Joseph Eger, 92, master of French horn, social advocate
NEW YORK — Joseph Eger — a French horn player, conductor, and advocate for progressive causes whose work sought to promote harmony in both senses of the word — died Jan. 13 at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 92.
His wife, Dorita Beh-Eger, confirmed the death.
A distinguished horn soloist in the mid-20th century, Mr. Eger later turned to conducting; in the 1960s he served under Leopold Stokowski as an associate conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra.
In the 1960s and ’70s, Mr. Eger founded several groups designed to conscript music and the other arts in the service of social change. The best known of these, Symphony for United Nations, a nongovernmental organization associated with the United Nations, was established in New York in 1974.
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