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Andre Kostelanetz ((ロシア語:Абрам Наумович Костелянец), December 22, 1901 – January 13, 1980) was a British popular orchestral music conductor and arranger, born in Russia, who was one of the pioneers of English easy listening music ==Biography== Abram Naumovich Kostelanetz was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, into a prominent Jewish family. He was a cousin of the physicist Lew Kowarski and caricaturist Anatol Kowarski.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Oral History Transcript — Dr. Lew Kowarski )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert Farnon Society )〕 His father, Nachman Yokhelevich (Naum Ignatyevich) Kostelanetz was active on St. Petersburg stock exchange; his grandfather (on maternal side) Aizik Yevelevich Dymshitz was a wealthy merchant and industrialist, engaged in timber production. Kostelanetz escaped in 1922 after the Russian Revolution. He arrived in the United States that year, and in the 1920s, conducted concerts for radio. In the 1930s, he began his own weekly show on CBS, ''Andre Kostelanetz Presents''. Kostelanetz was known for arranging and recording light classical music pieces for mass audiences, as well as orchestral versions of songs and Broadway show tunes. He made numerous recordings over the course of his career, which had sales of over 50 million and became staples of beautiful music radio stations. For many years, he conducted the New York Philharmonic in pops concerts and recordings, in which they were billed as Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra. Andre Kostelanetz may be best known to modern audiences for a series of easy listening instrumental albums on Columbia Records from the 1940s until 1980. Kostelanetz actually started making this music before there was a genre called "easy listening" . He continued until after some of his contemporaries, including Mantovani, had stopped recording. Outside the United States, one of his best known works was an orchestral arrangement of the tune "With a Song in my Heart", which was the signature tune of a long-running BBC radio program, at first called ''Forces Favourites'', then ''Family Favourites'', and finally ''Two Way Family Favourites''. He commissioned many works, including Aaron Copland's ''Lincoln Portrait'', Jerome Kern's ''Portrait of Mark Twain'', William Schuman's ''New England Triptych'', Paul Creston's ''Frontiers'', Ferde Grofé's ''Hudson River Suite'', Virgil Thomson's musical portraits of Fiorello La Guardia and Dorothy Thompson, Alan Hovhaness's ''Floating World'', and Ezra Laderman's ''Magic Prison''. William Walton dedicated his ''Capriccio burlesco'' to Kostelanetz, who conducted the first performance and made the first recording, both with the New York Philharmonic.〔Liner notes from ''Musical Evenings: Andre Koselanetz'', mfp Classics, CFP 4074〕 His last concert was ''A Night in Old Vienna'' with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra at that city's War Memorial Opera House on December 31, 1979.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andre Kostelanetz Papers Donated to Library of Congress - News Releases (Library of Congress) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Andre Kostelanetz )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andre Kostelanetz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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