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Irwin Kostal
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Irwin Kostal (October 1, 1911 - November 23, 1994) was an Academy Award-winning American musical arranger of films and an orchestrator of Broadway musicals. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Kostal opted not to attend college, instead teaching himself musical arranging by studying the symphonic scores available at his local library. His first professional job was as a staff arranger for Design for Listening, an NBC radio show based in his hometown [1]. After moving to New York City, Kostal was hired for Sid Caesar's popular variety series Your Show of Shows, and followed this with a stint at The Garry Moore Show. In the latter part of the decade he began working on Broadway, orchestrating for Shinbone Alley, The Music Man, Fiorello!, and West Side Story. His work on the latter resulted in his being hired to score the 1961 screen adaptation with Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, and Sid Ramin. The quartet won both an Oscar and a Grammy Award for their contributions. Kostal later went on to collaborate with Saul Chaplin for the 1965 film adaptation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music and won an Oscar for Best Music Scoring. For the remainder of his life, Kostal divided his time primarily between stage and screen, with an occasional detour into television to work with such people as Carol Burnett, Lucille Ball, and Leonard Bernstein. He supervised the five Sherman Brothers musical film scores at four different movie studios between 1964 and 1978. In 1982, he conducted
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The Sound Of Music - Original Soundtrack Recording
The Sound Of Music
The Sound of Music (50th Anniversary Edition)
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The Sound Of Music - 45th Anniversary Edition
Walt Disney Records The Legacy Collection: Fantasia
The Sound of Music (Original Soundtrack Recording)
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The Sound Of Music [40th Anniversary Special Edition]
Mary Poppins
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Pete's Dragon
The Sound of Music (40th Anniversary Special Edition)
The Sound of Music (45th Anniversary Edition)
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Mary Poppins [Remastered Original Soundtrack/Bonus Tracks]