Lester Lanin, who from the White House to Buckingham Palace, from the Plaza Hotel to the grand ballrooms of the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers, epitomized a rarefied and perhaps fading species–the ...

In the yacht and country clubs and the looming shingled mansions by the sea, eastern high society dances the summer nights away to the honey-tongued music of a few favored bands. The men on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WILBRAHAM - Wilbraham & Monson Academy is planning a gala in celebration of Wilbraham's 250th anniversary. "An Elegant Evening with the Lester Lanin Orchestra" will be held May 3 at Lak Dining Hall on ...

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 ...

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