Jascha Zayde (October 25, 1911 – September 3, 1999) was an American

pianist A pianist ( , ) is a musician who plays the piano. A pianist's repertoire may include music from a diverse variety of styles, such as traditional classical music, jazz piano, jazz, blues piano, blues, and popular music, including rock music, ...

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. From the 1930s, he was the first staff musician hired by WQXR. From 1954, he was the staff keyboard player of the

New York City Ballet New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein. Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's fir ...

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* Jascha Zayde playing pieces by * Jascha Zayde's recording of * Jascha Zayde's and John Strauss's recording of Strauss's * Jascha Zayde's recordings of (from Ulric Coles's ''Metropolitones: Three Compositions for the Piano'') * Jascha Zayde's recordings of (from Emerson Whithorne's ''New York Days and Nights'', op. 40) * Jascha Zayde et al.'s recording of (composed by Borodin, Cui, Liadov and Rimsky-Korsakov) * Jascha Zayde's recordings of * Jascha Zayde's recording of (from ''Four Roman Sketches'' by Charles Tomlinson Griffes) * Jascha Zayde's recordings of (composed by Villa-Lobos, Khachaturian, Prokofiev, et al.) American male classical composers American classical composers American male classical pianists American male pianists American male conductors (music) 1911 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American conductors (music) 20th-century American classical composers 20th-century American classical pianists 20th-century American male musicians {{US-classical-pianist-stub