Koussevitzky

American  

[koo-suh-vit-skee] / ˌku səˈvɪt ski /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

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.

From New York Times

Knowing of Koussevitzky’s keenness to champion American composers in wartime, Price then introduced the melting pot, not as an idealistic metaphor, but as her reality.

From New York Times

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

From New York Times

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.

From Washington Post