Rogers

(ra’-jérs), (1) Benj., Windsor, r614— Oxford, 1698; organist at Dublin; later at Windsor; c. the hymn sung annually at 5 A. M., May z, on the top of Magdalen tower, Oxford. (2) John, d. Alders gate, ca. 1663; lutenist to Chas. II. (3) Sir Jobn Leman, 1780—1847; composer; pres. Madrigal Soc. (4) Clara Kathleen (née Barnett), Cheltenham, Engl., Jan. 14, 1844— Boston, March 8, 1931; daughter and pupil of John Barnett; pupil of Leipzig Cons.; studied also singing with Gétze and Sangiovanni, at Milan; début Turin, 1863 (under name “Clara Doria”); sang in Italy, then in London concerts; 1871, America with Parepa-Rosa Co.; 1872-73, also with Maretzek Co.; lived in Boston as singer and teacher; 1878, m. a Boston lawyer, Henry M. R.; pub. “The Philosophy of Singing” (New York, 1893), c. songs, sonata for pf. and vln., etc. (5) Roland, West Bromwich, Staff ords hire, Nov. 17, 1847—Bangor, July 30, 1927; at 11, organist at St. Peter’s there; 1871-91, organist at Bangor Cath. and cond. of the Penrhyn and Arvonic Choirs, teacher in Wales; 1875, Mus. Doc. Oxford; c. cantatas ‘Prayer and Praise’ (with orch.), ‘The Garden” (prize, Llandudno, 1896); and “‘Florabel”’; Psalm 130, for soli, chorus and strings; a symph., etc. (6) James H., Fair Haven, Conn., 1857; at 18 studied in Berlin with Léschhorn, Haupt, Ehrlich and Rohde, and at Firsot, Widor; after 1883 lived in Cleveland, Ohio, as organist, pianist, critic and composer of notable songs; org. Euclid Ave. Temple, and cond. (7) Francis, b. Roxbury, Ma ., April 14, 1870; barytone; grad. Harvard Univ.; appeared widely as recitalist; taught singing at Yale Univ. for a time, later privately, and at Juilliard Grad. School of Mus.; chairman, Amer..committee, Fontainebleau Cons.; Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. (8) Bernard, b. York, Feb. 4, 1893; composer; studied Inst. of Mus. Art and with Ernest Bloch; Guggenheim Fellowship and Pulitzer Music Award; after 1930 taught comp. at Eastman School of Mus., Rochester, N. Y.; c. (orch.) symphony; ‘‘Adonais’’; pre- ‘‘ Hamlet”; “Fairy Tales” (N. Y. Philh., 1936); (chamber orch.) “Soliloquy” for strings; “‘Pastorale’’; “ Nocturne’; (choral work) “The Raising of Lazarus’; string quartet, ballet, etc. Rognone (rén-yd’-né), (x) Riccardo, a violinist. His son (2) Fran., pub. a vln. method, 1614, etc. Roguski (r6-goo’-ski), Gustav, Warsaw, 1839—April 5, 19213; pupil there and of Marx, Kiel, and Berlioz; from 1865 prof. of composition at the Warsaw Cons.; c. symph., 2 ma es, chamber music, etc. (rd’-dé), Eduard, Halle-onSaale, 1828—Berlin, March 25, 1883; writer of pf.-method; singing teacher and composer.