Alfredo Antonini

Composer, conductor, music director for CBS-TV, educated at the Royal Conservatory in Milan. He came to the USA in 1929, and became an American citizen in 1938. He was an accompanist for Ferrari Fontana. He conducted the orchestra for WOR, New York, and was the music director for the Tampa (Florida) Philharmonic since 1957. Also, he was guest conductor for the New York (NY) Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also in Norway, Italy, Chile, and Canada. He served as chairman of the St. John's University music department. In 1955 he conducted the Oslo Philharmonic in the first of a series of American Exchange Programs. He joined ASCAP in 1948, and his compositions include: "The Great City"; "Sarabande"; "Sicilian Rhapsody"; "Suite for Cello, Orchestra"; "Preludes for Organ"; "Suite for Strings"; "The United States of America, Circa 1790", and "Mambo Tropical".