Louise Sherman, 61, died Feb. 11, 1998, at her Denver home.
She was born Nov. 9, 1936, at Garden City, the daughter of Ellsworth and Matha
Harman Sherman. She attended Garden City High School. She studied at Eastman
School of Music, the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School of Music. A Denver resident since 1982, she assisted conductor Thomas Schippers at the Spoleta Festival in Italy from 1960 to 1965 and worked with Leonard Bernstein in the early 1960s. She worked with ballet choreographers John Butler and George Balanchine and was one of two on-stage pianists in Balanchine’s “Liebeslieder Waltzes,” which were danced by the New York City Ballet. She worked with opera companies in Europe and America, spending the longest time with the Metropolitan Opera, serving as a coach and rehearsal pianist, and beginning as assistant conductor in 1965. She was one of the first women at the
Metropolitan Opera to have that title. She and her husband later co-founded Opera Colorado at Denver, where they staged 35 productions. She and her husband also directed the Joseph and Loretta Law Artist Center, which they created in 1994 as a place of study for young singers.
On Oct. 6, 1967, she married Nathaniel Merrill at New York City. He survives. Other survivors include: a son, Christopher Merrill, Denver; three stepchildren; mother, Garden City; a sister, Lenore Sherman Hatfield, Bloomington, Ind.; and three grandchildren.
She was born Nov. 9, 1936, at Garden City, the daughter of Ellsworth and Matha
Harman Sherman. She attended Garden City High School. She studied at Eastman
School of Music, the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School of Music. A Denver resident since 1982, she assisted conductor Thomas Schippers at the Spoleta Festival in Italy from 1960 to 1965 and worked with Leonard Bernstein in the early 1960s. She worked with ballet choreographers John Butler and George Balanchine and was one of two on-stage pianists in Balanchine’s “Liebeslieder Waltzes,” which were danced by the New York City Ballet. She worked with opera companies in Europe and America, spending the longest time with the Metropolitan Opera, serving as a coach and rehearsal pianist, and beginning as assistant conductor in 1965. She was one of the first women at the
Metropolitan Opera to have that title. She and her husband later co-founded Opera Colorado at Denver, where they staged 35 productions. She and her husband also directed the Joseph and Loretta Law Artist Center, which they created in 1994 as a place of study for young singers.
On Oct. 6, 1967, she married Nathaniel Merrill at New York City. He survives. Other survivors include: a son, Christopher Merrill, Denver; three stepchildren; mother, Garden City; a sister, Lenore Sherman Hatfield, Bloomington, Ind.; and three grandchildren.
Louise Sherman, 61, died Feb. 11, 1998, at her Denver home.
She was born Nov. 9, 1936, at Garden City, the daughter of Ellsworth and Matha
Harman Sherman. She attended Garden City High School. She studied at Eastman
School of Music, the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School of Music. A Denver resident since 1982, she assisted conductor Thomas Schippers at the Spoleta Festival in Italy from 1960 to 1965 and worked with Leonard Bernstein in the early 1960s. She worked with ballet choreographers John Butler and George Balanchine and was one of two on-stage pianists in Balanchine’s “Liebeslieder Waltzes,” which were danced by the New York City Ballet. She worked with opera companies in Europe and America, spending the longest time with the Metropolitan Opera, serving as a coach and rehearsal pianist, and beginning as assistant conductor in 1965. She was one of the first women at the
Metropolitan Opera to have that title. She and her husband later co-founded Opera Colorado at Denver, where they staged 35 productions. She and her husband also directed the Joseph and Loretta Law Artist Center, which they created in 1994 as a place of study for young singers.
On Oct. 6, 1967, she married Nathaniel Merrill at New York City. He survives. Other survivors include: a son, Christopher Merrill, Denver; three stepchildren; mother, Garden City; a sister, Lenore Sherman Hatfield, Bloomington, Ind.; and three grandchildren.
She was born Nov. 9, 1936, at Garden City, the daughter of Ellsworth and Matha
Harman Sherman. She attended Garden City High School. She studied at Eastman
School of Music, the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School of Music. A Denver resident since 1982, she assisted conductor Thomas Schippers at the Spoleta Festival in Italy from 1960 to 1965 and worked with Leonard Bernstein in the early 1960s. She worked with ballet choreographers John Butler and George Balanchine and was one of two on-stage pianists in Balanchine’s “Liebeslieder Waltzes,” which were danced by the New York City Ballet. She worked with opera companies in Europe and America, spending the longest time with the Metropolitan Opera, serving as a coach and rehearsal pianist, and beginning as assistant conductor in 1965. She was one of the first women at the
Metropolitan Opera to have that title. She and her husband later co-founded Opera Colorado at Denver, where they staged 35 productions. She and her husband also directed the Joseph and Loretta Law Artist Center, which they created in 1994 as a place of study for young singers.
On Oct. 6, 1967, she married Nathaniel Merrill at New York City. He survives. Other survivors include: a son, Christopher Merrill, Denver; three stepchildren; mother, Garden City; a sister, Lenore Sherman Hatfield, Bloomington, Ind.; and three grandchildren.
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