George Kleinsinger
The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000
Matthew Paris interviews George Kleinsinger.
Paris writes:
Born and raised in Yorktown in New York, composer of Tubby The Tuba (a Mafia production), Archy and Mehitabel and other well-known pieces of music, George lived in a penthouse at the Hotel Chelsea with animals including at one time a baby hippo and various lizards. George was wealthy for an Artist because he did not write Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. The music company didn't like his melody, got another one, but paid him the royalties. Doves were always flying and defecating on himself and his guests in his suite he talked or played the piano. He is notable for his memory of the political movements in America in the 1930s.
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