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"Music
for the 21st
Century"
born in 1952, obtained his PhD in music composition in 1984 from the University of Chicago and was subsequently ordained a Catholic priest for the Archdiocese of Washington in 1993. He is currently pastor of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Church in Leonardtown, Maryland. Dr. Beaubien's music is distributed electronically solely by MLB Music Publications (http://www.mlbdv.com/MLBMP/homedb.htm) s an American organist, church musician & composer. He was appointed Director of Music & Organist at St. Michael Church in Cranford, New Jersey in 2009 where he oversees the entire music program and the musical life of the parish. St. Michael Church is the third largest parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, which comprises nearly 300 parishes. It is a congregation of over 20,000 members within over 4,000 household units. Dr. Bower directs the adult choir (auditioned), handbell choir, resurrection choir (funeral choir), contemporary youth ensemble, a cantor ministry and two assistant conductors. He presides over the music for nearly 400 liturgies each year. Born in Rochester, New York, he began his early organ study at Roberts Wesleyan College with Professor Anne Honeywell before matriculating into the organ department at The State University of New York College at Fredonia, where, under his principal teacher, Dr. John T. Hofmann, he earned his Bachelor of Music degree in organ performance. During his junior year as an undergraduate, he also studied organ in Vienna, Austria at the Diocesan Conservatory for Church Music under Dr. Gerard Boellmann, Oberkapellmeister of St. Ulrich’s Kirche. He earned his Master of Music degree in organ performance from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey in the class of Dr. Joan Lippincott. While at Westminster he sang in the Westminster Symphonic Choir under Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Muti, Hugh Wolf, Sir David Willcocks, Leonard Bernstein, and studied choral conducting with Frauke Haaseman. He earned his PhD in music education from New York University in 2008. During his doctoral coursework, he completed his Kodály music education certification. Dr. Bower has performed organ recitals at such places as St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, Princeton University, Columbia University, St. Patrick’s Cathedral in NYC, The National Shrine of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, The Richard M. Ferris Organ at the Round Lake Auditorium in Round Lake, NY, Irvine Auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania, and Kings Chapel in Boston, among many others. He has served on the faculties at New York University’s Expository Writing Program in the College of Arts and Science and at The New School for Music Study, the Francis Clark Center for Keyboard Study in Princeton, NJ. He has presented published papers on the topic of music education at numerous academic conferences including the College Music Society in Quebec City, Canada in 2005 and the International Society for Music Education in Bologna, Italy in 2008. His article Musical Knowledge and Choral Curriculum appears in Visions of Research in Music Education and his recent book is called Constructivism in Music Education Technology: Creating and Environment for Choral Composition. As a composer, Dr. Bower has written extensively for choir, organ and congregation. In 2013, his Christmas choral anthem Our Hope Is Borne This Christmastide was debuted by the St. Michael Parish Choir. His hymn “All People That On Earth Do Dwell (Aldenwayne L.M.)” debuted in 2015 in the parish and his choral anthem “O Sun of Justice” was debuted in 2014. Prior to his 2009 appointment at St. Michael’s, he served as Director of Music & Organist for 16 years at St. Ann Church in Raritan, New Jersey where he built a large, multi-choir music program and taught music in the adjoining St. Ann School. He is an active member of both the New York City and Metropolitan New jersey Chapters of the American Guild of Organists, and has been a member of the AGO since 1985. He is a performing member of the Westfield Musical Club and he serves on the National Special Interest Committee for Music Education in the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. Dr. Bower's music is distributed electronically solely by MLB Music Publications (http://www.mlbdv.com/MLBMP/homedn.htm) |
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"Music
for Various Needs"
My piano, voice and theory musical studies began in childhood, in Canada. My individual teachers required that I follow the Royal Conservatory of Music courses leading to qualifications as a private teacher. Conservatory adjudicators scheduled individual tests yearly. After arriving in the U.S., marrying and raising a family, I taught privately. A few years later, I attended the Univ. of Bflo. and received B.F.A. and M. Ed. degrees. Simultaneous careers followed: school music teaching, church musical director/organist. I am now on the Organist Guild's substitute list and am kept very busy. Retirement brought a variety of interests such as community volunteering, clubs and leadership of 2 groups at the large Amherst, N.Y. Senior Center. I formed a Readers Theatre group and a Music Combo which does a variety of music from the 20th Centruy including jazz. Both groups perform locally. Now I am trying composing. My listing in "Marquis Who's Who" lists earlier awards and interests such as world travel, discussion groups and tennis. Mrs.
