Word: maestro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Andre Kostelanetz, 78, Russian-born maestro who dedicated 50 years to popularizing orchestral music in America and American music in the world; of a heart attack; while vacationing in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Though Kostelanetz fled war-ravaged Petrograd, where he had conducted opera, for New York City in 1922, his U.S. career did not bloom until eight years later when he was hired to lead the CBS symphony orchestra on radio's Chesterfield Hour. After making the program a hit, he added to his celebrity by marrying Opera Diva Lily Pons in 1938 (they divorced...