Festival Direction
Adelaide Festival 1994 (Australia) Artistic Director
The 1994
festival included some 250 performances and visual arts events, drawn primarily from the
nations & cultures of Australia's time-zones: Japan, Korea, Indonesia, China,
Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Western
Samoa, the Cook Islands, and Australia (Immigrant and Aboriginal). Events from outside
Australia’s time-zones were limited to William Forsythe’s Frankfurt
Ballet and the Mark Morris Dance Group (L‘Allegro; Dido and
Aeneas with Lorraine Hunt Lieberson)
Adelaide Festival 1980 (Australia) Director
Multiple-arts
program included Australian premieres of Death in Venice and The Two
Fiddlers, Peter Brook’s Conference of the Birds, Ballett
der Komische Oper Berlin, Mabou Mines, Gisela May, Fires of London, James Galway,
Christopher Hogwood, Witold Lutosławski, Paratore Brothers, Kazimierz Kord,
Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra, Jennifer Bate, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Erich
Schmid (Schönberg’s Pelleas und Melisande with the
Australian Youth Orchestra), Cathy Berberian, Spike Milligan, Sky, Chico Freeman.
Come Out Festival for Young People 1979 (Adelaide, Australia) Supervising Director
Baltimore International Festival (Maryland) [planned only] Artistic Director 1991-93
Ojai Festival 1991 (California) Artistic Director
The 1991
festival celebrated the bi-centenary of Mozart's death with programs shared between
works Mozart wrote in his last year 1791, and new music composed and conducted by Peter
Maxwell Davies and John Harbison.
PepsiCo Summerfare (New York) Director [1984 to closure 1989]
PepsiCo Summerfare, the performing arts festival of the State University of New York at
Purchase, ("the most adventurous and imaginative of this country's arts festivals"
New Yorker, 1989) was noted for introducing important overseas theatre
& dance to the US; for cutting-edge American presentations; and for
intimate-scale original opera productions, among them Peter Sellars' productions of
Handel, Kurt Weill, and the three Mozart-da Ponte operas, which were taken to Europe,
filmed in Vienna, and seen world-wide on TV, video & laser-disc/DVD.
International companies included the US premier-visits of William Forsythe’s
Ballett Frankfurt; Germany’s Bochumer Ensemble (Dir: Alfred Kirchner);
Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre (Dir: Yuri Lyubimov); Australia’s
Sydney Theatre Company; Ireland’s Druid Theatre; Stáry Theater of
Cracow (Dir: Andrzej Wajda); Russian productions by Yeremin and Vasiliev; and the only
full-scale American performances to date of John Cage's Europeras I &
II, with the Frankfurt City Opera & Ballet. Silent-movies with live
orchestral accompaniments included Ben Hur, Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse, Greed, and City Lights (all supervised by
David Gill and Kevin Brownlow); Concerts included the first American visit of the London
Sinfonietta for a weekend with eight contemporary British composers, a 20-concert series
Haydn the Great Original, and for the first time in America Roger
Norrington’s Beethoven Experience.
Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, (Vienna, Virginia) Artistic
Director 1976-77
Multiple-arts program included The Metropolitan Opera,
original productions of Cavalli's L'Egisto and Busoni's Doktor
Faust, Joffrey Ballet, Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Frederica von
Stade, Benny Goodman, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Elizabeth Taylor, Beverly Sills, Liza
Minelli, Henry Fonda, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Washington National Symphony.