Charles Schneider (5)

American Conductor of musical theatre, opera, pops and symphonic music. He conducted the 1967 CBS Television Special of the Year with Jimmy Durante, The Supremes, and Jimmy Dean. He was the Music Director of the off-Broadway hit “Your Own Thing” that won the 1968 New York Critics Award. He has conducted the Catskill Symphony since 1973, was Music Director of the Utica Symphony from 1980-2011, and of the Schenectady Symphony Orchestra since 1982. He was Music Director of the Portland (Oregon) Chamber Orchestra and founding music director of Glimmerglass Opera,