0. How long have you been writing?
1. How long have you been in the music arts?
2. Are you famous?
3. What are some your more famous past works?
4. How long have you worked in vocal music?
5. Isn't teaching & coaching the same?
6. What vocal style do you teach and why?
7. Who have you made famous in music?
8. How can I get information about auditions?
9. So you sing. How can I hear your sounds?

I began my professional writing career at age 23 when I ghostwrote several sci-fi stories & novels for a now famous author. I write sci-fi, fantasy, fiction and non-fiction novels. In the theatre arts I have written and had performed three musicals, two Broadway dramas, and a host of one-act plays. I have written a pilot for a new Sci-Fi CBS TV series (Visit to Central Park) which I later wrote as a short story, and have a TV motion picture musical-drama (One Christmas Eve) sitting at Warner Bros. waiting for financing. To hear the screenplay with music and dialogue goto OCE

To read writing excerpts, click on WRITING

I began my performance career in music at age seven. I have been engaged in the business of music for nearly 60 years. I have composed music for theatre since the early 60's and currently compose music and themes, write parts and arrange music for Epilogue Records Artists, motion pictures and TV specials. Besides singing as a lyric tenor, I play Violin, Organ, Guitar, Accordion, Tin Whistle, Harmonica, Dulcimer and Psaltery.

Are you famous:

In answer to that; have you ever heard of me before you visited this website? So I'm not famous. I create famous people. That's what I live for. The most exciting work I do is with exceptionally gifted musical children. I get "high" when I can see their growth and watch them take off professionally. Very little I do myself comes close to the thrill I get watching them make it.

SINGING:(Lyric Tenor soloist) NBC Symphony Chorus, Jerome Hines Opera Company (NE Tour), Broadway Summer Stock, Lake Placid/Saranac Lake Summer Stock, Off-Broadway Musicals, Twin Cities Symphony Chorus, Monadnock Symphony Chorus, Utah Symphony Chorus, Southern California Mormon Choir, Detroit Mormon Choir, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Robert Shaw Chorale, Andy Williams TV Show, Dick Tosti Trio (Vegas), and several others.

COMPOSING: Two Summer-Stock musicals, music used in "Sesame Street", a march I arranged for high school band that was performed in the movie, "Bells of Saint Mary's," a host of church musicals, and a couple of Celtic style piano scores, one with words, the other performed in concert by George Loring, several Marches for High School & College Bands, and a host of songs for Epilogue Artists.

CONDUCTING: Utah Symphony at the Hollywood Bowl, New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall, Adirondack Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Robert Shaw Chorale, and several Broadway Show pit orchestras.

PRODUCTIONS: Director of Equity Children's Theatre Workshop (ECTW) in NY, which later became the basis for Sesame Street (CTW), Lake Placid Folk Festival, "ONE" one of three one act plays directed by Richard Foorman on Broadway, "Bell, Book & Candle" special effects, The Wolfman Jack radio show, Original Star Trek "Bridge" design, and all the productions for my artists at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, etc.

I have been coaching musicians since 1954 in motion pictures & TV, recording studios, for opera, concerts, and the Broadway stage, in bands, choruses and orchestras, and many famous and not famous soloists.

I have taught voice for over 45 years and also taught beginner violin, accordion, piano, bugle, tin whistle, organ, and harmonica. I have had three adult voice students, preparing for Broadway. The rest are children.

A VOICE TEACHER is one who works on technique, i.e. the physical skill of using your instrument. A good voice teacher will encourage you to break new ground, strive toward your goals and develop your instrument as far as it will go. A voice teacher will appreciate your uniqueness. You shouldn't end up sounding like a clone of your voice teacher with all the quirkiness and individuality of your voice straightened out. A good voice teacher will keep what is unique about your voice but still give you the tools you need to make it sound better to the audience.

A VOCAL COACH will work on song choice, expressive abilities, mike technique and other related elements. A vocal coach is someone who helps you develop your stage persona; which also includes movement, interacting with the orchestra, commanding an audience, and may cover, clothing, overall concept and all elements of presentation. A vocal coach will focus on recording techniques, help you in the studio, help you to learn how to give an emotional performance while maintaining a great sound, and will teach you how to use the equipment.

I teach using the Macy Method handed down through generations of Macys. It is a more Classical style. I use this because it is the most versatile. A singer who learns in this fashion can choose to specialize in opera, classical, popular, contemporary, sacred and folk music. It is limited however. Singers who want to specialize in jazz, rock, country and other styles will not benefit greatly from learning a Classical style.

I worked with 13 year old Barbra Streisand for six years as her coach and was her recording engineer for a couple years in the 60's. But I cannot take the credit for her fame. That came through her dedication in practice and learning proper techniques and her great voice which she was born with that gained her fame.

I have worked with many young, now famous, singers on motion picture sets (too many to list here) in television and on Broadway. I managed the promotions for the Osmonds, Ed Ames, Buffy St. Marie, Pete Segar, Bob Dylan, Gene Rockwell, The Four Evers, Dick Tosti Trio, The Pretenders, The Epics, Blue Light, The Infernos (bands) and many others.

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