AboutChuck Expertise I am a professional musician, I can play by ear, I arrange music write music, teach music in the public school system, and teach privately. My father was a school music teacher, and I have written three volumes for teaching beginning string players, taking them from scratch to high school level. I have performed in a local production of Music Man (musical) with celebrities John Davidson/Susan Watson and have my masters degree in education. I retired from the classroom in 2004 with 38 yrs. experience-now still substituting for music- and writing arr. for my cello trio(with two audio cd's and one dvd of a performance)http://cellosound.blogspot.com
I have directed church choirs and am principal cellist in our local community orchestra. I really love to arrange music for the groups I perform in and sing and have music in my life every day. A day without music, is a mistake, like having a day without sunshine.
Experience Employment history: I have been employed by our local school district since 1967 as a music teacher from grades 1-12 Organizations: I play cello principal chair in the local community orchestra, and sing in a chorus,and perfom in a barbershop quartet
Education: My early life in high school and college was summer workshops in choral conducting with founder of Westminster Choir College (N.J.) Dr. John F.Williamson (in Who`s Who in Music) and summer workshops with Robert Shaw in San Diego Grad. of Sacramento STate Univ.and masters from Univ. of La VErne, ca
Awards: awarded the Bank of America award in my high school senior year for music
Question Hi,
I'm Laurens Price-Nowak, and I play cello in the national childrens' orchestra of GB, in the under 13 section. I'm of about a grade 8 standard in the English system. (Havn'n done g8 yet, but passed 7 with distinction last year) In the summer we're going to play Shostakovich's symphony no. 5 with the NCO, and I would really like to know what the story behind it is, and because there are lots of different moods and contrasting characters in the piece, it would be useful to know the story, because it would help me play it with more expression, and that would really be appreciated by my tutor (Wendy Davies) and conductor (Roger Clarkson). I'm also playing some other pieces, including Mussorksgy's Night on a bare mountain, which i'm also finding hard to get background information on. If you have any websites or other info sources, then i would really apreciate that.
Thanks a lot!
Answer hi Laurens:
It is such a wonderful age of ENLIGHTENMENT we live in now with internet information at our fingertips. I would have to look this information up in my GROVES set of encyclopedias. Now all you have to do is punch in the information and ''GOOGLE' IT,
