Henry Aaron (conductor)

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Henry Aaron (born September 25, 1914 in New York City , United States , † June 15, 2000 ) was an American violist and conductor .

Life

Youth and time up to the Second World War, 1914 to 1946

Henry Aaron's parents were Morris and Fanny Aaron. He attended James Monroe High School and learned the violin with a scholarship from the New Harmonic Society . Even during his high school days, he led various orchestras in various symphonic associations. At the age of 17 he became the conductor of the Steuben Symphony Association. He held this position for a season. The following year he became conductor of the Educational Alliance Orchestra. With a further scholarship, he was accepted into conducting at the Juilliard School of Music in 1933 . Here he was tutored by Albert Stoessel and Hans Lange . During this time he switched from violin to viola, since as a violist he figured he had better chances of finding a place in a large orchestra. In addition to other scholarships he had two years a New York Philharmonic Scholarship [ grant from the New York Philharmonic ] held. On May 27 and November 18, 1934 he conducted the Educational Alliance Orchestra in the Straus Auditorium, on March 2, 1935 the Juilliard School Orchestra and on September 14, 1935 the Bronx Symphony Orchestra. In an advance notice he was announced as Z next Stokowski . Since 1935 he was a member of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra . At a presentation of works by the composer Charles Naginski (1909-1940) in the Composer's Forum Laboratory concert series on February 19, 1936, he conducted the Knickerbocker Little Symphony . His suite for chamber orchestra and four songs for soprano and orchestra were played with the soprano Louise Taylor. The Juilliard School held a concert in the school auditorium on May 8, 1936. There Aaron conducted the Piano Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 23 by Edward MacDowell . In another concert by the Juilliard School on 19 December 1937 led Concerto in A minor for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 53 by Antonin Dvorak . On December 28, 1936, he conducted the Educational Alliance Orchestra in Gotham's Little Symphony . He has conducted various projects for the Federal Music Project of the Works Progress Administration WPA. So he jumped in on January 3, 1937 at a concert of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra in the Brooklyn Museum as a replacement for Samuel Gardner , because he was canceled due to illness. After graduating from the Juilliard School of Music in 1937 , his strategy was confirmed and he was accepted as a violist in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in October 1937 . Here he stayed for over two decades with interruptions. From 1935 to 1942 he played in the Worcester Festival Orchestra. During the first hiatus from 1943 to 1946, he was a faculty member of the Band Training Unit at Camp Lee, Virginia, and the Army Service Forces Orchestra at Fort Hamilton, New York.

Conductor, 1940s to 1970s

In March 1949, 35 well-known musicians, many of whom a scholarship in her youth joined New York Philharmonic Symphony Society had received together, to the union of New York Philharmonic Association of Scholarship Committee winners to start . The musicians planned to award 20 scholarships. It was aimed at students at a public school in order to make this instrumental lesson possible. Each scholarship holder became a protégé of one of the members and was to receive instrumental lessons from this. Out of gratitude, the members tried to give the young generation a comparable education that they had received in their youth. Prominent members included Risë Stevens , Robert Merrill , Wilfrid Pelletier , Leonard Bernstein and Walter Hendl . Aaron himself became the association's secretary . From 1949 to 1952 he was assistant conductor with William Steinberg and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra . At this time, the Buffalo Philharmonic also organized concerts for a young target group. Aaron led the orchestra in this context on December 7, 1949 at a youth concert in Ithaca and on March 16, 1950 in Syracuse . In the fall of 1950 he conducted a series of concerts by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra entitled Party at the Pops. The first of the series took place on October 27th in Dunkirk. During the summer months he was a guest conductor with various symphony orchestras and festivals in the United States, including Worcester . In 1952 he conducted the last two symphony concerts of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts in Naumburg (New York). On August 31, a concert under his direction was broadcast by the WNYC. On September 1st, the last of the series took place in the Central Park Mall . Since 1955 he was assistant conductor with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra and for many years a welcome guest. In the summer season of 1956 he conducted four concerts in which Walter Hendl appeared as a piano soloist - on July 10th and August 10th a pop concert with an all-Gershwin program with the Rhapsody in Blue and on August 14th an all-Mozart program with two piano concerts for the anniversary year of its 200th birthday. A concert with the 8th Symphony by Ludwig van Beethoven and the Piano Concerto in D minor by Mozart were broadcast on September 1st by the radio station WQAM. Another concert took place on August 4th - with the Second Symphony by Antonín Dvořák and the Requiem by Gabriel Fauré . He was also a frequent guest conductor with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. From 1960 he became conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra , having previously resigned from his position as assistant conductor of the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra . Here he succeeded Henry Mazer, who had held the office since 1947. Among other things, he conducted a concert on February 22nd, 1962 with the soprano Roberta Peters . The Dance Variations op.30 for soprano and orchestra were performed by Paul Creston . He also appeared as a solo violist such as on March 19, 1964 with his orchestra and violinist Earl Summers Jr. in the Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola in E flat major KV 364 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at the Capitol Theater in Wheeling . As a chamber musician, he performed with Earl Summers Jr., who was concertmaster in Wheeling at the time, in the Kraft Memorial String Quartet . During his time at Wheeling, he taught at West Liberty State College . In the 1964/65 season he conducted The Licking County Symphony , the forerunner of the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra. That year he taught at Denison University in Granville. He made his debut on November 22, 1964. This was followed by a performance of Peter and the Wolf in January 1965 and the annual The Annual Pops Concert on May 16, 1965 . On August 6, 1970, he conducted the Park East Orchestra at the Carl Schurz Park Concerts . The concert was broadcast live by WNYC . In Chautauqua he continued to conduct regularly in the summer months. At that time he was head of the project for string instruments at the schools of Mamaroneck .

