attracting worldwide media attention. Schermerhorn was a national patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity. Personal life and death Schermerhorn had a son, Stefan Schermerhorn, and two daughters, Veronica Chasanoff and Erica Ancona. He had a long-term relationship with Martha Rivers Ingram, a billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist. Earlier, he was married to the former ballerina Lupe Serrano and, subsequently, to the soprano, Carol Neblett. Schermerhorn died on April 18, 2005, at Vanderbilt University Medical Center after a brief illness with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. His ashes are buried in the base of the statue "The Flutist" in the garden of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville. References Further reading External links Nashville Symphony obituary 1929 births 2005 deaths Kenneth American male conductors (music) Deaths from non-Hodgkin lymphoma People from Nashville, Tennessee People from Schenectady, New York Deaths from cancer in Tennessee 20th-century American conductors (music) 20th-century American male musicians