Wayne S. Brown
Dominique-René de Lerma:
It
has been a few decades of exceptional accomplishments for Wayne Brown
and, because of him, the health of music in America is the better.
After graduating from the University of Michigan's School of Music, he
joined the administrative staff of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. This
was during the time Paul Freeman was making history with performances
and recordings of three centuries from Black music's past. Whenever a
difficulty arose, Wayne Brown quietly and immediately solved the problem
and the paths were cleared. In time, he was named executive director of
the Louisville Orchestra, was music producer for the Cultural Olympics
(1996) in Atlanta, served on the advisory boards of the Mellon and Ford
Foundations, chaired the American Symphony Orchestra League, and spent
sixteen important years as music director for the National Endowment for
the Arts, following the late D. Antoinette Handy, in which another
Michigan product is now involved -- Aaron Dworkin. In this post Brown
was responsible for initiating the nation's highest jazz award, the NEA
Jazz Masters Fellowship, the NEA Opera Honors, and Great American
Voices, and in making NEA even more significant in the country's
cultural fabric. He will be leaving this prestigious Washington
position in January, having been selected president and CEO of the
Michigan Opera Theatre.
MOT
was founded in 1971 by David di Chiera who will become the company's
artistic director. Under his guidance, MOT has evolved into a major
force on the opera scene -- at a time the New York City Opera has
closed.
The formal acceptance of this appointment is available at: http://www.youtube.com/embed/pxdKpKemthk?rel=0.
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Dominique-René de Lerma
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