What We Do
Cabaret
Each Spring the Music Company Orchestra pre- sents a Cabaret evening with dinner, an orchestra The concert and dancing to raise funds for Orchestra. Past venues for our annual Cabaret have included the Canfield Casino, Hall of Springs in Saratoga Music Springs, and Michael's Banquet House in Latham. Company Grant Concerts Orchestra
Funding obtained through the Schenectady County Planning Department's Arts Initiative Grant Pro- gram has helped the MCO present a special youth concert for Black History Month.
Free Concerts for the Community
As part of our mission of bringing the excitement of Music Company Orchestra live concerts to those who would not ordinarily at- P.O. Box 132 tend them, the MCO has given concerts at the Crossings in Colonie, the Kingsway Community Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 Center in Schenectady, Coburg Village in Clifton (518) 381-6391 Park, Prestwick Chase in Saratoga Springs, Avila Retirement Community in Albany, and Freedom Park in Scotia. The MCO performs annual holiday concerts at Niskayuna Reformed Church and Burnt
Hills-Ballston Lake High School sponsored by the http://www.mcomusic.org Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Rotary, in conjunction with the Annual Tree Lighting Ceremony. In addi- tion, the MCO has performed benefit concerts in Contact: the community for the Friends of the Mayfield Li- [email protected] brary, the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Education Foundation, and the FOCUS Churches of Albany.
Gerald Lanoue Conductor & Music Director
Who We Are
The Music Company Orchestra, incorporated in 1974, is a 60-piece volunteer community orchestra. Its Gerald Lanoue D.M.A., a Bennington, Vermont native, is an active conductor and bassoonist in members come from all walks of life the Upstate New York and Southern Vermont and many different backgrounds. area. Dr. Lanoue is privileged to be the new Conducted by Dr. Gerald Lanoue, the music director for the Music Company Orchestra and is currently the principal bassoonist with the orchestra plays a wide range of Sage City Symphony. He received an classical and pops repertoire. The undergraduate education at the Crane School MCO is dedicated to bringing the of Music in Potsdam New York and a masters excitement of live orchestral music to and doctorate at the University of Southern California. He studied conducting with Douglas audiences of all ages and economic Lowry, past Dean and conductor at the Eastman backgrounds, and enthusiastically plays School of Music, as well as John Barnett, the venues throughout the greater Capital associate conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Dr. Lanoue has served on the Region, ranging from traditional faculties of Riverside Community College and concert halls to public parks, Santa Monica College. While in California he community events, schools, retirement was an active orchestral and chamber musician centers and nursing homes. The MCO serving as Principal Bassoon for the Bakersfield Symphony, Los Angeles Classical Ballet, performs most concerts free to the Redlands Symphony, and the American Youth public, and also offers scholarships to Symphony. He has performed most notably musically-inclined students at three with Daniel Lewis, Yehuda Gilad, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Kamien and Zubin Mehta. regional high schools. The MCO is a not-for-profit organization.