Family and past years

He had a daughter with his first wife, Mildred. In 1995 he hit the headlines again when he, who is now eighty years old, made himself available to direct the Sunrise Middle School orchestra in Fort Lauderdale . He had read about the plight of the orchestra in the newspaper. Without a replacement, a vacancy had to be bridged until a new orchestra conductor was reinstated. In 1997 Aaron married the Jewish fencer Liesel Judge (* 1916 in Offenbach as Liesel Koch), who had emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938. They lived together in Boca Raton until his death , while they repeatedly spent the summer months in Chautauqua.

literature

  • Aaron, Henry. In: Hope Stoddard: Symphony conductors of the USA ., Crowell, 1957

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Requiem . In: Allegro . C, no. 9 , 2000 (English, local802afm.org ).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Solo Performances to be featured by Symphony . In: The Weirton Daily Times . Weirton March 7, 1964, p. 2 (English, newspapers.com ).
  3. ^ Music Notes . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York October 8, 1933, pp. 52 (English, newspapers.com ).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Youth, 22, to conduct WPA concert here . In: The Brooklyn Citizen . Brooklyn, New York January 2, 1937, p. 14 (English, newspapers.com ).
  5. ^ Concerts and Recitals of the current week . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York November 26, 1933, pp. 33 (English, newspapers.com ).
  6. ^ A b Concerts and Recitals of the current week . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York October 15, 1933, p. 30 (English, newspapers.com ).
  7. ^ With the Orchestras . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York April 1, 1934, p. 27 (English, newspapers.com ).
  8. ^ Coming Music Events . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York May 13, 1934, pp. 31 (English, newspapers.com ).
  9. ↑ Fellowships awarded by Juilliard School . In: Walter Kramer (Ed.): Musical America . tape 53 , no. 16 , October 25, 1933, pp. 30 (English).
  10. ^ Concert Programs . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York May 27, 1934, p. 26 (English, newspapers.com ).
  11. ^ The Week with the Orchestras . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York November 18, 1934, pp. 29 (English, newspapers.com ).
  12. ^ The Musical Week: A Calendar of Events . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York February 24, 1935, p. 32 (English, newspapers.com ).
  13. ^ Henry Aaron, 21, to cunduct the Bronx Symphony Orchestra . In: The Brooklyn Citizen . Brooklyn, New York September 14, 1935, pp. 13 (English, newspapers.com ).
  14. ^ The Educational Alliance . In: AB Thanet (Ed.): The Musical Advance . tape 22 , no. 2 . Musical Advance Co., New York December 1, 1934, p. 6 (English).
  15. ↑ a b c d e f Hope Stoddard: Aaron, Henry . In: Symphony conductors of the USA . Thomas.Y. Crowell, New York 1957, pp. 294 (English, archive.org [accessed on May 23, 2019]).
  16. ^ WPA project units in American music . In: Walter Kramer (Ed.): Musical America . tape 56 , no. 4 . New York February 25, 1936, p. 34 (English).
  17. ^ Juilliard Students Give Two Concerto Concerts . In: Musical America . tape 56 , no. 10 . New York May 25, 1936, p. 28 (English).
  18. ^ Students Concerto Series Continued at Juilliard School . In: Musical America . tape 57 , no. 1 . New York January 10, 1937, p. 32 (English).
  19. ^ WPA Concerts . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York December 27, 1936, p. 50 (English, newspapers.com ).
  20. ^ Concerts Manhattan . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York March 21, 1937, pp. 45 (English, newspapers.com ).
  21. ↑ 100-Voice choir will sing here . In: The Titusville Herald . Titusville, Pennsylvania July 31, 1959, p. 2 (English, newspapers.com ).
  22. ↑ GI Chow Display Recalls Thanksgiving overseas . In: The Evening Sun . Baltimore, Maryland November 23, 1944, pp. 38 (English, newspapers.com ).
  23. ^ Musicians and Young pupils . In: The Terre Haute Tribune . Terre Haute, Indiana March 24, 1949 p. 28 (English, newspapers.com ).
  24. ^ Bpo Conductor Index. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .
  25. ^ Philharmonic Orchestra's Program set . In: The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca, New York December 6, 1949, pp. 5 (English, newspapers.com ).
