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Little attention has been paid to the music for the stage shows that
accompanied the movies at the "picture palaces" during the 1920s, or to
the works played on radio broadcasts from the theatres (which began at
the Capitol, in 1923), or to the music performed at the light classical
concerts produced by the theatres (which the Capitol introduced, in 1927).
Some of this music was drawn from the standard Western repertory,
but much of it was composed or arranged each week. Among the extant
examples of this ad hoc music are works--several of them
on Jewish themes--by Leo Zeitlin (1884-1930), a member of the
Society for Jewish Folk Music. It is the career of this St. Petersburg
Conservatory-trained "child of the Pale" at the Capitol that is the
subject of this article.
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