Next weekend, members of the Columbus Symphony Chorus will walk onto the stage of the Ohio Theatre for the symphony’s season finale.
Although Jenkins, now 82, says that he feels “about 58 or 60” — and notes that the cardiovascular exercise of wielding a baton often means that conductors live “long, long lives” — he wanted to go out at the top of his game. “My first church solo, I was 6 years old,” he said. “My dad stood me up on the communion table and I sang a hymn. I didn’t think there was any big deal to standing up and conducting a choir or playing the piano.”
“Every week, you were up there doing things. I was an organist and choirmaster in those days,” said Jenkins, whose work was sufficiently admired to be written about in an article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. That article garnered the attention of leaders at the First Community Church on Cambridge Boulevard, who sought out Jenkins to take over their music program. He moved to Columbus in 1973.
“They’ve grown immensely in their ability to read music, they’ve gown immensely in their blend and their sound,” he said.
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