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Grove's dictionary of music and musicians, 1927
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1given each year. Its repertory includes all standard symphonies and similar high-class orchestral works.
3BALTZELL, WINTON JAMES (Dec. 18, 1864, Shiremanstown, Pa.), was the son of Rev. Isaiah Baltzell (1832–93), who from 1859 edited many collections of evangelistic and Sunday-school hymns and tunes. He was educated in Harrisburg, Pa., and at Lebanon Valley College at Annville, Pa., graduating in 1884. His early training in music, including elementary harmony, was largely self-directed. In 1886–88 he was proof-reader in the United Brethren Publishing House at Dayton, O., and studied with local teachers. In 1888–89, at the New England Conservatory, he came under Emery (harmony), Elson (theory), Mahr (violin) and Arthur Thayer (singing). He taught singing and harmony at Fredericksburg College (Pa.), harmony at Lebanon Valley College, and in 1889 privately at Lebanon, Pa. In 1890 he was in London, where Packer and Shakespeare were his teachers in singing, Bridge in composition and Lowden in organ. For three years he taught privately at Reading, Pa., and at Albright College, Myerstown, Pa., and pursued composition with Clarke at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was made Mus.B. in 1896. He was assistant-editor of 'The Etude' in 1897–99, teacher of history and theory at the Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, O., in 1899–1900; editor of 'The Etude' in 1900–07, editor of 'The Musician' in 1907–18, and since 1919 secretary of the National Academy of Music in New York, and associate-editor of the University Course of Music-Study. He is author of A Complete History of Music, 1905, and a Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, 1910, supplement, 1914. His published compositions include songs, part-songs and anthems. In manuscript are works in large form for orchestra, for chamber-ensemble and for chorus, [R.8]
5BANJO. See Vol. i. 179–180, and add references to Stanley, Catalogue of the Stearns Collection, p. 166–7, and note in The Art of Music, iv. 296.
7†BANTOCK, GRANVILLE (Aug. 7, 1868, London, England). See article in Vol. i. 181. To the list of works add the tone-poems 'The Pierrot of the Minute' (1908), 'Dante and Beatrice' (1911) and 'The Hebridean Symphony' (1916); the choral symphony 'Atalanta in Calydon' (1912) and 'The Vanity of Vanities' (1914), a choral symphony a cappella; 'Omar Khayyám' (1906–07); 'Sea-Wanderers' (1907); 'Overture to a Greek Tragedy' (1911); the ballet 'The Enchanted Garden' (1916); the choral suite 'A Pageant of Human Life'; 'Ferishtah's Fancies,' thirteen lyrics for tenor and orchestra; music to 'Elektra'; many choruses for men's, women's and mixed voices; three 'Dramatic Dances' for orchestra; and 'Scenes from the Scottish Highlands' for orchestra. He is engaged upon a 'Celtic Folk-Opera' (with Mrs. Kennedy Fraser), an opera, a 'Pagan Symphony' and a Ballet. In an article in 'The Musical Quarterly,' July, 1918, Antcliffe calls him 'the arch-experimentalist among British composers,' and claims that he 'has introduced the world of art, and particularly of British art, to new phases and new inspirations over which he has planted the British flag of his own music and that of his disciples.' Since 1908, in addition to his other duties, he has been professor of music at the University of Birmingham. See Anderton, Granville Bantock, London, 1915.
9BARBOUR, FLORENCE, née Newell (Aug. 4, 1867, Providence, R. I.), pursued her study of piano and composition entirely in America. She has made frequent appearances as solo-pianist and in ensemble. She has written the words as well as the music of many of her songs, and personally draws and designs the cover-pages. Among her published compositions for piano are two suites, 'Venice' and 'A Day in Arcady,' seven 'Forest-Sketches,' five 'Nature-Pieces,' six 'Melodic Études,' and numerous detached pieces. Her songs make a long list. There are also anthems, choruses for women's voices and a 'Reverie' for strings and piano. 'Child-Land in Song and Rhythm' is published in two books. Her most recent works are 'Three Rossetti Lyrics,' a piano-suite, 'All in a Garden Fair,' a set of piano-studies, and new groups of songs. [R.8]
11BARFORD, VERNON WEST (b. 1876). See Register, 8.
13BARNABEE, HENRY CLAY (1833–1917). See Register, 4.
15BARNES, EDWARD SHIPPEN (Sept. 14, 1887, Seabright, N. J.), began organ-study with Van Dyck at the Lawrenceville School, then studied composition at the Yale School of Music with Parker and organ with Jepson. After graduating at Yale in 1910 he continued his studies under d'Indy, Decaux and Vierne at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. Since 1911 he has been organist in New York, at first at the Chapel of the Incarnation and from 1912 at the Rutgers Presbyterian Church. In 1918–19 he was in the Naval Reserve. He has composed and published much for the organ, piano, and voice, with two church-cantatas and many anthems. His chief works include an organ 'Symphonie,' op. 18; two organ-suites, opp. 23 and 26; a 'Fantasia' for organ and chorus, op. 27; and the sacred cantatas 'The Comforter' and 'Remember now thy Creator.' He is author of Bach for Beginners (Boston Music Co.) and A Method of Organ-Playing (in press). [R.9]
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