Louis Lane (conductor)

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Louis Lane (born December 25, 1923 in Eagle Pass , Texas , † February 15, 2016 in Bratenahl , Ohio ) was an American conductor . He was closely associated with the Cleveland Orchestra for decades . From 1975 to 1977 he was chief conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and 1984/85 of the National Symphony Orchestra of the South African Broadcasting Corporation . In 1988 he received the Grammy Award .

Life

Lane received his first piano lessons at the age of five. He studied composition with Kent Kennan at the University of Texas in Austin until 1943 . During World War II, he served in the United States Army field artillery for three years . This was followed by studies in composition and conducting at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York (with Bernard Rogers ) until 1947 . He also attended a summer course with the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů at the Berkshire Music Center as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival in 1946 and learned from the opera conductor Sarah Caldwell (1950).

After winning a competition for young conductors in 1947, he was apprenticed to George Szell at the Cleveland Orchestra . Until 1961 he also worked as the orchestra's pianist and keyboardist. In 1956 he became assistant conductor and in 1960 permanent conductor. Most recently he was house conductor there from 1970 to 1973; he made guest appearances in the Soviet Union and Australia. Further guest conductors led him a. a. to Europe North and South America. A breakthrough was his debut (with Glenn Gould ) at the Vancouver Festival in 1960. From 1959 to 1983 he was music director of the Akron Symphony Orchestra and from 1964 to 1972 the Lake Erie Opera Theater. In 1973 he became first guest conductor with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra , from 1975 to 1977 he was chief conductor. In 1977 he joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as co-conductor , where he was principal guest conductor from 1983 to 1988. During and after apartheid there followed guest conductors and a brief engagement as chief conductor (1984/85) with the National Symphony Orchestra of the South African Broadcasting Corporation .

From 1969 to 1973 he was co-director of the Blossom Festival School at Kent State University in Ohio. From 1969 he taught at the University of Akron in Ohio and from 1989 to 1991 at the University of Texas. From 1973 to 1975 he was visiting professor at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio. He was also artistic advisor and conductor at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio from 1982 and orchestral studies director at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio from 1995 to 1998 . In 2001/02 he held an endowed chair in music performance at the University of Alabama .

With the Cleveland Orchestra he played numerous works; after being nominated three times for the Grammy , he won it in 1988 in the category Best Orchestral Recording with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Rorem: String Symphony; Sunday Morning; Eagles). He dedicated himself to contemporary American music (including Aaron Copland , Ned Rorem and David Diamond ) and was involved in several world premieres.

Awards

  • 1971: Mahler Medal from the American Bruckner Society and Special Citation for Distinguished Service to the Arts, Cleveland Arts Prize
  • 1972: Ditson Conductor's Award, Columbia University and Alumni Achievement Award, Eastman School of Music
  • 1979: Chevalier des Arts et Lettres
  • 1988: Grammy Awards
  • 1995: Honorary Doctorate, Cleveland Institute of Music
  • 2008/09: Distinguished Service Award, Cleveland Orchestra

literature

  • Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 446.
  • Roderick L. Sharpe, Jeanne Koekkoek Stierman: Maestros in America: Conductors in the 21st Century . Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2008, ISBN 978-1-4616-6948-7 , pp. 131-132.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Conductor Louis Lane, who had an enormous impact on the Cleveland Orchestra, dead at 92 , cleveland.com, February 16, 2016.
  2. ^ A b Louis Lane , clevelandartsprize.org, accessed September 18, 2018.
  3. ^ GRAMMY Award Results for Louis Lane , grammy.com, accessed September 18, 2018.
  4. ^ Honorary Doctor of Music Degrees , cim.edu, accessed September 18, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Lane, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American conductor
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Eagle Pass , Texas
DATE OF DEATH 15th February 2016
Place of death Bratenahl , Ohio