Fredell Lack (19 February 1922 - August 20, 2017) is an American violinist. Recorded as a solo concert singer, recording artist, room musician, and teacher, he is Biographer C. W. Moores Distinguished at the Moores Music School at the University of Houston in Houston, Texas.
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Early life and music training
Frederick Lack was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the eldest of three children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants (Latvia), Abram I. Deficiency and Sarah Stillman Disadvantages (who is the sister of eminent painter Ary Stillman). He started the violin lesson at the age of six, studying with Tosca Berger. When Fredell was 10 years old, he moved with his family to Houston, Texas. There he studied with Josephine Boudreaux, concertmaster of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. At the age of 11, he first played solo with the orchestra, performing Wieniawski Concerto no. 2 with Tulsa Philharmonic. At the age of 12, Lack was accepted at New York City studios by violinist and legendary educator Louis Persinger, whose other students included artists such as Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, and Ruggiero Ricci. He moved to New York and finished his pre-college at Bentley School while continuing violin lessons with Persinger. At 17, he made his professional solo debut, playing Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with St. Louis Symphony. Subsequently he received a full scholarship to Juilliard School in New York. He continues to learn violin with Persinger there and is also heavily influenced by his study of chamber music with Felix Salmond. He received a Diploma from Juilliard at the age of 21 years.
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Careers
Fredell Lack has a long-lasting career where he made dozens of concert tours around the world, including over twenty to Europe alone. He played solos with New York, Pittsburgh, Stockholm, Houston, Baltimore, Rotterdam, San Antonio, Oslo and Kansas City, and with Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, Royal Philharmonic, RIAS Berlin, BBC Symphony, HallÃÆ'Â © orkestra, and others. With the RIAS Orchestra, Disadvantages of performing premiere Europe Menotti Violin Concerto and Bernstein Serenade . He also made a number of recordings (see "Option discography" below).
Less make it debut New York recital in 1943 at The Town Hall, doing a concert by Vivaldi and Dvo? ÃÆ'¡k, sonata by DohnÃÆ'¡nyi, and pieces by Shostakovich, Poulenc, YsaÃÆ'¿e, and Wieniawski. He began his art lesson with Ivan Galamian, who was widely regarded among violinists as the greatest pedagogical influence in the second half of the twentieth century. He often appeared in master classes with Romanian violinist George Enescu, and traveled frequently to Boston to play new works for Nadia Boulanger's compositions studio.
In 1947, Lack was chosen to be the first concertmaster of the prestigious Little Orchestra Society of New York, a position he held for two seasons. That year, Deficiencies began to do a weekly solo that was broadcast to the national audience via Mutual radio network. In 1951 he entered Queen Elisabeth's Music Competition in Brussels, Belgium. Despite the fact that the two American finalists were rated 0 by the Soviet judge in the final round, Fredell Lack came with a bronze medal and Prize from LiÃÆ'¨ge.
Also in 1951, Shortage moved to Houston, Texas, where her husband had been offered a professorship. About a year later, he suffered what could have been a major setback in his career when a dog bit the tip of the little finger of his left hand. However, after a year of focused rehabilitation and technical re-learning, he was able to continue the show.
Lack and three major string players from the Houston Symphony formed the Lyric Art Quartet in 1955 and started several chamber music series around Houston. He started a very successful Young Audience program in Houston, which brought classical music to schoolchildren. In 1979, the organization gave Lack his first in a series of annual awards, and the award was later named "Fredell Lack Award."
In 1959, Fredell Lack began teaching violin at the University of Houston, where he remained on the faculty for 50 years before retiring in 2009. He was a recipient of the Esther Farfel Award from 1982-83, awarded by his colleagues to one University of Houston faculty members every year. The Texas Teachers' Music Association gave him the Achievement of Collegiate, the statewide difference, in 1990. In 1997, the University of Houston's Moores School of Music presented a Lack of Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007, TexASTA, Texas division of the American String Teachers Association, presented a Lack of Phyllis Young Master Outstanding Award of the Year Award. Deficiencies also maintain a private studio outside of school.
