Does the baton pass from father to son?
mainTen cases to consider:
1 Arvid and Mariss Jansons
2 Neeme and Paavo Järvi
3 Kurt and Michael Sanderling
4 Erich and Carlos Kleiber
5 Arman and Philippe Jordan
6 Marcello and Lorenzo Viotti
7 Michail and Vladimir Jurowski
8 Leopold and Walter Damrosch
9 Georg-Alexander and Marc Albrecht
10 Kurt and Ken-David Masur
I’m look forward to the first Mother-Daughter combo.
Where are the women!? We demand every orchestra needs to have a “Bring Your Daughter Day to Work” to address the systemic sexism.
Let us not forget Kristjan, of the Järvi family, please.
Plus brother Vallo Järvi.
Felix and Leonard Slatkin
Felix was primarily a violinist – 1st violin of the Hollywood Qt – and concertmaster/contractor on many Hollywood studio dates. He was never a full-time conductor unlike his son Leonard.
I know all that, NYMike. I’ve been in the music business for 50 years plus.
There was nothing in Norman’s posting that invited an “answer” requiring that only full-time conductors were to be included.
If years in the music industry are relevant here, I’m in my 70th year as an AFM member.
Suggest you read his bio.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Slatkin
Felix and Leonard Slatkin
Claudio and Roberto Abbado
Claudio and Roberto are not father and son.
Roberto is the nephew of Claudio
Roberto is Claudio’s nephew.
Roberto is the nephew of Claudio, not the son. Claudio’s son is stage director Daniele.
Why not pianists and violinists? There seem to be plenty.
Because waving your arms is easier than playing the fiddle.
I look forward to the day mothers pass their batons to their daughters, or sons, we’re good that way.
Johann and Johann Strauß
The Bach, Couperin and Scarlatti families. But they’re not conductors, I know!!! But they passed the musical baton, as it were.
and, of course, Stefan Sanderling and Thomas Sanderling, the older sons of Kurt
JARVI ALSO HAS SON KRISTJAN; typo..it is ARMIN Jordan
I would add Mehli Mehta and his son Zubin
Lahav Shani’s father- Michael- is a well known choral conductor in Israel
and Neeme Jarvi is also the father of Kristjan..not just Paavo
Talking of Mehta, this is my favourite piece from CBS This Morning. Very heart-warming.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/legendary-maestro-zubin-mehta-reflects-on-six-decades-of-conducting/
Felix and Leonard Slatkin
Jay – see my comment above.
Armin Jordan instead of Arman Jordan.
Sakari Oramo, Taavi Oramo
Maybe Kristjan Järvi and Thomas Sanderling should also be considered as conducting sons?
You’ve chosen some very good ones. There are some quite bad ones as well…..
Kurt and Stefan Sanderling. Kurt and Thomas Sanderling.
Kurt and Michael Sanderling.
Felix and Leonard Slatkin. Or does being Frank Sinatra’s conductor of choice rule one out?
Felix was Sinatra’s concertmaster/contractor of choice.
On the contrary…that makes him top of the list!!
Neeme Jarvi and Kristian, too!
11. Nikolai Anosov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky
And the lesser sons?
K. Järvi, T. and S. Sanderling, D. Jurowski.
Louis and Simon Halsey
Louis is always at the Barbican when his son’s LSO Chorus are performing. They are both gentlemen and always chat with me. Louis is in his 80’s now but looks a lot younger!
Norman and Jonathan Del Mar
Stretching it a bit, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Martin Fischer-Dieskau plus Placido Domingo and Placido Domingo, Jr (possibly under the category of semi-conductors!)
You said it, but ‘a bit’ is a bit of an understatement.
Oh yes, that’s what we need – semi-conductors; especially with ‘renewables’!!
and the most famous of all Erich and Carlos Kleiber
Miltiades and Constantinos Carydis. Constantinos is now a young, rising conductor. His late father was no international star, but had a respectable career, primarily in Germany, Austria and Greece.
Miltiades was Constantinos’ uncle, if I remember correctly.
You are right. Thanks for pointing it out.
Sure thing is that those fathers conductors inserted their batons into women to give birth to their sons.
To 7: Michail Jurowski has now got a second son with a baton: Dmitri is done with the violoncello (he’s got rheuma, the poor guy) and is now conducting, too.
Thanks for a trip down memory lane for those superb musical families.
Warwick Braithwaite (1896-1971) and Nicholas Braithwaite (b.1939).
Igor Markevitch and Oleg Caetani
Igor Markevitch and Oleg Caetani.
In Oregon, Aaron and Jacob Avshalomov
I think it certainly helps and so do record companies and orchestras (they can build on an established “name”). Witness Ken-David Masur, a gifted musician and good conductor, but Milwaukee auditioned a number of good other ones but chose Masur, I think, because of the name and connotations.
So is it a good or bad thing? Probably a bit of both (if you are one of the competitors it is not so good).
I’m not knocking Ken-David who is a fine musician and person and fully deserving of his new positions (he’s also in Chicago). But definitely, his name helped him.
An illustrious name initially opens doors but later becomes too high a yardstick to measure against, especially if stays in the same field. Examples abound, not only in music.
Johann Sebastian Bach and…
ah nevermind.
Igor Markevitch and Oleg Caetani
In the Kreizberg family, conductors skipped a generation: Yakov Kreizberg and his brother Semyon Bychkov had a grandfather conductor, also named Yakov Kreizberg, a conductor at the Odessa Opera. Their father was a doctor and military scientist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Kreizberg
Why are Rudolf and Peter Serkin not included?