Jay Meetze
Encyclopedia
Jay D. Meetze is an American
conductor
, impresario
, producer
and teacher
. He is currently Artistic Director
and Music Director
of the Opera Company of Brooklyn
, which he co-created in 2000. He taught and conducted with Manhattan School of Music
and the school systems of New York City
, Chicago
and East Lansing and Grand Blanc, Michigan
.
Maestro Jay Meetze is lauded for his “passionate and undeniably impressive command of performances” and “sympathetic leadership of the forces of the OCB.” (Opera News
). Meetze’ innovative vision for opera is featured on the Jeopardy quiz show, Good Morning America
with MythBusters
, CNN
’s Tips from the Top, ZDF (German Public TV), other favorable and numerous coverage include radio: National Public Radio’s Day to Day
, American Public Media
’s Marketplace
, 1010WINS (AM)
, WNYC
’s Soundcheck
and Overnight Music, and reviews and articles (some front-page and full-page) in: Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Daily News and NY Post newspapers, New York
, Life
, American Record Guide
, Opera News
Magazine, Crain’s New York Business-Crain Communications, Classical Singer Magazine, Frommer’s and two arts administration books.
Metropolitan Opera
’s “Opera News” magazine named his CD “TOP 10 OF THE YEAR” and “CRITIC’S CHOICE,” recorded on Albany Records
and features music by and with Thomas Pasatieri
, whose many film orchestrations include "Finding Nemo
", Road to Perdition
, American Beauty
, The Little Mermaid
, The Shawshank Redemption
, Fried Green Tomatoes
, Legends of the Fall
, Thomas Newman
's Angels in America
and Scent of a Woman
, among many others. The CD has Pasatieri’s most famous opera Signor Deluso and his newly rewritten La Divina, sung by San Francisco Opera
Center’s Director Sheri Greenawald, MSM’s Ashley Putnam
and several young artists selected by Meetze and Pasatieri.
In 2011, Meetze guest conducted in February Die Fledermaus
with New York Lyric Opera Theatre (NYLOT) at Broadway's Symphony Space and Pagliacci
with Opera Company of Brooklyn
(OCB). In March, he conducted Tosca
with OCB with students and staff from Barnard College
and Columbia University
at Union Theological Seminary
. In April, Meetze guest conducted the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Southern Arizona Opera Company in Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino
, Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto and Puccini's Suor Angelica
. In May, he conducted Carmen
with OCB. In June he conducted another Carmen with NYLOT and with Midori and Friends
and OCB he conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia for public school students in Chinatown and in Queens. In September, he led Suor Angelica
with OCB and in October Dido and Aeneas
with Barnard - Columbia Chorus and OCB. In November, he conducted Die Entführung aus dem Serail
in a penthouse overlooking Lincoln Center as part of an OCB fundraiser that sold out weeks in advance. In December, Meetze finishes 2011 with Roméo et Juliette
in Times Square with OCB.
Supporters/colleagues include NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
, Richard Tucker Music Foundation
President Barry Tucker, Alfred Hubay, conductors Joseph Rescigno
, William Hicks
, Steven Jarvi, Forbidden Broadway
creator Gerard Alessandrini
, directors Francesca Zambello
, Ira Siff, Rhoda Levine
and Ned Canty, and singers Lucine Amara
, Martina Arroyo
, Harolyn Blackwell
, Simon Estes
, Kelly Kaduce
, Elaine Malbin
, Frederica Von Stade
. Past supporters: Betty Allen
, Lorenzo Malfatti
, Anna Moffo
, Charles Riecker, conducting mentors James Lee
, Gerhard Samuel and Richard Woitach.
Meetze received his Master of Music
in Orchestral Conducting
at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
on a full scholarship and Bachelor of Music
in Music Education
from Michigan State University
. He made his professional debut in 1992 and has performed across the US, Israel, Italy, Austria, England and Germany. From a musical family, his first instrument was the trumpet, next he added the piano. By the seventh grade he was playing for Veterans of Foreign Wars
, Fraternal Order of Eagles
and in churches with his father and brother. Other instruments he learned and played included: harpsichord, horn, organ, saxophones, xylophone and voice. Other conducting teachers: Gustav Meier
, Peter Oundjian
, Dr. Jonathan Reed and Christopher Zimmerman.
United States
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conductor
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
, impresario
Impresario
An impresario is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays or operas; analogous to a film producer in filmmaking, television production and an angel investor in business...
