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	Andrew Litton Artist Biography
		Andrew Litton, Music Director of the Dallas Symphony since 1994, is one of but a handful of Americans at the head of a major American orchestra.
		Litton and the Dallas Symphony are recording Mahler and Shostakovich symphony cycles for Delos.
		Litton was named Principal Guest Conductor of Britain's Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and in 1988 became its Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor, the first American and youngest to head one of Britain's oldest orchestras.
	www.delosmus.com /bio/andrew_litton.html (456 words)

	Andrew Litton.com - Most Recent Critical Acclaim \| Reviews \| Conductor \| Maestro \| Music Director \| Musician
		Litton has the work's measure perfectly, balancing the visionary with the prosaic, and teasing out the most complex textures of a huge orchestra and a chorus with an exemplary clarity that is flawlessly captured by the recording.
		Andrew Litton's set of the four Ives symphonies is notable for its physicality and racing speeds.
		Litton proved himself to be a formidable Gershwin pianist with the high-octane performance of Rhapsody in Blue he directed from the keyboard.
	www.andrewlitton.com /reviews (1039 words)

	Artist
		Litton’s leadership has been distinguished by his great versatility as an artist, with frequent performances as conductor, piano soloist and chamber musician throughout the high-energy July festival.
		Andrew Litton stepped down in May 2006 as music director of the Dallas Symphony after twelve seasons in which he led the orchestra on three European tours, four visits to Carnegie Hall, and produced six nationally broadcast television programs and 28 recordings in repertoire ranging from Gershwin to Mahler.
		Litton is currently enjoying his fourth season as the first American Music Director of Norway's Bergen Philharmonic, a 242- year-old orchestra once led by Edvard Grieg.
	www.minnesotaorchestra.org /music/artist_detail.cfm?id_artist=96463119 (297 words)

	Andrew Litton
		Litton’s recent European tour included a nationally broadcast BBC concert honoring his 20 year association with the Bournemouth Symphony, a critically acclaimed tour of Spain with the Bergen Philharmonic and pianist Jean Yves Thibaudet, followed by a Gala Concert with soprano Barbara Hendricks.
		Andrew Litton, a graduate of the Fieldston School, New York, received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard in piano and conducting.
		Litton resides in Dallas where he is a highly visible and active member of the community.
	www.nyo.org.uk /litton.htm (397 words)

	Andrew Litton Biography \| Conductor \| Maestro \| Music Director \| Musician
		In November, Litton takes the Bergen Philharmonic on an 18 day, 12 concert American tour commemorating the Centenary of Grieg's death (Grieg was one of Litton's predecessors as head of the 242-year-old orchestra).
		Litton received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bournemouth and many civic awards from the city of Dallas, including keys to the city, presented for his devotion to his adopted city during his Dallas Symphony tenure.
		Litton, born in New York, began piano studies at age five and at ten decided to become a conductor.
	www.andrewlitton.com /bio (541 words)

	Andrew Litton Chat Transcript, April 25, 2002
		Litton> It is easy to teach the gestures that we do, but it is very difficult to learn to speak to musicians.
		Litton> One of the most difficult, is when something very funny happens and you somehow have to remain calm and not laugh.
		Litton> There was a time in a concert in Switzerland when I came on stage, walked past the cymbal player and knocked the cymbals on the floor.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=403 (1846 words)

	The Dallas Symphony Orchestra
		Litton was a strong advocate of touring even before he officially started as Music Director in June of 1994.
		Litton's influence will continue to be felt in Dallas, not only because he will be returning annually to conduct, but because 25 of the DSO's current full-time musicians - three of them principal players - were hired by him during his 12 years as Music Director.
		Not all of Andrew Litton's contributions to the Dallas Symphony are as tangible as compact discs or orchestra musicians.
	www.dallassymphony.com /page.php?s=Andrew_Tribute (604 words)

	Meet Andrew Litton
		Andrew Litton began playing piano when he was five years and eleven months old.
		Litton has conducted many of the world's greatest orchestras and opera orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Moscow, Tokyo, Israel, France, all the major orchestras of Britain, and the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Welsh Opera, English National Opera, and the opera houses of Dallas, St. Louis and Los Angeles.
		Litton can be seen playing piano and conducting all in the same piece of music.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=395 (410 words)

	Masterworks - Music
		Andrew Litton holds an honorary Doctorate from the University of Bournemouth and is a recipient of Yale University’s Sanford Medal for his musical achievements.
		Litton was named Music Director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra in Norway and he has just completed his third season as Artistic Director for the Minnesota Orchestra Sommerfest.
		Andrew Litton's Comments: Handel wrote an oratorio, Alexander’s Feast, celebrating Alexander the Great, but that was really an ode to St. Cecilia, the patron saint of music.
	www.thanksgiving.org /Masterworks/music.htm (557 words)

