[Trombone-l] Shilkret concerto

[Clinton F. Nieweg]

  Nathaniel Shilkret was born Naftule Schüldkraut, December 25, 1899, in Queens, New York. 
  He left the movie business after 1946 to join the CBS radio network as its music director. He enjoyed a long retirement and was living in Franklin Square, New York, when he died, on February 18, 1982.
   
  Shilkret conducted the 1927 electrical recording of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue (credited to Paul Whiteman); Shilkret took the baton, after Whiteman stormed off the podium, during an argument with Gershwin, and he was selected to conduct the initial broadcast and recording of Gershwin's An American in Paris—which he also directed at the 1937 Gershwin Memorial Concert in Los Angeles.
   
  His trombone concerto was commissioned by Tommy Dorsey, who played it in 1945 in New York with Leopold Stokowski conducting.
  After its premiere performance, the concerto was lost and remained that way, for almost 60 years until it was played at Carnegie Hall in 2003 by the New York Pops orchestra conducted by Skitch Henderson.
   
  Shilkret: Concerto for Trombone
  Per ASCAP Contact:
  NATHANIEL SHILKRET MUSIC CO 
  % NIEL SHELL 
  632 SMITH STREET 
  FRANKLIN SQUARE , NY, 11010
  Tel. (212) 650-5116
   
  His Autobiography is for sale on amazon.com
  Nathaniel Shilkret: Sixty Years in the Music Business by Shilkret Nathaniel $35.38
  Hardcover: 352 pages 
  Publisher: Scarecrow Press; Book & CD edition (July 2005) 
   
   
  ~ Proof Purr-fect Research ~
  Clinton F. Nieweg
  Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Librarian (Ret.)
  (Research for Conductors and Librarians)
  proofferr at yahoo.com

 		
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