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- Birth nameMilton Jay Katz
- Milton Kaye was born on June 22, 1909 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Wheel of Fortune (1952), Concentration (1958) and Film Portrait (1970). He was married to Shannon Bolin. He died on August 14, 2006 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpouseShannon Bolin(October 1946 - August 14, 2006) (his death)
- Served as musical director for programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC.
- Concert pianist. Introduced Dmitri Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 to the US in the 1930s. During WWII, accompanied violinist Jascha Heifetz on a USO tour of war zones in North Africa and Italy.
- He studied at the Institute of Musical Art, the forerunner of the Juilliard School, and earned a PhD at Columbia.
- He worked on the broadcasts of Arturo Toscanini's "NBC Symphony of the Air", "The Bell Telephone Hour", and a 1950s children's show, "The Rootie Kazootie Show", for which he played the organ.
- When he accompanied Jascha Heifetz on an 8-week USO tour in Italy in WWII, he played a small, Army-green piano from an open truck.
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