A friend and I have been scouring the Internet, the library and every other resource we can think of to find the birthdates of these guys. He’s performing some pieces by them as part of a choral group, and needs the info for the program. We’ve found information on their lives and what kind of music they write, but nothing on birth/death dates.
Help us, SDMB! You’re our only hope!
Nobody? Really? I know this seems like stuff that should just be Google-able, but the mighty Internet is strangely silent, and these guys are fairly well-known.
Does this help?
IMDB has nothing on the others.
It does, very much. Thanks, postcards. IMDB never crossed my mind.
And now Mr. Don Ray*e** is taken care of as well. Anybody have any leads on Kirby Shaw and Frank Metis?
*Razzafraggin’ vocalists who can’t spell. Not my friend, but the person who pawned this job off on him.
Frank Metis may have been born 8 August 1925. “Sierpien” means August, apparently, in Polish.
Many thanks, Ice Wolf..
Now for Kirby Shaw, who is seemingly the most well-known.
He must have a ban on his birthdate being out there or something …
Kirby Harris Shaw was born in 1941, according to 65 of his copyright registrations.
The California birth index, 1905-1995, says that Harris Kirby Shaw (sic) was born in Santa Clara County on 17 September 1941.
Walloon, I stumbled back to this thread by coincidence and never recieved a notice that you had posted the Shaw’s elusive birthdate. Thank you for tracking it down!