Word: kostelanetz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Lily Pons, 54, petite (5 ft. ½ in.), French-born coloratura soprano best known a half-generation ago: Andre Kostelanetz, 56, Leningrad-born orchestra conductor and arranger of tried and true sounds; after 20 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
...explosion of painting in Renaissance Italy marked an "awakening of the eye," the explosion of music in post-World War II America suggests a massive unstopping of the U.S. ear. "Americans have discovered music," says Music Merchant André Kostelanetz, "like a people who have discovered red and blue and green where all had been black and white before." In its musical black-and-white era, the U.S. already had great symphony orchestras, great opera, great foreign artists-and it conquered the world with its jazz. What is different today is the extraordinary breadth of the nation's music...
...there is no doubt that the taste of the companies-and of the customers-is gradually improving. Says Columbia Artists President Frederick C. Schang Jr.: "They start listening to Mantovani. In time they want Kostelanetz, which is a step up. or maybe the Boston Pops. Then maybe they will venture on to a big-time symphony orchestra playing Tchaikovsky. After that, one of these days, they'll even go for Beethoven-and they are caught. That's the way it's done in this country...
GRAND CANYON SUITE (Grofé): Andre Kostelanetz and Orchestra...
...Kostelanetz and Orchestra...