Biography

Composer, conductor, songwriter, violinist, arranger and publisher, educated at the Lille Conservatory and studied with A. W. Lilienthal. He was the assistant conductor for the Boston Opera Company, violinist with the Seattle Symphony, and violist with the San Francisco Symphony. He was the general music director at the Roxy Theatre in New York, and staff composer and conductor at the Radio City Music Hall in New York between 1932-1939, and conducted other symphony orchestras and for radio. The French government awarded him the title "Officier d'Academie". He founded his own publishing firm in 1937, and founded and led the Society for French-American Symphonic Music Abroad, and its affiliate, Association Musicale Franco-Americaine. He joined ASCAP in 1926, and his compositions include: "Ode to Democracy" (setting to Lincoln's Gettysburg address); "Villon (opera)"; "Fosteriana"; "The Conqueror"; "American Gothic (clarinet and orchestra)"; "The Enchanted Forest (operetta)"; "The Wedding Festival (tone poem)"; and "Indian Wedding Festival". His popular-song compositions include: "Kissamiss" and "I Must Be Going to the Dogs". "The
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