The Amarillo Symphony in Texas has chosen George Henry Jackson from a competitive field to be its new music director.
He starts in September.
A Londoner, Jackson has been conducting The Excursions of Mr Brouček this summer at Grange Park.
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Congratulations, George! As the song says, ‘See you in September”. The Amarillo is indeed fortunate to have you as their next music director!
Like we don’t have enough talented American conductors to choose from????????
Out of town is always better don’t ya know.
Amarillo! For many people it’s just a dusty cowtown in the middle of the panhandle. One of the most thrilling Mahler 2nds I’ve ever heard was there several years ago. Fine orchestra – and Texas has an awful lot of them, save San Antonio…
“This is the first time in 8 years that the Amarillo Symphony has conducted a music director search. The multiyear, international search has been going on since early 2020, under the guidance of a search committee, which is made up of orchestra musicians, board members, and community members. The committee received over 300 applications for the position and has carefully reduced the applicants to 3 incredibly talented finalists.”
300 were willing to move to Amarillo.
You wouldn’t have to move to Texas. Their season is 8 sets of mainstage concerts (once a month from Sept -April).
Just go once a month.
$1.6 million budget
Maybe they’d like to live in Amarillo and not have to depend of the airlines to get to work.
Greyhound buses is keeping a seat warm for him from Fort Worth. The scenic route.
How embarrassing to San Antonio that Amarillo can maintain an orchestra when they can’t.
Big difference though. San Antonio was full time. Amarillo is just per-service. The musicians in Amarillo probably make less than 10k a year.
There’s also a new, beautiful concert hall there.
I guess it’s beautiful. The photos of the interior I just looked up on Google Images are pretty trippy to my eyes!
https://www.google.com/search?q=amarillo+symphony+hall&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwi2yu2-xfL4AhXfkGoFHeMSD9AQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=amarillo+symphony+hall&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIECAAQGDoHCAAQsQMQQzoFCAAQgAQ6BggAEB4QBToGCAAQHhAIUJEQWKQjYIooaABwAHgAgAF7iAH3CJIBBDEzLjGYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=gPzMYraKDd-hqtsP46W8gA0&bih=969&biw=1920&hl=en
With that interior, they could put on Scriabin’s “Prometheus, Poem of Fire” and not need to worry about any of the extra props.
Nothing wrong with Amarillo. I spent a week there one night.
Lots of talent in small town productions. Played in pit orchestra for a production of funny thing happened on the way to the forum in the U. P. Michigan when my brother was living there. Was awsome. I Did a lot of amature musical theature productions in Chicago. Pit orchestra. Reed 2 clarinet and tenor sax. It is a wonderful thing that these things go on. Best wishes to the Amarillo symphony and their new music director
let’s hope he knows the way