, producer
Producer
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and teacher
Teacher
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. He is currently Artistic Director
Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...
and Music Director
Music director
A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
of the Opera Company of Brooklyn
Opera Company of Brooklyn
The Opera Company of Brooklyn is an opera company founded in 2000 which performs in a variety of venues in New York City. It is a non-profit organization operating under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code.-The company:...
, which he co-created in 2000. He taught and conducted with Manhattan School of Music
Manhattan School of Music
The Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
and the school systems of New York City
New York City
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, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
and East Lansing and Grand Blanc, Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
.
Maestro Jay Meetze is lauded for his “passionate and undeniably impressive command of performances” and “sympathetic leadership of the forces of the OCB.” (Opera News
Opera News
Opera News is an American classical music magazine. It has been published since 1936 by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, a non-profit organization located at Lincoln Center which was founded to support the Metropolitan Opera of New York City...
). Meetze’ innovative vision for opera is featured on the Jeopardy quiz show, Good Morning America
Good Morning America
Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...
with MythBusters
MythBusters
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, CNN
CNN
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’s Tips from the Top, ZDF (German Public TV), other favorable and numerous coverage include radio: National Public Radio’s Day to Day
Day to Day
Day to Day was a one-hour weekday American radio newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio , and produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate. Madeleine Brand served as host since 2006...
, American Public Media
American Public Media
American Public Media is the second largest producer of public radio programs in the United States of America after NPR. Its non-profit parent, American Public Media Group, also owns and operates radio stations in Minnesota, California, and Florida. Its station brands are Minnesota Public Radio,...
’s Marketplace
Marketplace
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, 1010WINS (AM)
WINS (AM)
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, WNYC
WNYC
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’s Soundcheck
Soundcheck
A soundcheck is the preparation that takes place before a concert, speech, or similar performance, when the performer and the sound crew run through a small portion of the upcoming show on the venue's sound system to make sure that the sound in the venue's "Front Of House" and stage monitor sound...
and Overnight Music, and reviews and articles (some front-page and full-page) in: Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Daily News and NY Post newspapers, New York
New York (magazine)
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, Life
Life (magazine)
Life generally refers to three American magazines:*A humor and general interest magazine published from 1883 to 1936. Time founder Henry Luce bought the magazine in 1936 solely so that he could acquire the rights to its name....
, American Record Guide
American Record Guide
The American Record Guide is a classical music magazine. It has reviewed classical music recordings since 1935.Since 1992, with the incorporation of the Musical America editorial functions into ARG, it started covering concerts, musicians, ensembles and orchestras in the US.The magazine prides...
, Opera News
Opera News
Opera News is an American classical music magazine. It has been published since 1936 by the Metropolitan Opera Guild, a non-profit organization located at Lincoln Center which was founded to support the Metropolitan Opera of New York City...
Magazine, Crain’s New York Business-Crain Communications, Classical Singer Magazine, Frommer’s and two arts administration books.
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
’s “Opera News” magazine named his CD “TOP 10 OF THE YEAR” and “CRITIC’S CHOICE,” recorded on Albany Records
Albany Records
Albany Records is an American classical music record label focusing particularly on contemporary classical music. It was established by Peter Kermani in 1987, and is based in Albany, New York.-External links:**...
and features music by and with Thomas Pasatieri
Thomas Pasatieri
Thomas Pasatieri is an American opera composer.He began composing at age 10 and, as a teenager, studied with Nadia Boulanger...
, whose many film orchestrations include "Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo is a 2003 American comi-drama animated film written by Andrew Stanton, directed by Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich and produced by Pixar. It tells the story of the overly protective clownfish Marlin who, along with a regal tang called Dory , searches for his abducted son Nemo...
", Road to Perdition
Road to Perdition
Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime film directed by Sam Mendes. The screenplay was adapted by David Self, from the graphic novel of the same name by Max Allan Collins. The film stars Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig...
, American Beauty
American Beauty (film)
American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a middle-aged magazine writer who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela...
, The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid
"The Little Mermaid" is a popular fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen about a young mermaid willing to give up her life in the sea and her identity as a mermaid to gain a human soul and the love of a human prince...
, The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman....
, Fried Green Tomatoes
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a 1987 novel by Fannie Flagg. It was adapted into the film Fried Green Tomatoes, which was released in 1991.-Plot:...
, Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall
Legends of the Fall is a 1994 epic drama film based on the 1979 novella of the same title by Jim Harrison. It was directed by Edward Zwick and stars Brad Pitt, Anthony Hopkins and Aidan Quinn. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction , and Best...
, Thomas Newman
Thomas Newman
Thomas Montgomery Newman is an American composer and conductor, best known for his many film scores. He is one of the more respected and recognized composers for modern film and has scored over fifty feature films in a career which spans nearly three decades.Newman has received a total of ten...
's Angels in America
Angels in America
Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes is the 1993 Pulitzer Prize winning play in two parts by American playwright Tony Kushner. It has been made into both a television miniseries and an opera by Peter Eötvös.-Characters:...
and Scent of a Woman
Scent of a Woman
This article is about the American film. For the Korean drama, see Scent of a Woman .Scent of a Woman is a 1992 drama film directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a job as an assistant to an irascible, blind, medically retired Army officer...
, among many others. The CD has Pasatieri’s most famous opera Signor Deluso and his newly rewritten La Divina, sung by San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera
San Francisco Opera is an American opera company, based in San Francisco, California.It was founded in 1923 by Gaetano Merola and is the second largest opera company in North America...
Center’s Director Sheri Greenawald, MSM’s Ashley Putnam
Ashley Putnam
Ashley Putnam is an American soprano from New York City. Her professional singing career began in 1976 and has spanned over 30 years.-Early Life & Career:...
and several young artists selected by Meetze and Pasatieri.
In 2011, Meetze guest conducted in February Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus
Die Fledermaus is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.- Literary sources :...
with New York Lyric Opera Theatre (NYLOT) at Broadway's Symphony Space and Pagliacci
Pagliacci
Pagliacci , sometimes incorrectly rendered with a definite article as I Pagliacci, is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe...
with Opera Company of Brooklyn
Opera Company of Brooklyn
The Opera Company of Brooklyn is an opera company founded in 2000 which performs in a variety of venues in New York City. It is a non-profit organization operating under Section 501 of the Internal Revenue Code.-The company:...
(OCB). In March, he conducted Tosca
Tosca
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900...
with OCB with students and staff from Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
and Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
at Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with nearby Columbia...
. In April, Meetze guest conducted the Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Southern Arizona Opera Company in Verdi's Overture to La Forza del Destino
La forza del destino
La forza del destino is an Italian opera by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on a Spanish drama, Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino , by Ángel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene adapted from Friedrich Schiller's Wallensteins Lager. It was first performed...
, Saint-Saens' Cello Concerto and Puccini's Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico...
. In May, he conducted Carmen
Carmen
Carmen is a French opéra comique by Georges Bizet. The libretto is by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée, first published in 1845, itself possibly influenced by the narrative poem The Gypsies by Alexander Pushkin...
with OCB. In June he conducted another Carmen with NYLOT and with Midori and Friends
Midori and Friends
Midori and Friends is a New York City based philanthropic organization that provides musical education for underserved public school children...
and OCB he conducted Il Barbiere di Siviglia for public school students in Chinatown and in Queens. In September, he led Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica
Suor Angelica is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico...
with OCB and in October Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell to a libretto by Nahum Tate. The first known performance was at Josias Priest's girls' school in London no later than the summer of 1688. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid...
with Barnard - Columbia Chorus and OCB. In November, he conducted Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Die Entführung aus dem Serail is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie...
in a penthouse overlooking Lincoln Center as part of an OCB fundraiser that sold out weeks in advance. In December, Meetze finishes 2011 with Roméo et Juliette
Roméo et Juliette
Roméo et Juliette is an opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, based on The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. It was first performed at the Théâtre Lyrique , Paris on 27 April 1867...
in Times Square with OCB.
Supporters/colleagues include NYC Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz
Marty Markowitz
Marty Markowitz is the Borough President of Brooklyn, New York City, the most populous borough in New York City with nearly 2.6 million residents. Markowitz was first elected borough president in 2001 after serving 23 years as a New York State Senator...
, Richard Tucker Music Foundation
Richard Tucker Music Foundation
The Richard Tucker Music Foundation, founded in 1975, is a "non-profit cultural organization dedicated to perpetuating the artistic legacy of the great American tenor through the support and advancement of the careers of talented American opera singers by bringing opera into the community...
President Barry Tucker, Alfred Hubay, conductors Joseph Rescigno
Joseph Rescigno
Joseph Rescigno is a conductor and Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor of the Florentine Opera Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in the United States . He also serves as Music Director of La Musica Lirica festival in Italy...
