Eleazar de Carvalho
Background information
Born	June 28, 1912 (1912-06-28) (age 95) Iguatu, Ceará, Brazil
Died	September 12, 1996 (aged 84) São Paulo, Brazil
Genre(s)	Classical
Occupation(s)	Conductor, pedagogue
Associated acts	St. Louis Symphony

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Biography

De Carvalho's parents were Manuel Alfonso de Carvalho and Dalila Mendonça. He studied in the United States with Sergei Koussevitzky at the Berkshire Music Center, and later became a conducting assistant to Koussevitzky, at the same time as Leonard Bernstein. He received a Ph.D. in music from Washington State University in 1963. Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky (July 26, 1874 – June 4, 1951), better known as Serge, was a Russian-born conductor. ... The Tanglewood Music Center is an annual summer music academy in Lenox, Massachusetts in which emerging professional musicians participate in performances, master classes and workshops designed to provide an intense training and networking experience. ... Leonard Bernstein in 1971 Leonard Bernstein (IPA pronunciation: )[1] (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist. ... Washington State University (WSU) is a major public research university in Pullman, Washington. ...

In Brazil, de Carvalho held principal conducting positions with the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira of Rio de Janeiro, and also with the Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo. In the United States, his major post was as music director of the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), from 1963 to 1968. During his Saint Louis tenure, he was noted as a champion of contemporary music.^[1] He also conducted the first SLSO performances of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, Ludwig van Beethoven's Missa solemnis, and the Grande messe des morts of Hector Berlioz. This article is about the Brazilian city. ... Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP) (São Paulo State Symphony) is a symphony orchestra based in São Paulo, Brazil. ... The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) was founded in 1880, making it the second oldest symphony in the United States after the New York Philharmonic. ... Igor Stravinsky. ... The Rite of Spring, commonly referred to by its original French title, Le Sacre du printemps (Russian: Весна священная, Vesna svjaščennaja) is a ballet with music by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, which was first performed in 1913. ... “Beethoven” redirects here. ... Ludwig van Beethovens Missa Solemnis in D Major, Op. ... The Requiem (Op. ... Painting of Berlioz by Gustave Courbet, 1850. ...

De Carvalho taught at Hofstra University and the Juilliard School of Music. In 1987, he joined the music faculty of Yale University as a professor and as conductor-in-residence. He became emeritus at Yale in 1994. De Carvalho was a teacher to such conductors as Claudio Abbado, Charles Dutoit, Zubin Mehta, Gustav Meier, Seiji Ozawa, Jose Serebrier, and David Zinman. Hofstra University is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational institution of higher learning located in Hempstead, Long Island, New York (USA) founded in 1935 on the basis of the estate of wealthy lumber magnate William Hofstra and widow Kate Davidson. ... The Juilliard School is a performing arts conservatory in New York City, informally but definitively identified as simply Juilliard, and most famous for its musically-trained alumni. ... “Yale” redirects here. ... Claudio Abbado (born June 26, 1933) is a noted Italian conductor. ... Charles Édouard Dutoit (born October 7, 1936) is a Swiss conductor. ... Zubin Mehta (b. ... Seiji Ozawa , born September 1, 1935) is a Japanese conductor. ... David Zinman (born New York, 10 July 1936) is an American conductor. ...

De Carvalho was married to Jocy de Oliveira, and had a a son, Eleazar de Carvalho Filho, now a renown economist. Later, he remarried, to Sonia Muniz de Carvalho. They had a son, Serge and a daughter, Claudia.^[2]

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