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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1947
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Fielding's Italy
- Fielding's Mexico, 1987
- Fielding's Mexico, 1988
- Fielding's Mexico, 1990
- Fielding's Italy, 1991
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Los Angeles, California, USA
Lawrence Foster (born October 23, 1941) is an American conductor of Romanian ancestry. Foster was born in Los Angeles, California, to Jewish-Romanian parents. His father died when Foster was three years old. He was later adopted by his stepfather, from whom he took the surname Foster. Foster studied conducting with German conductor Fritz Zweig and piano with Joanna Grauden, both in Los Angeles.…
Known for
- Belle Toujours — Self - Direction Musicale2006
- Jessye Norman at Notre Dame — Self - Conductor1991
- Le monde est à vous — Self1987
- Itzhak Perlman: Virtuoso Violinist — Self1978
- Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
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- 5,606
- Total plays
- 19,981
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Lawrence Foster (born October 23, 1941, in Los Angeles, California) is an American conductor. He became the conductor of the San Francisco Ballet at the age of 18, and served as Assistant Conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. He went on to conduct many of the world's finest orchestras, and he held Music Director positions with the Houston Symphony, the Orchestre National de Monte Carlo, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lawrence
- Family name
- Foster
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- conductor
- Genre
- classical music
- Record label
- Erato Records
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- date of birth
- 1941-10-23
- name in native language
- Lawrence Foster
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