, William Hicks
William Hicks
Colonel William Hicks , British soldier, entered the Bombay army in 1849, and served through the Indian mutiny, being mentioned in despatches for good conduct at the action of Sitka Ghaut in 1859....
, Steven Jarvi, Forbidden Broadway
Forbidden Broadway
Forbidden Broadway is an Off-Broadway satirical revue conceived, written and directed by Gerard Alessandrini. The original version of the revue opened on January 15, 1982 at Palsson's Supper Club in New York City and ran for 2,332 performances. Alessandrini has rewritten the show over a dozen...
creator Gerard Alessandrini
Gerard Alessandrini
Gerard Alessandrini is an American playwright, parodist, actor and theatre director best known for creating the award-winning off-Broadway musical theatre parody revue Forbidden Broadway...
, directors Francesca Zambello
Francesca Zambello
Francesca Zambello is a leading American opera and theatre director. Zambello lived in Europe when she was a child, learning to speak French, Italian, German and Russian. Zambello is of Italian descent, the daughter of Jean , an actress and Charles C. Zambello, a former actor who became head of...
, Ira Siff, Rhoda Levine
Rhoda Levine
Rhoda Levine is an opera-director, choreographer and a faculty-member at several schools of music.Levine was born in New York, NY. She wrote the libretto for Opus Zoo by Luciano Berio and has also written children's books. She is the artistic director of Play It By Ear, an improvisational opera...
and Ned Canty, and singers Lucine Amara
Lucine Amara
Lucine Amara is an American soprano who was largely based at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.-Biography:Amara was born Lucine Armaganian in Hartford, Connecticut, of Armenian heritage, before moving to San Francisco where she was raised.She studied at the San Francisco's Community Music School...
, Martina Arroyo
Martina Arroyo
Martina Arroyo is an operatic soprano of Puerto Rican and African-American descent who had a major international opera career during the 1960s through the 1980s...
, Harolyn Blackwell
Harolyn Blackwell
Harolyn Blackwell is an African-American lyric coloratura soprano who has performed in many of the world's finest opera houses, concert halls, and theaters in operas, oratorios, recitals, and Broadway musicals...
, Simon Estes
Simon Estes
Simon Estes is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career since the 1960s...
, Kelly Kaduce
Kelly Kaduce
Kelly Kaduce is an American soprano. She was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, United States of America. A graduate of St. Olaf College and Boston University , Kaduce won the 1999 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions...
, Elaine Malbin
Elaine Malbin
Elaine Malbin is an American soprano who had a prolific international career singing in operas, musicals, and concerts from 1949 through 1967. She appeared in a number of Broadway productions in the 1940s and 1950s...
, Frederica Von Stade
Frederica von Stade
Frederica von Stade is an American mezzo-soprano. Born in Somerville, New Jersey, she acquired the nickname "Flicka" in her childhood. Von Stade attended the Mannes College of Music in New York City. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1970 and in 1971 appeared as Cherubino in The...
. Past supporters: Betty Allen
Betty Allen
Betty Allen was a renowned American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s...
, Lorenzo Malfatti
Lorenzo Malfatti
Lorenzo Malfatti was a baritone opera singer and professor of music at Chatham College where he taught voice, diction, and opera, and conducted the Chatham College Choir.Later in his career he was a voice coach for the Lyric Opera of Chicago...
, Anna Moffo
Anna Moffo
Anna Moffo was an Italian-American opera singer and one of the leading lyric-coloratura sopranos of her generation...
, Charles Riecker, conducting mentors James Lee
James Lee
James Matthew Lee, PC was the 26th Premier Prince Edward Island . He was the leader of the PEI Progressive Conservative Party from 1981 to 1987....
, Gerhard Samuel and Richard Woitach.
