Composer, conductor and violinist, educated at the National
Conservatory in New York (on a scholarship) and at the Naples
Conservatory. He also studied with Martucci Dworczak. He was an opera
coach in Milan in 1910, and a concert violinist and opera conductor
throughout Europe and the United States. Joining ASCAP in 1946, his
popular-music compositions include "Calm", "Song to Pierrot", "Waiting"
and "Dusk of Roses".
