George Crum (musician)

George Crum ( born October 26, 1926 in Providence / Rhode Iceland, USA, † September 8, 2007 in Newmarket / Ontario) was a Canadian conductor and pianist.

Crum came to the age of three to Canada and attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, where he had from 1938 to 1942 piano lessons with Edmund Cohu. He continued his education at Elsie Bennett and Mona Bates and debuted in 1943 as a pianist at the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto. At the Conservatory of the City, he studied music theory and orchestration with Barbara Pentland and Ettore Mazzoleni and coaching and conducting with Herman Geiger- Torel and Nicholas Goldschmidt, whose assistant he was.

He was director of the choir of the Royal Conservatory Opera School, with whom he made ​​his debut as a conductor in 1948, and from 1948 to 1951 conductor of the Company of the school. During the 1950s he worked as a choir director at the CBC. In 1951 he was brokered by Celia Franca chief conductor and musical director of the National Ballet of canada. He had the place until 1984, held and conducted in this period performances as Romeo and Juliet (1966, awarded the Prix René Barthélemy ), as well as Cinderella and The Sleeping Beauty, which received an Emmy Award in 1970 and 1973 respectively. He was honored for his contributions to the Canadian Ballet with the Celia Award 1972.

After 1984 he led the National Ballet sporadically as a guest conductor, so in celebration of Karen Kain's twenty -year stage anniversary in 1988, the farewell performance Veronica Tennant in Romeo and Juliet in 1989 and at the gala for the forty year anniversary of the Company in 1990.

He also served as guest conductor of opera performances at the CBC (including the 1952 Don Giovanni was the first complete opera broadcast in North America), 1952 was a rehearsal pianist at the Salzburg Festival under Wilhelm Furtwängler and directed in 1969 with the opening of the National Arts Centre. In 1980 he took part in the ceremonies for the inauguration of President Miguel de la Madrid in Mexico as a Canadian cultural ambassador. He also served as conductor of the New York 's Joffrey Ballet and Mexico City 's Ballet Theatre, wrote arrangements of piano works by Chopin, Schumann and Beethoven and his own compositions. Since 1921 he was married to the soprano Patricia Snell.

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  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - Conductors - Crum, George
  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - Dancers & Choreographers - Crum, George
  • Conductor
  • Classic pianist
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1926
  • Died in 2007
  • Man
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