Memorial Service Scheduled for Lorin Maazel — artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com

A public memorial service honoring the music conductor and composer Lorin Maazel will be held on Oct. 31, Mr. Maazel’s family announced Sunday. Mr. Maazel, who began conducting orchestras at 9 and went on to serve as music director of the New York Philharmonic and several other ensembles around the world, died of complications from pneumonia in July. He was 84. The service will include spoken and musical tributes to Mr. Maazel by some of his former colleagues, including the New York Philharmonic music director Alan Gilbert and the former World Bank president Sir James Wolfensohn. The tenor Dominic Armstrong and the soprano Jennifer Black are among those scheduled to give musical performances, which will include works by Chopin, Strauss, Verdi, and excerpts of Maazel’s first opera, “1984.”

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