— Oklahoma! Sunken Garden Amphitheater, San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden October 1965 — The Music Man (nine performances) July 1966 — The Sound of Music Sunken Garden Amphitheater, San Antonio Japanese Tea Garden Selected compositions It's Against My Principles, Eugene Edward Lacritz, © 7 May 1953 EU315348 Saint Mary’s Hall, Eugene Edward Lacritz, © 6 April 1990 PAu001377914 Music education Higher education Lacritz studied music at, and earned a Bachelor of Music with honors from, The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC), majoring in clarinet. His clarinet teacher was Rosario Mazzeo (1911–1997). His other teachers included Betty Hilker (piano), Francis M. Findlay (1894–1967) (orchestra), George Moleux (1900–1966) (band), Francis Judd Cooke (1910–1995) (musical form & contemporary music), Susan Williams (harmony), and Warren Storey Smith (1885–1971) (music history). Lacritz attended NEC for one extra semester in Spring 1954. That semester he studied clarinet with Mazzeo and Advanced Ensemble and Orchestra Drill with Fernand Gillet. While at NEC, Lacritz served as Vice President of Kappa Gamma Psi (1949); he was on the Dean's list in 1949; he served as Business manager for the NEC quarterly publication, The Melodic Line and The Neume, the Conservatory's yearbook. Lacritz also was president of his sophomore class and student council. While in living in Massachusetts, Lacritz was a member of the Boston Civic Symphony, the New England Philharmonic, and the Salem Philharmonic. Secondary education Lacritz graduated from Salem High School, Massachusetts, June 1947. Executive career In June 1957, Lacritz became head of the a new phonograph record department at Wolff & Marx's. Later, he served as store manager for Battlestein's in River Oaks, Houston. Later he returned to San Antonio to manage Town & Country fashions. In 1963, he was appointed manager of Frost Fashion Square at North Star Mall in San Antonio — the major retail department store that opened October 21, 1963. The store was the company's first urban venture and included all the services and fashion departments of its flagship store in downtown San Antonio. Frost Bros. billed itself as one of the finest specialty stores in the Southwest and one of the most famous among the few locally and independently owned specialty stores in America. The heirs of Philip Battlestein (1870–1955) sold the Battlestein stores in 1967 to Manhattan Industries, Inc., a New York-based shirt maker who, in 1969 acquired Frost Bros. The two chains merged under the Frost name. In 1980,