Lev Aronson; Cellist Imprisoned by Nazis

Lev Aronson, 76, a renowned cellist and teacher whose career was interrupted by internment in a series of German concentration camps during World War II. He began playing cello professionally at age 13 in Riga, Latvia, where he was raised, and studied with Gregor Piatigorsky in Berlin between the two world wars. Aronson came to the United States in 1948 and became principal cellist for the Dallas Symphony, a post he held for 20 years. He later taught at Southern Methodist University and Baylor University. Saturday in Dallas of cancer.