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- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Musician and conductor Arthur Fiedler was born on 12/17/1894 in Boston, MA. His family was musically inclined, and he traveled with them to Vienna, Austria, in 1910. The next year he enrolled in the Royal Academy of Music in Berlin and stayed there for four years, studying violin and piano. It was also where he took up conducting. He returned to the US and his hometown of Boston, joining the Boston Symphony Orchestra as a violinist.
In 1924 he organized the Boston Sinfonietta, a chamber music group, and toured with them for several years. Five years later he began the Explanade Concerts, a series of free outdoor performances of the Boston Symphony Orchestra , and the next year he became conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, which consisted of members of the Boston Symphony, and remained its conductor until 1979. Under his leadership the orchestra became one of the most recognizable and popular in the world; Fiedler didn't want it to have the image of a staid, stuffy, stereotypical "long-hair" chamber orchestra, and his innovative programs of classical music, Broadway show tunes, folk songs, the works of contemporary composers and jazz attracted generations of fans, and both the orchestra and Fiedler himself became icons among music fans. They regularly performed concerts on PBS (Public Broadcasting System), attracting a much wider audience than most orchestras ever received. He and the Pops Orchestra were presented with a Peabody Award in 1971 for their performances on educational television.
Arthur Fiedler died in Boston, MA, on 7.10,79.- Jean Mauvais was born on 1 May 1924 in Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France. He was an actor, known for La mort d'un touriste (1975), Les corsaires (1966) and La maison des bois (1971). He died on 10 July 1979 in Paris, France.
- Kathryn O'Hay Granahan was born on 7 December 1894 in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. She was married to William Thomas Granahan. She died on 10 July 1979 in Norristown, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Writer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Diego Calcagno was born on 24 May 1901 in Naples, Italy. He was a writer and actor, known for Rondini in volo (1949), Desire (1946) and Il corriere di ferro (1947). He died on 10 July 1979 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Vladimir Maslatsov was born on 10 July 1897 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He was an actor, known for Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (1967), Put entuziastov (1930) and War and Peace (1965). He died on 10 July 1979 in Moscow, USSR.
- Sam Taub was born on 10 September 1886 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940) and Shikat vs. Lewis Wrestling Match (1932). He died on 10 July 1979 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Editor
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
William Shepherd was an editor and director, known for In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), Vengeance of the Deep (1938) and Wild Innocence (1936). He died on 10 July 1979 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.