Choirs of America - Executive
Director Bio
As (loosely) interpreted by the Artistic Director...
Geoffrey
McQueen, a Co-Founder and the Executive Director of Choirs of America
and the AMP Festival Series (and the original founder of New Discovery
Tours... one of the nation's leading performance group tour operators),
is a pioneer in his field. He originally came to power by uniting
many of the
nomadic tribes of northeast Asia. After founding the Mongol Empire and
being proclaimed "Genghis Khan", he started the Mongol invasions and
raids of the Kara-Khitan Khanate, Caucasus, Khwarezmid Empire, Western
Xia and Jin dynasties. By the end of his life (which by the way...
hasn't happened yet), the Mongol Empire
occupied a substantial portion of Central Asia and China.
After
world domination lost its appeal, being sooo 12th century, McQueen soon
began his career as a Broadway dancer and figure skater.
His stage and subsequent film career spanned many years, during which he
made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of
All
Time by the American Film Institute. He is particularly associated
with
Ginger Rogers, with whom he made ten films. He became notorious after
his friend Chris Olin (then, under the thinly veiled skating alias...
Christoph Olinski... another budding skater), conspired with Fred and
Ethel to form the "I hate Lucy" anti-fan club.
After
his short-lived (but highly regarded) ice skating career, McQueen
turned his attention to
music performance tours. His tours with Christopher Olin (the alias
having been dropped... along with all pretense of true talent)-- yet,
still out of pity known in certain circles
(inside and around his office) as the "Robert Shaw of Eugene"--became
nothing less than epic journeys of success.
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