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1954

Supplementary Chapter One : 1945-1954

A1 In:

Lyons, James

Howard, John Tasker

Our American music : three hundred years of it

Third edition, revised and reset.

With supplementary chapters by James Lyons

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1954, 841 p.

The above item has biographical information on:

Abramson, Robert Marvin (b. 1928)

music educator, composer

Achron, Isidor (d. 1948)

compositore, pianista

Alexander, Josef (b. 1907 d. 1989)

composer, music educator

Allen, Creighton (b. 1900 d. 1969)

piano, composer

Allen, Robert E. (b. 1920)

composer

Ames, William Thayer (b. 1901)

piano, composer

Antheil, George Johann Carl (b. 1900 d. 1959)

composer, musicisti

Aschaffenburg, Walter (Eugene) (b. 1927 a. 1938)

composer, music educator

Avshalomov, Jacob David (b. 1919)

composer, conductor

Babbitt, Milton (Byron) (b. 1916)

composer

Babin, Victor (b. 1908 d. 1972)

piano, composer

Bacon, Ernst (b. 1898 d. 1990)

composer, conductor

Ballou, Esther Williamson (b. 1915 d. 1973)

composer, piano

Balogh, Erno (b. 1897 d. 1989)

celesta, piano

Barber, Samuel (b. 1910 d. 1981)

baritone, composer

Barlow, Wayne Brewster (b. 1912)

composer, teacher

Barth, Hans (d. 1956)

piano, composer

Bauer, Marion (b. 1887 d. 1955)

composer, teacher

Bazelon, Irwin Allen (b. 1922)

composer, conductor

Becker, John Joseph (b. 1886 d. 1961)

composer

Beeson, Jack (Hamilton) (b. 1921)

composer, teacher

Bennett, Robert Russell (b. 1894 d. 1981)

arranger, composer

Berg, Cherney (b. 1922)

composer

Berger, Arthur Victor (b. 1912)

composer, critic

Bergsma, William Laurence (b. 1921)

composer, teacher

Berkowitz, Sol (b. 1922)

cast, composer

Berl, Paul (b. 1907 a. 1951)

composer

Berlinski, Herman (b. 1910)

composer, organ

Bernstein, Leonard (b. 1918 d. 1990)

composer, conductor

Beversdorf, Thomas [Samuel Thomas] (b. 1924 d. 1981)

composer

Bezanson, Philip (Thomas) (b. 1916 d. 1975)

composer, teacher

Binder, Abraham Wolfe (b. 1895 d. 1966)

composer

Bingham, Seth (b. 1882 d. 1972)

organ, composer

Blitzstein, Marc (b. 1905 d. 1964)

author, cast

Bloch, Ernest (b. 1880)

composer, compositore

Bottje, Will Gay (b. 1925)

composer, flute

Bowles, Paul Frederic (b. 1910)

composer, writer

Brand, Max (b. 1896 d. 1980)

author, composer

Brant, Henry Dreyfus (b. 1913)

composer

Bricken, Carl Ernest (b. 1898 d. 1971)

composer, piano

Brown, Earle (b. 1926)

composer, conductor

Brown, Harold (b. 1909)

conductor, composer

Brown, Merton Luther (b. 1913)

composer, piano

Brunswick, Mark (b. 1902 d. 1971)

composer, teacher

Bucci, Mark (b. 1924)

composer, lyricist

Burleigh, Cecil (b. 1885 d. 1980)

composer, violin

Burton, Eldin (b. 1913)

Cage, John (b. 1912 d. 1992)

composer, direttore d'orchestra

Cailliet, Lucien (b. 1891 d. 1984)

clarinet, composer

Calabro, Louis (b. 1926)

composer, percussion

Carlin, William (b. 1927)

composer

Carter, Elliott (Cook) (b. 1908)

composer, Komposition

Casadesus, Robert (Marcel)

