- Speight Jenkins
Speight Jenkins Jr (born
January 31 ,1937 ) is an American arts administrator. Jenkins, a native ofDallas ,Texas , is the son of Speight Jenkins Sr and Sara Baird Jenkins. [cite news | url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=1312287&date=19911020 | title=Sara Jenkins: A Life Of Music | publisher="Seattle Times" | author=Melinda Bargreen | date=20 October 1991 | accessdate=2007-09-13] [cite news | url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2339284&date=19960715 | title=Sara Baird Jenkins, Activist, Grande Dame Of Seattle Opera | publisher="Seattle Times" | author=Melinda Bargreen | date=15 July 1996 | accessdate=2007-09-13] His B.A. degree is from theUniversity of Texas at Austin , and he graduated in 1961 from Columbia University Law School. He served in the US Army, and later became a music critic and journalist. He worked for seven years at "Opera News" as its news and reports editor, and later at the "New York Post" from 1973 to 1981 as music critic. [cite news | url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E6DB1738F932A15751C1A964948260 | title=Speight Jenkins Named Seattle Opera Director | publisher="New York Times" | date=21 December 1982 | accessdate=2007-09-13] He has been a host for US television's "Live from the Met". [cite news | url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=speight01&date=20020901 | title=Speight Jenkins: My ultimate summer concert... | publisher="Seattle Times" | author=Speight Jenkins | date=1 September 2002 | accessdate=2007-09-13]In the early 1980s, Jenkins was a guest lecturer at Seattle Opera for the company's production of
Richard Wagner 's "Der Ring des Nibelungen ". His knowledge impressed the Seattle Opera board of trustees such that they offered him the post of general director of the company. [cite news | url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=2367691&date=19961230 | title=Seattle Opera's Jenkins' Personal Tour Of The `Ring' | publisher="Seattle Times" | author=Melinda Bargreen | date=30 December 1996 | accessdate=2007-09-13] He began his tenure with Seattle Opera as general director in 1983, and in 2003, signed a 10-year extension to his contract.cite news | url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=speight15&date=20030815 | title=Speight Jenkins: Champion of the opera | publisher="Seattle Times" | author=Melinda Bargreen | date=15 August 2003 | accessdate=2007-09-13]Jenkins has two children, Linda Leonie Jenkins and Speight Jenkins III, with his wife Linda, from whom he is separated.
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* [http://www.operajaponica.org/interviews/speightjenkins.htm Maria Nockin, Opera Japonica, February 2003 interview with Speight Jenkins]
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