Jenkins, Newell (Owen)
Jenkins, Newell (Owen)
Jenkins, Newell (Owen), American conductor and musicologist; b. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 8, 1915. He studied at the Orchesterschule der Sachsischen Staatskapelle in Dresden, and later in Freiburg im Breisgau at the Städtische Musikseminar; also took courses with Wilibald Gurlitt in Freiburg im Breisgau and with Carl Orff in Munich. Upon his return to the U.S., he worked with Leon Barzin at the National Orch. Assn. in N.Y. Following army service in World War II, he received a Fulbright grant to study in Italy. In 1957 he founded the Clarion Music Soc. of N.Y, with which he presented a stimulating series of annual concerts of rarely performed works of the Baroque period. He also appeared as a guest conductor in London, Hilversum, Milan, Naples, Turin, Florence, Stuttgart, and Stockholm. In 1975 he founded the Festival of Venetian Music of the 17th and 18th Centuries at Castelfranco Veneto. From 1964 to 1974 he taught at N.Y.U.; from 1971 to 1979 he was a lecturer at the Univ. of Calif, at Irvine. He ed. (with B. Churgin) Thematic Catalogue of the Works of G.B. Sammartini (1976), and also ed. nine syms. of Brunetti (1979).
—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire