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Stephen Simon was born on 3 May, 1937 in United States, is an A 20th-century american male musician. Discover Stephen Simon'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 76 years old?

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Born 3 May, 1937
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Date of death 2013
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1937

Stephen Anthony Simon (May 3, 1937 – January 20, 2013) was an American conductor, composer, and arranger.

He was a noted proponent of the music of George Frederic Handel, serving as music director of the Handel Society of New York and recording several of Handel's operas and oratorios for the RCA label.

Simon also became known for his pioneering programming of works for orchestra and narrator for young people, including his own Casey at the Bat and The Tortoise and the Hare.

Simon was the son of Leo and Esther Annenberg Simon and the nephew of the publishing magnate and philanthropist Walter Annenberg.

He was born and grew up in New York City, attending Dalton and Riverdale Schools.

1960

After one year at Oberlin College, Simon transferred to Yale University where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in 1960.

He went on to study independently with Josef Krips.

According to The Washington Post, Simon was a jazz enthusiast in college and found it had a similar "exhilarating improvisational quality" to that of classical music.

1969

His recording of Handel’s oratorio Solomon with the Vienna Volksoper Orchestra earned a Grammy Award nomination in 1969 for best choral recording.

Handel scholar Donald Burrows noted that Simon was one of the pioneers in assembling performers to record large scale works such as Solomon.

As a symphony conductor, Simon was known for his innovative programming.

1970

From 1970 to 1974 Simon served as music director of the Handel Society of New York with whom he made several recordings, presented an annual Handel Festival at Carnegie Hall, and toured to Europe.

He also served as music director of the Handel Festival at Carnegie Hall at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, conducting American premieres of such works as Poro, Radimisto, Orlando and Alessandro as well as such works as Semele.

Samson, Saul, Solomon and Judas Maccabaeus.

From 1970-1982, he was the creator and music director of "Summer of Music on the Hudson" in Tarrytown, New York with outdoor concerts on the lawns of the Lyndhurst, the Jay Gould Estate overlooking the Hudson.

1972

In 1972 he had told The New York Times:

"There is a close link between jazz and Baroque music because of improvisation. [...] Knowing the style makes you feel secure and then you can do anything — even if it doesn't always work — and that's exciting."

1976

In 1976 Simon settled in Washington, DC.

where he founded and led the Handel Festival Orchestra which later became the Washington Chamber Symphony, the resident chamber orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

In addition to its regular season, the orchestra toured the US and Europe.

1978

He married Bonnie Ward Simon in 1978.

The couple had two sons.

The following were all recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Stephen Simon and released on the Maestro Classics label.

1988

In 1988, Simon with his second wife Bonnie Ward Simon, created a series of concerts for young people played by the Washington Chamber Symphony.

Their Stories in Music project created and discovered new works for narrator and orchestra and eventually led to their founding the recording label Maestro Classics.

The label produced the Stories in Music series of recordings for children and their parents, recorded with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.

2004

In his later years, Simon was the founding music director of the Simon Sinfonietta in Falmouth, Massachusetts which performed at Falmouth Academy during the winter months from 2004 to 2013.

2011

He was also the music director of L'Orchestre des Portes Rouges, a chamber orchestra that performed at the Church of the Resurrection in Manhattan from 2011 to 2013.

Simon died in New York City from a stroke at the age of 75.

His first marriage to Ellen Friendly Simon, with whom he had four sons and four grandchildren, ended in divorce.