Maloof also played on the same bill as a number of other musicians from Spain, Russia and France as part of the YWCA’s International Christmas concert in December 1918. In total, Maloof had five books of music in print by 1931 and by 1950 he published an additional seven volumes for a total of 12 including Songs from Norway, Chopin in Miniature, and Master Melodies in Miniature. According to the 1917 Annual Report of the Public Schools Department of Newport, Rhode Island, “For Thee America” along with “The Star-Spangled Banner” held a prominent place in grammar school graduations for the city. I wish to call attention to the fact that a new national anthem has been composed by me, entitled “For Thee, America,” and has been adopted by the Board of education of New York for use in the public schools, and endorsed by such men as Walter Damrosch, David Mannes and many other musical celebrities in the United States. Washington, D.C. (September 15, 2020) – The RIAA and its members today announced a new multimedia campaign recognizing and celebrating Hispanic artists, their music, and the genre’s overall impact on U.S. society and culture. By 1831, other songs such as “Hail, Columbia,” and “My Country Tis of Thee” held a place of prominence in the minds of most United States citizens. Interestingly, at the peak of his label’s tenure Maloof and his Oriental Orchestra recorded #5192 “Pharaoh” and “Egyptian Glide” on the Gennett label in October 1923 and “Call of the Sphinx,” “The Desert Wail,” “Egyptiana,” “On the Beautiful Nile,” and “Kurdistan” for Victor on Feb. 15, 1926. Maloof joined Rabbi Stephen Wise, Henry Morganthau, S. Parkes Cadman, and the Billy Sunday Choir, as music director of the Armenian and Syrian Relief Mass Meeting at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November of the same year. As early as October 1925 and through 1926, listeners could tune in to hear Alexander Maloof’s Orchestra during WEAF New York’s “Oriental Hour” at 10 p.m. All five of his siblings (Julia, Mary Emma, Emil and Adele) and his second wife were still living. The performance drew the press’ attention because reportedly 1,000 people between Syrians in Manhattan and Syrians in Brooklyn saw the production. In December 2011, she released Adrienne Maloof by Charles Jourdan, a small shoe collection produced by Charles Jourdan. “The Recording Industry Association of America congratulates Shira Perlmutter on her appointment as the Fourteenth U.S. Register of Copyrights, and applauds Dr. Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress, on an outstanding choice.”. As he aged, Maloof performed less and less for the public, but he continued to play for small benefits, art events, and Carnegie concerts with his students. Subsequently, silent film, turned stage actor, Alice Brady performed Maloof’s song “Moon Flower” during Act I of “Anna Ascends” at the Playhouse Theater in October 1920 (she later starred in the film adaptation of the same play in 1922). In addition to film and television production, Maloof Productions spearheads the entertainment outreach for the Maloof properties. The school targeted primarily young adults and adolescents interested in performing for “public appearances.” In addition to Maloof, Nana Genoevesa (opera singer), Vera Wanamaker (Julliard pianist and organist), Georges Melville Vignetti (National Conservatory of Paris), and Randall Hargreaves (British baritone) made up the faculty. Its members comprise the most vibrant record industry in the world, investing in great artists to help them reach their potential and connect to their fans. Alexander Maloof worked as a composer and director of the Carnegie School of Music in Englewood, New Jersey, for 20 years having stepped down from his post in 1954. One month later, as the year came to an end, the Calcutta-born, Anglo-Indian dancer Roshanara (Olive Katherine Craddock) employed Maloof to compose and play music for her performance “The Moon Flower” at the Wilbur Theater in Boston. The song was recorded on Maloof’s label in April 1923.
Rolling Stone: Music Industry Supports Justice in Policing Act in Open Letter. The ambitious Maloof played piano or organ at gigs he found in the Syrian immigrant community including regular work at the Damascus Lodge of the local Free & Accepted Masons in Brooklyn where several of the leading members were immigrant business men from Greater Syria. Minerva appears in the 1930 Census with Alexander, but on the June 19, 1935, Alexander Maloof married Edith Jane Johnston, an emigrant from Belfast, Ireland. While “A Trip to Syria” is an original composition. However, sometime in the 1930s, he at least released one disc under the Orient label for Maloof Music Company of Englewood, New Jersey (visually similar to the Maloof Record label except the name and color) and Continental Records release a four-disc set “Music of the Orient” by the Maloof Oriental Orchestra in November 1944. It was also instrumental in integrating Maloof Music artist Narwhal into both the Feast soundtrack and the film itself. His courses and research explore the social and cultural histories of African Americans and Arab Americans in the 20th Century.