Born on 4 December 1885 in
Odessa, Ukraine. He studied in a local conservatory,
played various instruments in orchestras all over
Europe.
He arrived in America in
1922 and shortened his family name to Saxon, but after
his marriage he took on the name of Kreitzberg.
In 1932 he became conductor
and composer in the Bronx's "Prospect" Theatre
(directors -- Nathan Goldberg and Jacob Jacobs), and
after two years went over to them in Brooklyn's
"Parkway" Theatre, and later in other theatres.
In the span of thirty years
he composed music for tens of operettas and life scenes
[i.e. lebensbild], e.g. "Dem papas beyby (The
Father's Baby)," "Di kale fun sufolk strit (The Bride
from Suffolk Street)," "Der nayer yid (The New Jew)," "Zibete
evenyu (Seventh Avenue)," "Dos parizer meydl (The
Parisian Girl?)," "Lomir zayn freylekh (Let Us Be
Happy)," "Der veg tsum zig (The Road to Victory),"
"Shmuel itsye fun galitsye (Shmuel Itsye From Galicia),"
"A gast in shtetl (A Guest in Town)," "A kind tsu
farkoyfn (A Child for Sale)," "Fun berlin keyn nyu-york
(From Berlin to New York)," "A nakht in der kontry (A
Night in the Country)," "Apartment 7," "Der farblonjeter
honimoon (The Lost Honeymoon)," "A folk on a heym (A
People Without a Home)," "Di blinde mame (The Blind
Mother)," "Shver tsu zayn a meydl (Tough to Be a Girl),"
"Der galitsianer shlimzl (The Galician Shlemiel)" which
was played and sung by Molly Picon, Samuel Goldinburg, |
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