Composer and lyricist Dana Suesse was a child prodigy, giving her first concert, a Rachmaninoff prelude, at the age of nine. At 16 she moved to New York and began composing songs. Two years later the hit songs "Syncopated Love Song" and "Ho-Hum" followed and soon she was playing piano in Paul Whiteman's Orchestra. After several years of "academic" composing she began to compose popular songs, among them the music for a nightclub revue, The Casa Manana Show as well as the scores for two movies, Young Man With A Horn and Sweet Surrender. For a period Suesse also studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger before ultimately returning to composing full-time.
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Album Highlights
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1996 | Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era, Vol. 2 |
Composition Highlights
| Title | Year | Avg. Duration | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful, song | 03:29 | Vocal Music | |
| Afternoon of a Black Faun, for piano | 05:24 | Keyboard | |
| American Nocturne | 03:24 | Miscellaneous (Classical) | |
| Yours for a Song | 02:34 | Miscellaneous (Classical) | |
| Blue Moonlight, for piano | 04:55 | Keyboard | |
| My Silent Love | 04:15 | Vocal Music | |
| You Oughta Be in Pictures | 1934 | 02:33 | Vocal Music |
| Swamp-Bird, for piano | 01:48 | Keyboard | |
| Berceuse, for piano | 01:39 | Keyboard | |
| Spindrift | 04:48 | Miscellaneous (Classical) | |
| Jazz Nocturne, for piano | 1931 | 03:35 | Keyboard |
| Scherzette, for piano (originally Whirligig) | 02:20 | Keyboard | |
| Jazz concerto in D major for combo & orchestra | 20:41 | Concerto | |
| Andante, for violin | 05:23 | Chamber Music | |
| Have You Forgotten? | 1932 | 03:04 | Vocal Music |
| Coronach, for violin | 03:53 | Chamber Music | |
| Serenade to a Skyscraper, for piano | 1938 | 04:39 | Keyboard |
| Song Without Words, for piano ("In Hawiian Manner") | 01:04 | Keyboard | |
| Cocktail Suite, for piano | 1941 | 11:25 | Keyboard |
| 110th Street Rumba, for piano | 02:16 | Keyboard |
