Leighton Lucas

Born into a musical household-his Canadian composer father, Clarence Lucas, and his English pianist mother, a pupil of Clara Schumann-Leighton Lucas first performed as a dancer with Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes before turning to conducting, serving as musical director of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the early 1920s. A self-taught composer, he later led the Markova-Dolin ballet company, arrang… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources