MUSIC Director of Sorg Opera Company will call it quits
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) -- Curtis Tucker plans to step down as general director of the Sorg Opera Company in 2005 after eight years with the organization.
Sorg's board said Wednesday that Tucker has submitted his intention to resign at the end of the 2004-05 season.
Tucker said he would leave between the last show of the season on April 23 and the end of Sorg's fiscal year in June so that he can devote time to other composing and conducting opportunities.
"Eight years is a pretty good chunk of time. I've begun conducting and composing more, and those are the kinds of things where you need to have more time. With my duties at Sorg, it doesn't leave me as much time as I'd like to have," he said.
"We hate to lose him, but the last thing we want to do is stand in his way," said William Teager, the board's president.
Tucker, who conducts the orchestra at most of Sorg's productions, joined the southwestern Ohio company in 1997 as business manager and assistant artistic director. When artistic director Charles Combopiano retired in 2000, Tucker assumed his duties.