Dunn, James Philip
(1884–1936)
Dunn, James Philip. New York, New York, 10 January 1884 – Jersey City, New Jersey, 24 July 1936 After graduating from City College of New York in 1903, Dunn studied with Edward MacDowell and Cornelius Rybner at Columbia University. He held various organ appointments in New York, Jersey City, and Bayonne, New Jersey. For orchestra he wrote a symphonic poem, Lovesight (1919); an Overture on Negro Themes (1922); The Confessions of Saint Augustine (1925); a tone poem, We, commemorating Lindburgh’s…