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...Hearts of Erin (1917). His operetta music was superbly orchestrated. He also wrote two grand operas, Natoma (1911) and Madeleine (1914), and the music for the motion picture The Fall of a Nation (1916), probably the first original symphonic score composed for a feature film. Late in life he wrote for revues, notably the Ziegfeld Follies.
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