Jay Blackton

Composer, conductor, pianist and arranger who gave his first piano concerto at the Brooklyn Academy of Music at age 12. He conducted the New York Opera Comique, the Federal Grand Opera Project and the Federal Gilbert and Sullivan Project, the St. Louis Municipal Opera, and the Delaware Philharmonic. He directed the music for the Broadway production of Oklahoma!; Annie Get Your Gun; Inside U.S.A.; Miss Liberty; Call Me Madam; Wish You Were Here; New Faces of 1956; Happy Hunting; Oh Captain; Redhead; Mr. President; and The Girl Who Came to Supper.