Klavier, pianista

Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario (b. 1895)

composer, compositore

Cazden, Norman (b. 1914 d. 1980)

composer, musicologist

Cesana, Otto (b. 1899 d. 1980)

orchestrator, popular composer

Chajes, Julius (b. 1910 d. 1985 a. 1950)

composer, piano

Chanler, Theodore (Ward) (b. 1902 d. 1961)

critic, composer

Chasins, Abram (b. 1903 d. 1987)

piano, writer

Chou, Wen-Chung (b. 1923)

composer, teacher

Citkowitz, Israel (b. 1909 d. 1974)

composer, teacher

Claflin, Avery [Alan Avery] (b. 1898 d. 1979)

composer

Clapp, Philip Greeley (b. 1888 d. 1954)

composer, teacher

Clokey, Joseph Waddell (b. 1890 d. 1961)

organ, composer

Cogan, Robert David (b. 1930)

composer, music educator

Cohn, Arthur (b. 1910)

composer, author

Cole, Ulric (b. 1905)

composer

Cone, Edward Toner (b. 1917)

composer, theorist

Copland, Aaron (b. 1900)

composer, Dirigent

Cowell, Henry (Dixon) (b. 1897 d. 1965)

composer, Komposition

Crawford Seeger, Ruth (b. 1901 d. 1953)

composer, music educator

Creston, Paul (b. 1906 d. 1985)

composer, musicisti

Cummins, Richard Lynn (b. 1936)

composer, organ

Dahl, Ingolf (b. 1912 d. 1970)

composer, piano

Dalgleish, James (b. 1928)

composer

Daniels, Mabel Wheeler (b. 1878 d. 1971)

composer

Dello Joio, Norman (b. 1913)

composer, piano

Denny, William D. [William Douglas] (b. 1910 d. 1980)

composer, teacher

Des Marais, Paul (Emile) (b. 1920)

composer, teacher

Di Bonaventura, Sam Albert (b. 1923)

composer

Diamond, David (Leo) (b. 1915)

composer, musicisti

Donato, Anthony (b. 1909)

composer, violin

Donovan, Richard Frank (b. 1891 d. 1970)

composer, organ

Druckman, Jacob Raphael (b. 1928)

composer

Dubensky, Arcady (b. 1890 d. 1966)

violin, composer

Dubensky, Leo Arcady (b. 1914)

composer

Duke, Vernon (b. 1903 d. 1969)

composer, lyricist

Dvorkin, Judith (b. 1930)

composer, piano

Easton, Jack (b. 1918)

composer, lyricist

Effinger, Cecil Stanley (b. 1914 d. 1990)

composer, oboe

Elwell, Herbert (b. 1898 d. 1974)

composer, critic

Engel, Lehman [A. Lehman] (b. 1910 d. 1982)

composer, librettist

Etler, Alvin (Derald) (b. 1913 d. 1973)

composer, oboe

Farwell, Arthur (b. 1872 d. 1952)

composer, critic

Feldman, Morton (b. 1926 d. 1987)

composer, Komposition

Fetler, Paul (b. 1920)

composer, music educator

Fine, Irving Gifford (b. 1914 d. 1962)

composer, piano

Fine, Vivian (b. 1913)

composer, piano

Finney, Ross Lee (b. 1906)

composer

Fitelberg, Jerzy (b. 1903 d. 1951 a. 1940)

composer

Fitzer, John Lewis (b. 1913)

arranger, piano

Flanagan, William (b. 1923 d. 1969)

composer, critic

Fletcher, Grant (b. 1913)

composer, conductor

Foss, Lukas (b. 1922 a. 1937)

composer, conductor

Franchetti, Arnold (b. 1909)

composer

Franco, Johan (Henri Gustave) (b. 1908 d. 1988 a. 1934)

composer

Freed, Arnold (b. 1926)

composer, writer

Freed, Isadore (b. 1900 d. 1960)

composer, teacher

Fromm, Herbert (b. 1905)

