Gershon Kingsley conducted and arranged many Broadway musicals, and he composed for film, television shows and commercials.
13 Facts About Gershon Kingsley
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Gershon Kingsley's compositions were eclectic and vary between avant-garde and pop styles.
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Gershon Kingsley composed classical chamber works, and his opera Raoul was premiered in Bremen, Germany in 2008.
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Gershon Kingsley's work was recognized with a Tony Award nomination for Best Conductor and Musical Director, two Clio Awards for his work in advertising music, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Bob Moog Foundation.
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Gershon Kingsley died on December 10,2019, at the age of 97 in Manhattan, New York.
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Gershon Kingsley was born Gotz Gustav Ksinski in 1922 in Bochum, Weimar Republic, the son of Marie Christina, a homemaker, and Max Ksinski, a carpet dealer and pianist.
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Gershon Kingsley's father was born Jewish and his mother, originally Catholic, converted to Judaism.
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Gershon Kingsley grew up in Berlin where his parents ran a large carpet shop.
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In 1938, while his parents and brother made their way to Cuba and, ultimately, the United States, Gershon Kingsley traveled via Genoa to Palestine and joined a kibbutz:.
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Gershon Kingsley joined the Hagana Jewish Settlement Police and played jazz in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
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Gershon Kingsley then moved beyond the Moog, and later pioneered the use of the earliest Fairlight and Synclavier digital synthesizers.
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Arthur Fiedler asked Gershon Kingsley to write a Concerto for Moog; the quartet performed the work, scored for synthesizer quartet and symphony orchestra, with the Boston Pops in 1971.
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Gershon Kingsley wrote the logo sting for WGBH-TV in Boston, that appears throughout the United States on PBS programming produced by the station.