Benedict Silberman

He left for Berlin where he played as a violinist and arranged light classical musical, preferentially Viennese operettas.

He had contact with Franz Lehár, Robert Stolz and Emmerich Kálmán and toured Europe with the dance orchestras of Paul Godwin, Marek Weber and Dajos Bela.

In 1936 he returned to the Netherlands and became pianist in the AVRO radio orchestra of Kovacs Lajos.

In 1948 he was asked to create a radio orchestra specialized in light classical music; he led this Promenade Orkest [nl] from 1949 till 1967.

[1] In 1965 Shlomo Carlebach published the album In the Palace of the King, Silberman arranged and conducted the chorus and symphony orchestra.