Charles Wakefield Cadman(1881-1946)
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer, songwriter ("At Dawning"), author and pianist, educated at
USC with a music degree and at the University of Denver with an
honorary Ph.D. He studied music with Leo Oehlmer, Emil Paur, W. K.
Steiver, and Luigi von Kunits. He was a music critic for the Pittsburgh
Dispatch, and researched Indian music and customs, on which he lectured
between 1909 and 1923. He was a member of the National Institute of
Arts and Letters. Joining ASCAP in 1924, he collaborated musically with
Nelle Richmond Eberhart. His song compositions also include "From the
Land of the Sky Blue Water" and "The Far Horizon", and the song cycles
"Four American Indian Songs", "Sayonara", "Three Songs to Odysseus",
"White Enchantment", and "The Morning of the Year".