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1960
Jan. 3: Los Angeles: Marineland of the Pacific
Jan. 3 San Diego
Jan 9. Atlanta
Jan. 25: Virginia City, Nevada
Feb. 18: Squaw Valley, CA; First Day of Winter Olympics (Feb. 18 – Feb 28) (Photo Album)
Mar. 3: Savannah, GA
Mar. 8 Desert Inn, Miami, FL
Sammy Kaye Orchestra
Waring / Roy Ringwald
My personal experience with RR involved multiple recording sessions for a project to tape his then just-completed “symphonic” composition. Waring was doing it as a tribute to Ringwald who, at the time, was losing his hearing. He came to the sessions and was in the control room with the engineers.
There was a sequel to the initial sessions. As often happens, they were scheduled based on the instrumentation required, especially with regard to the brass section. After the sessions were over, I packed up and left for Bloomington thinking my year with Waring was history. Two months later I received a call from his Personnel Manager saying that they had failed to record one segment and asking if I would come to NY to “finish up.” The call surprised me but not the missing segment. I had mentioned it to Mike Doty (a fine NY studio freelancer) who told me, in a nice way, to keep my mouth shut as his thumb massaged his index and third fingers ($$$). I declined the much appreciated offer. I was already enrolled in summer school taking History of Theory. Mary Wennerstrom was in the class and I could have borrowed her (wonderful) notes but I didn’t want to fall behind with the required readings. Unfortunately, I never heard the final product and have no idea what the title was.
We ended tour programs with Ringwald’s arrangement of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Not quite the Mormon Tabernacle rendition but, nonetheless, a patriotic (a la Waring) finale.
Sept. Engaged to Melissa Baldwin
Nov. 17: Stuart Schock (nephew) born. .
1961
Aug. 13: married Melissa Baldwin; 704 E. First St., Bloomington, Indiana (Photos)
Appointed to faculty of Texas University of Arts and Industries in Kingsville, TX
Selected 2nd Clarinetist in Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra
Aug. 18: Canton, Mississippi
Aug. 20: Kingsville, TX found apartment
Aug. 21 Monterrey, Mexico
Aug. 24: Mexico City; Toluca (market day);great dinner at a Swiss restaurant for $4.08
Nov. 25 Thanksgiving in Monterrey: tomales and enchiladas
1962
Awarded MM degree from Indiana University School of Music
Thesis Topic Tonality in Selected Works of Igor Stravinsky
Apr. 24: San Antonio
Selected Principlal Clarinetist in Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra
May 29: Baton Rouge
Sept. 6: New Orleans
Philadelphia visiting parents: new Chevy II
1963
Feb. 16 San Antonio, TX (Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert)
May 5: Atlanta – Houston – Corpus Christi
Waring / Roy Ringwald
My personal experience with Roy Ringwald involved multiple recording sessions for a project to tape his then just-completed “symphonic” composition. Waring was doing it as a tribute to Ringwald who, at the time, was losing his hearing. He came to the sessions and was in the control room with the engineers.
There was a sequel to the initial sessions. As often happens, they were scheduled based on the instrumentation required, especially with regard to the brass section. After the sessions were over, I packed up and left for Bloomington thinking my year with Waring was history. Two months later I received a call from his Personnel Manager saying that they had failed to record one segment and asking if I would come to NY to “finish up.” The call surprised me but not the missing segment. I had mentioned it to Mike Doty (a fine NY studio freelancer) who told me, in a nice way, to keep my mouth shut as his thumb massaged his index and third fingers ($$$). I declined the much appreciated offer. I was already enrolled in summer school taking History of Theory. Mary Wennerstrom was in the class and I could have borrowed her (wonderful) notes but I didn’t want to fall behind with the required readings. Unfortunately, I never heard the final product and have no idea what the title was.
We ended tour programs with Ringwald’s arrangement of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Not quite the Mormon Tabernacle rendition but, nonetheless, a patriotic (a la Waring) finale.
May 27: Mexico City with Pedro and Margaret Ortiz
Sept. Peabody Conservatory of Music, Baltimore, MD: DMA in Clarinet; teach in Music Theory Department
First commercial job in Fords Theater orchestra for final production of Camelot; hired by Feen Iula, contractor.
American Conductor’s Project Orchestra – BSO (Ford Foundation Grant)
Painter’s Mill Music Fair Orchestra
First performed with Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
1964
Aug. 22: Stayed in Statesboro, GA on way to Tampa, FL
September. University of South Florida; Music Theory Faculty – two and a half-trimester appointment
Tampa Philharmonic- second clarinet
Sept. 20: Anna Marie Island opposite St. Petersburg, FL
1965
Apr. 18 Miami, FL
1966
January 23: Lisa Susan Schock born at Union Memorial Hospital
For a history of Lisa in pictures, click here.
1967
June 4 Luray Caverns, Shenadoah National Park, VA
Summer: Trip to Tampa, FL. Visit with Frank and Donna Fabry and their 4 year-old daughter Heather
Nov Grandmother Mamie Morris dies in New Rochelle, NY (b. 15 Sept 1880)
1968
June 22: Pikes Peak, Colorado Springs, CO
27: Visited Netters in LA. Childhood family friends from Philadelphia
28: Whalers Wharf, LA
Dec. 4: Boston, MA
1969
Oct. 10: News American picture at reception following BSO concert
