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Artist Biography For Andre Kostelanetz
André Kostelanetz December 22 1901 St. Petersburg Russia - January 13 1980 Was A Popular Orchestral Music Conductor And Arranger One Of The Pioneers Of Easy Listening Music. 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. Citation Needed For Many Years Kostelanetz Also Conducted The New York Philharmonic In Pops Concerts And Recordings In Which They Were Billed As "Andre Kostelanetz And His Orchestra". Kostelanetz Is 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" And He Continued Until After Some Of His Contemporaries Including Mantovani Had Stopped Recording. Toward The End Of His Recording Career His Name Was More Of A Brand Than A True Representation Of Who Actually Made The Music Because Nearly All Of His Output In The 1970s Was Arranged By Others. Citation Needed Some Of The Arrangers Credited On 1970s Kostelanetz Albums Include Teo Macero Torrie Zito Hank Levy Luther Henderson Jack Cortner Eddie Sauter Claus Ogerman Jack Pleis Tommy Newsom Harold Wheeler Bobby Scott Homer Dennison James Tyler Jr. Byron Olson Dale Oehler Ben Lanzarone LaMont Johnson Wade Marcus Patrick Williams Sammy Nestico Warren Vincent Dick Hyman Jorge Calandrelli James J. Wisner Al Capps And Don Sebesky. Kostelanetz's Last Concert Was "A Night In Old Vienna" Concert With The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra In The War Memorial Opera House On December 31 1979.
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BLUE DANUBE WALTZ
All Through The Night
Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head
What Now My Love
The Toreadors "Carmen"
Charleston
If I Were A Rich Man
Theme From "Romeo And Juliet"
Unchained Melody
Song Of India
What Is This Thing Called Love?
Begin The Beguine
Hello, Dolly!
I'll Never Fall In Love Again
Night And Day
Waltzes From "Faust"
I Will Wait For You
Just One Of Those Things
Born Free
The Sounds Of Silence
Women Are Fickle From "Rigoletto"
Love For Sale
Musetta's Waltz From "La Boheme"
Kiss Me Kate Medley
Calcutta
Barcarolle From "Tales Of Hoffman"
Happy Talk
You Do Something To Me / I Get A Kick Out Of You
Someone To Watch Over Me
My Favorite Things
I Love Paris
Waltz From "Die Fledermaus"
The Rain In Spain
In The Still Of The Night
Ebb Tide
Irma La Douce
You'd Be So Nice To Come Home
On The Trail
What Kind Of Fool Am I?
Tonight
Aloha Oe / Song Of The Islands
Maybe
The Nearness Of You
Cielito Lindo
Solace / The Entertainer
The Shadow Of Your Smile
Sweet Leilani
Night Of The Tropics
Loving You
Fools Rush In Where Angels Fear To Tread
Vienna Life Op. 354
If
Everybody Loves A Lover
Waltz From "The Gypsy Baron"
Till There Was You
Mame
A Thousand And One Nights
Love Me With All Your Heart
Try To Remember
On The Beach At Waikiki / Hawaiian War Chant / My Honolulu Tomboy