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About George Jellinek
George Jellinek, a former music director of the New York radio station WQXR and the host of a weekly program on opera singers and singing that ran on the station for 36 years, died on Saturday. He was 90 and lived in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
His death, at a hospital in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., was confirmed by his daughter, Nancy Berezin.
From 1968 to 1984, Mr. Jellinek was in charge of choosing the music listeners heard throughout the day on WQXR, then owned by The New York Times Company. They also heard him once or twice a week.
He had an uncharacteristic voice for a commercial radio station in the days of booming rock ’n’ roll D.J.’s: he was a quiet and serious-sounding perfectionist, with more than a hint of a central European accent left over from his Hungarian boyhood.
His hourlong weekly program, “The Vocal Scene,” ran until 2004 and was syndicated around the country. It allowed him to dip into his encyclopedic knowledge about singers and singing — and into his own huge record collection.
Sometimes he interviewed opera stars on “The Vocal Scene.” At other times he built programs around themes: 10 basses singing “Boris Godunov,” say, or eight sopranos’ takes on “Carmen.”
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George Jellinek's Timeline
| 1919 |
December 22, 1919
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Újpest, Budapest, Hungary
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| 2010 |
January 2010
Age 90
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New York, New York, NY, United States
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