The Yonkers Polka - Music

Adolph Deutsch October 20 1897 - January 1 1980 Was An Academy Award-Winning Composer Conductor And Arranger. He Won Oscars For His Background Music For Oklahoma! 1955 And For Conducting The Music For Seven Brides For Seven Brothers 1954 And Annie Get Your Gun 1950 . The London England-Born Deutsch Was Also Nominated For The Band Wagon 1953 And The 1951 Film Version Of Show Boat For Which He Conducted The Orchestra. For Broadway And Hollywood He Conducted Composed And Arranged Music But Did Not Write Songs Not Even For The Broadway Shows On Which He Worked. In Addition To His Music For Westerns And His Conducting Of The Scores For Musicals Deutsch Also Composed For Films Noir Including The Mask Of Dimitrios 1944 The Maltese Falcon 1941 And Nobody Lives Forever 1946 And The Billy Wilder Comedies The Apartment 1960 And Some Like It Hot 1959 . In 1914 Deutsch Was "a Buffalo Movie House Musician " Accompanying Silent Films. 1 Source Buffalo News April 15 1944 Deutsch Began His Composing Career On Broadway In The 1920s And 1930s Before Working For Hollywood Films Beginning In The Late 1930s. For Broadway He Orchestrated Irving Berlin's As Thousands Cheer And George Gershwin And Ira Gershwin's Pardon My English. He Retired In 1961. read less