Andre Kostelanetz (December 22, 1901 - January 13, 1980) was a popular orchestral music conductor and arranger, one of the pioneers of easy listening music. December 22 is the 356th day of the year (357th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... A conductor conducting a band at a ceremony A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Easy listening music is a style of popular music which emerged in the mid-20th century. ...

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Kostelanetz escaped from the Bolshevik-Communist state after the Russian Revolution to freedom in the United States in 1922. Beginning in the 1920s he conducted concerts for radio, and in the 1930s he was given his own weekly show on CBS, Andre Kostelanetz Presents. Saint Petersburg  listen (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ...

Kostelanetz was known for arranging and recording light classical music pieces for mass audiences, as well as orchestral versions of popular 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. Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of, European art, ecclesiastical and concert music, encompassing a broad period from roughly 1000 to the present day. ... Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Beautiful music (sometimes abbreviated as BM / EZ) is a mostly-instrumental music format that was prominent in American radio from the 1960s through the 1980s. ...

Kostelanetz is best known to modern audiences for a series of easy listening instrumental albums (only one, from 1971, included vocals) on the Columbia label from the 1940s to 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. 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. Easy listening music is a style of popular music which emerged in the mid-20th century. ... Mantovani, born Annunzio Paolo Mantovani ( November 15, 1905 – March 29, 1980) was a popular conductor and entertainer in the easy listening style. ... Teo Macero is a jazz saxophonist and record producer. ... Torrie Zito is a pianist, and a musical arranger-conductor. ... Hank Levy (September 27, 1927 - September 18, 2001) was an American jazz composer and saxophonist whose arrangements consistently employed unusual time signatures and harmonies. ... Luther Henderson (1919 - 2003) was an arranger, composer and orchestrator. ... Edward Ernest Sauter(born December 2, 1914 in Brooklyn; died April 21, 1981 in New York City) was a jazz arranger most associated with the swing era. ... Claus Ogerman (born April 29, 1930) is a German musical arranger/ orchestrator, conductor, and composer, perhaps best known for his work with Antonio Carlos Jobim. ... Harold Wheeler is a Tony-nominated composer, conductor, orchestrator, arranger, record producer, music director. ... Robert C. Scott Robert Cortez Scott (b. ... LaMont Johnson (born in 1941) is an American jazz pianist who has played in the hard bop and post-bop genres. ... Patrick Williams is an American composer who specializes in writing scores for movies and television shows. ... Sammy Nestico Sammy Nestico (February 6, 1924) is a prolific and well known composer and arranger of big band music. ... Dick Hyman Joke: What is the difference between Dick Hyman, and a regular Hyman? A regular hyman goes away when penetrated by a penis. ... 2001 Instrumental Arrangement Bach 2 Part Invention In D Minor, Gordon Goodwin, arranger (Gordon Goodwins Big Phat Band) Nice Work If You Can Get It, Jim McNeely, arranger (The Danish Radio Jazz Orchestra & Jim McNeely) Round Robin, Paul McCandless, arranger (Oregon with the Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra) Spain for...

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. The San Francisco Symphony is a major orchestra based in San Francisco, California. ... Categories: Possible copyright violations ...

Bibliography

Kostelanetz, Andre, with Gloria Hammond, Echoes: Memoirs of Andre Kostelanetz. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. 247 pp. ISBN 0151273928.

Discography

• Music Of Irving Berlin, 1950, Columbia Masterworks 4314
• Music Of Cole Porter, 1951, Columbia Masterworks 2014
• Music Of George Gershwin, 1951, Columbia Masterworks 2026
• Black Magic, 1955, Columbia 712
• Music Of Vincent Youmans, 1955, Columbia 734
• You And The Night And The Music, 1956, Columbia 772
• Music Of Jerome Kern, 1956, Columbia 776
• Stardust, 1956, Columbia 781
• Broadway Spectacular, 1957, Columbia 865
• Tender Is The Night, 1957, Columbia 886
• The Romantic Music Of Rachmaninoff, 1957, Columbia 1001
• The Columbia Album Of Richard Rodgers, 1958, Columbia 1140
• Joy To The World, 1960, Harmony 11232
• Music From Flower Drum Song, 1960, Columbia 1280
• Nutcracker Suite, 1961, Columbia Masterworks 6264
• The New Wonderland Of Sound, 1961, Columbia 8457
• Star Spangled Marches, 1962, Columbia 1718
• Broadway's Greatest Hits, 1962, Columbia 1827
• Music From "Mr. President," 1962, Columbia 1921
• Wonderland Of Golden Hits, 1963, Columbia 8839
• I Wish You Love, 1964, Columbia 2185
• The Romantic Strings Of Andre Kostelanetz, Columbia Masterworks 6711
• Romantic Waltzes By Tchaikovsky, Columbia Masterworks 6824
• Today's Golden Hits, 1966, Columbia 9334
• The Shadow Of Your Smile, 1966, Columbia 13285
• The Kostelanetz Sound Of Today, 1967, Columbia 9409
• Scarborough Fair, 1968, Columbia 9623
• For The Young At Heart, 1968, Columbia 9691
• Traces, 1969, Columbia 13282
• Greatest Hits Of The 60's, 1970, Columbia 9973
• I'll Never Fall In Love Again, 1970, Columbia 9998
• Wonderland Of Christmas, Columbia 10086
• Everything Is Beautiful, 1970, Columbia 30037
• Sunset, 1970, Columbia Masterworks 30075
• Love Story, 1971, Columbia 30501
• For All We Know, 1971, Columbia 30672
• Plays Chicago, 1971, Columbia 31002
• Plays Cole Porter, 1972, Columbia 31491
• Love Theme From "The Godfather," 1972, Harmony 31500
• Last Tango In Paris, 1973, Columbia 32187
• Moon River, 1973, Columbia 32243
• Plays Great Hits Of Today, 1973, Columbia 32415
• The Way We Were, 1974, Columbia 32578
• Plays Michel Legrand's Greatest Hits, 1974, Columbia 32580
• Musical Reflections Of Broadway And Hollywood, 1974, Columbia 33061
• Plays "Murder On The Orient Express," 1975, Columbia 33437
• Never Can Say Goodbye, 1975, Col 33550
• I'm Easy, 1976, Columbia 34157
• Dance With Me, 1976, Columbia 34352
• Plays Broadway's Greatest Hits, 1977, Columbia 34864
• You Light Up My Life, 1978, Columbia 35328
• Theme From "Superman," 1979, Columbia 35781
• (no title), 1980, Columbia 36382