Ted grouya biography

  • Ted Grouya born Teodor Gruia in Bucharest, Romania, was a Romanian-American composer who studied composition with Nadia Boulanger.
  • Ted Grouya (31 July 1910 – 14 April 2000) born Teodor Gruia in Bucharest, Romania, was a Romanian-American composer who studied composition with Nadia.
  • Ted Grouya was born in Bucharest, Romania, and after arriving in the U.S. he studied composition with the brilliant teacher Nadia Boulanger, whose students.

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    Songwriter ("Flamingo"), composer and author, educated at the Conservatory of Bucharest, Sorbonne, and the Ecole Normale de Musique, and a student of Alfred Corot, Dandelot, and Nadia Boulanger. He taught piano studies at the Bucharest Conservatory, and was a member of a public relations firm. Joining ASCAP in 1943, his chief musical collaborators included Jimmy Dorsey, Edmund Anderson, Jimmy Eaton, Louis Forbes, Kermit Goell, Edward Heyman, and Frank Loesser. His other popular-song compositions include "I Heard You Cried Last Night", "I'm Misunderstood", "Since You Went Away", "Fascination", "In My Arms", "Two Again", "I Hear It From Everyone But You", and "When Am I Gonna Kiss You Good Morning?".

    BornJuly 31, 1910

    DiedApril 14, 2000(89)

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    Ted Grouya

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    Ted Grouya was born in Bucharest, Romania, and after arriving in the U.S. he studied composition with the brilliant teacher Nadia Boulanger, whose students included Aaron Copeland, Virgil Thompson and Quincy Jones. Although he loved classical music, he was also a jazz fan, especially fond of the music of Duke Ellington. He became active on the Hollywood scene in the 1940s where he worked in public relations and headed the music publishing division of MGM.

    Grouya’s “Flamingo” was Duke Ellington’s first hit of 1941 and vocalist Herb Jeffries’ second hit record. The Harry James band took Grouya’s “I Heard You Cried Last Night (And So Did I),” written with Jerrie Kruger for the non-musical film Cinderella Swings It, to the charts in 1943. “In My Arms” was written with Frank Loesser for the 1944 film See Here, Private Hargrove, starring Robert Walker and Donna Reed, and it became a hit for Dick Haymes. That same year Grouya collaborated on the original music for Our Hearts Were Young and Gay, a charming film starring Gail Russell as Cornelia Otis Skinner and Diana Lynn as Emily Kimbrough.

    When Grouya and his wife, singer/actress Mary Meade separated in 1955, he continued to work as her manager.

    His son Theodore Christopher Grouya, also known as Ted or Teddy, is a noted f

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