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Christopher was born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the birthplace of the American Revolution (“Paul Revere rode by my house; I wasn’t home, but my mother was!”). He studied music at Boston University and a Master in Arts Administration from New York University. Christopher is hoping to turn his graduate credits into a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in Opera Production at The Ohio State University. He is a pre-concert speaker for all classical-series concerts for the Columbus Symphony Orchestra (“if you don’t like me, don’t come early, because you can’t avoid me!”), the Vail Series at Denison University and Opera Columbus. In September, he will be doing a “Classical Music Workshop for Children” at Denison. Christopher designed and taught a class entitled “Listening to Voices” at OSU. (“I had a marvelous time, and two or three of those students have become like my children! Fortunately, I don’t have to pay their tuition!”) Purdy has been a regular panelist for 20 years on the Chevron-Texaco Metropolitan Opera Quiz, now in their 64th and final year. This season he appears on January 24 (“Madame Butterfly”) and March 6 (“La Traviata”).
Purdy has Columbus ties: his father-in-law, Wayne Rittenhouse, was the football coach of Central and Northland High Schools in Columbus. He met his wife, Linda, while they were both working at a food kitchen in New York City. They married in 1989; their daughter was born in 1990, and the family moved to Columbus in 1991. They are still adjusting to the Midwestern lifestyle. A city boy, Purdy maintains that he would be happy to cement over his entire yard…“spare me the lawn mower and the weeds!” His favorite composers are Monteverdi and Bruchner. An accidental encounter with a beat-up recording of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" at the age of eight changed Purdy's direction from law school or the priesthood to one of classical music and public broadcasting. He was so captivated by the cover art, that he took the recording home, popped it on his battery-operated kiddy record player … and his life changed forever. He still has the recording. Click here if you are interested in learning more about Christopher’s views on music
www.christophercpurdy.blogspot.com/ (The views expressed therein are solely the author's and should not be attributed to his employer or its partners.)
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