41. Oscar Levant - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia oscar levant, born December 27, 1906 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania died August 14,1972, was a pianist and an actor, better known for his character than his http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Levant

Oscar Levant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Oscar Levant , born December 27 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - died August 14 , was a pianist and an actor , better known for his character than his music Born into a musical family, Levant moved to New York with his mother in after the death of his father. He began studying under Zygmunt Stojowski , a well established piano pedagogue. In 1928 Levant traveled to Hollywood where his career turned for the better. During his stay, he met and befriended George Gershwin Around Levant began composing on a serious note. This led to a request by Aaron Copland to play at the Yaddo Festival of contemporary American music on April 30 of that year. Successful, Levant began on a new orchestral work, Sinfonietta During the years of and , Oscar Levant syndicated his own talk show, The Oscar Levant Show . The show was highly controversial, finally being taken from the air after a comment in regards to Marilyn Monroe ; 'Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.' He later refuted he "hadn't meant it THAT way." Several months later, the show was rebroadcasted in a slightly revised format. The show was now taped to use as a buffer to Oscar's antics. This however, failed to prevent Oscar from making some comments of Mae West 's sex life, cancelling the show for good.

42. Musical Autographs: Catalog 57 levant, oscar large signature from the American pianist especially brilliantin Gershwin. Uncommon ..$85 *112. http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrumental57.html

INSTRUMENTAL click on to view image ADLER, Larry- 8 x 10 photo of the harmonica virtuoso in action- he ran afoul of Senator McCarthy. SCARCE ANDSNES, Leif Ove- SP 5 x 7 color or b/w photo of the hot young Norwegian pianist 092. ARGERICH, Martha- SP 4 x 6 or 5 x 7 head shot of the SUPERSTAR pianist BAUER, Harold- SP 8 x 10 shot of the British/American pianist at the keyboard CASALS, Pablo- AMusQS on Al Mannheim 2 Dec 1913 095. CHERNIAVSKY, Michel - SP Kale NY 8 x 10 photo of the Russian born cellist a Versbilovitch and Popper pupil. He and his 2 brothers (Leo and Jan) formed a trio that toured world wide appearing in New York for the first time in 1917 d/s 1944 096. CLIBURN, Van- signs back cover of the legendary May 19,1958 Carnegie Hall performance of the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3. BIG SIGNATURE 097. CORIGLIANO, John- dedication and signature on cover of NYPO Vivaldi record under Cantelli. There is some damage but the writing is clear 098. DARRE, Jeanne-Marie- signs program for Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra concert Nov. 17, 1962 DE LARROCHA, Alicia- SP 8 x 10 Christian Steiner photo for London records of the smiling Spanish piano giant about to retire

43. Musical Autographs: Catalog 52 levant, oscarsigns program for Second May Festival concert with the SP 4 x 6 shotof the English pianist ..$65 059. http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/instrumental52.html

INSTRUMENTALISTS click on to view image AUER, Leopold- ALS 1 p in German to an unnamed recipient.."I am pleased to enclose the balance for the rent of the fiddles and ask you for a word of receipt....L. Auer 10 August 1893" from the great fiddler and teacher of Elman, Heifetz, Zimbalist, Milstein among others. Terrific example BACKHAUS, Wilhelm- the legendary pianist signs cover of program for a Beethovenabend for the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien Wiener Festwochen 1960 or Klavierabend for the 1961 Wiener Festwochen same auspicies 040. BARYILI, Walter- Fayer postcard portrait of the Wiener Staatsoper and Wiener Philharmoniker konzertmeister playing d/s verso together with hand addressed envelope of transmission with his titles on verso 041. BRABEC, Prof. Emanuel- SP 3 x 4 photo of the cellist playing d/s 1957 together with handwritten envelope of transmission BULL, Ole- unsigned Mora Broadway cabinet or C d V photo of the legendary Norwegian fiddler playing CAMPOLI, Alfredo- SP 8 x 10 shot of the popular fiddler rehearsing 044. CHUNG, Myung Wha- SP 8 x 10 dramatic shot of the fiddler and her fiddle

44. SoundtrackCollector: Soundtrack Details: American In Paris, An 11. Medley My Cusin In Milwaukee/A Foggy Day/The HalfOf-It Dearie Blues/ButNot For Me (Outtake) (0333) Performed By oscar levant , pianist. 12. http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/catalog/soundtrackdetail.php?movieid=8017

