Arcady Dubensky was born in Vyatka, Russia, in what is now the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Confederation on October 15, 1890. He studied violin at the Moscow Conservatory beginning in about 1900, and graduated in 1909 1. At the Moscow Conservatory, Dubensky studied violin with Jan Hrimaly (1844-1915) and counterpoint with Alexander Ilyinsky (1859-1920) 2. Arcady Dubensky was Concertmaster of the Moscow Imperial Opera Orchestra from about 1910-1919. Following the Russian Revolution, Dubensky went to Constantinople, Turkey. Dubensky then made his was to the U.S. in 1921. Arcady Dubensky joined the violin section of the New York Symphony under Walter Damrosch. Dubensky was then a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, following the New York Symphony Society integration into the Philharmonic in 1928. Dubensky became a US citizen in 1927. Dubensky remained with the violin section of the New York Philharmonic until the end of the 1952-1953 season. In the 1930s and 1940s, Dubensky concentrated on his musical compositions, which were extensive, and sometimes for unusual musical groupings (e.g. Piece for eighteen toy trumpets, Prelude and Fugue for four Bassoons) 2.
Arcady Dubensky's work for speaker and orchestra, 'The Raven' based on the Edgar Allan Poe, poem was written in about 1931 and published in 1933. The original poem was published in January 1845. The work involves a speaker, in this recording Benjamin de Loache, declaiming the poem to a background of music consisting of a standard orchestra. The musical style is conventional for the period in which is was written; not at all avant-garde. The performance by de Loache is somewhat histrionic.
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