Meetze received his Master of Music
Master of Music
The Master of Music is the first graduate degree in Music awarded by universities and music conservatories. The M.Mus. combines advanced studies in an applied area of specialization with graduate-level academic study in subjects such as music history, music theory, or music pedagogy...
in Orchestral Conducting
Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. The primary duties of the conductor are to unify performers, set the tempo, execute clear preparations and beats, and to listen critically and shape the sound of the ensemble...
at the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
University of Cincinnati
The University of Cincinnati is a comprehensive public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio, and a part of the University System of Ohio....
on a full scholarship and Bachelor of Music
Bachelor of Music
Bachelor of Music is an academic degree awarded by a college, university, or conservatory upon completion of program of study in music. In the United States, it is a professional degree; the majority of work consists of prescribed music courses and study in applied music, usually requiring a...
in Music Education
Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. It touches on all domains of learning, including the psychomotor domain , the cognitive domain , and, in particular and significant ways,the affective domain, including music appreciation and sensitivity...
from Michigan State University
Michigan State University
Michigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
. He made his professional debut in 1992 and has performed across the US, Israel, Italy, Austria, England and Germany. From a musical family, his first instrument was the trumpet, next he added the piano. By the seventh grade he was playing for Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans of Foreign Wars
The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States is a congressionally chartered war veterans organization in the United States. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, VFW currently has 1.5 million members belonging to 7,644 posts, and is the largest American organization of combat...
, Fraternal Order of Eagles
Fraternal Order of Eagles
Fraternal Order of Eagles International is a fraternal organization that was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington by a group of six theater owners including John Cort , brothers John W. and Tim J. Considine, Harry Leavitt , Mose Goldsmith and Arthur Williams...
and in churches with his father and brother. Other instruments he learned and played included: harpsichord, horn, organ, saxophones, xylophone and voice. Other conducting teachers: Gustav Meier
Gustav Meier
Gustav Meier is the director of the Orchestra Conducting Program at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. He is also Music Director of the in Connecticut.-Biography:...
, Peter Oundjian
Peter Oundjian
Peter Oundjian is a violinist and conductor, the youngest of five children from an Armenian father and English mother. He also claims Scottish ancestry through his maternal grandfather, a Sanderson, and the MacDonell of Glengarry clan.Oundjian was educated in England, where he began studying the...
, Dr. Jonathan Reed and Christopher Zimmerman.
Press
- 'Move Over, Zeffirelli: A New Opera Company Thinks Small', New York Times, HOPE REEVES
- 'Only the Voices are Huge', New York Magazine, Justin DavidsonJustin DavidsonJustin Davidson is a classical music and architecture critic. He began his journalism career as a local stringer for the Associated Press in Rome before moving to the United States to study music at Harvard...
- full-page review of OCB/Albany Records' CD, Opera News, Editors Choice, F. PAUL DRISCOLL
- Opera on the piers, with a touch of garage music, New York Daily News, Rachel Monahan
- Marketplace, American Public Media, Ashley Milne-Tyte
- Front page of Crain's Business New York by Miriam Kreinin Souccar
- Opera Houses in Private Homes, Crain's New York Business, Miriam Kreinin Souccar
- Tips From The Top, CNN, Betty Nguyen
- Columbia UniversityColumbia UniversityColumbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
's Daily Spectator: 'Alternative Operas Bring Perspective to the Stage' by Ginia Sweeney http://www.columbiaspectator.com/2009/01/30/alternative-operas-bring-perspective-stage - Jeopardy TV quiz show features OCB: The category was HOPE THIS ISN'T AN OPERA CATEGORY: The gameboard. "Fuhgeddaboudit! The Opera Co. of this NYC borough performs in unusual venues, like people's living rooms" It was answered correctly, Brooklyn.
- Professionals and students study Meetze' OCB in two new books:
- Arts and Cultural Programming: A Leisure Perspective by Gaylene Carpenter, Doug Blandy
- Performing Arts Management: A Handbook of Professional Practices by Tobie S. Stein and Jessica Bathurst.
- Francesca Zambello - "I support and applaud the OCB efforts and am grateful you are there making a small dent in creating a thirst for an audience of now and the future."
- New York Times - "On Saturday the cast offered much to enjoy."
- American Record Guide Magazine - "This was a new experience, and I'm glad I had it."
- New York Post - "This 'Flute', with minimum trappings and a futuristic setting suggested by slide projections, was a game and often witty theatrical effort, occasionally over the top, but endearing for its shoestring effort. Some good voices were on display."
Reviews
- American Record Guide, November/December 2003
- Opera News, November 2003
- The Wall Street Journal, Friday, 7 November 2003, p. A1
- The New York Post, Tuesday, August 12, 2003, p. 36
- The New York Times, August 11, 2003, p. E3
- City Tech News & Events, October 1, 2003
- Opera Jamboree December 1, 2000
Collaborations/Venues
- AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
's St. Charles's Church, Vienna
- Bronx OperaBronx OperaThe Bronx Opera is a Bronx, New York opera company founded in 1967 by artistic director and music director Michael Spierman.The company performs two operas a year, both with full orchestra, one lesser known opera in the fall, and an opera from the Standard repertoire in the spring.Performances are...
