Emanuel Levenson

Emanuel Levenson (August 2, 1916 – June 9, 1998) was an American classical musician most active from the early 1950s through the mid-1980s.

Best known at the time as an opera director, he also taught piano and voice, performed as a concert pianist, and founded several arts organizations which survive to this day.

A graduate of Columbia University who had studied piano under Joseph Adler, Levenson founded the Pennybridge Opera Company in Brooklyn, New York and Berkshire Pro Musica in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

[4][5] Levenson first married Elizabeth Myers during World War II, and had one son, Michael R.

Several years following Skurnick's death in 1952, Levenson married his widow, painter Fay Kleinman.