Cal Poly String Ensemble Travels Thru Time!

Filed in Performance on October 22, 2004 at 9:55 am

On October 26th, at noon in the music building 24, room 105, at Cal Poly, Pomona, the String Ensemble will be offering a unique and educational performance experience for free. We have broken up into seperate quartets, quintets, and sextets to perform arrangements of favorite American movie themes. Lecturer and instructor Kay Pech has organized [...]

Pittsburgh Melody

Filed in Composition, Performance on at 9:38 am

Working with pianist Sharon Wright, my close friend and esteemed colleague, has always been a delight and inspiration. As mentioned in a previous article, she will be accompanying my students for their special recital this November. I was pleased and honored, however, when the kind folks at Quaker Gardens requested that I also contribute to [...]

Fiddling Around

Filed in Performance on October 17, 2004 at 10:47 am

This coming Halloween the Presbyterian Church of Garden Grove will celebrate St. Andrew’s Day. For the eleven years or so that I attended the church before moving to the Rancho Cucamonga area, St. Andrew’s Day was a time to commemorate our congregation’s deep Scottish roots. Every year there has been bagpiping, traditional dancing, displaying of [...]

A Special Word of Thanks

Filed in General on October 10, 2004 at 1:34 pm

Before I become even more fascinated and involved with this site than I already am, I want to be sure to publicly thank my companion, lover, and fiancé, James, for putting this all together for me. He makes my life vibrant, in every way, and I am ever so grateful for him. Thank you, James.

Free “Romanze” at Noon . . .

Filed in Performance on October 9, 2004 at 10:10 pm

Yes, that’s right. California Polytechnic University in Pomona is holding a free noon-hour concert on October 21, in the Music Department Recital Hall. Some of the department’s brightest students will be performing various works for the event, including me. I will be performing a “Romanze” by Dmitri Shostakovich, a beautiful lyric piece for solo violin [...]