Word: byroniana
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There Hilda Emery Davis, the band leader's wife, composes, collects books and manuscripts, notably Byroniana. An able pianist, she played with the Davis orchestra in the early Bar Harbor days, says she hated him, married him after three years of it. For the Du Pont-Roosevelt wedding, at which Mr. Davis played, Mrs. D. wrote a piece called You Are the Reason for My Love Song. A sister-in-law of Conductor Pierre Monteux, she had a serious composition, The Last Knight, performed by the NBC Symphony, with M. Monteux conducting...
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