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Description:
Eleazar de Carvalho
(28 June 1912,
Iguatu
,
Ceará
– 12 September 1996,
São Paulo
) was a
Brazilian
conductor
and
composer
.
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.
In Brazil, de Carvalho held principal conducting positions with the
Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira
of
Rio de Janeiro
,
Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo
, Orquestra Sinfônica da Paraiba and also with the
Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre
. 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. 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
.
De Carvalho taught at
Hofstra University
and the
Juilliard......
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