Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1911 November 5 | Born in New York City to Samuel Kroll and Sarah Silverstein |
| circa 1916 | Began studying violin |
| circa 1923 | Made his debut at Aeolian Hall in New York |
| 1926 | Graduated from the The Juilliard School |
| late 1920s | Toured under the management of Arthur Judson |
| circa 1930s-1942 | Played and conducted at RKO Studios and MGM in Hollywood Served as Executive Director of the Music Council of the Hollywood Theatre Alliance |
| 1939 November 5-1974 | Married Lucy Rosengardt |
| 1942-1945 | Served in the military as a conductor on the First Army Air Force Radio Unit production staff |
| circa 1945 | Moved to New York City |
| 1947 | Music director for Warriors of Peace, a documentary program aired in the interests of Army recruiting |
| 1948-1949 | Worked with Howard Teichman on the weekly ABC radio series Theatre U.S.A. Served as music director for the Mutual Radio Network series Great Scenes from Great Plays |
| 1950-1951 | Music director for the ABC television series Showtime U.S.A. |
| 1956-1958 | Created and produced the CBS weekly series Indictment and Best Sellers |
| 1957 | Produced the Peabody Award-winning film A Dancer's World, a portrait of Martha Graham |
| 1958? | Produced the half-hour film Israel, an Adventure |
| 1960 | Produced the award-winning Pablo Casals Master Classes series filmed at the University of California, Berkeley |
| 1961 | Produced and directed the film Music on the River with the American Wind Symphony |
| 1962 | Filmed Jascha Heifetz master classes at the University of Southern California |
| 1963-1964 | Produced a feature-length documentary film for Universal Pictures, The Guns of August, that received an Academy Award nomination |
| 1966 | Won a Peabody Award for the NBC Bell Telephone special One Man's Triumph with George Szell and the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra |
| 1967 | Won a Peabody Award for the NBC Bell Telephone special Masterpieces and Music, filmed in Madrid's Prado Museum with Andres Segovia, Victoria de Los Angeles, and Alicia de Larrocha |
| 1970 | Received an Emmy nomination for the television special Helen Hayes: Portrait of an American Actress |
| 1972-1974 | Produced the eight-part series Who's Afraid of Opera? with soprano Joan Sutherland |
| 1976 | Produced and directed the film Racial Equality in America for the National Endowment for the Humanities |
| 1977 | Directed and produced the series Pavarotti at Juilliard that was broadcast on public television in 1980 |
| 1980-1981 | Produced and directed Arts America, two half-hour films for the United States Information Agency |
| 1982 August 7 | Married Claire Birsh Merrill |
| 1990 | Produced The Segovia Legacy, released by Kultur Homevideo |
| 1993 | Produced the television miniseries Commodore Perry and the Opening of Japan |
| 2000 September 14 | Died in Tarrytown, New York |