Koussevitzky
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Studying at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony’s summer home, MTT won the Koussevitzky Prize in 1969 and, with the encouragement of Leonard Bernstein, was appointed assistant conductor to music director William Steinberg.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026
Bernstein went on to teach and perform there nearly every summer for 50 years, becoming the head of orchestral conducting at Tanglewood after Koussevitzky died in 1951.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Her father, a physician, was a Lithuanian Jew who had changed the family name from Koussevitzky to Jackson when he immigrated to the United States.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022
Thomas emerged as a Tanglewood fellow, arriving here for the first time in 1968 and winning the Koussevitzky Prize for an outstanding student conductor a year later.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
The fiery Koussevitzky told the Government that, unless he were allowed to travel abroad, he'd never play or conduct another note in Russia.
From The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Brower
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