Carmine Coppola(1910-1991)
- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Composer, conductor, arranger and flautist, educated at the Manhattan
School of Music (BA, MA) and Juilliard (on scholarship) (MM). He was
first flautist for Radio City Music Hall from 1934 to 1936, the Detroit
Symphony from 1936 to 1941, the NBC Toscanini Orchestra from 1942 to
1948 and staff arranger for Radio City Music Hall from 1948 to 1956,
and the opera conductor for the Brooklyn Academy of Music from 1948 to
1955.
He was music director for the Broadway stage production of "Once Upon a Mattress" and the touring companies of "Kismet" and "La Plume de Ma Tante". He joined ASCAP in 1952.
He was music director for the Broadway stage production of "Once Upon a Mattress" and the touring companies of "Kismet" and "La Plume de Ma Tante". He joined ASCAP in 1952.