- Brooklyn, New York's American Opera ProjectsAmerican Opera ProjectsAmerican Opera Projects is a professional opera company based in New York City, NY and is a member of OPERA America, the Fort Greene Association, and the Alliance of Resident Theatres/ New York]] . The company's primary mission is to develop and present new works...
, Art/NY's Fort Greene Auditorium, BargemusicBargemusicBargemusic, formally known as Bargemusic, Ltd. is a classical music venue and cultural icon in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1977, it is housed on a converted coffee barge moored at Fulton Ferry Landing on the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge....
, Brooklyn Bar Association: Annual Dinner at Marriott, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce Christmas Party, Brooklyn Heights First Unitarian Congregational Society, Brooklyn Museum of Art: Eternal Egypt Exhibition, Brooklyn Public LibraryBrooklyn Public LibraryThe Brooklyn Public Library is the public library system of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is the fifth largest public library system in the United States. Like the two other public library systems in New York City, it is an independent nonprofit organization that is funded by the...
: Main Branch and Brooklyn Heights, Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn CollegeConservatory of Music at Brooklyn CollegeThe Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College is the music school of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York...
, New York City College of TechnologyNew York City College of TechnologyNew York City College of Technology , nicknamed City Tech, is the largest four-year public college of technology in the northeastern United States, and a constituent college of the City University of New York...
's Voorhees Theatre and Klitgord Auditorium, Northside Piers, Plymouth Church, Pratt InstitutePratt InstitutePratt Institute is a private art college in New York City located in Brooklyn, New York, with satellite campuses in Manhattan and Utica. Pratt is one of the leading undergraduate art schools in the United States and offers programs in Architecture, Graphic Design, History of Art and Design,...
: Student Welcome Week, St. Ann and the Holy Trinity ChurchSt. Ann and the Holy Trinity ChurchSt. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church is an historic Episcopal church located at the corner of Montague and Clinton streets in the Brooklyn Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City. The building was built as Church of the Holy Trinity, and opened in 1847. Following years of controversy, the...
- Chicago Public SchoolsChicago Public SchoolsChicago Public Schools, commonly abbreviated as CPS by local residents and politicians and officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, is a large school district that manages over 600 public elementary and high schools in Chicago, Illinois...
' Lenart Regional Gifted CenterLenart Regional Gifted CenterTed Lenart Regional Gifted Center is located in the southeast side of Chicago Chatham neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois Lenart School serves grades K-8 with a selective enrollment program for gifted students. The school is part of the Chicago Public Schools, CPS, system...
- Cincinnati, OhioCincinnati, OhioCincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio. Cincinnati is the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located to north of the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border, near Indiana. The population within city limits is 296,943 according to the 2010 census, making it Ohio's...
's AIDS Volunteers Of Cincinnati, College Hill Presbyterian ChurchCollege Hill Presbyterian ChurchCollege Hill Presbyterian Church, located just outside Oxford, Mississippi, is an historic church and a member of the Presbyterian Church in America . It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places....
, Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, St. John's Unitarian Universalist Church, University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music's Opera Department, Ballet and Contemporary Music Ensembles, Philharmonia and Concert Orchestras
- East Lansing, MichiganEast Lansing, MichiganEast Lansing is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan. The city is located directly east of Lansing, Michigan, the state's capital. Most of the city is within Ingham County, though a small portion lies in Clinton County. The population was 48,579 at the time of the 2010 census, an increase from...
's Wharton Center for Performing ArtsWharton Center for Performing ArtsThe Wharton Center for Performing Arts is located in East Lansing, Michigan, USA, on the campus of Michigan State University. It is the home of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, which performs 17 concerts annually...
, Michigan State UniversityMichigan State UniversityMichigan State University is a public research university in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Founded in 1855, it was the pioneer land-grant institution and served as a model for future land-grant colleges in the United States under the 1862 Morrill Act.MSU pioneered the studies of packaging,...
, East Lansing High SchoolEast Lansing High SchoolEast Lansing High School is a public high school in the city of East Lansing, Michigan, United States. It is managed by the East Lansing Public Schools district....
and MacDonald Middle School
- Eureka Springs, ArkansasEureka Springs, ArkansasEureka Springs is a city in Carroll County, Arkansas, United States. Along with Berryville, it is one of the two county seats for the county. It is located in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the town is 2,350...
