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Music for Adults and Children Welcome to my website. You can view here a list of my published compositions.
You can also see what else I've been up to, other titles and genres I have written, and ultimately purchase material from
me directly. If you have questions or comments, I will be happy to receive and respond to e-mails. If items appear
as "pending" and you would like to have access to them soon, let me know and I will expedite their completion. I look forward to serving the needs of the elementary education community, and
also the adult choral community. I hope this site will enable me to communicate directly with people who use my music
so that I may address your needs in my creative output.
I just retired from a full time elementary teaching job, for
which I did a lot of composition work. In addition to writing and arranging for my choirs I also wrote and produced
at least three musical performances each year. Many of these are about topics that are in the grade-level classroom
curricula, which got great buy-in from the classroom teachers, and were very fun for me to write because I got to learn so
much while I was writing them.
My most recent children's musicals have
had themes of peace. To decorate for the performance this year (06-07) I started folding origami cranes. A few
children asked me to teach them how, and before I knew it TONS of kids were folding cranes. I had hoped to have 1000
by performance time, but between me and the kids we had over 3000 cranes beautifying our stage for the performance.
The folding never stopped and by the end of the year we had folded 10,127 cranes. I was astonished. The children
asked if we could send them to various places where they perceived a need. Among the places where we sent 1000 cranes
were Virginia Tech., a local hospital, the soldiers in Iraq, a local assisted living community, the celebration of a new peace
pole, a local armory to welcome home returning service personnel, and the Sadako memorial at the Peace Park in Hiroshima.
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