Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:53:13 -0500 From: "David S Sager" <dsag@xxxxxxx> To: Arsclist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: DC ARSC Meeting Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline
For those interested and perhaps in the DC area, below is a description of the DC chapter's November event to take place on Nov 7.
D. Sager
Nat Brusiloff, Broadcast Pioneer
Hear about the remarkable life of Nat Brusiloff, Baltimore-Washington native and 1920s musical director of the CBS radio network. Brusiloff's daughter, Carol Brusiloff Mizrahi, and his great-nephew, David Sager, will recount his life and reminisce about the musical pioneer whose career paralleled the rise of network radio in the United States.
Nat Brusiloff was concertmaster at Washington, D.C.'s grandest movie palace, The Fox, worked with society orchestra leader Meyer Davis, was Kate Smith's first conductor, and was music director of WOR in New York City. According to his contemporaries, Brusiloff's enormous musical talent was equaled only by his insatiable urge to play practical jokes. Learn of the ups and downs of his career, listen to rare broadcast transcription discs and view early sound film footage that show off both Brusiloff's virtuosic playing and his unique humor.
Wednesday, November 7, 2001 7:00 P.M. Library of Congress Mary Pickford Theater Third Floor, James Madison Building First & Independence Ave., S.E.
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Details: Bryan Cornell (202) 707-8466
Sponsored by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections Washington Metropolitan Area Chapter