Word: mana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great women composers, and few even moderately good ones. Biggest female name in music was the late Frenchwoman Cécile Chaminade. A composer who does not mind being called the American Chaminade is a plump little blonde woman, nearing 50, who is known on concert programs as Mana-Zucca. Last week Mana-Zucca finished her 1,000th composition, a children's musical play called The Gingerbread House. Then, instead of letting well enough alone, she wrote her 1,100st, a song entitled Music I Heard With...
...Mana-Zucca was born Mana Zuckerman, in New York City. She was musically prodigious. Her pressagents claim that, on her third birthday, she furiously demolished a toy piano because it had no F sharp and she could not play The Last Rose of Slimmer on it. Mana-Zucca made her debut as a pianist at eight with the New York Symphony under Dr. Walter Damrosch. Year later she published her first composition...