FYI

   Obituary: Donald Johanos

   Saturday's (6/2) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette carries the obituary
   of Donald Johanos.  Andrew Druckenbrod writes that Johanos, who
   was staff conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra from
   1970-79, "died in Naples, Fla. on May 29 after a long battle
   with kidney and congestive heart failure.  He was 79." Born in
   Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Johanos received an undergraduate degree in
   violin performance and a master's in music theory from the Eastman
   School of Music, "but it was the performance certificate in
   conducting he got there that had the greatest impact on him."
   He soon began conducting the Altoona and Johnstown symphonies.
   "In 1954, he went on a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and
   the American Symphony Orchestra League to study the craft from
   the likes of Otto Klemperer, Erich Leinsdorf, George Solti,
   George Szell and Bruno Walter.  Much of that time was spent in
   Europe and in 1958 he won an International Conductors Competition
   in the Netherlands." Johanos was named music director of the
   Dallas Symphony Orchestra in 1962.  He became music director of
   the Honolulu Symphony in 1979, "and is credited with improving
   it musically before he retired in 1995."

Karl

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