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46. Oscar Levant To quote an essay by Dixie Burge, oscar levant flourished as (and subsequentlygave up each, one by one) gifted composer, concert pianist, radio personality http://www.dorothyfields.co.uk/c_levant.htm

Navigate the site using the links below Home Biography Songs Recordings ... About Me Oscar Levant Born Dec 27 1906 Died Aug 14 1972 Oscar Levant had a unique career. To quote an essay by Dixie Burge, Oscar Levant flourished as (and subsequently gave up each, one by one) gifted composer, concert pianist, radio personality, movie star, successful recording artist, best-selling author, talk-show host and quiz show panellist Throughout the 1920s and 1930s Levant composed and performed an eclectic range of popular and classical music. One bizarre highlight was the composition of a 15 minute opera, for, all of things, a Charlie Chan film. Well, to be fair, it was Charlie Chan at the Opera A minor entry in the catalogue was the score for the Ginger Rogers movie In Person in 1935. This was his only work with Dorothy Fields who wrote the lyrics for three Levant melodies. All three songs are currently available on recordings by Bobby Short, Peter Mintun and Kay Thompson. Quote from Oscar Levant : For details of Oscar Levant's career in classical music see Oscar Levant Contact Me

47. American Composers Orchestra - January 10, 1999 Concert The concerto extravaganza continues with a performance of oscar levant s rarely performedConcerto written in 1936. levant, a composer/pianist who studied with http://www.americancomposers.org/rel990110.htm

FOR TICKETS CALL CarnegieCharge: aco homepage concert schedule "this concert isn't as much 'about' Gershwin as it is 'around' him..." Francis Thorne, ACO President Sunday, JANUARY 10, 1999 at 3pm The Gershwin Circle Dennis Russell Davies , conductor Leon Bates Scott Dunn Alan Feinberg Ursula Oppens , piano VERNON DUKE: Piano Concerto in C Major [orch. Scott Dunn] (World Premiere) OSCAR LEVANT: Piano Concerto MAURICE RAVEL: Piano Concerto for Left Hand in D Major Pre-Concert recital/discussion with musicologist Carol Oja at 1:45. Read an essay by noted musicologist Carol Oja about Gershwin and his collaborators The American Composers Orchestra begins its Millennium celebration with the first of its "20th Century Snapshots" series at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, January 10, 1999 at 3 pm. Conductor Dennis Russell Davies leads an unusual program four important American pianists in four works for piano and orchestra. The concert, entitled The Gershwin Circle, focuses on the international impact of George Gershwin and his music and features Leon Bates, Scott Dunn, Alan Feinberg, and Ursula Oppens, in music by Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, Maurice Ravel, and, of course, Gershwin.

48. The Gershwin Circle, By Carol Oja those events, you probably heard oscar levant, who beginning a sharpwitted presenceon radio, levant gained fame He became the first pianist after Gershwin to http://www.americancomposers.org/gershwin.htm

aco homepage concert schedule The Gershwin Circle by Carol J. Oja With the composers brought together in "The Gershwin Circle," a fresh perspective emerges on Gershwin's impact. Oscar Levant and Vernon Duke (aka Vladimir Dukelsky) both spun within Gershwin's orbit–Duke as a fellow composer of popular songs, also as a collaborator with George's brother Ira, and Levant as Gershwin's amanuensis and foremost interpreter at the piano. Focus has most often been placed on Gershwin's impact on his American modernist contemporaries, whether Aaron Copland in the Piano Concerto or George Antheil in his Jazz Symphony. These figures identified primarily with the concert hall. To incorporate jazz, they reached down from an artistic position of accepted authority to elevate an idiom they regarded with varying degrees of condescension. The real change for Levant as composer came in 1935, when he began studying with Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. At the same time, Levant was writing tunes for films produced by the Fox and RKO studios. Schoenberg's appointment books, as recounted in Sam Kashner and Nancy Schonberger's illuminating book, A Talent for Genius: The Life and Times of Oscar Levant, show that Levant worked with Schoenberg from April through September 1935 and again from October 1936 through November 1937. During this period, Levant wrote the piano concerto featured here, as well as a string quartet and Nocturne for orchestra. Levant's Piano Concerto embodies these contradictory forces–the blues-based harmonies and pulsating rhythms of Gershwin and the atonality of Schoenberg. Levant himself called the work an "exercise in relentless atonality," but it ranges much wider than that, even including a "boogie woogie" passage, as Levant termed it. It sounds like Gershwin in an acid bath.

