Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
Date | Event |
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1953, Sept. 18 | Born, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania |
1976 | B.M. in theory and composition, Northwestern University |
1979 | M.M. in composition, Northwestern University |
1981 | Assistant director, New York City Opera production of Atilla and Canadian Opera production of Norma |
1982 | Discovered missing materials for Show Boat in a warehouse, Secaucus, New Jersey |
1983 | Worked with Houston Grand Opera on its revival of Show Boat, serving as music editor and restoring original orchestrations for the production Worked with orchestrator Hans Spialek on the Broadway revival of On Your Toes |
1984 | Released first recording, Songs of New York |
1985 | Musical director for concert production of Oh, Boy! at Carnegie Hall |
1986 | Conducted concert version of No, No, Nanette at Carnegie Hall |
1987-1992 | Made recordings of original orchestrations for numerous Broadway shows, including Annie Get Your Gun, Anything Goes, Brigadoon, Kiss Me, Kate, Show Boat, and Sitting Pretty |
1993 | Made operatic conducting debut at Juilliard School of Music with productions of Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and Les Mamelles de Tirésias |
2001 | Began project to restore and record the complete works of Jerome Kern and Victor Herbert for the Packard Humanities Institute, but abandoned it after a year |
2003 | Recorded two albums of Wagner excerpts, Scenes from Lohengrin & Siegfried and Scenes from Tristan & Isolde & Gotterdammerung, for Naxos |
2009, Feb. 14 | Died, New York City |