' Opera in the Ozarks, Fayetteville, ArkansasFayetteville, ArkansasFayetteville is the county seat of Washington County, and the third largest city in Arkansas. The city is centrally located within the county and is home to the University of Arkansas. Fayetteville is also deep in the Boston Mountains, a subset of The Ozarks...
' Walton Arts CenterWalton Arts CenterThe Walton Arts Center is Northwest Arkansas' largest performing arts center. It is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas near the campus of the University of Arkansas, and serves as a cultural center for the Northwest Arkansas area. The building was opened in 1992 in large part because of funds... - Flint, MichiganFlint, MichiganFlint is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and is located along the Flint River, northwest of Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau reports the 2010 population to be placed at 102,434, making Flint the seventh largest city in Michigan. It is the county seat of Genesee County which lies in the...
's The Whiting (auditorium)The Whiting (auditorium)The Whiting is a 2,043-seat auditorium located in the Flint Cultural Center of Flint, Michigan, USA. Originally titled James H. Whiting Auditorium at its opening in 1967, it was renovated in 1999 and given its current name in 2005...
, Flint Cultural CenterFlint Cultural CenterThe Flint Cultural Center is a campus of institutions located in Flint, Michigan. It is dedicated to promoting area residents with an array of cultural, scientific, and artistic experiences and promotes understanding of the diverse cultures reflected in the Greater Flint community. Dr...
, Flint School of Performing Arts - Grand Blanc, MichiganGrand Blanc, MichiganGrand Blanc is a city in Genesee County in the U.S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Flint. The population was 8,242 at the 2000 census. The city is situated within Grand Blanc Charter Township, but is politically independent...
's Grand Blanc Community High SchoolGrand Blanc Community High SchoolGrand Blanc Community High School is a public high school in Grand Blanc, a suburb of Flint, Michigan, USA...
bands and choirs - IsraelIsraelThe State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
's Tel AvivTel AvivTel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...
with Raanana Symphonette Orchestra - ItalyItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
's Florence Cathedral, Opera Theatre of Lucca, VaticanVatican CityVatican City , or Vatican City State, in Italian officially Stato della Città del Vaticano , which translates literally as State of the City of the Vatican, is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, Italy. It has an area of...
's St. Peter's BasilicaSt. Peter's BasilicaThe Papal Basilica of Saint Peter , officially known in Italian as ' and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world... - Katonah, New YorkKatonah, New YorkKatonah, New York is one of three unincorporated hamlets within the town of Bedford, Westchester County, New York, United States.-History:Katonah is named for Chief Katonah, an American Indian from whom the land of Bedford was purchased by a group of English colonists...
United Methodist ChurchUnited Methodist ChurchThe United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley... - London, England's St Paul's CathedralSt Paul's CathedralSt Paul's Cathedral, London, is a Church of England cathedral and seat of the Bishop of London. Its dedication to Paul the Apostle dates back to the original church on this site, founded in AD 604. St Paul's sits at the top of Ludgate Hill, the highest point in the City of London, and is the mother...
- Long IslandLong IslandLong Island is an island located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of New York, just east of Manhattan. Stretching northeast into the Atlantic Ocean, Long Island contains four counties, two of which are boroughs of New York City , and two of which are mainly suburban...
's Freeport, New YorkFreeport, New YorkFreeport is a village in the town of Hempstead, Nassau County, New York, USA, on the South Shore of Long Island. The population was 42,860 at the 2010 census. A settlement since the 1640s, it was once an oystering community and later a resort popular with the New York City theater community...
Memorial Library
- Manhattan, New York's Alvin Ailey American Dance TheaterAlvin Ailey American Dance TheaterThe Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey...
- The Joan Weill Center for Dance, Amato OperaAmato OperaThe Amato Opera was an opera company located in the East Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. The company was produced by the husband and wife team of Anthony and Sally Amato and presented opera on a small scale with a reduced orchestra at low prices...
, Bryant ParkBryant ParkBryant Park is a 9.603 acre privately managed public park located in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and between 40th and 42nd Streets in Midtown Manhattan...
, Carnegie HallCarnegie HallCarnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east stretch of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park....
, Columbia Artists ManagementColumbia Artists ManagementColumbia Artists Management is an international leader in managing the careers and touring activities of the world's most prominent performing artists and institutions.Led by Chairman and CEO Ronald A...
