PIttsburg Pic

Micah and Sarah live on your way from downtown to the airport near the Heinz factory. I got this pic on the fly towards their house after we arrived...
Great shot of my favorite catsup.

We also have younger quartet participants

Here are the Slater girls and Mia doing Haydn's #35

String Quartets

Here are students from our Quartet Club in Dixie.

Dickens' Festival

The recital for Fall is over. The Dickens Festival is Saturday. Three weeks of lessons left this semester. All is good. I am off to Illinois to see my brothers' family as he is crossed over and I know is doing just great. We will all be together at some future date. The grandchildren were just wonderful and we are home thinking that we need to get the tree out...maybe later...much later.
Honors Orch is soon, Three DHS kids made All State and off we go...to the next semester...WOO...
All the best to each of you students out there....

Halloween Concert

Halloween Concert is this week.
Enjoy the symphony and the goblins that participate!

School has begun and here is the latest

We have got everything rollin again. Two groups have happened since the beginning of the year...today we worked on Hunter's Chorus, Twinkle A and D, boil, and the vivaldi for the Halloween concert. We had a great rehearsal on the Cheney book one and two for spring. Best we have ever sounded. The Christmas songs are coming along. The CD accompaniment was faster and slower than we usually do them. But it was ok. We got the St. George Chamber Society quartet club rolling...next time it will be Oct. 25th at DMS at 10am right after the Halloween Concert rehearsal. Good, all in one day. Then come again next week, Nov.1 for the Christmas rehearsal. We play Dec. 5th at Dickens Festival and The Meadows from 10:15 to noon. Should be great.
We have a cello group working on Ruby Tuesday and Dust in the Wind. They should perform in the spring.
Fall recital is Nov 17th at DMS. We have everything rolling. Thanks for the great start.
Congrats for all your support and great playing. Thanks to Deb for unwaivering support and much contributions.
School Concerts are Oct. 7th and 9th in celebration of Arts Month in Dixie.
This pic is the DHS Band coming down Tabernacle for the first parade of the season. They got first place.

Summer Musings

Well, it has been a great summer. Lots of time off to rest, reguvinate, and swim. I love it when I get cool and swimming is my favorite activity because it gets me moving in the am. but also creates for me a place to float. Since gravity takes a lot out of me, I think floating is the best. I have read some great novels this summer, scrapbooked, quilted some baby quilts with one more to go... and have enjoyed just being a blob. My studio has been really relaxed and many of my students have just blossomed with music camps, vacations, and some extra practice time they don't get during school. So it has been a great summer for all. Micah and Sarah just left for Carnegie Mellon, David and Julie are busy with school in Erie, the grandkids are growing and soon we will have two more. Conrad was born June 30th to Diana and Ryan and we have been to meet him. He is so small and precious. We bless him in two weeks. It will be so nice to have them closer to Salt Lake. They are looking for housing in the Ogden area so he can go to work at Hill Air Force Base.
Dallin has had a few classes this summer at the Massage School but basically home and gaming on War Craft and helping us out by doing massages to practice on us. Macy has had a great summer with friends, drill, work, and play. She is up north this weekend enjoying the cooler weather.
We have had several guests over the summer and have had a great time seeing everyone and getting some movies done. Thank goodness for Netflix...we would be so lost without them. We also have had a chance to go to the movies and there has been some fun ones out there. Wall E was really a hoot.
School begins soon and we must turn our thoughts to the daily grind again. I am looking forward to a new job doing orchestra a three schools and two choirs. Hope to return to counseling some day again. Working on the schedule for fall in the studio and putting together my groups and such.
Well, the time is far spent. I must go and do those last minute items I keep putting down the road. Off to the grind again after a much needed rest.

Recital pics are here!

These are a few pics from the Spring Recital at the Tabernacle. Great job done by all. Loved every minute of it. Have a great summer! Keep on practicing. It is really showing up now! Check out a place called Cello Geek. Great place to see real cellists performing.

PLay Through at Atria and Kolob

Here are the pics from Atria and Kolob.. Thanks Nicole for the help!

Summer comes for lessons

This is Summer, she is a cellist and lots of fun.
Come hear her at the recital May 30th at the Tab.

HERE ARE SOME GREAT FRIENDS WE PLAY CARDS WITH. Stacy in the top pic celebrated the new year with us...then passed away in Feb. We all did his funeral and it was beautiful.
We were at the Lloyd's house for this pic. We love you Lloyd family thanks for the monthly laughs and giggles. We love you and the Lee's keeping us on your fun time list.

Musings in March

The first photo is one of my new students, Nate. Then this is the creek going through Nauvoo. It was just beautiful. You must cross it to get to Shirley's farmhouse. Then we have a cute couple picture of Ryan and Diana at Christmas time. Then here is one of my favorite friends, Sheila Bodine...looking at my picture books. Don and Cindy took me to the Lincoln Museum and here is the forum as you walk in. Such a great place...

Nauvoo Concert

Here is Sister Curtis and I. Shirley had the place completely set up to look great...I love the rug and the greenery. Missionaries loved it.

This is my God mother, Gladys McGarey who we had lunch with, she is working on Living Medicine... She is an amazing person...Lindsay and I had a great time seeing her dec. 29th.
She delivered me many years ago...

Nauvoo Recital March 9th, 2008

Going to Nauvoo, Illinois to play for the missionaries. So excited to be with them on Sunday afternoon and to play a recital to bring in the early daylight savings time thing...UGH

Cellists Love The World Thru Music

When the Berlin Wall came down glausnos was declared. Mistlav Rostropovich went to the wall and played his cello because he was glad that it was over. He was exiled to America from Russia. I met him when he was still the director of the National Symphony in Washington DC.
He recently passed away from stomach problems. He came to tempe and did a master class and also a party after a concert he did with the symphony. It was great to meet him. Cellists tend to be the political action committee of the world. If the world is in trouble it will be the cellists who bail them out. We tend to be the blue color of the world, wanting to unite each other in love and harmony. Cellists feel a brotherhood no other instrument feels. We are unique in many ways.
Casals refused to play concerts when his Catalonia was at war. Piatagorsky left Russia to pursue his dreams of Freedom in California. YoYoMa has internationalized the cello by playing music from all genres across the board. Recently, a cellist in Sarajavo played 21 days on the bombed spot where his neighbors stood in a bread line and were killed. What a great group of people to belong to. I am glad to be one of this elite group.

here are recent pics of the grandkids....aren't they adorable? Yeah Sammy and Gracie!

Goodbye dear man! Praise to the man

Praise to the man, Gordon B. Hinkley who left this world last night to join his wife Marjorie Pale Hinkley. You inspired, awed, and built us up. You were our wind beneath the wings. May you rest in peace for a time before they put you to work again...

Miss Utah wows the crowd

We were in awe of Ms Utah Saturday night. Way to go Jill! love, keithklan

family pics