LEWIS, HENRY

LEWIS, HENRY. Symphony orchestra conductor (16 October 1932 in Los Angeles, California). He began piano study at the age of five; by the time he was sixteen he had won a double-bass chair in the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein, conductor. He studied music at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. During his ten-year tenure in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, he devoted his attention to mastering orchestral instruments. He performed with the Seventh...