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Watercolor by Talitha Botsford. Top, left to right, Troy, Pa. home of Pat Ballard, popular music composer (Mr. Sandman); boyhood home of Charles T. Griffes, Elmira, N. Y. composer of classical music (The White Peacock). Critics claim had he lived he would have been one of our greatest composers. Bottom, left to right, Wellsburg, N. Y. home of Gwynn S. Bement, composer of choral music with over 250 published arrangements; George J. Abbott home, Erin, N. Y. whose published music is played by all U. S. Service bands. Towanda, Pa. Academy where Stephen Foster was a student (1839-40). He wrote some of his first compositions there. |
