Word: nevins
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Like Stephen Foster (Old Black Joe) and Ethelbert Nevin (The Rosary), Cadman was born in Pennsylvania (Johnstown, 1881). His father was an employe for many years in the Carnegie Steel mills in Duquesne. Leaving public school at 14, Cadman took up music in earnest, and 14 years later supported himself in Pittsburgh by playing the organ and teaching the piano. After two years as music critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch he spent a short time studying in Austria...
...Owen Jr. '23; 1924--C. Lee Todd Jr. '26; 1925 and 1926--Isadore Zarakov '27; 1927--Howard W. Burns '28; 1928--John P. Chase '28; 1929--Edward H. McGrath '31; 1930--Edward H. McGrath '31; 1931--Benjamin H. Ticknor '31; 1932--Edmund A. Mays Jr. '32; 1933--Charles J. Nevin '34; 1934--Charles J. Nevin '34; 1935--Thomas H. Bilodeau '37; 1936--Thomas H. Bilodeau...
What the Adamses are to Boston, the Biddles to Philadelphia, the Pinckneys to Charleston, the Nevins are to Sewickley, Pa., smart suburb of Pittsburgh. So numerous are Nevins, rich ones and poor ones, that Sewickley churchgoers, according to local legend, sometimes start their prayers thus: "Our Father, who art a Nevin." Most famed of the tribe was Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer of The Rosary, who died in 1901. First biography of Nevin was written by Vance Thompson (1913). Published this week was a bigger & better job, Ethelbert Nevin* by John Tasker Howard (Our American Music; Stephen Foster, America's Troubadour...
...Bertie" Nevin was born in 1862, son of a druggist and newspaper proprietor. Naming him was an inspiration. "High-strung" as a child, he grew up to look like his name. He took his first music lessons at 8, published his first piece at 11. He married Anne Paul, a childhood friend who bore him two children. During his short life, Nevin studied continuously in the U. S. and Europe, turned out a constant stream of songs, piano pieces and small instrumental numbers?parlor music in tune with the times which brought him increasing royalties. An able pianist...
Always frail and nervous, Ethelbert Nevin took to drink, died of apoplexy in New Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...