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Dale Clevenger was born on 2 July, 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S., is an American musician (1940–2022). Discover Dale Clevenger's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Age 81 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 2 July, 1940
Birthday 2 July
Birthplace Chattanooga, Tennessee, U.S.
Date of death 5 January, 2022
Died Place Brescia, Italy
Nationality United States

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1940

Dale Clevenger (July 2, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American musician who was the Principal Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1966 until his retirement in June, 2013.

Before joining the CSO, he was a member of Leopold Stokowski's American Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air directed by Alfred Wallenstein.

He was also principal horn of the Kansas City Philharmonic.

Prior to his death, he taught horn at the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana University.

He started playing trumpet at age 11 and switched to horn at age 13.

Clevenger's father was President of the Chattanooga Opera Association, and he was exposed to live orchestral music at an early age.

He attended Chattanooga High School, commonly known as City High School, when the band program was under the leadership of A.R. Casavant, a scholar of marching band history, inventor, and innovator credited with creating Precision Drill.

Clevinger's obituary relates that Casavant used to play him recordings of the Chicago Symphony during the school lunch hour.

1962

Clevenger received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in 1962.

Clevenger considered Arnold Jacobs and Adolph Herseth, former principal brass instrumentalists of the CSO, to be his mentors.

Clevenger performed with many ensembles worldwide, including the Berlin Philharmonic (under Daniel Barenboim).

He took part in many music festivals including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Florida Music Festival, Sarasota, Marrowstone Music Festival, Bellingham, Washington, and Affinis Music Festival, Japan.

He won a Grammy Award for "The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli," which he recorded with members of the Chicago Symphony brass section, as well as the brass sections of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra.

His recording of Mozart's horn concertos was named Record of the Year in Hungary on the European label Hungaroton.

He also was a featured soloist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Grammy-winning Strauss Wind Concertos album, on which he plays Strauss's first horn concerto, as well as Andante for horn and piano in C major with Daniel Barenboim accompanying on piano.

1975

Over the years, critics have written of his playing as being "satin smooth (1975)," as having "mellow radiance and gentle flow...despite a few inconsequential fluffs (1978)," and of his "pianissimo trills and daredevil octaves (1981)."

1981

He was the Music Director of the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1995.

He expanded his conducting career with numerous orchestras in North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, recently leading the Orquestra Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon with Daniel Barenboim as soloist.

Dale Clevenger was President of the Italian Brass Week and taught at Roosevelt University during his time in Chicago.

1983

He has also been said to have "an unfailing sense of direction in phrasing (1983)", "well drawn legato phrases" despite "regrettable lapses of intonation in the fast ornamental section (1984)" and "smooth control (1991)."

2003

In 2003, Clevenger premiered John Williams' Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, a work written for him.

In addition to performing, Clevenger was an experienced conductor.

2011

His wife died in 2011.

He also had two children from his first marriage, Michael and Ami.

Subsequently, he was married to Giovanna Grassi, an Italian woman, for nine years until his death.

He died from complications of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia at a hospital near his residence in Brescia on January 5, 2022, at the age of 81.

2012

In 2010, his horn solos received some negative reviews from music critics at The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune, with the latter describing his work as "unpredictable horn solos, some firm, others faltering. Flaws in a performance of Mahler's 3rd Symphony on November 1, 2012, were cited in three separate reviews, with the Chicago Sun-Times calling his performance "saddening".

2013

After retirement from the CSO in 2013, he also taught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.

Clevenger married Alice Anne Render of Louisville, Kentucky, also a skilled hornist.

The couple had two sons, Mac and Jesse.