Donald Johanos

Donald Johanos is best remembered as the conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra during most of the 1960s. He made several notable recordings with the DSO and at one time was viewed as one of the rising stars among American conductors. Though Johanos conducted a broad range of works, he was most closely associated with both American and contemporary music, in particular the works of Ives, Copland, Schuller, and Dan Welcher. Yet he was also praised for his Beethoven, Dvorák, Wagner, Rachmaninov, Bizet, and other mainstream composers. Although from about 1980, Johanos seemed ...