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Bev & Ray & all,

That's so neat that you love to sing. We have a vocal 
quartet that raises money for the local library. Last year 
we had a flat tire on the way to a performance and had to 
change it in our formal wear. LOL

My husband holds a Masters in Music Education and 
graduated with a degree in Music Performance. He has 
taught band and choir in the midwest most of his life, 
except for five years when he took a break and sang lead 
roles in musical theater off Broadway. It's not everyday 
you get to marry the Pirate King! He started the first 
music program in 140 years at the local ISD. Tonight, 
after the fall festival, his students are putting on a 
variety show for which the entire community turns out. 
He's even got the football team doing a number (it brought 
down the house last year) so I can hardly wait. I'm very 
proud of what he's doing.

I teach guitar and music theory to private students once a 
week. It was nice to discover Lynda and you, Bev, also 
play. I bet there's a lot of talented musicians on this 
list. It's a very handy way to entertain yourself and 
others in a rural setting and is a great way to create 
community.

--Sage



On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:00:14 -0400
 EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Cool!
> I'd guess you would see a lot of smokers in your current 
> gig, so feel
> free to use my story as a cautionary tale, not that I 
> could have ever
> been great or earned a living or anything like that, but 
> smoking robbed
> me of enjoying singing the way I could have.  I have 
> never even had the
> guts to do Karaoke, for example, but I know had I not 
> destroyed my
> voice, I would have.  What fun that would be.
> Dr. Ray, I made all A's in high school, except for 3 
> classes.  One was
> Driver's Ed...I was speeding on the final exam and 
> thereby ended up with
> a B in the class because I failed the final.  The second 
> was Home Ec,
> and the third was Chorale.  The instructor had a policy 
> that if you did
> not continue with training, you would drop one letter 
> grade...Of course,
> I had no interest in music at the time-too much of a 
> science nerd, and I
> pulled the B there as well.  I recall that he was angry 
> that I did not
> continue-called my folks and everything....lol.
> My next real chance at learning anything came in college 
> when I worked 
> as a stage manager for the pop vocal group.  I worked 
> closely with the 
> music director, and she knew that I enjoyed singing and 
> I got some 
> informal lessions, but that was about the time I started 
> smoking, and 
> well, it was just one of those opportunities I blew. 
> Back then, I don't 
> think I saw the link between music, math, and metered 
> verse.  Now, the 
> more interdisciplinary I can make something the better I 
> learn. The lack 
> of music instruction is one of my biggest regrets in 
> life, not that I am 
> too old to learn, but I do believe, that like learning a 
> foreign 
> language, there is a prime window of opportunity that 
> the young possess.
> When I was singing yesterday, I realized that I am 
> breathing differently 
> and projecting better and clearer, but it just isn't 
> right, and I know 
> it.  I wish someone like you lived closer and could tell 
> me exactly what 
> I need to do.
>
> Bev
>
>
> rayzentz AT aim.com wrote:
> > Sure.   I am certified by the state to teach music, 
> > K-12.   I have
> > taught choir, band, orchestra, guitar, music 
> > appreciation, musical
> > theater, and elementary music at all age levels.   My 
> > current
> > asiignment is at a lock-down residential treatment 
> > center for
> > troubled teans, where I teach choir, music appreciation, 
> > and guitar
> > classes.   I also teach privately.
> >
> > I hold a Doctorate in Music Education.   My specialty, 
> > if I have one,
> > is voice.
> >
> > I have just started a masters program in Educational 
> > Leadership.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: EarthNSky 
> > <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> 
> > To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org Sent: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 
> > 1:18 pm 
> > Subject: Re: [Homestead] Music
> >
> >
> >
> > So Ray, all I know is that you are a music 
> > teacher...that's a broad
> > area here...can you narrow it down for us a bit? Bev, 
> > listening to
> > Bach's Cantata BMV 208 at present, next up Peer Gynt
> >
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