- Won Broadway's 1955 Tony Award as Best Conductor and Musical Director for "The Saint of Bleecker Street."
- On 16 September 1966, conducted the world premiere of American composer Samuel Barber's opera, "Antony and Cleopatra," at the new Metropolitan Opera House, New York, in inauguration of the Met Opera's move to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
- Former conductor of New York's Metropolitan Opera (from 1953). He regularly conducted The New York Philharmonic and Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
- His wife also died of cancer.
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