	Andrew Litton Insights: Artistic director Andrew Litton seeks to make the music festival fun \| Conductor \| Maestro \| ...
		It makes sense, then, that festival artistic director Andrew Litton's first concert here will be a "Strauss Waltz Spectacular," a mix of the familiar ("Wine, Women and Song") with lesser-known Strauss, such as "The Morning Papers Waltz," thought to be the first composition devoted to tabloid journalism.
		Litton appears to have reached a truce in his battles with the orchestra's marketing department over matters of programming.
		Litton, his wife and two children moved from Dallas to Westchester County just outside New York City, where he was born.
	www.andrewlitton.com /insights/ins_startrib_21jul06.html (895 words)

	Andrew Litton Discography \| Recordings \| Compact Discs
		Andrew Litton conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a vivacious coupling of Dvorak's Cello Concerto and the D minor Serenade for Winds.
		Andrew Litton and the Philharmonia rise to the challenge of speedier climaxes, and conclude with a mellifluous wind serenade.
		Andrew Litton's excellent Dallas Symphony Orchestra does full justice to all the works, and the three soloists for whom the later pieces were written could hardly be bettered.
	www.andrewlitton.com /recordings (2058 words)

	Andrew Litton — FactMonster.com
		Julliard-trained as a pianist, Litton considered performing only a fallback in case his first love, conducting, couldn't pay the bills.
		Since he won a conducting competition at age 23, he has had steady work as a conductor with prestigious symphonies around the U.S. and around the world.
		Litton has conducted the National Symphony Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Moscow State Symphony, and in 1994 he became the first American conductor to be hired by a major American orchestra in 10 years when he landed the plum role of conductor of the
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0766239.html (139 words)

	PRX » Pieces » Virtuoso Voices - Andrew Litton (Dvorak Serenade for Winds)
		Use this 27 second clip to introduce Andrew Litton conducting his new recording of the Dvorak Serenade for Winds in D minor.
		Use this clip to enhance your introduction of Andrew Litton conducting his new recording of the Dvorak Serenade for Winds in D minor with the Philharmonia Orchestra (Sony 82876821182 2006).
		Andrew Litton and the Philharmonia Wind Section shine in this recent recording of the Serenade for Winds in D minor by Dvorak.
	www.prx.org /pieces/13467 (617 words)

	CAMI :: Andrew Litton :: Conductor
		Having just completed twelfth and final season as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony, New York-born Andrew Litton is one of but a handful of Americans heading a major American orchestra.
		Litton is in his fourth season as the first ever American Music Director of Norway’s 240-year-old Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.
		This concert season (2006-07), Maestro Litton will make his Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich debut in addition to first appearances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa, and the Milwaukee Symphony.
	www.cami.com /?webid=822 (258 words)

	Saint Louis Symphony
		Andrew Litton returned to Colorado this past summer for the Dallas Symphony’s sixth annual residence at the Bravo!
		Litton also opened the La Jolla Music Festival, guest conducting the San Diego Symphony in a gala program that included his performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as conductor and pianist.
		Andrew Litton debuts with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra this weekend.
	www.slso.org /notes/11-12-2004.htm (2236 words)

	The Rake: So Little Time... : DESERT ISLAND DUFFEL: Andrew Litton
		In the past two years the Minnesota Orchestra’s once-moribund Sommerfest series has surged back to life, thanks in part to the guidance of artistic director Andrew Litton (who also wields a baton as the Dallas Symphony’s music director).
		Litton will lead the orchestra in a selection of Gershwin tunes (one of his specialties) and Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and close out this year’s fest with Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio.
		When we asked Litton what he’d bring to entertain him if stranded on a deserted isle, his list was appropriately heavy on aural delights—but he also knows there’s more to life than just music.
	www.rakemag.com /stories/section_detail.aspx?itemID=4660&catID=148&SelectCatID=148 (460 words)

	Shostakovich: Symphonies No 6 & 10 / Litton, Dallas So \| ArkivMusic
		Not only are they exceedingly well executed and extremely well recorded, but Andrew Litton and his Dallas orchestra achieve and maintain a true Shostakovich idiom like few others have in recent times.
		Well, in the Tenth Symphony, Litton is able to make the requisite stark contrast between that long, gradual first-movement trek up the mountain and the start-to-finish, frantic terror that is the second movement's alleged portrayal of Stalin and his henchmen.
		The climax to the third movement Allegretto could have been a bit more terrifying, but Litton urgently accelerates into it and captures its monotonous grimness as the orchestra incessantly hammers out the D-S-C-H musical monogram--after which the finale perfectly describes the frantically joyous celebrations of a composer who is finally (if temporarily) free of oppression.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?album_id=6604 (432 words)

