• Léon Eugene Barzin (November 27, 1900 – April 29, 1999) was a Belgian-born American conductor and founder of the National Orchestral Association (NOA)...
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  • Edward Francis Hutton. However, after her marriage to Leon Barzin her name became Eleanor Close Barzin, and stayed that way through the end of her life. Eleanor...
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    Owen D. Johnson (son of author Owen Johnson), and orchestra conductor Léon Barzin. Via his second marriage, Edward Bennett Close would later become the...
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  • Orchestra, a training orchestra, conducted by Leon Barzin. She studied clarinet with Abraham Goldstein and Leon Russianoff, becoming a member of the Houston...
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  • accompanist and writing popular songs. He also studied with Otto Cesana and Léon Barzin at the National Orchestra Association. NBC Orchestra performed Gold's...
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    present site, a former convent in the Quartier Latin. Isaac Albéniz Léon Barzin Antoine Geoffroy-Dechaume Wanda Landowska Jean Langlais Olivier Messiaen...
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    Jerome Robbins are considered the founding choreographers of the company. Léon Barzin was the company's first music director. City Ballet grew out of earlier...
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  • Association, playing Vieuxtemps' Concerto No. 5 under the direction of Léon Barzin. Subsequently, he appeared with a number of American orchestras before...
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  • Olympic medalist. Harold Wellman, 90, English-New Zealand geologist. Léon Barzin, 98, Belgian-American conductor. Les Bennett, 81, English football player...
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    recording of the New York Woodwind Quintet and a percussionist, conducted by Leon Barzin. The film and the 1959 score were later synched together by James Sibley...
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  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with the London Philharmonia Orchestra under Léon Barzin, with the Pittsburgh Symphony under William Steinberg for Capitol, and...
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  • Hungarien composer, violinist and conductor (d.1978) November 27 – Léon Barzin, Belgian-born American conductor (d.1999) December 12 – Sammy Davis,...
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  • Bolender, and Nicholas Magallanes, and the orchestra was conducted by Léon Barzin. The company revived the production for the 1954 season. A new choreography...
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  • Krenek and conducting under Dimitri Mitropoulos, Stanley Chapple, and Léon Barzin before becoming director of the Institute of Music and Artistic Director...
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    skipped over. As of 2023[update], the oldest recording on the list is Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville's Phonautograms which date back to the 1850s. The most...
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  • include Emanuel Feuermann for cello, Stefan Wolpe for composition, and Léon Barzin for conducting. He served as the second cellist of the Juilliard String...
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  • performed by Carlos Salzedo with the National Orchestra Association under Léon Barzin with an original cadenza by Salzedo, included in the edition published...
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  • Charles Münch, and of a third orchestra (1958-mid 1960s) directed by Léon Barzin. In 1950, a second Orchestre philharmonique de Paris (or orchestre de...
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  • 1980-1982 assisted Léon Barzin in Paris. Diazmuñoz made his debut at Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City at 22. Diazmuñoz considers Barzin, Bernstein, and...
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  • Posselt. Posselt, backed by the National Orchestral Association under Léon Barzin, gave the first performance at Carnegie Hall on 18 March 1940. Amongst...
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  • Fritz Mahler 1947–1953 George Heck 1947–1953 Moshe Paranov 1938–1941 Léon Barzin 1936–1938 Jacques Gordon 1934–1936 Angelo Coniglione "Hartford Symphony...
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    the National Orchestral Association under the leadership of conductor Léon Barzin. Aurelio and Helen waited up past midnight for the New York reviews....
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  • Frances Blaisdell; violinists Jascha Heifetz and Sascha Jacobsen; violist Léon Barzin; cellist Gaspar Cassadó; and double bassist Anselme Fortier. From 1947...
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  • Schicchi with the National Orchestral Association under the baton of Léon Barzin. He sang several roles with the short-lived New Opera Company (NOC) in...
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  • musicians and the Ditson Conductor's Award. 1945 Howard Hanson 1946 Léon Barzin 1947 Alfred Wallenstein 1948 Dean Dixon 1949 Thor Johnson 1950 Izler...
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  • at the Conservatoire de Paris. He joined courses in conducting with Léon Barzin at the Schola Cantorum, Franco Ferrara in Venice, Igor Markevitch in...
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  • Isabelle Delorme was the CMQM's first teacher of harmony and counterpoint. Léon Barzin and Charles Houdret oversaw the first courses in orchestration and courses...
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    Brillante premiered on March 1, 1956, at the City Center of Music and Drama. Léon Barzin conducted while Nicholas Kopeikine played the piano. Despite being made...
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  • Robert E. Simon served as the organizations president for many years and Léon Barzin served as vice president. The organization ceased operations in the early...
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    the 18th season of the National Orchestral Association, conducted by Léon Barzin, at Carnegie Hall in New York City 1947. It was the first performance...
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