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Leonard Slatkin
American conductor, author and composer (born 1944)
Leonard Edward Slatkin (born September 1, 1944) is an American conductor, author and composer.[1]
Early life and education
Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a Jewish musical family that came from areas of the Russian Empire now in Ukraine.
His father, Felix Slatkin, was the violinist, conductor and founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, and his mother, Eleanor Aller, was the cellist with the quartet. His brother, Frederick, now a cellist, traced the family's original name as Zlotkin, and adopted that form of the family surname for himself professionally.
Frederick Zlotkin has spoken of the family lineage as follows:[2]
- "The Zlotkin/Slatkin lineage is Russian-Jewish. The first Zlotkin arrival to the US was Felix's father, grandpa Chaim Peretz Zlotkin, who came to settle with relatives in St.
Louis in 1904; he (or the clerk at Ellis Island) changed the name. He probably came from
- "The Zlotkin/Slatkin lineage is Russian-Jewish. The first Zlotkin arrival to the US was Felix's father, grandpa Chaim Peretz Zlotkin, who came to settle with relatives in St.