- Received an honorary doctor of music degree from Elmhurst College in 1985.
- HIs father was President of the Chattanooga Opera Association.
- Dale published a series of method books, The Dale Clevenger French Horn Methods, with the Neil A Kios Music Company.
- Arnold Jacobs and Adolph Herseth, former principal brass instrumentalists of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, were his mentors.
- He was the Music Director of the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra from 1981 to 1995.
- In 2003, Clevenger premiered John Williams' Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, a work written for him.
- Taught at Roosevelt University and the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
- While in New York City, he recorded commercial jingles.
- Before joining the Chicago Symphony, Clevenger was a member of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Symphony of the Air, and principal horn with the Kansas City Philharmonic.
- Performed with many ensembles worldwide, including the Berlin Philharmonic under Daniel Barenboim.
- He started playing trumpet at age 11 and switched to horn at age 13.
- Was President of the Italian Brass Week.
- He conducted numerous orchestras in North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, recently leading the Orquestra Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon with Daniel Barenboim as soloist.
- Was principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1966 to 2013.
- His recording of Mozart's horn concertos was named Record of the Year in Hungary on the European label Hungaraton.
- Attended Chattanooga High School, aka "City High" when the band program was under the leadership of Richard Casavant, a scholar of marching band history.
- Received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University in 1962.
- Won a Grammy Award for "The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli," which he recorded with members of the Chicago Symphony brass section, as well as the brass sections of the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra.
- He took part in many music festivals including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Florida Music Festival, Sarasota, Marrowstone Music Festival, Bellingham, Washington, and Affinis Music Festival, Japan.
- Featured soloist in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Grammy-winning Strauss Wind Concertos album, on which he plays Strauss's first horn concerto, as well as Andante for horn and piano in C major with Daniel Barenboim accompanying on piano.
- Dale served on the IHS Advisory Council (1974-1981), received the Punto Award in 2009, and was elected an Honorary Member at the 2010 IHS Symposium in Brisbane, Australia.
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