1. Charles Ansbacher was born on October 5,1942, in Providence, Rhode Island, to renowned Adlerian psychologists Heinz Ansbacher and Rowena Ripin Ansbacher.
16 Facts About Charles Ansbacher
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Charles Ansbacher took up cello as a boy and began by conducting a Mahler piece with his high school orchestra in Burlington, Vermont.
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Charles Ansbacher's parents encouraged his study by sending him to Greenwood Music Camp and Tanglewood.
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Charles Ansbacher majored in physics at Brown University but switched to music after creating a successful chamber orchestra with his classmates.
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Charles Ansbacher was known throughout the Rocky Mountain region not only for his regular concert season, but the music he brought to hundreds of thousands of diverse families through often-televised, innovative outdoor concerts, and the Christmas Pops on Ice that featured Olympic figure skating stars.
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Charles Ansbacher held titled positions with orchestras in Boston, Moscow, Bishkek, and Sarajevo.
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Charles Ansbacher conducted the first-ever symphony orchestra concert in Boston's historic Fenway Park, and in Hanoi as the first American ever to lead the Vietnamese National Symphony Orchestra.
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Charles Ansbacher led the orchestra at Boston's historic Hatch Shell on the Charles River Esplanade, and at other locations throughout Boston during the summer.
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Charles Ansbacher conducted the Sarajevo Philharmonic in performances throughout Austria, including at the famed Salzburg Grosse Festspielhaus, and Vienna's City Hall.
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Charles Ansbacher conducted major orchestras in Canada, Colombia, Israel, Ecuador, Italy, Lithuania, South Africa, South Korea, Vietnam, and of course the United States; however, his main thrust as an orchestra leader had been to perform in nations undergoing political transition, such as Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
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Beyond music, Charles Ansbacher applied art to public policy-making when, as a White House Fellow, he was co-chair of the US Department of Transportation's Task Force on the Use of Design, Art, and Architecture in Transportation.
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Charles Ansbacher stayed in the policy realm as chair of the Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, appointed by Governor Roy Romer.
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Charles Ansbacher brought his teenage son and later Oscar- and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Henry into the marriage, she Lillian, born in 1982.
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Charles Ansbacher died on September 12,2010, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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In 2009, Charles Ansbacher was honored by the City of Cambridge, MA, and the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon for his civic and artistic contributions in the United States and around the world.
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On July 7,2010, as Charles Ansbacher led the Boston Landmarks Orchestra in Fenway Park's first full-length orchestral concert, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick presented him with a plaque that reads:.