Jenkins, Newell (1915–2000)

US conductor and scholar. He studied in Germany, in Dresden, and with Carl Orff in Munich. He made his debut with Dido and Aeneas at Freiburg im Breisgau in 1935. He founded the Yale Opera Group in 1940 and conducted the Bologna Chamber Orchestra 1948–53. As music director of the Clarion Music Society, New York, from 1957, he gave performances of Joseph Kraus, Agostino Steffani, Monteverdi, and Pietro Cavalli. He worked as a lecturer at University of California at Irvine 1971–79, and made recordings of operas by Mayr and Rossini, Kraus's Funeral Ode, and Luigi Cherubini's Mass in D Minor.