Nathaniel Shilkret
American composer, conductor, clarinetist, pianist, business executive, and music director
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- Bachelors Music New York University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nathaniel Shilkret was an American musician, composer, conductor and musical director. Early career Shilkret was born in New York City, United States, to parents who emigrated from Lemberg . His father played a number of instruments, and made certain that Nat and his three brothers were all accomplished musicians at an early age. Older brother Lew Shilkret was a fine pianist who also worked in the insurance industry. Younger brother Jack Shilkret had a career that paralleled Nathaniel's career: he played clarinet and piano, recorded extensively, and conducted and played piano on the radio and in motion pictures. The youngest brother Harry Shilkret was a medical doctor who worked his way through school playing trumpet, and continued to play trumpet frequently in Nathaniel's orchestras, particularly for radio broadcasts, long after he was a practicing allergist. Nathaniel Shilkret's brother-in-law, Nathaniel Finston, was a violinist in many organizations in his youth and was musical director for Paramount Pictures and later for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, at one time being Nathaniel Shilkret's boss.
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