Koussevitzky

[koo-suh-vit-skee]

noun

1. Serge Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitsky, 1874–1951, Russian orchestra conductor in the U.S.

Example Sentences

After winning the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductors there, he returned to Europe.

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Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and its training academy in the Berkshire Hills in Massachusetts, is where Bernstein studied with Serge Koussevitzky, then the director of the ensemble.

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Notably, Price explained her musical style to Koussevitzky in terms of ambiguity and fusion.

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Munch wanted to make one thing clear to the Bostonians, though: He was not their former music director, Serge Koussevitzky.

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Her father, a physician, was a Lithuanian Jew who had changed the family name from Koussevitzky to Jackson when he immigrated to the United States.

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