "Paris Bound",
"Outward Bound", "In Love With Love", and "The Outsider". Joining ASCAP
in 1926, his chief musical collaborators were Leo Robin, Richard
Whiting, and Sam Coslow. His other popular-song compositions include
"West Point Forever" (the official march), "The Corps" (the West Point
hymn), "Where Was I?", "Always in All Ways", and Give Me a Moment,
Please".
