J.S. Zamecnik(1872-1953)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer, conductor and violinist. He studied for five years with Anton
Dvorak in Prague, then returned to America as violinist and
concertmaster with Victor Herbert in the Pittsburgh Symphony. He became
the musical director at the Hippodrome Theater in Cleveland, a
vaudeville house that became a movie palace. He published a vast
collection of music for scoring English and American silent films,
using at least fourteen pseudonyms. Moved to Hollywood in 1924, the
year he joined ASCAP. His popular-song compositions include among
others "Neapolitan Nights", "Out of the Dusk to You", "Indian Dawn",
"One Fleeting Hour", "Aloha Sunset Land", "My Paradise", "Spirit of
America", and "I'm A-Longin' fo' You".