Ennis' music is distributed electronically solely by MLB Music
Publications. "Music for People who want to play better and practice less"
was
born in Crystal City, Mo. on October 22, 1942. A self made
musician, he began his music career at about 15 yrsof age
driving his parents crazy playing his baby sister's toy piano,
quickly graduating to a broken down upright piano. At the
age of 17, he began taking piano lessons from Ms. Florence
Pursall and a few years later, organ lessons from her. He has
also taken lessons from Marie Kremer in St. Louis, Mo. and
has earned the AGO service playing certificate and the St. Louis
Catholic Archdiocese Organist Achievement Certificate-Level
Intermediate I. The rest he has learned by practicing,
practicing, practicing... He has been an organist for all
the major denominations.
Mr.
LaLumondier's music is distributed electronically solely by MLB
Music Publications. "Organ Service Music" was
born in Rockland, Maine in 1949. He started piano lessons at the
age of 10 andthe organ at age 13. While he was in high school he
was a volunteer organist at the Reorganized Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints (now called Community of Christ) in
Rockland. He attended Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa where he
earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Music Education.
He then received a Master of Music degree with a major in Applied
Piano from Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas. Mr.
Lindsey's music is distributed electronically solely by MLB Music
Publications.
"Music for the Organ" was born in 1943. in DeQueen, Arkansas. He started lessons at age seven and while in elementary school studied piano with June McManaman at Sunnydale Academy for two years. During this time she took him to a pipe organ concert, an inspiring event that sparked a lifelong interest in organ. While attending Ozark Academy in Arkansas in his junior and senior years, he took his first organ lessons, while continuing study piano, and also sang in choir and male quartets. In 1962, Zacharias enrolled at Southwestern Union College, now Southwestern Adventist University, in 1962, where he studied piano and music theory with Vinson and Anne Bushnell and organ with Wilbur Schram. He met his future wife BeVerly (Jeri) Lemon during this time. After graduating from SUC, he went to Walla Walla College, now University, where he continued piano lessons with Blythe Owen and Bruce Ashton and organ lessons with Melvin West. He was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honor society, as a senior and graduated with a B.Mus. in music education in 1967. Zacharias started graduate study in music theory at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. After finishing coursework for the degree, he was drafted into the army. While in basic training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he was immediately pressed into service playing the piano and organ for religious services on Sabbaths and Sundays. Later, while training to be a medic, he was asked to form a marching band to lead his unit to classes every day. This experience started his career as a band director. Zacharias later worked for nine months on a psychiatric ward at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco, and then completed his military duty by serving in Vietnam in a heavy artillery unit. He continued to play the organ for services throughout his military service. After his discharge from the Army in 1971, Zacharias accepted the position of band and keyboard instructor at Pioneer Valley Academy in Massachusetts, and developed a highly successful band program. While at PVA, he completed an M.Mus. in theory at Peabody in 1976. In 1977, the Zachariases were asked to run the music department at the newly built Dakota Adventist Academy in Bismarck, North Dakota. Three years later, they accepted music positions at Union Springs Academy in New York, where they worked for the next fourteen years. From 1979 through 1983 Charles and Jeri attended Andrews University in the summers and completed master's degrees in music education. Charles studied instruments with Pat Silver and Lennart Olson, and piano with Morris Taylor. He received the Zapara Award for Excellence in Teaching at USA In 1992. In 1994, the Zachariases took a two-year leave from teaching
to work in music merchandising at Ogden Music Company in Portland, Oregon. While
there, he became involved with selling and installing Johannus Organs. Charles retired in the fall of 2008, after a 37-year career in music. Zacharias currently serves as organist at the Heritage Baptist Church in Cartersville, GA and, on Sabbaths, he shares in organist duties at the Georgia-Cumberland Academy Seventh-day Adventist Church with his wife Jeri. Mr. Zacharias's music is distributed solely by
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