Fredell Lack (February 19, 1922 – August 20, 2017) was an American
violin
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ist. Noted as a concert soloist, recording artist, chamber musician, and teacher, she was the C. W. Moores Distinguished Professor of Violin at the
Moores School of Music
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at the
University of Houston
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in
Houston
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,
Texas
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.
Early life and musical training
Fredell Lack was born in
Tulsa, Oklahoma
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, the oldest of three children of Jewish Eastern European (Latvian) immigrants, Abram I. Lack and Sarah Stillman Lack (who was a sister of noted painter
Ary Stillman). She began violin lessons at age six, studying with
Tosca Berger. When Fredell was 10, she moved with her family to Houston, Texas. There she studied with
Josephine Boudreaux, the
concertmaster
The concertmaster (from the German ''Konzertmeister''), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (or clarinet in a concert band). After the conductor, the concertmaster is the second-most signifi ...
of the
Houston Symphony
The Houston Symphony is an American orchestra based in Houston, Texas. The orchestra is resident at the Jesse H. Jones Hall for the Performing Arts.
History
The first concert of what was to become the Houston Symphony took place on June 21, 1 ...
. At age 11, she first soloed with
orchestra
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There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
, performing the
Wieniawski Concerto No. 2 with the
Tulsa Philharmonic
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. At 12, Lack was accepted into the
New York City
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studio of the legendary violinist and pedagogue
Louis Persinger
Louis Persinger (11 February 1887, Rochester, Illinois31 December 1966, New York, New York) was an American violinist, pianist and professor of violin.
Persinger had early lessons in Colorado, appearing in public by the age of 12. His main studies ...
, whose other students included such artists as
Yehudi Menuhin
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* Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999), violinist and conductor
** Yehudi Menuhin School, a music school in Surrey, England
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,
Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist.
Born in Poland, Stern came to the US when he was 14 months old. Stern performed both nationally and internationally, notably touring the Soviet Union and China, and ...
, and
Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci (24 July 1918 – 5 August 2012) was an American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Niccolò Paganini, Paganini.
Biography
He was born in San Bruno, California, the son of Italian immigrants who first ...
. She moved to New York and completed her pre-college schooling at the Bentley School while continuing her violin lessons with Persinger. At 17, she made her professional solo debut, playing the
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the
St. Louis Symphony
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. Subsequently she received a full scholarship to the
Juilliard School
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in New York. She continued studying violin with Persinger there and also was deeply influenced by her study of
chamber music
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with
Felix Salmond
Felix Adrian Norman Salmond (19 November 188820 February 1952) was an English cellist and cello teacher who achieved success in the UK and the US.
Early life and career
Salmond was born to a family of professional musicians. His father Norman Sa ...
. She received the Diploma from Juilliard at age 21.
Career
Fredell Lack had a long-lasting career during which she made dozens of concert tours worldwide, including more than twenty to Europe alone. She soloed with the orchestras of
New York
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,
Pittsburgh
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,
Stockholm
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,
Houston
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,
Baltimore
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,
Rotterdam
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,
San Antonio
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Oslo
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, and
Kansas City
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, and with the
Concertgebouw
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of Amsterdam, the
Royal Philharmonic
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The RPO was established by Thomas Beecham in 1946. In its early days, the orchestra secured profitable ...
,
RIAS of Berlin, the
BBC Symphony
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, the
Hallé Orchestra, and others. With the RIAS Orchestra, Lack performed the European premieres of the
Menotti Violin Concerto and the
Bernstein
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''
Serenade
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''. She also made a number of recordings (see "Selected discography" below).
Lack made her New York recital debut in 1943 at
The Town Hall, performing concertos by
Vivaldi
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and
Dvořák, a sonata by
Dohnányi, and pieces by
Shostakovich
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,
Poulenc
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (; 7 January 189930 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-kno ...
,
Ysaÿe, and
Wieniawski. She commenced artistic study with
Ivan Galamian
Ivan Alexander Galamian ( hy, Իվան Ղալամեան; April 14, 1981) was an Armenian-American violin teacher of the twentieth century who was the violin teacher of many seminal violin players including Itzhak Perlman.
Biography
Galamian w ...
, widely regarded among violinists as the greatest pedagogical influence of the latter half of the twentieth century. She performed frequently in
master class
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es with the Romanian violinist
George Enescu
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Biog ...
, and often traveled to Boston to play new works for the composition studio of
Nadia Boulanger
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From a ...
.
In 1947, Lack was selected to be the first concertmaster of the prestigious
Little Orchestra Society of New York, a position she held for two seasons. That year, Lack began performing solos weekly that were broadcast to a national audience over the
Mutual radio network. In 1951 she entered the
Queen Elisabeth Music Competition
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in
Brussels
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, Belgium. Despite the fact that both American finalists were given scores of 0 by the Soviet judge in the final round, Fredell Lack came away with a bronze medal and the Prize of Liège.
Also in 1951, Lack moved to
Houston
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,
Texas
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, where her husband had been offered a professorship. About a year later, she suffered what could have been a major setback to her career when a dog bit off the tip of the little finger of her left hand. However, following a year of focused rehabilitation and relearning of technique, she was able to continue performing.
Lack and three principal string players from the
Houston Symphony
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History
The first concert of what was to become the Houston Symphony took place on June 21, 1 ...
formed the Lyric Art Quartet in 1955 and began several chamber music series around Houston. She began a highly successful Young Audiences program in Houston, which brings classical music to schoolchildren. In 1979, that organization gave to Lack its first in an annual series of awards, and the honor was thenceforth named the "Fredell Lack Award."
