Ernest Charles

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Ernest Charles
Born(1895-11-21)November 21, 1895
Minneapolis, Minnesota
DiedApril 16, 1984(1984-04-16) (aged 88)
Beverly Hills, California
Occupation(s)Composer
Instrument(s)Voice
Years active1932–1950

Ernest Charles (

art songs
.

Life and musical career

Charles was born in Minnesota with the surname Grosskopf.

Beverly Hills, where he spent the remaining years of his life.[4]

He was selected as a National Patron of

ASCAP in 1934, and served as an Assistant Executive Secretary of the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) from 1937 until at least 1966.[7]

Musical works

Charles composed around 45 songs for voice and piano in the years between 1930 and 1950. Most were published individually by

Thomas Hampson,[9] and featured in the closing credits of the 2016 film Florence Foster Jenkins, sung by lead actress Meryl Streep
.

Published songs

published by

G. Schirmer
unless otherwise noted

  • Always You, 1936
  • And So, Goodbye (E. Charles), 1938
  • Bon Voyage (Velma Hitchcock), 1939
  • Carmé (
    Neapolitan Song
    ), arr., 1938
  • Clouds, 1932
  • Crescent Moon, 1939
  • Dawn (E. Charles), Boston Music, 1933
  • Disenchantment (Mona Bonelli), 1940
  • L'Envoi (Sarojini Naidu), 1935
  • The Harp
    Aline Kilmer
    , 1936
  • The House on the Hill (E. Charles), 1933
  • Hymn to the United States Navy (Foster G. Carling), 1943
  • If You Only Knew (G. Johnston-Jervis), 1935
  • Incline Thine Ear (Isaiah 55: 3, 1), 1948
  • Let My Song Fill Your Heart ("Viennese Waltz"), 1936
  • Little Green Gate to Heaven (Fred Meadows), Chappell-Harms, 1933
  • Lord of the Years (Velma Hitchcock), 1938
  • Love (William Bruno), 1941
  • Love is of God (John 4:7-8), 1949
  • Message (Sara Teasdale)
  • My Lady Walks in Loveliness (Mona Modini Wood), 1932
  • Night (Sydney King Russell), 1944
  • Oh Little River (Earl Benham), 1946
  • O Lovely World (Velma Hitchcock), 1947
  • Over the Land is April (Robert Louis Stevenson), Willis Music, 1937
  • Over the Wall of My Garden (William Bruno), Chappell & Co., 1929
  • Parting (William Bruno), Irving Berlin Standard Music Corporation, 1929
  • Psalm XXIII (Psalm 23), Ecco Music, Beverly Hills, California, 1956
  • Psalm of Exaltation (Psalm 27), 1951
  • Remembrance (Dorothy Tete), 1949
  • Romany Honeymoon (R. Atwater), Boston Music Co., 1933
  • Save Me, God (Psalm 69), 1947
  • Someone (E. Charles), 1937
  • Speak Not in Haste (Velma Hitchcock), 1936
  • The Spendthrift (Sarojini Naidu), 1935
  • Stampede, 1937
  • The Sussex Sailor (Alfred Noyes), 1933
  • Sweet Song of Long Ago (E. Charles), 1933
  • Take the Knocks, Lad (William Bruno), 1957
  • When I Have Sung My Songs, 1934
  • The White Swan, 1941
  • A Wish (Anita McLean Willison), 1936
  • Who Keeps the Years (E. Olmstead), 1940
  • You Are! (E. Charles), Boston Music, 1935
  • Youth, 1928

Other compositions

published by

G. Schirmer
unless otherwise noted

  • Christmas Song (Robert Herrick), SATB solos, SATB chorus, organ, 1951
  • Festival Jubilate, mixed voices, R. L. Huntzinger, 1937
  • The Greatness of the Lord, SATB chorus, 1957
  • Waltz Interlude ("in the Viennese Style"), piano solo, 1788

Footnotes

  1. ^ Villamil, p. 100
  2. ^ Claghorn, p. 90
  3. ^ Baker and Slonimsky, p.318
  4. ^ Villamil, p. 98
  5. ^ List of Patrons & Patronesses, National web site for Delta Omicron, www.http://delta-omicron.org
  6. ^ ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, Fourth Edition, p. 83
  7. ^ ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 1966 edition, p. 117
  8. ^ Villamil, p. 99
  9. ^ Villamil, pp. 99-100

References

  • American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1966), The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary (1966 ed.), New York, New York: ASCAP
  • American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1980), The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary (Fourth ed.), New York, New York: Jacques Cattall Press/R. R. Bowker Company,
    ISBN 0-8352-1283-1
  • Baker, Theodore (1992), "Charles, Ernest", in Slonimsky, Nicolas (ed.), Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Eighth Edition, New York: Schirmer Books, pp. 317–318,
    ISBN 0-02-872415-1
    .
  • Claghorn, Charles Eugene (1973), Biographical Dictionary of American Music, West Nyack, New York: Parker Publishing, p. 90,
    ISBN 0-13-076331-4
  • Villamil, Victoria Etnier (1993), A Singer's Guide to The American Art Song 1870-1980, Lanham, Maryland, and London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., pp. 98–100,
    ISBN 0-8108-2774-3

External links
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