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Myron Floren (November 5, 1919 – July 23, 2005) was an American musician best known as the accordionist on The Lawrence Welk Show between 1950 and 1980.
Jul 25, 2005 · Myron Floren, an accordion virtuoso whose televised solos with the Lawrence Welk band became a staple of the cheerful folksiness that was the Welk show's hallmark, died on...
Jul 25, 2005 · LOS ANGELES — Myron Floren, the accordion virtuoso who came to fame in the mid-1950s as a regular on “The Lawrence Welk Show,” has died. He was 85.
A fixture of American television for several decades as the accordionist on the durable Lawrence Welk Show , Myron Floren (1919–2005) perhaps achieved wider visibility than any other exponent of his instrument. Floren shared an upper Midwestern farm background with bandleader Lawrence Welk.
Jul 24, 2005 · Myron Floren, the accordion virtuoso who came to fame in the mid-1950s as a regular on “The Lawrence Welk Show,” the long-running weekly musical program that brought “champagne music” into...
Myron Floren. Soundtrack: Mystery Men. Composer, accordionist, educator, and singer educated at Augustana College. Myron entertained at World War II USO camp shows and earned a War Department citation for front-line entertaining. From 1949-1950, Myron headed the accordion department at the College of Music.
Jul 24, 2005 · ROLLING HILLS ESTATES, Calif. (AP) — Myron Floren, an accordion player who entertained generations of television viewers on "The Lawrence Welk Show," died Saturday. He was 85.
Jul 1, 2019 · Myron Floren joined a musical group called the Buckeye Four. He also taught accordion at the St. Louis College of Music. On March 7, 1950, Floren took his wife to the Casa Loma ballroom,...
A fixture of American television for several decades as the accordionist on the durable Lawrence Welk Show, Myron Floren (1919–2005) perhaps achieved wider visibility than any other exponent of his instrument.
Floren, who starred on the Lawrence Welk Show for more than 50 years, died of cancer July 23, 2005 at his home in Rolling Hills, California, at the age of 85. A consummate musician, Myron could play everything from a polka to a pop song to a Bach cantata with equal style, grace and virtuosity.
