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RUDOLPH POLK (NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 25 NOVEMBER, 1892 – LOS ANGELES, 16 JUNE, 1957)

 

 

 

 

He was an American concert violinist based in New York City during his early years and, during his later years, a Hollywood film director, film industry executive, and artist manager for Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, José Iturbi, and Gregor Piatigorsky. In Hollywood, Polk was the assistant musical director to Morris Stoloff at Columbia Pictures. After World War II, Polk was musical director for Enterprise Studios. Polk was family friends with Jacob Previn, father of André and Steve Previn. Polk graduated from the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin where he studied violin with Henri Marteau. He performed many times with the Berlin Philharmonic in the Early 1920s. He also toured with Feodor Chaliapin (and his longtime piano accompanyist, Fyodor Keneman) in the United States. Polk also studied composition with Paul Juon.

 

 

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A Kiss in the Dark (B. De Sylva and Victor Herbert) Regal 9609-B 5368-2

Ave Maria (Schubert) Domino 0111-A 5298-4

Cinquantaine (Gabriel-Marie) Domino 0132-B 5401

In the Ballroom (West) Banner 2125-B 6041

Melody in F (Rubinstein) Regal 9566-A 5293-3P

Roses of Picardy (Haydn Wood) Regal 9609-A 5363-3

Serenade (Schubert) Domino 0133-A 742-1

Spanish Serenade (Chaminade and Kreisler) Banner 2107-B 5329

Spring Song (Mendelssohn) Regal 9566-B 5294-5P

Student Prince (Donnelly) Deep in My Heart, Dear 2125-A 6092-2

Thais (Massenet) Meditation Domino 0132-A 5369

Traumerei (Schumann) Banner 2107-A 5332