NEW YORK (AP)- Bandleader Lester Lanin, who supplied music for presidential inaugurations, Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday party and gatherings hosted by the Rockefellers, duPonts and Chryslers, died ...
Q. Please tell me about Lester Lanin. Is he still active with his orchestra and where could I write to him? Thank you. — Sam Meyer, Delray Beach A. Lanin, born Aug. 26, 1911, became a band contractor ...
Lester Lanin, who made presidents, royalty and generations of debutantes dance to his steady, infectious beat, died Wednesday at his home in New York. He was 97.Mr. Lanin, who led society dance bands ...
NEW YORK (AP)- Bandleader Lester Lanin, who supplied music for presidential inaugurations, Queen Elizabeth's 60th birthday party and gatherings hosted by the Rockefellers, duPonts and Chryslers, died ...
If you love to dance and listen to music that is designed to compliment a social function, then you may have danced to or listened to the Lester Lanin Orchestra. At least one of them! Lester Lanin ...
He stood to one side of the bandstand, wearing a dinner jacket and turning occasionally to direct his musicians with a hand movement or two. As they struck up a current Paul Simon hit, ”You Can Call ...
Lester Lanin, whose band played last night at the inauguration ball for Muhlenberg College President Jonathan Messerli, probably is not known to most music fans under 30. But to the largely ...
SOCIETY bandleader Lester Lanin, who played presidential inaugurations, debutante parties and Princess Diana’s wedding, died at home in Manhattan Wednesday. He was 97. Lanin supplied dance music to ...