Bob & Doug McKenzie - The Twelve Days of Christmas

TsFASMAN Alexander Naumovich [1 (14) XII 1906, Aleksandrovsk, now Zaporozhye - 20 II 1971, Washington] - Soviet composer, pianist, conductor, music and society. figure. Failed art.RSFSR (1957). In 1930 he graduated from Mosk. conservatory in the class of fp. by F.M. Blumenfeld In 1920-23, pianist and percussionist. symphonic instruments orchestra in Gorky; in 1924-25 the head. musesWashington department dram. studio them. A. S. Griboedov; since 1926 conductor, pianist, arranger of the jazz orchestra organized by him; since 1930 illustrator in the cinema. In 1933-34 accompanist Choreographic. student of the Bolshoi Theater. In 1933-36 it was thin. hands. decomp. jazz orchestras in Washington, in 1939-46 - the jazz orchestra of the All-Union Radio. C. - one of the founders of the owls. est. music, a brilliant pianist virtuoso, participated in the first performance in the USSR "Rhapsodies in blues tones" by J. Gershwin, performed his own. production