Conductor Andrew Davis dies at 80, headed Lyric Opera of Chicago and orchestras on 3 continents

(*3*)Davis died Saturday at Rusk Institute in Chicago from leukemia, his supervisor, Jonathan Brill of Opus 3 Artists, mentioned Sunday.

(*3*)Davis were managing the illness for between 1 1/2 and 2 years, but it surely changed into acute in a while after his eightieth birthday on Feb. 2.

(*3*)Davis used to be song director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1975-88 and Britain’s Glyndebourne Festival from 1988-2000; leader conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1989-2000; then song director of the Lyric Opera from 2000-21.

(*3*)He carried out the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America in workshops ultimate summer season, then at New York’s Carnegie Hall and on excursion.