Hall, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, ICO Art & Music Gallery, Inwood, ManhattanInwood, ManhattanInwood is the northernmost neighborhood on Manhattan Island in the New York City borough of Manhattan.-Geography:Inwood is physically bounded by the Harlem River to the north and east, and the Hudson River to the west. It extends southward to Fort Tryon Park and alternatively Dyckman Street or...
's Good Shepherd Catholic Church, Liederkranz Club, Manhattan School of MusicManhattan School of MusicThe Manhattan School of Music is a major music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition...
, Marymount Manhattan CollegeMarymount Manhattan CollegeMarymount Manhattan College is an urban, coeducational, independent, private, liberal arts college located in Manhattan, New York City, New York with a focus in performing arts. The mission of the College is to educate a socially and economically diverse student body by fostering intellectual...
: Adult Continuing Education course in opera, Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church, Metropolitan OperaMetropolitan OperaThe Metropolitan Opera is an opera company, located in New York City. Originally founded in 1880, the company gave its first performance on October 22, 1883. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager...
, New York City OperaNew York City OperaThe New York City Opera is an American opera company located in New York City.The company, called "the people's opera" by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, was founded in 1943 with the aim of making opera financially accessible to a wide audience, producing an innovative choice of repertory, and...
, Saint James Church, St. Theresa's Church (New York City)St. Theresa's Church (New York City)The Church of St. Theresa is a Roman Catholic parish located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, at 16-18 Rutgers Street, northwest corner of Henry Street. The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York....
, Stephen Wise Free SynagogueStephen Wise Free SynagogueThe Stephen Wise Free Synagogue is a synagogue located at 30 West 68th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.In 1905, Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise then serving a congregation in Portland, Oregon, was under consideration as Rabbi of Temple Emanu–El in New York City, but withdrew his name...
, Studios 353
- New York City Public Schools: Douglaston, QueensDouglaston, QueensDouglaston, population 14,168 , is a community in the New York City borough of Queens. Douglaston comprises six distinct neighborhoods: Doug Bay, Douglas Manor, and Douglaston Hill, all located north of Northern Boulevard on the peninsula abutting Little Neck Bay; Douglaston Park, located between...
-PS 98, Forest Hills, QueensForest Hills, QueensForest Hills is a neighborhood in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York, United States.-Neighborhood:The neighborhood is home to upper-middle class residents, of whom the wealthier residents often live in the neighborhood's Forest Hills Gardens area...
-PS 101, Bushwick, BrooklynBushwick, BrooklynBushwick is a neighborhood in the northern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood, formerly Brooklyn's 18th Ward, is now part of Brooklyn Community Board 4...
's Philippa Schuyler Middle SchoolPhilippa Schuyler Middle SchoolIS #383 Philippa Schuyler Middle School for the Gifted and Talented is a New York City Department of Education Public Middle School. The school is located in the Bushwick part of Brooklyn. Admission to this school is by competitive examination, unlike many public Middle Schools in New York City....
, Science Skills Center High School, Harlem, New York's PS 180, The Young Women's Leadership School, Bronx, New York's Christopher Columbus High SchoolChristopher Columbus High School (Bronx, New York)Christopher Columbus High School is a public secondary school located in the Pelham Parkway, northeast section of the Bronx, New York. It is within walking distance from the Bronx Zoo and the New York Botanical Garden....
- Southold, New YorkSouthold, New YorkSouthold is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States. It is located in the northeastern tip of the county, on the North Fork of Long Island. The population was 20,599 at the 2000 census...
at Horton Point LightHorton Point LightHorton Point Light is a lighthouse on the north side of Eastern Long Island, New York near Southold.-History:The current lighthouse was established and the tower was first lit in 1857. The site is on a bluff above Long Island Sound. The tower was automated in 1933 and is now operational. The...
overlooking Long Island SoundLong Island SoundLong Island Sound is an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, located in the United States between Connecticut to the north and Long Island, New York to the south. The mouth of the Connecticut River at Old Saybrook, Connecticut, empties into the sound. On its western end the sound is bounded by the Bronx... - Summit, New JerseySummit, New JerseySummit is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States. At the 2010 United States Census, the city's population was 21,457. Summit had the 16th-highest per capita income in the state as of the 2000 Census....
's Stony Hill Players - Tucson, ArizonaTucson, ArizonaTucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
's Southern Arizona Symphony Orchestra and Southern Arizona Opera Company