For all those things the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music doesn’t quite cover, there’s the Smartie Pants School of Music.
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Music
Shed A Little Light
Performed in 2006 at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory.
Yup. That's me.
How I Learned To Bow
In the late 1970s (perhaps 1977?), the Los Angeles dance world gathered to honor Lilian Alice Marks and Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay, the two brightest stars of 20th-century English dance, better known in the ballet universe as Dame Alicia Markova and (eventually, knighted in 1981) Sir Anton Dolin.
Read MoreThe Story of "The Songs Of Ascents"
I could almost believe the whole thing never happened, except for 2 things.
First, the whole thing was recorded on audio and video (thank you, Bill Hartzell), and I revisit it at least once a week. Second... well, we'll get to that.
Read MoreA Piano Selection Collection
Our parents weren’t performers themselves, but boy, they sure filled their house with music. Dad played Hawaiian guitar as a boy, Mom had a genuinely pretty voice and could play piano, and they both ended up in church choirs, but mostly they put their money (literally) on their five children. We all turned out musical, and grew up thinking everyone sang in the car and gathered around the home pianos (we realized some poor families had only one) or campfire for a family singalong in 2- or 3-part harmony. I found it odd if a classmate said he didn’t take piano lessons. Church WAS music for us – I heard my dad say as much on many occasions – and we owe our sight-singing abilities to all the hymns and choir music growing up.
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