composer, organ

Fuleihan, Anis (b. 1900 d. 1970)

piano, composer

Fuller, Donald Sanborn (b. 1919)

composer

Gardner, Samuel (b. 1891 d. 1984)

violin, composer

Gassmann, Remi (b. 1908)

composer, critic

George, Earl Robert (b. 1924)

composer, critic

Gesensway, Louis (b. 1906 d. 1976)

composer, violin

Giannini, Vittorio (b. 1903 d. 1966)

composer

Gideon, Miriam (b. 1906)

composer, music educator

Gillis, Don (b. 1912 d. 1978)

piano, trumpeter

Gilmore, Harold (b. 1916)

composer

Glanville-Hicks, Peggy (b. 1912 d. 1990)

composer

Goeb, Roger (b. 1914)

composer

Goldman, Richard Franko (b. 1910 d. 1980)

bandmaster, composer

Gould, Morton (b. 1913)

composer, conductor

Grainger, Percy (Aldridge) (b. 1882 d. 1961)

composer, Klavier

Grechaninov, Alexander Tikhonovich (b. 1864 d. 1956)

composer, compositore

Green, Ray Burns (b. 1908)

composer, publisher

Greenberg, Elliot (b. 1931)

composer

Grofe, Ferde (b. 1892 d. 1972)

composer, musicisti

Gruen, John (b. 1927)

composer

Gruen, Rudolph (b. 1900 d. 1966)

piano, composer

Guion, David Wendell Fentress (b. 1892 d. 1981)

composer, musicisti

Haieff, Alexei (b. 1914 a. 1931)

composer

Haines, Edmund Thomas (b. 1914 d. 1974)

composer

Hamm, Charles (Edward) (b. 1925)

musicologist

Hanson, Howard (Harold) (b. 1896 d. 1981)

composer, conductor

Harline, Leigh (b. 1907 d. 1969)

composer, vocals

Harris, Art [Arthur Sidney] (b. 1927)

composer, piano

Harris, Roy (b. 1898 d. 1979)

composer, musicisti

Harrison, Lou (b. 1917)

composer, conductor

Hart, Weldon (b. 1911 d. 1957)

composer

Haubiel, Charles Troubridge (b. 1892 d. 1978)

piano, composer

Haufrecht, Herbert (b. 1909)

composer

Helfer, Walter (b. 1896 d. 1959)

composer, music educator

Helfman, Max (b. 1901 d. 1963)

composer

Helm, Everett (Burton) (b. 1913)

writer on music, composer

Hemmer, Eugene (b. 1929 d. 1977)

composer

Hendl, Walter (b. 1917)

conductor, piano

Herrmann, Bernard (b. 1911 d. 1975)

composer, conductor

Hill, Edward Burlingame (b. 1872 d. 1960)

composer, musician

Hoiby, Lee (b. 1926)

composer, piano

Hollingsworth, John Ernest (b. 1916 d. 1963)

conductor

Hopkins, Kenyon (b. 1912)

arranger, composer

Hovhaness, Alan (b. 1911)

composer, piano

Howe, Mary Alberta Bruce (b. 1882 d. 1964)

composer, piano

Hudson, Will (b. 1908 d. 1981)

arranger, composer

Huffman, Walter Spencer (b. 1947)

piano, teacher

Imbrie, Andrew Welsh (b. 1921)

composer, piano

Inch, Herbert Reynolds (b. 1904 d. 1988)

composer

James, Philip (Frederick Wright) (b. 1890 d. 1975)

composer, music director

Johnson, Harriet (d. 1987)

critic, composer

Johnson, Lockrem (b. 1924 d. 1977)

composer, publisher

Jones, Charles (b. 1910)

choreographer, composer

Jones, J. Randolph [John Randolph] (b. 1910)

composer, conductor

Kanitz, Ernst (b. 1894 d. 1978 a. 1938)

composer

Katz, Erich (b. 1900 d. 1973)

