Sunday, February 13, 2000
Classical hall picks 10 for 2000
BY JANELLE GELFAND
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Cincinnati-based American Classical Music Hall of Fame has chosen 10 inductees for the year 2000 and will announce them in a press conference Monday at the Juilliard School in New York.
The Hall of Fame has chosen the Metropolitan Opera, headed by Cincinnati native James Levine, as the institution it will honor. Soprano Beverly Sills, chairwoman for Lincoln Center, the pianist Leon Fleisher and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Walker are the three living musical personalities who will be honored this year.
Ms. Sills and Mr. Walker are expected to attend the press conference. Ms. Sills is well-known to Cincinnatians, having starred in Cincinnati Opera productions for eight seasons during the '60s and '70s. She sang at the May Festival in 1971.
Six others will be inducted posthumously: philanthropist Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composers Edward MacDowell and Walter Piston; the pianist Rudolf Serkin; and conductors Eugene Ormandy, music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1936 to 1980, and George Szell, who led the Cleveland Orchestra to fame (1946-70).
The names will be announced by composer Samuel Adler, chairman of the Hall of Fame's National Artistic Directorate, and PBS announcer Martin Bookspan, also a directorate member.
The induction ceremony, the Hall of Fame's third, will be held April 28 in Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. A reception will follow at the U.S. Capitol.
The music division of the Library of Congress was honored last year, and invited the Hall of Fame to hold the induction ceremony in Washington this year. All future ceremonies will be held in Cincinnati, says David Klingshirn, the hall's founder and executive director.
The American Classical Music Hall of Fame recently opened its inaugural exhibition in its temporary home at 4 W. Fourth St., downtown.
“Bigger and better things are still to come,” Mr. Klingshirn says.
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