49. Schüler In Amerika: Oscar Levant Translate this page Schüler in Amerika oscar levant. am 27.12.1906 in Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania geborenin Beverly Hills/Cal. am 14.08.1972 gestorben pianist, Komponist, Autor. http://www.schoenberg.at/1_as/schueler/usa/Levant.htm

Oscar Levant am 27.12.1906 in Pittsburgh/Pennsylvania geboren in Beverly Hills/Cal. am 14.08.1972 gestorben Pianist, Komponist, Autor Kompositionen: Publikationen: A Smattering of Ignorance, New York, 1940 The Memoirs of an Anmesiac, 1965 The Unimportance of Being Oscar, 1968 Walter B. Bailey: “Oscar Levant and the Program for Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto” in Volume VI, No. 1 (June 1982) des Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Institute http://www.turnerclassicmovies.com/MONTH_SPOTS/99/12/birthdays.htm http://www.eonline.com/Facts/People/0,12,9282,00.html http://www.shellac.org/wams/woscar01.html http://www.newstimes.com/archive97/aug2597/tvd.htm ... Shop

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Students in America Name Lebensdaten Herkunftsland Dauer des Unterrichts Beruf Abraham, Peter Achron, Paul Geiger, Komponist Alderman, Pauline Pianistin, Komponistin Allen, Leroy W. Dozent, Leiter des Music Dep. an der UCLA Avirett, Abby de Pianist B ach, Ida E. High-School-Lehrerin Baker, Israel Geiger Ball, Everett Barakovich, Edith Barker, Helen Barlow, Wayne Komponist, Organist Beale, Bonnie Jean Berezovsky, George Bestor/Kelley, Dorothea Nolte Komponistin, Violinistin, Bratscherin Blair, Ramona Blumberg, Betty Blumberg, Leon Brown, Helen E. Brunner, Egon Burkley, Francis Dirigent Butterfield, Elisabeth Merz Butts, Elayne Cage, John Milton jr. Komponist, Interpret, Erfinder, Lehrender, Schriftsteller Campbell, Hugh Cantor, Montague Carfagno, Simon Komponist Carlson, Alfred Komponist, Photograph Carpenter, Patricia

51. Musicals In My Head ? ! // Because Old School Movies Are Cool. One of the costars in that film was oscar levant In those films, he played the self-torturedgenius, (usually a pianist) he reminded me of a slightly bored and http://www.notsweet.org/musicals/archives/000134.php

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53. Powell's Books - A Talent For Genius: The Life And Times Of Oscar Levant By Sam as a fine concert pianist and the premier interpreter of George Gershwin s concertworks. He appeared in 13 films, usually as a best friend/ oscar levant type http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-1879505398-0

54. Pianist Alec Templeton, The Remington Story And Don Gabor was issued on 2 12 shellac discs (CX190) and on vinyl (ML-4455) and was listedin Columbia s catalog next to the famous recording of oscar levant with the http://www.soundfountain.com/remtemple.html

55. Peer Resources - Famous Mentor Pairings - Classical And Broadway Musicians, Perf Joseph Papp (producer) mentor to Elizabeth Swados (composer Bio); June levant(wife of oscar levant) mentor to Michael Feinstein (pianist and singer); http://www.mentors.ca/mp_classical.html