composer

Kauder, Hugo (b. 1888 d. 1972)

composer, violin

Kay, Ulysses (Simpson) (b. 1917 d. 1995)

composer

Kechley, Gerald Raymond (b. 1919)

composer, music director

Keller, Homer Todd (b. 1915)

composer, music educator

Kennan, Kent Wheeler (b. 1913)

composer, teacher

Kerr, Harrison (b. 1897 d. 1978)

composer

Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick (b. 1915 d. 1967)

composer

Kim, Earl (b. 1920)

composer, piano

Kirchner, Leon (b. 1919)

composer, piano

Kleinsinger, George (b. 1914 d. 1982)

composer, orchestrator

Kohs, Ellis (Bonoff) (b. 1916)

composer, teacher

Korngold, Erich Wolfgang (b. 1897 d. 1957)

arranger, composer

Koutzen, Boris (b. 1901 d. 1966)

violin, composer

Krenek, Ernst (b. 1900)

composer, compositeur

Kreutz, Arthur (b. 1906 d. 1991)

composer

Kubik, Gail (Thompson) (b. 1914 d. 1984)

composer

Kupferman, Meyer (b. 1926)

clarinet, composer

Kurka, Robert (Frank) (b. 1921 d. 1957)

composer

Lahmer, Reuel (b. 1912)

composer, choir master

Landau, Siegfried (b. 1921 a. 1940)

conductor, composer

Langstroth, Ivan Shed (b. 1887 d. 1971)

composer

Lava, William (b. 1911 d. 1971)

composer, arranger

Lawner, Morris (b. 1910)

composer

Lee, Dai-Keong (b. 1915)

composer

Lees, Benjamin (b. 1924)

composer

Lenel, Ludwig (b. 1914 a. 1962)

composer

Leplin, Emanuel (b. 1917 d. 1972)

composer

Lessard, John (Ayers) (b. 1920)

composer

Levy, Ernst (b. 1895 d. 1981)

composer, piano

Lewis, Edward (b. 1925)

composer

List, Kurt (b. 1913 d. 1970)

musicologist, conductor

Liverman, John (b. 1914)

composer

Lockwood, Normand (b. 1906)

composer

Lopatnikoff, Nikolai L'vovich (b. 1903 d. 1976 a. 1939)

composer, piano

Lubin, Ernest (Viviani) (b. 1916 d. 1977)

composer, piano

Luening, Otto (Clarence) (b. 1900)

composer, teacher

Macero, Teo (b. 1925)

tenor sax, baritone sax

Martino, Donald (James) (b. 1931)

composer

Martinu, Bohuslav (Jan) (b. 1890)

composer, Komponist

Maxfield, Richard (Vance) (b. 1927 d. 1969)

composer

McBride, Robert (Guyn) (b. 1911)

composer, instrumentalist

McDonald, Harl (b. 1899 d. 1955)

composer, piano

Menasce, Jacques (b. 1905 d. 1960)

composer, musicisti

Mennin, Peter (b. 1923 d. 1983)

composer, teacher

Menotti, Gian Carlo (b. 1911)

composer, conductor

Meyerowitz, Jan (b. 1913 a. 1946)

composer

Mills, Charles (Borromeo) (b. 1914 d. 1982)

composer

Mohaupt, Richard Ernest Edward (b. 1904 d. 1957)

composer, Klavier

Monello, Spartaco Vindice (b. 1909)

composer

Monod, Jacques-Louis (b. 1927)

conductor, piano

Moore, Douglas Stuart (b. 1893 d. 1969)

composer, teacher

Mopper, Irving (b. 1914)

composer

Moross, Jerome (b. 1913 d. 1983)

Broadway and film composer, composer

Morris, Harold Cecil (b. 1890 d. 1964)

composer, teacher

Muczynski, Robert Stanley (b. 1929)

composer, piano

Nabokov, Nicolas (b. 1903 d. 1978)

composer, musicisti

Nagel, Robert E (b. 1924)

trumpet

Nemiroff, Isaac (b. 1912)

