Han’son

Howard, b. Wahoo, Nebr., Oct. 28, 1896; composer, conductor, educator; grad. Luther Coll., Inst. of Music. Art, N. Y., hon. Mus.D., Univ.; first to be awarded music fellowship at Amer. Acad. in Rome, 1921—24; dir. Eastman School of Music \at Univ. of Rochester, N. Y., after latter year; has been active in nat’l. educational organisations in music field, and has carried on a unique series of several annual American Comps. Concerts at- Rochester as well as fests. of there; guest cond. of his works with many Amer. orchs.; c. (opera) ‘‘Merry Mount’ (libretto by Richard Stokes), Met. Op. Co. (commi ioned), 1933; (“‘ Nordic’ ““Romantic”’), also for orch. “‘ Before the Dawn,’ ‘“‘Exaltation,’ ‘“North and West,” “Lux Aeterna,” ‘Pan and the Priest,” Symphonic Legend; (chorus and orch.) ‘‘The Lament for Beowulf,” ‘‘ Heroic Elegy,” ‘Drum Taps” (after Walt Whitman); concerto for org. and orch., 2 quintets for piano and strings, string quartet. flan ens (hins’-séns), (1) Chas. L. Jos. (ainé), Ghent, 1777—Bru els, 1852; conductor and composer. (2) Chas. L. (cadet), Ghent, 1802— Bru els, 1871; conductor, profe or, ’cellist and composer. (dir-koor), d’, Paris, 1855—-March 8, 1918; composer; pupil Paris Cons., and of Schulze and Bargiel, in Berlin; 1890 gave concerts in his own Salle Harcourt; 1900 gave oratorios at St., 195 Eustache; c. ma (Bru els, 1876); opera ‘Ta o? (Monte Carlo, 1903); 3 symph., etc. @Hardelot (gé-dird’-l5), Guy (Mrs. Rhodes), near Boulogne, France— London, Jan. 7, 1936; c. operetta “Elle et Lui”? and many pop. songs.