The last time the Concerto for Trombone was played live in New York, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was just returning from Yalta. Allied troops had reached the Rhine, and the Marines were close to ...

In the mid-twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nathaniel Shilkret (December 25, 1889 – February 18, 1982) was an American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director.

Given the time and place it was written Hollywood, 1945 it s no surprise that the committee-composed Genesis Suite should have come out as opulent as it did. The begetter of this unusual project was ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In 1943, as news of the Holocaust and the mass flight of refugees was coming through, a Jewish New York musician named Nat Shilkret ...

side 1: Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra. In the Good Old Summertime; side 2: Carl T. Sprague. When the Work's All Done This Fall (Montgomery Ward M-8060). 78 rpm. Side 1 was recorded in 1928 and ...

John Charles Thomas, baritone, with various accompaniments. John Charles Thomas; Walt Whitman; Nathaniel Shilkret; Victor Young; Carroll Hollister; George Kleinsinger; Albert Hay Malotte; Richard ...