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2 unusual facts about Jack Skurnick


Emanuel Levenson

Survey of the Art Song (EMS 501), recorded circa 1950 on EMS Recordings, Jack Skurnick's record label, included recordings of nine art songs by Edvard Grieg and eight by Charles Griffes, performed by Levenson in accompaniment with tenor Norman Myrvik.

Fay Kleinman

Kleinman survived two husbands, Jack Skurnick, who died in 1952 and was the father of Davida, also known as Davi Napoleon.


Davi Napoleon

She was born in New York City to Jack Skurnick and Fay Kleinman and was educated at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, where she earned a BA in psychology while studying playwriting with Kenneth Thorpe Rowe, then did a masters degree at Michigan in early childhood education.


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