User:DCLawwyer/sandbox

This is my last edit to this page. Take it or leave it. Over the years, I have had more than enough of different reviewers applying different standards (many of which exist in no written form, and were apparently made up at the whim of individual reviewers.) And now this article, after meeting concerns by one reviewer, gets bounced by a second, who cites no rule under which the new concerns arise. I've had this experience before. I finally got an article on Executive Order 12866 past the zig-zaggy standards of different people, but at too much cost. I will not play whack-a-mole with standards that vary person-to-person again. I have had more than enough of being jerked around under unwritten standards that vary from the written rules, on a reviewer-by-reviewer basis.

Thea article as I submitted it cited |reliable sources, and those sources supported every fact. As far as I know, that's all that any wiki-rule requires. As far as I know, there's no requirement to footnote each individual fact. (See Izler Solomon for an article on a similar person--my article was more footnoted than that one.) But some reviewer has a different opinion, and bounced the article based on that unwritten personal preference. So to meet those new concerns, I have footnoted every single fact, even though (as far as I know) that isn't required. Does it improve anything? Well, in the process I found a few names of institutions that had changed, and a few more marginal facts to add. But really?

If this article is fine as is, remove this note and make it final. If you don't like something and you want to be constructive, then fix it. If neither of those apply, then delete the article permanently, AND erase my account. That second request is a "both or neither" -- no halfises. If you're going to jerk me around without basis in any citeable written rule, and without being constructive, then get me out of here. Permanently.

I'm an attorney. I am perfectly happy with written rules that are consistently applied. I am more than happy with people editing my work. On the other hand, I quickly end relationships with those that make up rules on the fly, that don't read carefully, or that just obstruct. DCLawwyer (talk) 14:14, 10 February 2022 (UTC)

Theo Alcántara is a Spanish-born American conductor, born April 16, 1941, in Cuenca, Castile, Spain. Maestro Alcántara conducts both orchestra and opera. Maestro Alcántara has held the following positions:
 * Deputy Director of the Camerata Academica and the Orchestra at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg
 * 1964–66, conductor of the Frankfurt Opera, Frankfurt, Germany
 * 1967–74, director of the opera workshop and symphony orchestra of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
 * 1968–72, Jackson Symphony Orchestra in Jackson, Michigan
 * 1973–78, Western Michigan Opera (now Opera Grand Rapids)
 * 1973–78, Grand Rapids Symphony, Grand Rapids, MI
 * 1978–89, Phoenix Symphony, Phoenix AZ, and laureate conductor 1989-93
 * 1981-84 Artistic Director of the Music Academy of the West, Summer Festival, Santa Barbara, California
 * 1987-2002 Pittsburgh Opera
 * 1990–93, Artistic Director of the Caracas Opera and Caracas International Opera Festival
 * 1993-2002 Artistic Director of the Bilbao Orkestra Sinfonikoa
 * 1994- Principal Guest Conductor of the National Orchestra of Spain
 * 2004- Artistic Advisor and Chief Conductor of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic and the Orchestra of the Teatro Colón

He has guest conducted with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, New Orleans Symphony (now the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra), the American Symphony Orchestra in New York, Oregon Symphony, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Barcelona Symphony, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Simón Bolívar Orchestra of Caracas, Venezuela, Copenhagen Radio Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, National Symphony of Mexico, the Paris Radio and Television Orchestra (now the Orchestre National de France),  the Salzburg Camerata Academica, the Spanish Radio and Television Orchestra, and the Municipal Orchestra of Taipei in a tour of China. He has been invited to conduct at music festivals in Aspen, Grant Park in Chicago, Chautauqua, Meadbrook, Spoleto, and Saratoga Springs.

On May 27, 1978, he made his debut with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, conducting Don Giovanni. Maestro Alcántara has conducted a number of the world's major opera companies, including the New York City Opera, the Florida Grand Opera, New Orleans Opera, the San Diego Opera, Washington National Opera, the Teatro Liceo in Barcelona, the opera of Teatro Real in Madrid, the Mexico City Opera, Puerto Rico Opera, the Canadian Opera in Toronto, and the International Opera Festival in the Canary Islands.

Maestro Alcántara has recorded for Naxos Records and Marco Polo records.

Maestro Alcántara studied at the Real Conservatorio de Musica in Madrid, and received diplomas in piano and composition. While at the Real Conservatorioe, he toured as a concert pianist and accompanist throughout Spain, France, and North Africa. He then studied at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he attended master classes with Herbert von Karajan, receiving his diploma in conducting in 1964. At the Mozarteum, he was awarded the Lilli Lehmann Medal from the Mozarteum International Foundation. He made his conducting debut with Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid. In 1966 he won the silver medal at the Dimitri Mitropolous International Music Competition in New York.