music teachers

An 87-year-old man from King's Lynn has been jailed for eight years after admitting child sex offences dating back to the 1960s. Retired music teacher Paul Johnson pleaded guilty to 12 counts of indecent assault. The abuse took place between 1969 and 1980 while he was working in Norfolk and London, ...

Enjoy music from the Clark County Music Teachers Association from 4 to 6 p.m. April 21 at the Music Teachers Association Benefit Concert, which raises funds for student scholarships, at St. John's Presbyterian Church, 1206 N.E. Birch St., Camas; free, but donations accepted. Performers include CCMTA ...

Fresno police arrested a music teacher at Fresno High School Friday on suspicion of sexual assault. Fresno Unified officials identified him as John Henry Veloz, 38. He has been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the police and district investigation. "In the event that the allegations are ...

#Day doesn't stop at 3 pm. Tamara Hartfield Paige has taught music for 17 years, and has influenced the trajectories of many students who have gone on to professional careers, including Charles and Danny Weller, Tim “Figg” Newton, and Chaz Cabrera. She credits her own teachers for the inspiration.

A Depoali Middle School band teacher has been dubbed Nevada's music teacher of the year by the Nevada Music Educator's Association. “I am honored to receive this recognition from my peers,” said teacher Daniel Barthel in a Washoe County School District press release. “I enjoy teaching music and am ...

A bouquet of flowers sent to a teacher from his husband on Valentine's Day set off a controversy and claims of discrimination in a rural community at the edge of the Chicago area, resulting in a standing-room only school board meeting Monday evening. When Nathan Etter, a first-year music teacher at ...

Richard Rader celebrated 51 years of music-teaching excellence in Mesa recently. “Mr. Rader,” as he is best known, taught orchestra classes all over the city, including several years at Mountain View High School and Heritage Academy before retiring nearly five years ago. Former students, parents, family ...

Florence Price (1887-1953) – Little Rock-born composer, educator, pianist and subject of the film “The Caged Bird” – was denied membership in the Arkansas State Music Teachers Association because she was African American. A hundred years later, the national branch of that same organization is ...

Nearly 30 Middle Tennessee teachers have earned the 2018 Music Teachers of Excellence award. The award, given by the Country Music Association Foundation, recognizes the best music educators in the state. Teachers were selected based on the quality of their music program and impact on the ...

We're going to listen back to an interview with Buell Neidlinger, a versatile genre- and style-hopping bassist, composer and music teacher. He died of a heart attack earlier this month at age 82. His career began as a child prodigy playing cello with the New York Philharmonic. He later premiered works by ...

Bail has been denied to a Calgary music teacher accused of sexually abusing 22 underage girls over an eight year period. Christian Sarile, 28, is facing 75 charges including some offences he is accused of committing after he was granted bail the first time. Provincial court Judge Josh Hawkes ordered ...

Former music teacher Christian Allen Sarile has been denied bail on dozens of sex-related charges. Provincial court Judge Josh Hawkes on Friday revoked Sarile's earlier bail and ordered him detained on a series of new charges laid after his initial release. Sarile, 28, faces 75 sex-related charges ...

Former music teacher Christian Allen Sarile has been denied bail on dozens of sex-related charges. Provincial court Judge Josh Hawkes on Friday revoked Sarile's earlier bail and ordered him detained on a series of new charges laid after his initial release. Sarile, 28, faces 75 sex-related charges ...

The sellers, Kathy and Josh, were touched by the family's offer letter and also learned that Natan is a music teacher who publishes videos for kids on YouTube under the name Mr. Palindrome. Being huge music fans themselves (the couple met on a bus on the way back from a concert) it left a lasting ...

Our Town: Calgary music teacher gave John Lennon a few guitar tips. Jacquie Moore, Swerve. Published on: March 22, 2018 | Last Updated: March 22, 2018 4:00 AM MDT. As a musically gifted teenager in Liverpool in the 1950s, Brian Griffiths had spent time with John Lennon and taught him some licks on the guitar.

