Thursday, November 6, 7pm - 8:30pm EST

GUEST SPEAKER SERIES
WEBINAR
Members - FREE
Non-Members - $35

Join Conductor, Musicologist and Vocal Coach Will Crutchfield (Teatro Nuovo) and Henry Fogel, former dean of the Chicago College of Performing Arts for a lively conversation exploring “The Tenor Voice and the 20th Century: A Classical Constant meets Techno-Cultural Variables.”

This discussion will take place over Zoom. Participants are invited to send questions in before to be considered for discussion during the live conversation.

After the Guest Speaker discussion, attendees will be invited to Zoom break out sessions to debate among themselves. Crutchfield and Fogel will drop into each room for interaction with the attendees.

Meet Our GUEST SPEAKERS

Will Crutchfield is an American conductor, musicologist, and vocal coach. He is the founding Artistic and General Director of Teatro Nuovo, a company that presented its inaugural season in the summer of 2018 at Lincoln Center's Frederick P. Rose Hall as the successor to the twenty years of opera at the Caramoor International Music Festival led by Crutchfield. He also has been a frequent guest conductor at the Polish National Opera and has led opera performances at the Canadian Opera Company, Washington National Opera, and Minnesota Opera. From 1999 through 2005, he served as Music Director of the Opera de Colombia in Bogotá. He was recently named one of Musical America's 2017 "Movers and Shapers," the publication's list of the top 30 industry professionals of the year.

For Ricordi and the Fondazione Rossini he prepared the critical edition of Aureliano in Palmira, also conducting the production at Pesaro that won first place as “Best Rediscovered Work” in the 2015 International Opera Awards. In the same year he was named a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation in recognition of his operatic work, and in 2017 he was named as one of Musical America’s thirty “Movers and Shapers” for his leadership in innovative training and performance. In 2020 he was featured in The New York Times for his first-ever reconstruction of Beethoven’s sketches for the lost tenor aria from the 1805 opera Leonore. His other reconstructions include Donizetti’s unfinished Symphony in E Minor, the only known full-scale concert symphony by a major Italian composer of the 19th century.

He has contributed articles on historical performance practice to the New Grove Dictionaries of Music and numerous scholarly journals, and is currently completing a book on the same subject for Oxford University Press.

Henry Fogel was appointed Dean of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University beginning in July, 2009, a school at which he has taught since 2002. In addition, he continues to provide a limited amount of consulting for musical organizations, working as a part of the Catherine French Group, and has been an artistic consultant for the Sao Paulo Symphony in Brazil since 2008. From 2003-2008 Mr. Fogel was President and CEO of the League of American Orchestras, an organization that serves almost 1,000 symphony orchestras. From 1985-2003, Mr. Fogel was President of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Under his distinguished leadership the Orchestra’s endowment increased from $19 million to over $160 million, and he oversaw the 5 million renovation of Orchestra Hall. During Mr. Fogel’s term the CSO dramatically strengthened its community engagement and educational programs. Mr. Fogel also served as Executive Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., Orchestra Manager of the New York Philharmonic, as well as  Program Director and Vice-President of WONO, a full-time classical music commercial radio station in Syracuse, New York. Mr. Fogel has received honorary doctorate degrees from Roosevelt University, Northwestern University, the Curtis Institute, Columbia College in Chicago, and a Cultural Leadership Citation from Yale University for his service to the cultural life of the nation. In June, 2009, he received the highest honor in the symphony orchestra field, the League of American Orchestras’ Gold Baton Award. Mr. Fogel has also served as a narrator with a number of orchestras, and has recorded a speaking role in the opera Tony Caruso’s Last Broadcast on the Naxos label. He has produced internationally syndicated radio programs for Chicago’s Fine Arts Station WFMT, including currently Collectors’ Corner, which is derived from his extension personal collection of over 20,000 classical recordings.