Founder and music director of Washington Concert Opera, 1986-2001. Sources: WCO's own About Us page as archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20020809123134/http://www.concertopera.org:80/page813585.htm ("Founded in 1986 by Stephen Crout"), its staff listing at https://web.archive.org/web/20020809124502/http://www.concertopera.org:80/page815209.htm ("Stephen Crout, Founder/Artistic Consultant"), and Tim Page in The Washington Post, 16 April 2002, reprinted at https://web.archive.org/web/20020809123945/http://www.concertopera.org:80/page815210.htm ("its outgoing founder and former music director, Stephen Crout... Last year Crout retired from WCO").