biography
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| (1900–56)
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| biography:
| Composer, conductor, and violinist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A classically trained violinist, in the 1920s he worked as an orchestra arranger for Ted Fiorito and as a musical director for film theatres and vaudeville. He became musical director for Brunswick Records (1931), and in 1935 he moved to Hollywood, where for 20 years, as composer, arranger, and conductor, he worked on over 225 film scores. |
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