Resumé
2003
Education
Temple University — B.M. 1967, M.M. 1969
Private study in conducting with William R.
Smith, Max Rudolph,
Private study in trombone with Henry Smith and
Keith Brown.
Conducting
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, 1975-1982 —
Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductor,
Associate Conductor, Principal Conductor
Eugene Symphony, 1981-1985, Music Director
Tucson Symphony, 1982-87, Music Director
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, 1986-88, Music
Director
Kansas City Symphony, 1986- 1998, Music Director
Guest conducting — Baltimore Symphony,
Denver Symphony, Houston Symphony, Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, National Symphony,
New Orleans Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Pittsburgh
Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Opera Theatre St. Louis, American Music
Theater Festival, San Antonio Festival, Chamber Music Northwest
Compositions
Aaron’s Horizons, chamber orchestra (6/18/98
- St. Paul, MN, St Paul Chamber Orchestra)
Angelus, full orchestra (3/17/02 Minneapolis,
MN, Minneapolis Civic Orchestra)
Bela’s Bounce , full orchestra (10/4/98-
Bloomington, Indiana, Camerata)
Carol Antiqua, ensemble of neglected instruments,
(12/23/00), A Prairie Home Companion, Town Hall,
New York
Crooked Timber, full orchestra (1/23/98 - Kansas
City, MO, KCSO)
Surveying Lake Wobegon, narrator and full orchestra
(9/3/00, Ravinia Festival)
Solstice, full orchestra (12/10/97 - Kansas
City, MO, KCSO)
Three Dreams and a Question, chorus and orchestra
(4/28/98 - Kansas City, KCSO)
Three Mile Table, sextet (7/18/98 - Elizabethtown,
PA., Music at Gretna)
Three Sketches for Three Winds (fl, ob, bssn)
- 6/1/02 - Kansas City, MO
Walt Whitman’s Dream (chorus and orchestra)
7/15/00, International Choral Festival, Missoula,
Montana
Composer
in Residence
Music at Gretna, 1998
International Choral Festival, Missoula, Montana
(2000) — Continental Harmony
The Chamber Music Festival of the East, Bennington,
Vermont, 2003
Radio,
Television
St. Paul Sunday, 1980-present, host
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin, host
— begins to air October 6, 2003
Center Stage from Wolftrap, 1998 to present,
co-host
Sprint Symphony Hour, 1988-1999, host
In The Shadow of the Towers — September
11 memorial, narrator
St. Mark Passion with Simon Russell Beales —
PRI, Spring 2003, narrator
Lessons and Carols from the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NYC, — PRI, Christmas, 2003, narrator
Music from Marlboro, 1990,1991, host
The Kings Singers PBS Christmas Special, 1988,
host/conductor
BBC — The Spirit of the Age (Boston Early
Music Festival), 1993, host
PBS — Kansas City Symphony in Concert,
1987, host/conductor
Concert Focus, KUAT-TV, 1986-87
Music Notes, KCPT-TV, 1989-90
Orchestral
positions
Philadelphia Orchestra, 1967-68, Assistant Principal
Trombone
Pittsburgh Symphony, 1969-75, Co-Principal Trombone
St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, 1975-82, Trombone
Recordings
American Voices, Kansas City Symphony, KCSO
Heartstrings, Kansas City Symphony, BMG,
The Ghost Factory, Kansas City Symphony, Grammavision
Claire de Lune and Sister Moon, producer, Ocean
Records
Azure-te, co-producer, Concord Records
Collage, co-producer, Concord Records
Daydream, co-producer, Concord Records
Paris to Rio, co-producer, Concord Records
Ballads, Remembering John Coltrane, co-producer,
Concord Records
In Blue, co-producer, Concord Records
Awards,
honors
Peabody Award, 1996 — St. Paul Sunday
Morning
Deems Taylor Award (ASCAP), 1990 — St.
Paul Sunday Morning
ASCAP Awards for programming — 1984, 1988,
1993, 1997, 1998
Westminster College, 1990, honorary doctorate
Rockhurst College, 1997, honorary.