Kenneth Dewitt Schermerhorn was an American composer and orchestra conductor.
18 Facts About Kenneth Schermerhorn
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Kenneth Schermerhorn was the music director of the Nashville Symphony from 1983 to 2005.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn attended the New England Conservatory of Music, graduating in 1950.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn played the trumpet with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Kansas City Philharmonic among several other orchestras.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn was drafted into the US Army and, in 1953 while serving in Germany, he was assigned to be the conductor of the US Seventh Army's Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra.
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Later in life, Kenneth Schermerhorn worked again under Bernstein as the assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic.
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In 1957, Kenneth Schermerhorn was appointed to the position of music director of the American Ballet Theatre, a position he held until 1968 and again from 1982 to 1984.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn conducted the 1977 television production of The Nutcracker, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland and the American Ballet Theatre.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn conducted other ballets in which Baryshnikov appeared during the 1970s, such as Twyla Tharp's Push Comes To Shove.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn was the music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1963 to 1965.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn joined the Nashville Symphony Orchestra as music director and conductor in 1983.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn was the music director of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra between 1984 and 1988.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn helped improve the orchestra's quality and made several recordings with the orchestra, most notably, conducting the orchestra on its first 1986 tour of the People's Republic of China, with the soloists Stephanie Chase and Li Jian, and attracting worldwide media attention.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn was a national patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn had a son, Stefan Kenneth Schermerhorn, and two daughters, Veronica Chasanoff and Erica Ancona.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn had a long-term relationship with Martha Rivers Ingram, a billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn died on April 18,2005, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a brief illness with non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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Kenneth Schermerhorn's ashes are buried in the base of the statue "The Flutist" in the garden of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville.