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Louis Lane Louis
Lane has been closely associated with three major American orchestras for the
greater part of his career. after initially serving as Apprentice Conductor
and Assistant Conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra, Mr. Lane was for many
years Associate Conductor and Resident Conductor of that orchestra; between
1973 and 1978 he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra, and from 1977 to 1988 was Principal Guest Conductor of the Atlanta
Symphony Orchestra. Between 1959 and 1983, he was also Music Director of the
Akron Symphony Orchestra.
Since his Canadian debut in
1960 at the Vancouver Festival (with Glenn Gould), Mr. Lane has appeared as
guest conductor with many of the major orchestras of North and South America,
Europe and Africa. Under the auspices of the U.S. State Department's Cultural
Exchange Program, he has conducted concerts of The Cleveland Orchestra in the
Soviet Union and Austria, and has appeared with the SODRE Orchestra of
Montevideo in Uruguay.
Born in Eagle Pass, Texas,
Mr. Lane completed his initial training in music at the University of Texas.
After three years in the field Artillery during World War II, he won a
nationwide competition to become the Apprentice Conductor of The Cleveland
Orchestra under George Szell. During the quarter century of his association
with that Orchestra, he became known for his imaginative programming and the
wide range of his repertory. This has been recognized by several notable
awards, including the Mahler Medal of the Bruckner Society of America for his
performances of works by Bruckner and Mahler, and the Alice M. Ditson Prize of
Columbia University for his numerous performances and recordings of
contemporary American music. In 1979 he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre et des
Lettres by the French Minister of Culture, acknowledging his sympathetic
advocacy of French orchestral music.
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