Kenneth Dewitt Schermerhorn (1929–2005) was an American composer and orchestra conductor, most notably for the Nashville Symphony. In 1957, Schermerhorn was appointed to the position of music director of the American Ballet Theatre. He served in this position until 1968, and then again from 1982–1984. Schermerhorn, however, did conduct the 1977 television production of The Nutcracker, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov, Gelsey Kirkland, and the American Ballet Theatre. He also conducted other ballets that Baryshnikov appeared in during the 1970s, such as Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove.
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