Brooks Bowman
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Brooks Bowman (October 21, 1913 – October 17, 1937) composed the song "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" which has become a jazz standard.
Biography
A native of
Following his graduation from Princeton with the class of 1936, Bowman moved to California where, in 1937, he briefly worked under contract as a songwriter for Selznick International Pictures. Released from his contract in September 1937, he returned to the East where he formed a songwriting partnership, in which he would have been the lyricist, with a former Princeton classmate.
Death
A New York music publisher offered the team a contract, but before it was signed Brooks Bowman died on October 17, 1937, when a car in which he was riding[2] crashed into a stone wall on Cat Rock Road near Garrison, New York. Four days later, on October 21, he would have celebrated his 24th birthday.
He is buried in the family mausoleum at Grandview Cemetery in Salem, Ohio where his family moved while he was attending Princeton University.
Sources
References
- ^ Published sheet music covers.
- ^ "1937 Garrison Accident Claimed Composer's Life". The Highlands Current. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 2022-11-19.
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