Serge Koussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky;[n 1] Russian: Сергей Александрович Кусевицкий, IPA:[sʲɪrˈɡʲejɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕkʊsʲɪˈvʲitskʲɪj]; 26 July [O.S. 14 July] 1874 – 4 June 1951) was a Russian and American conductor, composer, and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949.
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SergeKoussevitzky (born Sergey Aleksandrovich Kusevitsky; Russian: Сергей Александрович Кусевицкий, IPA: [sʲɪrˈɡʲej ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvʲɪtɕ kʊsʲɪˈvʲitskʲɪj];...
orchestra has had 17 music directors, including George Henschel, SergeKoussevitzky, Henri Rabaud, Pierre Monteux, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, William...
the BSO's music director, SergeKoussevitzky, who became a profound lifelong inspiration to Bernstein. He became Koussevitzky's conducting assistant at...
1930 during his neoclassical period. The work was commissioned by SergeKoussevitzky to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO), under the direction of Conductor SergeKoussevitzky, was invited to perform at the 1936 festival held at Holmwood, the...
and Pears were waiting for a passage back to England, the conductor SergeKoussevitzky asked the composer why he had not written an opera. Britten explained...
in 1940 as the Berkshire Music Center by the BSO's music director, SergeKoussevitzky, three years after the establishment of Tanglewood as the summer home...
centuries and also one by W. H. Auden. Britten dedicated the work to SergeKoussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The work received its premiere...
instrument, the Karr-Koussevitzky bass, to the ISB. This instrument was given to Karr by Olga Koussevitzky, widow of SergeKoussevitzky, in 1961. It is the...
Recordings of Peter and the Wolf" in Three Oranges, No. 12: November 2006, Serge Prokofiev Foundation; retrieved 23 May 2009. Portal: Classical music...
Petrushka (1911) and then The Rite of Spring. In a note to the conductor SergeKoussevitzky in February 1914, Stravinsky described Le Sacre du printemps as "a...
A performance in Boston under SergeKoussevitzky led to the commission of the opera Peter Grimes from the Koussevitzky Music Foundations. The Sinfonia...
The three movements were dedicated respectively to three people: SergeKoussevitzky, Jacques Charlot (an associate of Debussy's publisher who was killed...
with William Primrose and the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by SergeKoussevitzky. The piece was used in Terrence Malick's 2013 film To The Wonder,...
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