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International who's who in music and musical gazetteer, 1918
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1ville, O., 1908-13; organist and asst. professor of music, Vassar Coll., Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1915-6, Carleton Coll., Northfield, Minn., 1916. Has composed solo songs and choral works (mostly MS.). Mem. Nat. Assn. of Organists, Sinfonia Fraternity of America; fellow Am. Guild of Organists, 1916; awarded Francis Boott prize ($100) for choral composition, Harvard Coll., 1915. Address: Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.
3WOOD, Charles:
4Composer; b. Armagh, June 15, 1866; stud. harmony and counterpoint w. Dr. T. O. Marks, organist at the cathedral, 1880-1, won the Morley scholarship for composition at the Royal College of Music, 1883-7, and stud. composition w. Stanford, counterpoint w. Bridge and piano w. Franklin Taylor. Teacher of harmony at the Royal Coll. of Music, 1888: as conductor of the University Musical Society, Cambridge, 1888-94; organist-scholar of Gonville and Caius College, 1889-94; B.A. and Mus. B., 1890, M.A. and Mus. D., 1894, fellow 1894; bandmaster of the University volunteers 1889-97; lecturer on harmony and counterpoint, Cambridge, 1897; examiner for the universities of Cambridge, Oxford and London. Comp.: "Ode to the West Wind" f. solo, chor. and orch. (1890); music to the "Ion" of Euripides (Cambridge, 1890); music to "Iphigenia in Tauris" of Euripides (Cambridge, 1894); setting of Swinburne's "Ode to music" (1894), Milton's "Ode on Time," f. chorus and orch. (1898); "Dirge for Two Veterans" (Leeds Festival, 1901); "Song of the Tempest" f. solo, chor. and orch. (Hovingham Festival, 1902); "Ballad of Dundee" (Leeds Festival 1904); symph. variations on "Patrick Sarsfield" (London, 1907), a book of Irish folksongs (1897); many part-songs, songs ("Ethiopia Saluting the Colors" [Whitman]) and other music. Hon. LL.D., Leeds Univ., 1904. Address: Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, England.
6WOOD, Charles John:
7Organist; b. England; chorister in Litchfield Cathedral; then stud. at the Royal Coll. of Music, London; Mus. B., Oxford, 1894. Organist St. John's, Ballinasloe, 1880, St. Nicholas', Tooting, Graveny, 1882, St. Saviour's, Croydon, 1883, St. Mark's, Tunbridge Wells, 1885, St. Nicholas, Galway, 1888, All Saints', Wellingsborough, 1891. Music-master, Wellingsborough Technical Inst.; cond. Wellingsborough Amateur Operatic Soc.; Fellow Royal Coll. of Organists. Address: 3 Castle Road, Wellingsborough, England.
9WOOD, Daniel Joseph:
10Organist, composer; b. England; ed. Oxford; Mus. B. Oxon., 1874; Mus. D. Cantab., 1896. Organist Holy Trinity, Brompton, Chatham, 1864; Cranbrook Parish Ch., 1866, Lee (S. E.), Parish Ch., 1868, Boston (Lincolnshire) Parish Ch., 1869, Chichester Cathedral, 1875, Exeter Cathedral, 1876. Cond. Exeter Orchestral Soc.; joint cond. Exeter Oratorio Soc. and Western Counties Musical Assn. Comp. church music and organ pieces. Joint-editor "Hymnal Companion." Fellow Royal Coll. of Organists. Address: The Close, Exeter, England.
12WOOD, Elizabeth Caroline:
13Contralto; b. New Orleans, La., Jan. 16, 1890, d. Frank Winchester and Mary Graham (McLean) W.; grad. high sch., 1908, Univ. extension courses, Tulane Univ., New Orleans, La.; stud. theory, piano, singing privately; interpretation w. Isidore Luckstone. Concert debut in Æolian Hall, New York, Oct. 20, 1917; now singing in concert and recitals in the U. S.; specializes in song interpretation. Address: 611 W. 127th St., New York.
15WOOD, Frederic Herbert:
16Organist, composer, conductor, teacher; b. India, June 10, 1880, s. Henry and Elizabeth (Dennis) W.; ed. by private tutors; stud. Royal Coll. of Music; grad. associate there, 1907; Mus. B., Durham Coll., 1905, Mus. D., same, 1913; m. Maud Mary Hirst. First appeared as pianist in Blackburn, 1900; organist and choirm., St. Paul's, Blackburn, 1902; St. John's, Blackburn, 1905, cond. Chatburn and Downham Choral Soc., 1905, Clitheroe Choral Union, 1909, Blackburn Y. M. C. A. Male Choir, 1910. Comp.: "The Ballad of Semmerwater," f. women's voices (1910); "Lacrimae musarum," f. double chor. and orch.; many part-songs and songs; also much church music. Address: 22 Irving Place, Blackburn, Lancashire, Eng.
18WOOD, Haydn:
19Violinist, composer; b. Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield, Yorkshire, 1882; stud. violin w. his brother and w. Arbus, at the Royal Coll. of Music where he won an open scholarship in 1897; stud. composition w. Sir. C. Villiers Stanford; won Hill Prize for violin playing, Sullivan Prize for composition and the Morley Scholarship; grad. Assoc. Royal Coll. of Music; later stud. w. César Thomson in Brussels; first played in public as a child, making his debut in Mendelssohn's E min. Concerto, at Douglas, Isle of Man; toured Great Britain and Canada w. Mme. Albani; was soloist on one of the Harrison tours and has played at the Sunday afternoon concerts in Albert Hall. Comp.: orch. suite (cond. same at the patrons' concerts, Queen's Hall); fantasia for strings (2nd prize, Cobbett, prod. Bechstein Hall, London, 1907); orch. variations; Suite de Ballet for orch.; piano concerto; many pieces for violin and songs. Address: care Imperial Concert Agency, 524 Birkbeck Bank Chambers, Holborn, London.
21WOOD, (Sir) Henry Joseph:
22Conductor; b. London, Mar. 3, 1870; s. of an amateur cellist and singer; received his first musical training from his father and acted as deputy organist of St. Mary's, Aldermanbury, at the age of 10; deputy organist of St. Sepulchre, London, 1883; organist of St. John's, Fulham, 1887; was engaged to give organ recitals at exhibitions in South Kensington, 1883-5; stud. under Prout, W. Macfarren, Garcia, Steggal, etc., at the Royal Acad. of Music, London, from 1886; m. 1st, Princess Olga Ourousoff (a pupil and afterwards noted as singer), 1898 (died 1909), 2nd, Muriel Greatrex, 1911. Cond. various suburban mus. societies for a time; cond. Arthur Rousbey opera company, 1889; eng. by Sullivan and D'Oyley Carte to superintend the rehearsals of "Ivanhoe," 1890; asst. cond. Savoy Theatre for a short time; cond. twice at Crystal Palace; cond. Carl Rosa Company on
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