In 1985, when Buck Ross arrived at the University of Houston, the school's music department was jointly running the Studio for Houston Grand Opera — but the school itself wasn't presenting any student-cast operas. 'I was brought in as the stage director for the studio. I was part of the...
."We ended up having to cancel a show that we had planned on doing," Ross says."But we had too many COVID cases," Ross says. They ended up postponing it but that meant they cancelled a showthey'd planned for April. It would have been only the second time the opera by composer Jonathan Dove had been done in the United States."It bit the dust after months and months of planning and preparation," Ross says.
In rehearsal, Ross expects students to come in prepared to work, having studied their material in advance."He will not spoon feed things to you," Dyer says. But at the same time, the atmosphere is supportive, not toxic and students aren't pitted against each other, she says. Singers are encouraged to try new things and stretch their abilities, she says.
Buck is a master teacher. He is a hilarious human being. He is a kind and generous colleague and to say he will be missed is an understatement of huge proportions." When UH hired him for the School of Music Ross had been working with individual students across the country and had been freelancing in New York City."I was doing fine but the thought of steady work was very appealing."
Asked about what he considers his biggest achievements at UH, Ross says:"We became known as a place for contemporary opera and so for probably the last 25 years we’ve scheduled a relatively new opera every season, typically something that had been premiered in the last ten years. We became known as the place that major composers were coming to to have their works done.
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