Newlin, Dika (b. 1923)

musicologist, piano

Nordoff, Paul (b. 1909 d. 1977)

composer, music therapist

North, Alex (b. 1910 d. 1991)

composer, film music composer

Nowak, Lionel (Henry) (b. 1911)

piano, composer

Oldberg, Arne (b. 1874 d. 1962)

composer, piano

Orlob, Harold F. (b. 1883)

composer, librettist

Overton, Hall (b. 1920 d. 1972)

composer, piano

Palmer, Robert (Moffat) (b. 1915)

composer, teacher

Perle, George (b. 1915)

composer, theorist

Perry, Julia (Amanda) (b. 1924 d. 1979)

composer, conductor

Persichetti, Vincent (b. 1915 d. 1987)

composer, piano

Peyton, Malcolm Cameron (b. 1932)

composer, music educator

Phillips, Burrill (b. 1907 d. 1988)

composer, music educator

Pinkham, Daniel (Rogers) (b. 1923)

composer, harpsichord

Pisk, Paul Amadeus (b. 1893 d. 1990)

composer, musicologist

Piston, Walter (Hamor) (b. 1894 d. 1976)

composer, musicisti

Porter, Quincy [William Quincy] (b. 1897 d. 1966)

cello, composer

Powell, John (b. 1882 d. 1963)

piano, composer

Powers, Maxwell (b. 1911)

teacher, composer

Pyle, Francis Johnson (b. 1901)

composer

Raphling, Sam (b. 1910 d. 1988)

composer

Rathaus, Karol (b. 1895 d. 1954)

composer

Ratner, Leonard Gilbert (b. 1916)

musicologist

Read, Gardner (b. 1913)

writer, composer

Rice, William (b. 1921)

composer

Riegger, Wallingford (b. 1885 d. 1961)

composer

Rieti, Vittorio (b. 1898)

composer, compositore

Riley, John Arthur (b. 1920)

composer, cello

Roberts, Arthur (b. 1912)

physicist, composer

Robinson, Earl Hawley (b. 1910 d. 1991)

songwriter, conductor

Rochberg, George (b. 1918)

composer, Komposition

Rodgers, Richard (Charles) (b. 1902 d. 1979)

cast, composer

Rogers, Bernard (b. 1893 d. 1968)

composer, teacher

Rohe, Robert Kenneth (b. 1916)

Rorem, Ned (b. 1923)

composer, musicisti

Rosen, Jerome (William) (b. 1921)

composer, clarinet

Rosenman, Leonard (b. 1924)

composer

Rudhyar, Dane (b. 1895 d. 1985)

composer, writer

Saminsky, Lazare (b. 1882 d. 1959)

composer, compositore

Sanders, Robert Levine (b. 1906 d. 1974)

composer

Sapp, Allen Dwight (b. 1922)

composer

Sasonkin, Manus (b. 1930)

composer, critic

Sawyer, Elizabeth (b. 1931 a. 1969-1970)

composer, piano

Schuller, Gunther Alexander (b. 1925)

composer, conductor

Schuman, William (Howard) (b. 1910 d. 1992)

composer, conductor

Seeger, Stanley (b. 1930)

composer

Serly, Tibor (b. 1901 d. 1978)

composer, viola

Sessions, Roger (Huntington) (b. 1896 d. 1985)

composer, piano

Shapero, Harold (Samuel) (b. 1920)

composer, teacher

Shapey, Ralph (b. 1921)

composer, Komposition

Shapiro, Theodore (b. 1927)

composer

Shepherd, Arthur (b. 1880 d. 1958)

composer, piano

Shifrin, Seymour (b. 1926 d. 1979)

composer, Komposition

Shulman, Alan M. (b. 1915)

cello, composer

Siegmeister, Elie (b. 1909 d. 1991)

composer, dance arranger

Slonimsky, Nicolas (b. 1894)

composer, Dirigent

Smit, Leo (b. 1921)

composer, piano

Smith, David Stanley (b. 1877 d. 1949)

conductor, composer

Smith, Julia (Frances) (b. 1911 d. 1989)

composer, piano

Smith, Russell (b. 1927)

cast, composer

Snyder, Theodore (b. 1924)

