Erich Kunzel
Erich Kunzel was dubbed the "Prince of Pops" by the Chicago Tribune in 1977 and became one of the most successful Billboard Classical/Crossover recording artists in history. He was born in New York and raised in Connecticut. He attended Dartmouth College, where he decided on music as a career. He earned degrees at Dartmouth, Harvard, and Brown and went to Hancock, Maine, to study conducting with Pierre Monteux.
His professional conducting career began with the Santa Fe Opera in 1957. He also became a personal assistant to Pierre Monteux. Kunzel attracted the attention of another renowned teacher of conductors, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's music director Max Rudolf, who invited Kunzel to become a resident conductor with the orchestra. One of the duties of that position was to lead concerts in the "Eight O'Clock Pops" series. He debuted with the Cincinnati Symphony in October, 1965, leading one of the pops concerts and showed an immediate affinity for this kind of presentation. Kunzel had not considered this area of music as his career objective, but quickly decided he liked it. Arthur Fiedler, noting Kunzel's work, invited him to guest conduct his Boston Pops Orchestra in 1970. He was invited back to the Boston Pops every year under Fiedler and his two successors John Williams and Keith Lockhart, and made over 85 appearances with the original Boston Pops orchestra and taken it on tour.
Kunzel made recordings with labels associated with the Vox record company while making the "Eight O'Clock Pops" even more of a favorite in Cincinnati. In 1977, the board of the orchestra decided to follow the organizational example of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and constitute a Cincinnati Pops Orchestra as a separate sub-organization using members of the main orchestra, and appointed Kunzel its conductor. Five years later he was also appointed pops conductor of the symphony orchestra in nearby Indianapolis in 1982. He went on to conduct over 200 pops concerts there and many more in Detroit, Toronto, Minnesota, and Naples, Florida. He held the records for attendance at Chicago's Ravinia Festival and Cleveland's Blossom Music Festival -- over 22,000 in each venue.
In the 1980s, Telarc records, began recording in Cincinnati and included the Pops in its program. Beginning with the legendary Straussfest recording, they produced an unprecedented series of audio spectaculars including classical repertory, Broadway, popular song albums, and movie score compilations. Kunzel recorded 100 releases, including 70 on Telarc. Fifty of them have been on the Billboard charts. He has been the Billboard Top Classical/Crossover Artist of the year several times, including an unprecedented four years in a row. He was won the Grand Prix du Disque in Europe, the Award for Classical Album of the Year 1989 from the Japan Record Association, Sony's Tiffany Walkman Award, and four Grammy nominations.
He often appeared on television, most prominently in Fourth of July and Memorial Day concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., playing on the Mall in an annual PBS television broadcast. He has played in the Fourth of July series annually since 1990. The 1996 appearance was the largest PBS audience ever for a musical event and drew nearly a million people to hear the concert live.
Kunzel has taught on the faculties of Brown University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He conducted opera performances with the Cincinnati Opera and the Canadian Opera Company. He received numerous awards and recognition, including the 1994 Presidential Medal for Outstanding Leadership and Achievement from Dartmouth and the 1995 Salvation Army "Others" Award.
Immediately upon his death from cancer in 2009, Kunzel was named Founder and Conductor Emeritus by a unanimus vote of the Cincinnati Symphony's board.
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Peaches & Cream
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel
Classical - Lançado por MMG em 01/01/1986
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The Never-Ending Waltz
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Telarc em 24/10/2006
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From the Top at the Pops
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel
Classical - Lançado por Telarc em 25/08/2009
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Sailing
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Roger Williams
Lounge - Lançado por Telarc em 01/06/1992
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Magical Musicals
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Film Soundtracks - Lançado por Telarc em 01/09/1999
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Wellington's Victory, Op. 91 - Liszt: Battle of the Huns, S. 105 & Hungarian March to the Assault, S. 119
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Telarc em 01/01/1983
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Beautiful Dreamer - Music of America's Gilded Age (John Philip Sousa - Victor Herbert - Anonymous)
Classical - Lançado por The Gift of Music em 01/01/2005
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American Piano Classics
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Stewart Goodyear, William Tritt
Classical - Lançado por Telarc em 26/01/1993
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American as Apple Pie
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Johnny Bench, Tony Chipurn, Erich Kunzel, Marie Speziale, Frank Proto
Classical - Lançado por Vox Box em 01/01/1994
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Rodgers & Hammerstein: Songbook for Orchestra
Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Telarc em 01/01/1992
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Gershwin: Selections from Porgy and Bess & Blue Monday
Classical - Lançado por Telarc em 01/05/1998
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Viennese Violin: The Romantic Music of Lehár, Kreisler & Strauss
Robert McDuffie, Erich Kunzel, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Classical - Lançado por Telarc em 01/08/1996
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A Festival Of Strauss
Vienna Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel
Classical - Lançado por Allegro em 01/01/1967
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Offenbach: Overtures
Cincinatti Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel
Classical - Lançado por CarltonClassics em 01/01/2000
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American Fantasia
Cincinatti Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel
Classical - Lançado por CarltonClassics em 01/01/2000
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