About Anne Upton
Lived 1892 – 1970 (aged 77–78). Anne Upton was a composer.
Florine Anne Upton Baldwin (28 June 1892 – 8 September 1970) was an American composer and radio writer, who published her works under the name Anne Upton.
Upton was born in Marble Falls, Newton, Arkansas, to Canzadia Ramsey and Albert Franklin Upton. Her son Rex Allen Head was born in Texas in 1916. She married Donald A. Baldwin around 1926. She lived in Los Angeles from at least 1930 until her death in 1970.
Upton belonged to the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and worked as a radio writer and producer. doing business as "Wilton House, Los Angeles." Her compositions include:
Opera
Book of Ruth
Orchestra
Cattle at Eventide (symphonic poem)
Vocal
Children, Emancipate (oratorio)
Father Lead Me (mixed voices; music by William T. Wilkins, text by Anne Upton)
Remember the Four (JFK memorial)
Toilin' by de Light oh Mah Lord (mixed voices; music by William T. Wilkins, text by Anne Upton)
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American composer and radio writer
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Anne Upton was born in 1892.
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Anne Upton died in 1970.
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Anne Upton was a composer.
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