- Eleazar de Carvalho
Infobox musical artist
Name = Eleazar de Carvalho
Background = classical_ensemble
Born = birth date and age|1912|06|28
flagicon|BRA Iguatu, Ceará,Brazil
Died = death date and age|1996|09|12|1912|06|28São Paulo ,Brazil
Genre = Classical
Occupation = Conductor,pedagogue
Years_active =
Associated_acts = St. Louis SymphonyEleazar de Carvalho (
28 June 1912 ,Iguatu ,Ceará –12 September 1996 ,São Paulo ) was aBrazil ian conductor andcomposer .Biography
De Carvalho's parents were Manuel Alfonso de Carvalho and Dalila Mendonça. He studied in the United States with
Sergei Koussevitzky at theBerkshire Music Center , and later became a conducting assistant to Koussevitzky, at the same time asLeonard Bernstein . He received a Ph.D. in music fromWashington State University in 1963.In Brazil, de Carvalho held principal conducting positions with the
Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira ofRio de Janeiro , and also with theOrquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo . In the United States, his major post was as music director of theSaint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO), from 1963 to 1968. During his Saint Louis tenure, he was noted as a champion of contemporary music. [cite journal | last=Gerdine | first=Leigh | year=1965 | month=Autumn/Winter | title=Colloquy and Review, Reports: 'St. Louis. Program Experiment in St. Louis | journal=Perspectives of New Music | volume=4 | issue=1 | pages=pp. 179–181] He also conducted the first SLSO performances ofIgor Stravinsky 's "The Rite of Spring ",Ludwig van Beethoven 's "Missa solemnis", and the "Grande messe des morts" ofHector Berlioz .De Carvalho taught at
Hofstra University and theJuilliard School of Music . In 1987, he joined the music faculty ofYale University as a professor and as conductor-in-residence. He became emeritus at Yale in 1994. De Carvalho was a teacher to such conductors asClaudio Abbado ,Charles Dutoit ,Zubin Mehta ,Gustav Meier ,Seiji Ozawa ,Jose Serebrier , andDavid Zinman .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. [cite journal | year=1996 | month=September | title=Obituary: Eleazar de Carvalho | journal=Yale Bulletin & Calenda | volume=25 | issue=2 | url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/ybc/v25.n5.obit.02.html | accessdate=2007-09-03]
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