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Does anyone please know the yearsin whichRichard Liebert was born and died?</P>
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Re: Richard [Dick] Liebert
According to this bloghe was born in 1903.</P>
I found this comment posted on cinematreasures.org:</P>
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"According to a Westminster recording I have, Leibert at Home, 'Dick Leibert studied the organ at Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music. He was from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and attended the Moravian Prep School there. He began to play the organ professionally at the age of 14 when he got a job as a theater organist for Loew's in Washington, DC. Later, he toured for the Loew's curcuit and played for two years at the Brooklyn Paramount. Against stiff competition, he won the auditions for the permanent post at Radio City Music Hall.'
It has been said that Leibert waited last to be auditioned for the Music Hall job. For his own audition piece, he improvised a medley of everything played by those before him. A friend of mine was an Associate Organist at the Music Hall in the 1950's and told me that Leibert did the "Gala Supper Shows."
During his tenure at the Music Hall, he lived in Westport CT. When he retired in 1971, leaving the position of Chief Organist to the late Ray Bohr, Leibert moved to Florida and continued to make appearances. I am not sure but I think he passed on around 1976."</P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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