Victor Young - STELLA BY STARLIGHT

’Young was born in Chicago on August 8 1900 into a very musical family his father being a member of one Joseph Sheehan’s touring Opera company. The young Victor began playing violin at the age of six and was sent to Poland when he was ten to stay with his grandfather and study at Warsaw Imperial Conservatory (his teacher was Polish composer Roman Statkowski) achieving the Diploma of Merit. He studied the piano with Isidor Philipp of the Paris Conservatory. While still a teenager he embarked on a career as a