Peer Resources Index Mentor Index Coaching Index Mentor Learning Index The Mentor Hall of Fame CLASSICAL AND BROADWAY MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS, COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, BALLET AND MODERN DANCERS Virtually anyone can benefit from having a mentor. And most well-known, accomplished and successful artists can identify people in their lives who acted as mentors. The following list of mentor pairs was compiled by Rey Carr from a variety of sources including autobiographies, biographies, newspaper articles, personal interviews, and diligent historical research. If you know of mentor pairs that ought to be added, we have provided an opportunity for you to submit the names and details: Add a Mentor Pair CLASSICAL AND BROADWAY MUSICIANS, PERFORMERS, COMPOSERS, CONDUCTORS, BALLET AND MODERN DANCERS Isaac Stern mentor to Pinchas Zukerman (Israeli violinist and conductor), Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, Shlomo Mintz, Sergui Luca and Yo-Yo Ma Dorothy DeLay (violin teacher) mentor to Itzhak Perlman, Sarah Chang and Midori Joseph Joachim (violinist) mentor to Artur Rubinstein (pianist) Ingolf Dahl (conductor) mentor to Michael Tilson Thomas (pianist and conductor) Boris Brott (Canadian conductor) mentored by Igor Markevitch (musical director Montreal Symphony Orchestra) Joseph Papp (producer) mentor to Elizabeth Swados (composer Bio June Levant (wife of Oscar Levant) mentor to Michael Feinstein (pianist and singer) Hans Swarowsky mentor to Claudio Abbado (permanent conductor, Milan Opera House)

56. Looking For Music From Classical Composers ? oscar levant (1906 1972) oscar levant oscar levant plays levant Gershwin oscar levant was a pianist, actor and composer. Knowing http://www.classical-music-tribute.com/classical-composer-music.html

Home Classical Guitar Classical Composers E-mail ... Links Recent Classical Composers Music! Benjamin Britten Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra In this century, few composers have been as well-equipped to perform their own works as Benjamin Britten. An accomplished pianist and conductor, he was used to working in front of the.... Britten - War Requiem The composer's 1963 recording remains, after 35 years, the preferred account, unequaled in its scope and emotional intensity.... Britten - Cello Suites 1-3 The Cello Suites are the most intimate, introspective, and, for many listeners, resistible of all the major Britten scores, and so it takes a special interpretive talent to make manifest their worth, vitality, and genius.... Alberto Ginastera Ginastera: Complete Piano Works Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes Quite possibly one of the most difficult works for chamber orchestra, Variaciones Concertantes has seen little time in the recording studio... Gustavus Theodore Holst Gustav Holst: The Planets There are many available versions of this war-horse. This work happens to actually be as good as its reputation deserves- this is really a masterpiece, a suite of unforgettable themes ... Aram Khachaturian Khachaturian: Spartacus / Khachaturian, Vienna Philharmonic

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58. Crystal Clouds Quotations: Letterman, Elmer G. levant, oscar American pianist (1906 1972).Levenson, Sam American Comedian (1911 - 1980). Levenstein, Aaron. http://www.crystalclouds.co.uk/search.php?option=SourceIndex&letter=L&page=4

59. DECEMBER 27 CLASSICALmanac 'today In Classical Music' 1906 Birth of American pianist and composer oscar levant in Pittsburgh. dBeverlyHills, CA 14 AUG 1972. Played Gershwin s music in movie An American in Paris. http://www.angelfire.com/ab/day/dec27.html

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60. Oscar Levant - Renaissance Man selfexpression as a concert pianist, teacher, bandleader and composer - all beforereaching his 20th birthday. As an artist, oscar levant was comparable to http://alt.tcm.turner.com/MONTH_SPOTS/99/12/birthdays.htm

This Month Today Weekly Showcases Coming Attractions ... Linking to TCM "A Smattering of Ignorance," "The Unimportance of Being Oscar" and "The Memoirs of an Amnesiac" are all the testimony of a man who was the victim of his own genius. Oscar Levant was born on December 27, 1906 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the son of a repairman. Beginning at age 16 with a move to New York, Levant embarked on a journey towards self-expression as a concert pianist, teacher, bandleader and composer - all before reaching his 20th birthday. As an artist, Oscar Levant was comparable to King Midas in that all that he touched - music, film, and literature - turned to gold. As a man, however, Levant lived in and succumbed to his own tortured mind. List of films Today! on TCM Humoresque The Barkleys of Broadway ... by Sam Kashner In developing his musical talent during the late '20s and '30s, Oscar Levant studied under such masters as Stojowski, Schoenberg and Schillinger. He would then become a best friend, protégé and world-renowned interpreter of George Gershwin. Most memorable of his Gershwin idolatry is An American in Paris (1951), where Levant plays every member of the orchestra in a performance of Gershwin's "Concerto in F."

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