ANDRE KOSTELANETZ SHOW "Dorothy Kirsten"

 

An Orchestral Treat from a master of easy listening music. May 1, 1943 broadcast. Kostelanetz specialized in “light classical” music which was accessible to the everyday listener. CBS (“The Tiffany Network”) gave the maestro his own weekly show. Andre Kostelanetz was born on December 22, 1901 and passed away on January 13, 1980. He was a Russian-born American popular orchestral music conductor and arranger who was one of the major exponents of popular orchestra music. Dorothy Kirsten born July 6, 1910, Montclair, New Jersey passed away on November 18, 1992, in Los Angeles, California. She was an American operatic soprano.