Composer, songwriter ("Once in a While", "Tell Me Why"), conductor,
violinist, organist and arranger. He studied the violin with his
father, and later with Eugene Ysaye. He was a violinist with the Kaier
Grand Opera Orchestra. During World War I, he served in the US Army
Medical Division., then was a violinist in the Cincinnati Symphony
Orchestra, and conducted the orchestras and played the organs for
several Pennsylvania theatres. He edited and arranged music for several
New York publishing firms. Joining ASCAP in 1941, his chief musical
collaborators included Bud Green and Gladys Shelley. His other
popular-song compositions include "I Whisper Good Night" and "Love
Isn't Love". His instrumental-music compositions include (for band)
"American Seamen", "National Unity", "Aladdin and the Princess", "March
Modernistic", and "My America" (also for chorus).
