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Leonard Slatkin
Although he was born in Los Angeles, the internationally acclaimed conductor and
composer Leonard Slatkin can trace his musical roots back to the Ukraine where
he comes from a long line of musicians; his grandfather, the cellist Modest
Altschuler settled in America in the early 1900s and formed the Russian Symphony
Orchestra.
Slatkin, like many of his musical peers, studied at the Juilliard School in
Manhattan, mentored by Jean Morel, and made his conducting debut with the
award-winning New York Youth Symphony. Two years later he was made the assistant
conductor of the Saint...