PERU | The community is paying homage to a long-time Peru Central music teacher who passed away earlier this month. Lynn Wilke passed away on March 5 at the Essex Center in Elizabethtown. He was 87. Wilke worked as a music teacher at Peru Central School for 33 years. Born in Brooklyn, Wilke ...

McDONOUGH — Former Woodland High School teacher Ryan Harvey will have a chance to prepare for his child molestation trial outside of the Henry County Jail, a judge has ordered. Judge Arch McGarity granted Harvey's motion for bond during an arraignment hearing Wednesday in Henry County ...

Hoover, an elementary school music teacher at the Dallas School District for 35 years, died on Wednesday, Feb. 14, from Stage Four Metastatic Melanoma at the Celtic Healthcare Hospice Inpatient Unit of Geisinger South, Wilkes-Barre. He is survived by his wife, Linda Maro Hoover; daughter, Elizabeth A.

Music teacher Michele Metzger has been teaching most of her high school band students for 13 of her 20 years at Nicollet Public Schools. "Almost everybody in this room has had me since kindergarten, so that's what's really special," Metzger said. "This year's seniors are the first one's I've had for 13 years.

On Wednesday night, the Reading School Board voted 6-2, with one member abstaining, to hire Reading High School music teacher Joseph Smith as school show director. Board members Abraham Cepeda and Robin Costenbader-Jacobson voted against hiring Smith. Board member Patricia Wright ...

A PIANIST whose passion for music influenced the lives of thousands of youngsters over a career spanning almost eight decades has died, aged 92. Reita Pierce fell in love with the piano while attending church as a girl and thanks to the resident organ player's gift of a handful of music books, her future in ...

Robert White-Davis, who has taught music at Gulf Stream School for the past decade, stands with his students Christopher Mugavero (back, from left), Carter Shaw, Noah Rivers, Finley Clark and Caroline Calder, who were chosen for the 2018 FMEA Elementary All-State Chorus; and Ryan Fenton (front, ...

Music teacher is eliminated from The Voice. The father-of-one's audition of One Direction star Harry Styles' Sign Of The Times was viewed 1.5 million times but Sir Tom Jones chose Lucy Milburn. Share; Comments. By. Dan Newbould. 14:26, 26 FEB 2018. News. Enter your postcode to see news and information near you ...

Avon Middle School teacher Jane Sitarz received a grant from the Avon Education Foundation that will allow her to buy four sets of electric drums, electric guitars, bass guitars and digital pianos for her music masters classroom. Sitarz wants to give students more options to help them find the instrument they ...

West Chester >> Immaculata University has announced that Paoli resident William Carr, Steinway Artist, professor of music and chair of the Music Department, has been named a “Top Music Teacher” for 2017 by Steinway & Sons. Dr. Carr was nominated for this prestigious award by Jacobs Music, the only ...

MORTON — Billy Akers is pursuing his dream of being an orchestra teacher thanks in large part to his music teachers in the Morton School District. “I was deeply inspired by them,” he said. One of those inspirational teachers was Heidi White. She was Akers' music teacher when he was a third-grader at ...

Christensen, the vocal music teacher and musical director at Central City High School, is a Central City native. He's been teaching at Central City for eight years. This weekend, he'll get to watch his students flourish on stage for the “Beauty and the Beast” production, in what he hopes will be a memorable ...

“Kaia!” is a piece of music written by composer Craig Naylor for wind ensemble and symphonic band that takes inspiration from martial arts and ancient Japanese musical traditions. “Kiai is the vocal exclamation that martial artists do,” said Naylor, who is a fourth-level Aikido black belt and works as an ...

Choral shows she directed for Hempfield Area School District featured props and stunts of her own design, bringing new life to classic tunes. “Everything she did had a flair,” said her son, Scott Downs. Gilda R. Downs of Ligonier died Monday, Feb. 19, 2018, in the Bethlen Home. She was 89. She was born ...