Poliakin Orchestra - Irving Berlin - Great Man of American Music AEC Video A masculine element (the piano)

A masculine element (the piano) and a feminine element (the violin) have been added to mirror this harmoniously sensual dance in sound

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Poliakin Orchestra - Irving Berlin - Great Man of American Music AEC Video A masculine element (the piano)Famed New York violinist Raoul Poliakin is highly regarded as a conductor of popular orchestral music. As a violinist, arranger, conductor, he has appeared on countless albums, including those of Frank Sinatra, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Wes Montgomery, to name a few. On this classic 1960 audiophile recording, Irving Berlin Great Man of American Music: A New Interpretation, Poliakin's imaginative reinterpretations of one of the greatest writers of