So many of his students have been undergoing music career as professional players and educators, and a number of successful solo concert artists have. One of Lack's former students, Frank Huang, is currently a concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic; he won the grand prize at the very prestigious Naumburg Competition in 2003, has appeared as a soloist with a great orchestra, and has made a critically acclaimed recording debut at Naxos Records. Students Lack Brett Deubner, David Mazzeo, PÃÆ'¡lÃÆ'na ÃÆ' rnadÃÆ'³ttir, Joyce Hammann, Mariko Inaba, Anabel Ramirez, Gloria Justen, Sharman Plesner, William Pu, Gregory Ewer, Beverly Shin, Maurice Sklar, Martin Valdeschack, Chuong Vu, and Zuo Jun among others who has had a successful concert career. Less is also teaching many sessions at the Meadowmount School of Music, an annual summer program in Upstate New York that was founded and for many years directed by former Lack mentor Ivan Galamian.
During his performance career, Fredell Lack plays the violin "Baron Deurbroucq", created in 1727 by Antonio Stradivari. His bow was made by FranÃÆ'§ois Tourte.
Personal
Fredell Lack married Ralph Eichhorn, a gastroenterologist, from 1947 until his death in 2014. He did not use his marriage name Eichhorn professionally. Disadvantages of having girls, boys, and some grandchildren. She is an active advocate for animal welfare.
He died in Houston on August 20, 2017, aged 95 years.
Discography selected
- Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor. RCA MARH 2314. (1940s?)
- Sonatas Violin by Copland and Hindemith. With Leonid Hambro, piano. Allegro AL 33; reissued as Allegro LEG 9001. (1950)
- Sonatas by Tartini and Corelli. With Fernando Valenti, harpsichord. Allegro AL 94. (1950)
- Schubert: Sonata in A major. With Leonid Hambro, piano. Allegro AL 22; Allegro Elite 4042. (1951)
- Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. With Stadium Symphony Orchestra (a.k.a. New York Philharmonic). Music Appreciation MAR 92; re-published as World Record Club T-5 (1953? [original release])
- Jacobi: Ballade for Violin and Piano; String Quartet No. 3. With Irene Jacobi, piano, and Lyric Art Quartet. CRI 146; remastered and re-released on CRI CD703. (1961; re-release 1995)
- Violin concerts by Shostakovich and Szymanowski. With the Berlin Symphony Orchestra. Vox Cum Laude D-VCL 9008 and VCS 9008; also MMG MCD 10013. (recorded 1980; released 1981)
- Szymanowski: Concerto No. 2 and Sonata, Op. 9. With Berlin Symphony Orchestra and Albert Hirsh, piano. Vox Cum Laude VCL-9061; VCS-9061. (recorded 1980, 1982; released 1984)
- Sonata for Violin and Piano by Corigliano, Diamond, Lees, and Mennin. With Albert Hirsh, piano, and Barry Snyder, piano. Bay Cities CD BCD 1018. (1990)
- Martin?: The Biolin Sonata. With Timothy Hester, piano, and Leon Spierer, the violin. Centaur CRC 2276. (recorded 1993, released 1996)
- Horvit: "Aleinu"; Fantasy ("The Daughters of Jerusalem") for the Violin and the Orchestra. With University of Houston Moores School of Music Chorale and Symphony Orchestra. Albany Troy 265 CD. (1997). The Fantasy is dedicated to Deficiency, which premiered the paper in 1996.
References
Source
- Applebaum, Samuel, and Roth, Henry. The Way They Play , Book 7 (Chapter 5: "Fredell Lack"). Neptune NJ: Paganiniana Publications, Inc., 1980. ISBNÃ, 0-87666-619-5.
- The Brodkey Family, Robert S. Brodkey/Bezborodko: http://www.chbmeng.ohio-state.edu/~brodkey/genealogy/web/brodkey/index.htm
- Esther Farfel's Award: http://www.uh.edu/ia/farfel/pages/fLack.html
- "Miss Lack Rejoins Little Orchestra" by Allen Hughes. The New York Times , January 17, 1968.
- Faculty Moores School Profile: Fredell Lack: http://www.music.uh.edu/people/lack.html
- "Texas Heart" by Dennis Rooney. The Strad , January 1990.
- "Town Hall retreat for Fredell Lack." The Dallas Morning News , February 12, 1943.
- University of Houston Bulletin: College of Humanity and the Arts , 1977-78. Vol. 42-H, No. 3.
- Upper Weekly Weekly . University of Houston, February 5, 2007.
- Wagner, Anton. Frederick Jacobi and Herman Voaden: The Prodigal Son: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/voaden/theprodigalson_article.htm
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