	The Mann Center for the Performing Arts - Performance Schedule - Calendar
		In his eleventh season as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony, New York-born Andrew Litton is one of but a handful of Americans heading a major American orchestra.
		Litton also opened the La Jolla Music Festival, guest conducting the San Diego Symphony in a gala program which included his performance of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue as conductor and pianist.
		Litton’s complete Rachmaninov Concerto series for Hyperion, recorded live in concert with pianist Stephen Hough and the Dallas Symphony, is being released this fall to extraordinary critical acclaim.
	www.manncenter.org /calendar/calendar/20060626.asp (665 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Andrew Litton's Final Season: Highlights of a Dallas Career
		In the latest installment of a multi-part interview, Playbill asks outgoing Dallas Symphony conductor Andrew Litton to recall some of the highlights of his DSO career.
		Litton's primary inspiration for becoming a conductor was Leonard Bernstein's Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic.
		Certainly one of Andrew Litton's most memorable experiences was his 40th birthday concert.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/3665.html (528 words)

	Amazon.com: Mahler: Symphony No. 3 / Litton, Dallas Symphony Orchestra: Music: Andrew Litton,Mary Preston,Gustav ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Andrew Litton has so far proved himself a solid Mahler conductor, with a respectable Second Symphony in his quiver, the previous installment of a continuing cycle.
		Litton shows a fantastic ear for those details, which actually seem to pullulate in the first movement.
		One can sense the enthusiasm that Litton and the DSO have brought to this work; everyone is fully awake and primed to deliver their best performance, every musical phrase is expertly delivered.
	www.amazon.com /Mahler-Symphony-Litton-Dallas-Orchestra/dp/B00004RDW3 (1651 words)

	Andrew Litton Press Releases and News \| Conductor \| Maestro \| Music Director \| Musician
		Andrew Litton announces plans for his fifth Sommerfest with Minnesota Orchestra
		Litton to be awarded Sanford Medal during Walton Centenary Celebration
		Andrew Litton becomes the first American to serve in Bergen, Norway
	www.andrewlitton.com /news (189 words)

	SummerFest2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The summer of 2004 marks Andrew Litton’s second season as Artistic Director of the Minnesota Orchestra's Sommerfest, so perhaps he feels more than a casual connection to La Jolla SummerFest as he oversees the 2004 festival’s first downtown opening concert.
		As he heads into his 11th season as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony, New York-born Andrew Litton is one of but a handful of Americans leading a major American orchestra.
		Recognized internationally as a skilled orchestra builder, last season Maestro Litton became the first American Principal Conductor of Norway’s 238-year-old Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, and continues as Conductor Laureate of Britain’s Bournemouth Symphony, which he headed from 1988 to 1994.
	www.kpbs.org /summerfest/biographies_2004/bio_litton.htm (302 words)

	PlaybillArts: Features: Farewell for Now
		No music director in the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's proud history has brought the DSO the kind of visibility Andrew Litton has.
		Litton's influence will continue to be felt in Dallas, not only because he will be returning annually to conduct, but because 25 of the DSO's current full-time musicians--three of them principal players--were hired by him during his 12 years as music director.
		But in some ways, conductors who have served as long and given as much as Andrew Litton has will always be part of the Dallas Symphony--and the Dallas Symphony family will be the richer for it.
	www.playbillarts.com /features/article/4461.html (770 words)

	Artist Page - Andrew Litton
		American born Andrew Litton stepped down in May 2006 as Music Director of the Dallas Symphony after twelve successful seasons in which he led the orchestra on three European tours, four visits to Carnegie Hall, and produced six nationally broadcast television programs and 28 recordings in repertoire ranging from Gershwin to Mahler.
		Litton is the first American Music Director of Norway’s Bergen Philharmonic, a 242 year old orchestra once led by Edvard Grieg.
		Litton’s guest appearances this season include debuts with the Zurich Tonhalle, the Vienna Tonkunstler at the Musikverein, and the Lahti Orchestra in Finland.
	www.hyperion-records.co.uk /artist_page.asp?name=litton (520 words)

	Andrew Litton.com \| Conductor \| Maestro \| Music Director \| Musician
		BIS releases first Litton Bergen Philharmonic recording, Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet", to critical acclaim.
		In Tune: Andrew discusses conducting's "guilty pleasures" with Petroc Trelawny
		Listen to Andrew's "Guide to Shostakovich's Eight Symphony" interview with Minnesota Public Radio
	www.andrewlitton.com (276 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Walton - Orchestral Works: Music: Andrew Litton,Neubaure,Litton,Bourenmouth Symphony Orchestra,William ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Performed by Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Andrew Litton
		This 4 CD set of most of William Walton's Orchestral music is excellent value.
		Andrew Litton conducts light but not insubstantial preformances reminding us that Walton was a fine composer of film scores.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Walton-Orchestral-Works-Andrew-Litton/dp/B00005QDYP (337 words)

	classical music - andante - andrew litton will leave dallas symphony in 2006
		Andrew Litton Will Leave Dallas Symphony in 2006
		Andrew Litton to Lead Minnesota Orchestra's Summer Festival
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