He conducted ballets, Broadway musicals (including the original productions of Leonard Bernstein's On the Town and West Side Story), and the classical repertoire.
He studied violin with Leopold Auer,[2] and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute of Music.
That year he conducted Aaron Copland's music for the documentary The City, with the narrator Morris Carnovsky.
[4][5] In 1941 his first Broadway job was as Musical Director for three ballets at the Majestic Theater, including Three Virgins and a Devil by Agnes de Mille.
[6] In 1944 he conducted the Baltimore premiere of Vincent Youmans’ Ballet Revue, on its pre-Broadway tour (it closed before reaching New York City).
[16] Some of these recordings were later released on CBS's Odyssey label, but the sound was poor due to the centre channel being held back.