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Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. He was the first conductor born in the United States of America to receive world-wide acclaim, and is known for both his conducting of the New York Philharmonic, including the acclaimed ''Young People's Concerts'' series, and his multiple compositions, including ''West Side Story'', ''Candide'' and ''On the Town.'' He is known to baby boomers primarily as the first classical music conductor to make many television... More »
Leopold Stokowski
Leopold Stokowski was the conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air. He was the founder of the New York City Symphony and The American Symphony Orchestra. He conducted the music for and appeared in Disney’s ''Fantasia''. More »
Michael Tilson Thomas
Michael Tilson Thomas , aka MTT, is an American conductor, pianist and composer. He was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Broadway stage manager Ted Thomas, and the grandson of noted Yiddish theater stars Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky. His mother, Roberta Thomas, was a middle school history teacher. More »
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini , was an Academy Award winning American composer, conductor and arranger. He is remembered particularly for being a composer of film and television scores. Mancini also won a record number of Grammy awards, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995. His best-known work is the jazz-idiom theme to ''The Pink Panther'' film series. More »
Robert Shaw (conductor)
Robert Shaw was an American conductor most famous for his work with his namesake Chorale, with the Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Shaw received 14 Grammy awards, four ASCAP awards for service to contemporary music, the first Guggenheim Fellowship ever awarded to a conductor, the Alice M. Ditson Conductor's Award for Service to American Music; the George Peabody Medal for outstanding contributions to music in America, the Gold Baton Award of the... More »
George Szell
George Szell , originally György Széll or Georg Szell, was a Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. He is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra, and for the recordings of the standard classical repertory he made with Cleveland and other orchestras. Szell came to Cleveland in 1946 to take over a respected, but undersized, orchestra which was struggling to recover from the disruptions of World War II. More »
John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known particularly for American military marches. Because of his prominence, he is known as "The March King". More »
Margaret Hillis
Margaret Hillis was an American conductor. She was the founder and music director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, which she led from 1957 to 1994. She was concurrently music director of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra from 1971-1985. She is remembered as the first woman to conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which occurred in 1977 at a Carnegie Hall concert, after Sir Georg Solti became too ill to conduct a performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8. More »
Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss is an American composer, conductor, pianist, and professor. He studied with Julius Goldstein. He moved to Paris in 1933 where he studied piano with Lazare Lévy, composition with Noël Gallon, orchestration with Felix Wolfes, and flute with Louis Moyse. In 1937 he moved to America and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, with Sergei Koussevitzky during the summers from 1939 to 1943 at the Berkshire Music Center, and, as a special student, composition with Paul... More »
Efrem Zimbalist
Efrem Zimbalist was one of the world's most prominent concert violinists, as well as a composer, teacher and conductor. He was born in Rostov on Don, Russia, to a Jewish family. His father was a conductor. By the age of nine, Efrem Zimbalist was first violin in his father’s orchestra. At age 12 he entered the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and studied under Leopold Auer. After graduation he debuted in Berlin and London in 1907 and in the U.S. in 1911, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. More »
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