Description

MILAN LUSK (CHICAGO, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, USA, 6 MAY, 1893 – PRAGUE, CZECH REBUPLIC, 31 AUGUST, 1932)

 

 

 

 

Milan Lusk was born 1893 in Illinois (USA). His father was a lawyer and his mother, Marie Koupal-Lusk, a famous painter. Milan Lusk received his first lessons in Chicago under Joseph H. Capek. He later went to Pisek (Bohemia) to study with Otakar Sevcik. After his studies he toured as a violin soloist worldwide and performed in the presence of royalties like Queen Marie of Romania, Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini or the Czecho-Slovakian president Tomas Masaryk. He made a few recordings that still exist. Milan Lusk died during a tour on 8 September 1932 in Prague of heart disease after an operation for a gastric ailment.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

Cavatina (Raff) Emerson No. 10331 4916-1

Humoresque (Dvorak) Bell record S-15-A

Slovenske a Ceska pisne Ludmila Vojackova (piano) Edison 7762

Směs čecho Ludmila Vojackova (piano) Edison 7795

Souvenir (Drdla) Mme. L. Vojuckova-Wetche (piano) Emerson No.02005-X 4152-1D

Thais (Massenet) Meditation (as Manno Krotan) National Music Lovers 1072-B

Traumerei (Schumann) Emerson No. 10331 4917-2

Valse Bluette (Air de Ballet) (Drigo) Vojuckova-Wetche (piano) Emerson No. 02007-X