Sokoloff, Noel (b. 1923 a. 1961)

composer

Stalmaker, William (b. 1921)

composer

Starer, Robert (b. 1924 a. 1947)

composer, dance arranger

Stein, Leon (b. 1910)

composer, writer on music

Stevens, Halsey (b. 1908 d. 1989)

composer, musicologist

Still, William Grant (b. 1895 d. 1978)

arranger, composer

Strang, Gerald (b. 1908)

composer

Stringfield, Lamar Edwin (b. 1897 d. 1959)

composer, flute

Strongin, Theodore (b. 1918)

composer

Sturm, George (b. 1930)

administrator, banjo

Swack, Irwin (b. 1919)

composer, music educator

Swanson, Howard (b. 1907 d. 1978)

composer

Talma, Louise Juliette (b. 1906 a. 1922)

composer, piano

Taylor, Deems [Joseph Deems] (b. 1885 d. 1966)

cast, composer

Thompson, Randall (b. 1899 d. 1984)

composer, musicisti

Thomson, Virgil (Garnett) (b. 1896 d. 1989)

composer, musicisti

Timmens, Jim [James F.] (b. 1920)

composer

Toch, Ernst (b. 1887 d. 1964)

composer, compositore

Townsend, Douglas (b. 1921)

composer, musicologist

Travis, Roy Elihu (b. 1922)

composer

Turner, Godfrey (b. 1913 d. 1948)

composer, musicologist

Ulehla, Ludmila (b. 1923)

music educator, composer

Urbont, Jacques (b. 1930 a. 1972)

arranger, composer

Ussachevsky, Vladimir (Alexis) (b. 1911 d. 1990 a. 1931)

composer

Van Vactor, David (b. 1906)

composer, flute

Vernon, Ashley (b. 1902 d. 1968)

composer

Verrall, John (Weedon) (b. 1908)

composer, teacher

Vincent, John (b. 1902 d. 1977)

composer, teacher

Wagenaar, Bernard (b. 1894 d. 1971 a. 1920)

composer, conductor

Wagner, Joseph Frederick (b. 1900 d. 1974)

composer

Wald, Max (b. 1889 d. 1954)

composer

Ward, Robert (Eugene) (b. 1917)

composer, teacher

Weaver, Powell (b. 1890 d. 1951)

accompanist, composer

Weber, Ben (William Jennings Bryan) (b. 1916 d. 1979)

composer, teacher

Weigel, Eugene John (b. 1910)

composer, organ

Weinberg, Jacob (b. 1879 d. 1956 a. 1926)

piano, composer

Weiss, Adolph Andreas (b. 1891 d. 1971)

composer, bassoon

White, Paul Taylor (b. 1895 d. 1973)

violin, conductor

Wigglesworth, Frank (b. 1918)

composer

Wilder, Alec (Lafayette Chew) (b. 1907 d. 1980)

composer, director

Wilding-White, Raymond (b. 1922 a. 1947)

music educator, composer

Wilkinson, Marc (b. 1929)

composer

Wolfe, Stanley Andrew (b. 1924)

composer, teacher

Wolpe, Stefan (b. 1902 d. 1972)

composer, musicisti

Woltmann, Frederick (b. 1908)

composer

Wright, Rayburn (b. 1922)

conductor

Yardumian, Richard (b. 1917 d. 1985)

composer

Yoder, Paul (b. 1908 d. 1990)

composer of marches

Zador, Eugene [Jeno] (b. 1894 d. 1977)

composer

Zimbalist, Efrem (Alexandrovich) (b. 1889 d. 1985)

composer, violin