In 1959, Fredell Lack began teaching violin at the
University of Houston
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, where she remained on the faculty for 50 years before retiring in 2009. She was the 1982–83 recipient of the Esther Farfel Award, given by colleagues to a single University of Houston faculty member each year. The Texas Music Teachers Association awarded her the Outstanding Teaching Achievement Award (Collegiate), a statewide distinction, in 1990. In 1997, the University of Houston
Moores School of Music
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presented Lack with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2007, TexASTA, the Texas division of the
American String Teachers Association
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, presented Lack with the Phyllis Young Outstanding Studio Teacher of the Year Award. Lack also maintained a private studio outside the school.
A great many of her students have gone on to musical careers as professional performers and teachers, and a number have become successful solo concert artists. One of Lack's former students,
Frank Huang
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, is currently the
concertmaster
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of the
New York Philharmonic
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; he won the top prize at the highly prestigious
Naumburg Competition in 2003, has performed as a soloist with major orchestras, and made a critically acclaimed recording debut on
Naxos Records
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. Lack student Eden MacAdam-Somer is the co-chair of the
New England Conservatory
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’s Contemporary Improvisation department and lead singer and violinist of the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB).
Brett Deubner
Brett Deubner (born March 31, 1968, Berkeley, California) is an American Viola, violist. He has performed as concerto Soloist (music), soloist with over 70 orchestras on four continents.
Early life
Growing up his primary teachers were violinis ...
, David Mazzeo, Pálína Árnadóttir, 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 are among other Lack students who have had successful concert careers. Lack also taught numerous sessions at the
Meadowmount School of Music, an annual summer program in
Upstate New York
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that was founded and for many years was directed by Lack's former mentor Ivan Galamian.
During her performing career, Fredell Lack played the "Baron Deurbroucq" violin, made in 1727 by
Antonio Stradivari
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. Her
bow was crafted by
François Tourte
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.
Personal
Fredell Lack was married to Ralph Eichhorn, a
gastroenterologist
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, from 1947 until his death in 2014. She did not use her married name, Eichhorn, professionally. Lack had a daughter, a son, and several grandchildren. She was an active advocate for
animal welfare
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.
She died in Houston on August 20, 2017, aged 95.
Selected discography
*
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor.
RCA
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MARH 2314. (1940s?)
*Violin Sonatas by
Copland and
Hindemith
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. With
Leonid Hambro
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Life
Hambro was born in Chicago, the son of immigrant Lithuanian Jews; his father was a pianist accompanying silent films.
He studied at the Juil ...
, piano. Allegro AL 33; reissued as Allegro LEG 9001. (1950)
*Sonatas by
Tartini
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and
Corelli. With
Fernando Valenti
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,
harpsichord
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. Allegro AL 94. (1950)
*
Schubert
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:
Sonata
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in A major. With Leonid Hambro,
piano
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. Allegro AL 22; Allegro Elite 4042. (1951)
*
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64. With the
New York Philharmonic
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(billed as the
Stadium Symphony Orchestra). Music Appreciation MAR 92; reissued as World Record Club T-5 (1953?
riginal release
*
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: Ballade for Violin and Piano;
String Quartet
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No. 3. With Irene Jacobi, piano, and Lyric Art Quartet. CRI 146; remastered and re-released on CRI CD703. (1961; re-release 1995)
*Violin Concertos by
Shostakovich
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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)
*Sonatas for Violin and Piano by
Corigliano,
Diamond
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,
Lees, and
Mennin. With Albert Hirsh, piano, and Barry Snyder, piano. Bay Cities CD BCD 1018. (1990)
*
Martinů: The Violin Sonatas. With Timothy Hester, piano, and Leon Spierer, violin. Centaur CRC 2276. (recorded 1993; released 1996)
*
Horvit: "Aleinu"; Fantasy ("The Daughters of Jerusalem") for Violin and Orchestra. With
University of Houston Moores School of Music Chorale and Symphony Orchestra. Albany Troy 265 CD. (1997). The Fantasy was dedicated to Lack, who premiered the work in 1996.
Orchestral Music: Albany Records
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References
Sources
*Applebaum, Samuel, and Roth, Henry. ''The Way They Play'', Book 7 (Chapter 5: "Fredell Lack"). Neptune NJ: Paganiniana Publications, Inc., 1980. .
*Brodkey, Robert S. Brodkey/Bezborodko Family: http://www.chbmeng.ohio-state.edu/~brodkey/genealogy/web/brodkey/index.htm
*The Esther Farfel Award: http://www.uh.edu/ia/farfel/pages/fLack.html
*"Miss Lack Rejoins Little Orchestra" by Allen Hughes. ''The New York Times
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'', 17 January 1968.
*Moores School Faculty Profile: Fredell Lack: https://web.archive.org/web/20061216043652/http://www.music.uh.edu/people/lack.html
*"Texas Heart" by Dennis Rooney. ''The Strad'', January 1990.
*"Town Hall
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Recital
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for Fredell Lack." ''The Dallas Morning News
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'', 12 February 1943.
*''University of Houston
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Bulletin: College of Humanities and Fine Arts'', 1977-78 issue. Vol. 42-H, No. 3.
''Upscale Weekly''
University of Houston, 5 February 2007.
*Wagner, Anton. Frederick Jacobi
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and : The Prodigal Son: http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Theatre/voaden/theprodigalson_article.htm
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