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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918
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1ham, 1908; conducted 2 concerts of British music at Antwerp (1900-1). Comp.: 1-act operas, "Caedmar" (London, 1892) and "The Pearl of Iran" (ib., 1896); tone-poems, "Thalaba the Destroyer" (1900); "Dante," "Hudibras," "The Witch of Atlas" (all 1902); "Lalla Rookh," "The Great God Pan" (1903); "The Pierrot of the Minute" (1908); "Dante and Beatrice" (1911); "Fifine at the Fair" (1912); "Hebridean Symphony" (1916); choral symphonies, "Atalanta in Calydon" (1912); "The Vanity of Vanities" (1914); festival symphony, "Christus," in 10 parts (only the 1st part, "The Wilderness," produced 1903); "The Fire-Worshippers," dram. cantata (1892); "Wulstan," scena for baritone and orch. (1892); "The Time-Spirit," rhapsody for chorus and orch. (1904); "Thorvenda's Dream," recitation w. orch. (1903); "Omar Khayyam" (2 parts, 1906-7); "Sea-Wanderers" (1907); overtures, "Saul"; "Cain"; "Belshazzar"; "Eugene Aram" (to an unfin. opera, 1895); "Overture to a Greek Tragedy" (1911); 2 suites for orch., "Russian Scenes" (1899) and "English Scenes" (1900); 2 oriental scenes, "Processional" (1894) and "Jaga Naut" (1897); orch. variations, "Helena" (1900); 2 ballets, "Egypt" (1892) and "The Enchanted Garden" (1916); "Elegiac Poem" for cello and orch.; String Quartet in C min.; "Serenade" in F for 4 horns; Mass in B-flat for male chorus a cappella; incidental music to "Rameses II" (5-act drama by Bantock); 6 song albums w. orch., "Ghazels of Hafiz", "Songs of the East"; "Ferishta's Fancies"; "Sappho"; "Jester Songs"; "Songs of the Seraglio"; piano pieces and choruses. Mem. National Liberal Club, London. Address: The University, Birmingham, or Midland Inst., Birmingham, England.
3BARALLA, Raffaello:
4Teacher and author; b. Camigliano, near Lucca, June 25, 1862; ed. Seminary at Lucca; devoted himself to the investigation of the Gregorian Chant. Instructor in Gregorian chant at the Instituto musicale at Lucca; teacher of Gregorian palaeography at the School for Church Music, Rome, since 1910. Author: "Due parole sui melismi gregoriani" (Lucca, 1901); "Di un nuovo 'telum imbelle sine ictu' contro il canto gregoriano" (Pisa, 1902); "Ab initio non fuit sic" (Lucca, 1902); "La zuppa nel paniere" (Lucca, 1903); several essays in "Rassegna Gregorian" (from 1905). Address: School for Church Music, Rome, Italy.
6BARAHIAN, Lusinn:
7Mezzo-contralto; b. Worcester, Mass, Apr. 22, 1892, d. Rev. Haig Gregory and Anna Marguerite (Hagopian) B.; grad. English High Sch., Worcester, Mass.; stud. singing w. Josephine Knight in Boston. Debut as oratorio soloist at Nashua, N. H., under E. G. Hood, Jan., 1916; at a vocal recital, Tuckermann Hall, Worcester, Feb. 8, 1916; alto soloist at Piedmont Congr. Ch. since Apr., 1914; reëngaged as soloist at Nashua May Festival, 1916; also soloist at various concerts throughout New England, in Troy and New York. Address: 19 Pearl St. Home: 162 West St., Worcester, Mass.
9BARBER, William H.:
10Pianist; b. Orange, N. J., Sept. 4, 1864; ed. Orange pub. schs.; mus. ed. Stuttgart, Dresden and Weimar. Taught at Syracuse Univ., 1890-93; concert pianist and teacher in New York since 1893. Address: Steinway Hall, New York.
12BARBI, Alice:
13Concert soprano; b. Modena, 1862; stud. violin w. father, singing w. Zamponi, Busi and Vannuccini; m. Baron Wolff-Stomersen, 1897. Made her debut at Milan, 1882; has toured Germany and Austria as lieder singer.
15BARBLAN, Otto:
16Organist, teacher, composer; b. Scanfs (Haute Engadine), Switzerland, Mar. 22, 1860; stud. piano w. Alwens, organ and composition w. Faisst at Stuttgart Cons., 1878-84. Made debut as organ virtuoso, in Augsburg, 1885, performing Handel's concerto for organ in D min. on the occasion of the second centenary of Handel's birth; teacher at the Ecole Cantonale at Chur and cond. of the Choral Soc. there, 1885-7; organist of the Geneva Cathedral, prof. of organ and composition at the Geneva Cons., and cond. of the Société de Chant Sacré, since 1887. Comp.: "Pièces pour piano," op. 2, 3, 4; "Pièces pour orgue," op. 1, 5; "Passacaglia" for organ, op. 6; "Ode Patriotique," cantata for the nat. exposition at Geneva, op. 7 (1896); "Festspiel," for the Calvin celebration (1899); "Chaconne sur Bach," op. 10, for organ; male choruses, op. 9, 11, 14; "Psalm cxvii" for solo, chorus and orch., op. 12; "Psalm xxiii," op. 15; choruses for mixed voices, op. 17; "Post tenebras lux," cantata, op. 20 (1909); pieces for organ, op. 21, 22. Address: Conservatoire de Musique, Geneva, Switzerland.
18BARBOUR, Florence Newell:
19Composer and pianist; b. Providence, R. I., Aug. 4, 1867, d. Charles H. and Isabelle (West) N.; ed. New England schs., American training in music, stud. piano and composition; m. Dr. Clarence Augustus Barbour (pres. Rochester Theological Sem., noted internat. writer and speaker), Providence, R. I., 1891. Has appeared in concerts as solo pianist and in conjunction with string quartet many seasons; performed her own compositions at the Woman's Philharmonic Club in New York; appeared at New York State Teachers' Convention, playing her own compositions. Has composed piano suites: "Forest Sketches" (including "A White Violet," orchestrated and played by Rochester Symphony Orch.), "A Day in Arcady," "Venice," "Holland," "Six Brilliant Compositions," "Melodic Etudes," "Little Musical Stories," "Tone Pictures for Young Players," "Days of Sunshine," "Naure Pictures," etc.; also choruses, songs, works for violin and for organ, and chamber music. Has written songs for "The Progressive Music Series" (Silver, Burdett Co.). Author: "Childland in Song and Rhythm," a book for kindergarten and grades; and "All in a Garden Fair and Other Verses," 1912. Mem. Tuesday Musicale. Address: 151 Saratoga Ave., Rochester, N. Y.
21BARCEWICZ, Stanislaus:
22Violinist and composer for violin; b. Warsaw, Apr. 16, 1858; stud. w. Tchaikovsky,
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