Dana Suesse

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Dana Suesse, (December 3, 1909 – October 16, 1987) was an American musician, composer and lyricist. While still a child, Suesse (full name Nadine Dana Suesse, pronounced /swiːs/) toured the Midwest vaudeville circuits with an act centered on dancing and piano playing. During the recital, she would ask the audience for a theme, and then proceed to take that theme, weaving it into something of her own. In 1926, she and her mother moved to New York City. Suesse began to create larger scale pieces from which she would extrapolate a phrase and then set that tune to words, collaborating with a lyricist. "My Silent Love" (which came from a larger piece called "Jazz Nocturne"), and "You Ought to Be in Pictures" are among her most well-known and popular hits. She collaborated with lyricist Eddie Heyman on "You Ought to Be in Pictures" in addition to other hits, including "Ho-Hum." The 1930s press called Suesse "the girl Gershwin." Fortune, a magazine then devoted to male achievement, included Dana's photo alongside eight other veterans of the music business, with the headline, "Nine Assets of a Prosperous Organization" (January 1933). While in New York, Suesse studied piano under Alexander Siloti, Franz Liszt's last surviving pupil. She studied composition under Rubin Goldmark, one of George Gershwin's teachers, and spent three years studying with Nadia Boulanger after World War II. In 1931, bandleader Paul Whiteman (following Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) commissioned her to write

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Jazz Nocturne: The Collected Piano Music Of Dana Suesse

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Dana Suesse: Swamp-Bird

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Ode to New York

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Sentimental Memories

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Jazz Nocturne - American Concertos of the Jazz Age

Plays Her Piano Compositions

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Compositions

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The Romantic Moods Of Jackie Gleason

Long Duo

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Dana Suesse

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SHILKRET, Nathaniel: Skyscrapers Symphonic Jazz (1928-1932)

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Robin Hood: Men In Tights

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