Come early to picnic. Bring your friends and neighbors.
The Palos Verdes Chamber Players
Castillia Bolero G. E. Holmes
Five Dances Denes Agay
Selections from Fiddler on the Roof Jerry Bock, Bill Holcomb arranger
Sour Suite Herman Stein
Cascades Scott Joplin
Intermission
Selections from The Sound of Music Richard Rogers,
Bill Holcomb arranger
Summer Waltz Lennie Niehaus
Spring into Swing Lennie Niehaus
Gershwin Melodies George Gershwin
Nice Work if You Can Get It, Bill Malcolm arranger
Prelude II, Bill Malcolm arranger
Rialto Ripples, Bill Holcombe arranger
The Liberty Bell John Philip Sousa
Joanne Davidson, clarinet, is a Manhattan Beach native who developed her love of music from her parents, Paul and Ardath, he a trombonist and she a pianist. Joanne began her music career at the age of 7 on the accordion, added piano at the age of 8, and clarinet at the age of 10. Besides studying privately under Clairon Williams, playing her father's musical arrangements and performing in school bands and orchestras, she was a member of the All Southern California Junior High Honor Orchestra and the Southwest Youth Symphony. She was principal chair throughout high school and while at El Camino College. Joanne retired her clarinet for about 10 years to raise a family, but returned as an active musician by joining the Palos Verdes Symphonic Band and the El Camino College Community Band. She left those organizations to join the Peninsula Symphonic Winds with which she is the concert mistress and plays principal clarinet. Joanne has attended the Ashland Chamber Music Workshop the past 10 summers, is a member of the El Camino Community Orchestra and the Palos Verdes Chamber Players and will frequently be heard in the Los Angeles area performing as a free lance musician.
Roger Eastman, French horn, earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois and currently works as an engineer at Northrup Grumman. Roger started his musical education studying piano and singing in choirs at his church. In the fifth grade he took up the French horn and has played in notable groups in both Illinois and California. While at the University of Illinois, Roger played horn in the premier symphonic band under the direction of noted composer and arranger, James Curnow. Since then he has never stopped performing as a musician having played in concert bands and orchestras and in stage bands for musical theater. He currently is a member of the Peninsula Symphony, the Beach Cities Symphony, the Peninsula Symphonic Winds where he plays principal horn, and the Palos Verdes Chamber Players.
Bill Malcolm, bassoon, was always interested in music beginning in elementary school and continuing through college where he studied Music Education at Arizona State College (now Northern Arizona University). He received a Master of Music degree in composition from Los Angeles State University studying with Byong Kon Kim. Later he took private instruction from Roy Harris and studied music for cinema with Don Ray (composer for TV's Hawaii 5-0). Most of Bill's work career was outside music with the longest time spent at Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications during which time he earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University. He retired from Hughes in 1999. In addition to the bassoon, Bill also plays flute, clarinet, saxophone and string bass and is an accomplished composer and arranger
Ed Retzler, oboe, began studying music when he was in high school where he played in the school band and orchestra and in his first woodwind quintet. After attending the College of Wooster, where he played oboe in the orchestra and the concert band and bass drum in the Fighting Scots marching band, he was drafted into the army and spent 18 months with the Seventh Army Symphony performing good-will concerts throughout Germany and Austria. Upon his return to the United States, he studied oboe with Harvey McGuire of the Cleveland Orchestra and played oboe and English horn in the Canton (Ohio) Symphony. Following retirement from UCLA Extension, Ed enrolled as a music student at California State University, Long Beach where he studied with Gregory Donovetsky. Ed is a charter member of the Peninsula Symphonic Winds, a founding member of the Palos Verdes Chamber Players, a member of the East Winds Quintet and the Freeman Valley Quintet and a member of the Beach Cities Symphony.
Stephanie Schwartz, flute, graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and a Masters in Education. She also has a Masters Degree in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach. At the age of 6 Stephanie began studying piano and added the flute at age ten. She has studied flute with outstanding teachers including Donna Clark, Buddy Collette and Pat Maki. Stephanie teaches English at El Camino College. Stephanie has played with a number of musical groups including Wister Woods' Flute Quartet and the Sounds of Winds. She has performed with the Long Beach Steel Drum Orchestra and has taught both piano and flute. She is currently active as a jazz flutist and can be heard performing in venues throughout the South Bay. Her first CD is expected to be issued in the near future.