  26. ^ Ithaca's First Youth Concert ba a Major Orchestra . In: The Ithaca Journal . Ithaca December 6, 1949, p. 2 (English, newspapers.com ).
  27. ^ Buffalo Philharmonic Concert Thrills Syracuse Youngsters . In: The Post-Standard . Syracuse, New York March 17, 1950, pp. 10 (English, newspapers.com ).
  28. ^ Dunkirk Pop Concert, Oct. 27 . In: Dunkirk Evening Observer . Dunkirk, New York September 29, 1950, pp. 4 (English, newspapers.com ).
  29. ^ Labor Day Radio Highlights . In: The Brooklyn Daily Eagle . Brooklyn, New York August 31, 1952, pp. 17 (English, newspapers.com ).
  30. ↑ Notable Events & Performers. In: Naumburg Orchestral Concerts. Retrieved May 22, 2019 (American English).
  31. ^ Final Mall Concert . In: Daily News . New York, New York September 1, 1952, pp. 123 (English, newspapers.com ).
  32. ↑ a b Weekend Highlights at Chautauqua . In: The News-Herald . Franklin, Pennsylvania August 17, 1963, pp. 6 (English, newspapers.com ).
  33. ↑ a b Chautauqua Calendar . In: Warren Time-Mirror and Observer . Warren, Pennsylvania July 22, 1972, pp. 27 (English, newspapers.com ).
  34. ^ Program for Next Week at Chautauqua announced . In: The Daily Republican . Monogaheela, Pennsylvania July 10, 1956, p. 3 (English, newspapers.com ).
  35. ↑ Annual Concert Season To open at Chautauqua . In: The Daily Notes . Canonsburg, Pennsylvania June 20, 1956, pp. 3 (English, newspapers.com ).
  36. ↑ Highlight Events at Chautauqua . In: Warren Times Mirror . Warren, Pennsylvania August 9, 1956, pp. 5 (English, newspapers.com ).
  37. ↑ Festival . In: The Miami News . Miami, Florida September 1, 1956, pp. 4 (English, newspapers.com ).
  38. ^ Columbus Boychoir to sing at Chautauqua on Saturday . In: The Oil City Derrick . Oil City, Pennsylvania Aug. 2, 1956, p. 7 (English, newspapers.com ).
  39. ^ Henry Aaron resigns at Chautauqua . In: The Titusville Herald . Titusville, Pennsylvania September 7, 1960, pp. 3 (English, newspapers.com ).
  40. ^ Ina Wickham: Catching the beat in the Music World . In: Quad City Times . Davenport, Iowa October 23, 1960 p. 46 (English, newspapers.com ).
  41. ↑ Lowell Durham: Orchestra entrancing but hard financing . In: The Salt Lake Tribune . Salt Lake City Jan. 8, 1961, p. 61 (English, newspapers.com ).
  42. ↑ Michael Ridderbusch: Wheeling Symphony. In: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. West Virginia Humanities Council, accessed May 22, 2019 .
  43. ↑ Monica J. Slomsky: Paul Creston: A Bio-bibliography . Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, Connecticut; London 1994, ISBN 978-0-313-25336-2 , pp. 24 ( google.de [accessed on February 19, 2018]).
  44. ↑ a b c Bruce Humphrey: Once played for Mets - He goes to Bat for good music . In: The Newark Advocate . Newark, Ohio September 26, 1964, pp. 11 (English, newspapers.com ).
  45. ↑ Mr. Henry Aaron . In: The Newark Advocate . Newark, Ohio September 11, 1964, p. 8 (English, newspapers.com ).
  46. ↑ Frank Spencer Jr .: Conductur makes debut . In: The Newark Advocate . Newark, Ohio November 23, 1964, pp. 30 (English, newspapers.com ).
  47. ^ Licking County Symphony . In: The Newark Advocate . Newark, Ohio May 15, 1965, p. 8 (English).
  48. ^ New York Media LLC: New York Magazine . New York Media, LLC, August 3, 1970 ( google.de [accessed February 19, 2018]).
  49. ↑ FM radio . In: Daily News . New York August 6, 1970, p. 53 (English, newspapers.com ).
  50. ↑ Photo Record. In: http://chautauqua.pastperfectonline.com . Chautauqua Institution, accessed September 25, 2017 .
  51. ↑ CSO Concert - 1974. In: https://chautauqua.pastperfectonline.com . Chautauqua Institution, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  52. ↑ Composer to join in performance in 3 of her works . In: The Bridgeport Post . Bridgeport, Connecticut June 22, 1975, pp. 5 (English, newspapers.com ).
  53. ^ Berta Delgado: Conductor, 80, volunteers to teachorchestra students . In: The Orlando Sentinel . Orlando October 3, 1995, p. 20 (English, newspapers.com ).
  54. ↑ JM Lawrence: Liesel Judge, fencer who fled Nazis, led Brandeis women to 16 NE titles . In: The Boston Globe . Boston May 1, 2017, p. B8 (English, newspapers.com ).
  55. ↑ Hope Stoddard: Symphony Conductors of the USA Crowell, 1957 ( google.de [accessed September 25, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Aaron, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American violinist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 2000