Koussevitzky

[ koo-suh-vit-skee ]

noun

1. Serge [sairzh] Sergei Alexandrovich Koussevitsky, 1874–1951, Russian orchestra conductor in the U.S.

Example Sentences

After winning the Koussevitzky Prize for outstanding student conductors there, he returned to Europe.

From New York Times

Bernstein went on to teach and perform there nearly every summer for 50 years, becoming the head of orchestral conducting at Tanglewood after Koussevitzky died in 1951.

From New York Times

Notably, Price explained her musical style to Koussevitzky in terms of ambiguity and fusion.

From New York Times

Munch wanted to make one thing clear to the Bostonians, though: He was not their former music director, Serge Koussevitzky.

From New York Times

Her father, a physician, was a Lithuanian Jew who had changed the family name from Koussevitzky to Jackson when he immigrated to the United States.

From Washington Post