Bill Holcomb arranger
Summer Waltz Lennie Niehaus
Spring into Swing Lennie Niehaus
Gershwin Melodies George Gershwin
Nice Work if You Can Get It, Bill Malcolm arranger
Prelude II, Bill Malcolm arranger
Rialto Ripples, Bill Holcombe arranger
The Liberty Bell John Philip Sousa
Joanne Davidson, clarinet, is a Manhattan Beach native who developed her love of music from her parents, Paul and Ardath, he a trombonist and she a pianist. Joanne began her music career at the age of 7 on the accordion, added piano at the age of 8, and clarinet at the age of 10. Besides studying privately under Clairon Williams, playing her father's musical arrangements and performing in school bands and orchestras, she was a member of the All Southern California Junior High Honor Orchestra and the Southwest Youth Symphony. She was principal chair throughout high school and while at El Camino College. Joanne retired her clarinet for about 10 years to raise a family, but returned as an active musician by joining the Palos Verdes Symphonic Band and the El Camino College Community Band. She left those organizations to join the Peninsula Symphonic Winds with which she is the concert mistress and plays principal clarinet. Joanne has attended the Ashland Chamber Music Workshop the past 10 summers, is a member of the El Camino Community Orchestra and the Palos Verdes Chamber Players and will frequently be heard in the Los Angeles area performing as a free lance musician.
Roger Eastman, French horn, earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the University of Illinois and currently works as an engineer at Northrup Grumman. Roger started his musical education studying piano and singing in choirs at his church. In the fifth grade he took up the French horn and has played in notable groups in both Illinois and California. While at the University of Illinois, Roger played horn in the premier symphonic band under the direction of noted composer and arranger, James Curnow. Since then he has never stopped performing as a musician having played in concert bands and orchestras and in stage bands for musical theater. He currently is a member of the Peninsula Symphony, the Beach Cities Symphony, the Peninsula Symphonic Winds where he plays principal horn, and the Palos Verdes Chamber Players.
Bill Malcolm, bassoon, was always interested in music beginning in elementary school and continuing through college where he studied Music Education at Arizona State College (now Northern Arizona University). He received a Master of Music degree in composition from Los Angeles State University studying with Byong Kon Kim. Later he took private instruction from Roy Harris and studied music for cinema with Don Ray (composer for TV's Hawaii 5-0). Most of Bill's work career was outside music with the longest time spent at Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications during which time he earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University. He retired from Hughes in 1999. In addition to the bassoon, Bill also plays flute, clarinet, saxophone and string bass and is an accomplished composer and arranger
Ed Retzler, oboe, began studying music when he was in high school where he played in the school band and orchestra and in his first woodwind quintet. After attending the College of Wooster, where he played oboe in the orchestra and the concert band and bass drum in the Fighting Scots marching band, he was drafted into the army and spent 18 months with the Seventh Army Symphony performing good-will concerts throughout Germany and Austria. Upon his return to the United States, he studied oboe with Harvey McGuire of the Cleveland Orchestra and played oboe and English horn in the Canton (Ohio) Symphony. Following retirement from UCLA Extension, Ed enrolled as a music student at California State University, Long Beach where he studied with Gregory Donovetsky. Ed is a charter member of the Peninsula Symphonic Winds, a founding member of the Palos Verdes Chamber Players, a member of the East Winds Quintet and the Freeman Valley Quintet and a member of the Beach Cities Symphony.
Stephanie Schwartz, flute, graduated from UCLA with a BA in English and a Masters in Education. She also has a Masters Degree in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach. At the age of 6 Stephanie began studying piano and added the flute at age ten. She has studied flute with outstanding teachers including Donna Clark, Buddy Collette and Pat Maki. Stephanie teaches English at El Camino College. Stephanie has played with a number of musical groups including Wister Woods' Flute Quartet and the Sounds of Winds. She has performed with the Long Beach Steel Drum Orchestra and has taught both piano and flute. She is currently active as a jazz flutist and can be heard performing in venues throughout the South Bay. Her first CD is expected to be issued in the near future.
The concert was delightful. I wish we had them every Sunday evening. Blessings,
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