The co-founder and longtime conductor of the Stockbridge Sinfonia died earlier this week.Leonard Marcus, originally of New York City, died from complications from an automobile accident in Sheffield in May. He was 84. Marcus attended what is now Tanglewood Music Center, studying with Leonard Bernstein before going to Harvard and serving in the Army during the Korean War. He co-hosted a classical music radio program and was editor of High Fidelity and Musical America Magazine. His son Peter says his father once told him if he heard Bach’s Mass in B Minor before he died, he knew he’d get into heaven.
“It was the last piece of music he heard and shortly after the last note played, he passed away,” said Peter Marcus.
He was also a member of a U.S. cultural delegation to China in 1979. A funeral is set for 10:30 Sunday at Roche Funeral Home in Lenox.
