ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, January 29, 1996 TAG: 9601290061
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: NEW YORK
TYPE: NEWS OBIT
Henry Lewis, who broke racial barriers in the music world as the first black conductor and music director of a major American orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, and as the first black to conduct at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, died Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 63.
The cause was a heart attack, said his former wife, the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.
Lewis since the 1960s had conducted nearly every major American orchestra, as well as orchestras and opera companies in Milan, London, Paris, Tokyo, Copenhagen and other music capitals.
- The New York Times
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