LaMarchina service tomorrow

Advertiser Staff

Services for former Honolulu Symphony conductor Robert LaMarchina will start at 1 p.m. tomorrow at Borthwick Mortuary. Burial will follow at 3 p.m. at Hawaiian Memorial Park in Kane'ohe.

LaMarchina, who led the symphony from 1967 to 1978, died Tuesday. He was 75.

LaMarchina was born in New York City in 1928. He began studying the cello at age 7 and a year later performed as a solo cellist with the St. Louis Symphony. At 15, he was hired by Arturo Toscanini to perform with the NBC Symphony Orchestra.