Adolf Rosner (Acting)

Trumpeter, violinist, conductor, composer, orchestra leader. In 1925-1927 he studied at the Berlin Conservatory in the violin class, in 1928-1929 he studied composition and conducting. He mastered the pipe on his own; he considered Louis Armstrong, Harry James and Bunny Berigen his idols. In 1929–38, he played intermittently in one of the most popular European orchestras Weintraub Sincopators, then organized a band in Lodz (Poland), toured in many European countries. In 1939 he led the orchestra in Warsaw, after the Nazi Germany attacked Poland, together with a group consisting mainly of Jewish musicians, he fled to Bialystok, which departed to Belarus. A few months later, the orchestra received the status of a republican group, because at that time Belarus did not have its own jazz orchestra, and the party leader of the republic, Ponomarenko, was an avid fan of jazz. Over the next two years, Rosner toured in Moscow, Leningrad,...Read More