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Biographies (listed alphabetically)David Arcus David Arcus joined CVNC in
2001, writing articles and reviews with a focus on organ music.
He is the Duke
University Chapel Organist and accompanist for the Duke Chapel
Choir. He is also Organist of Duke
Divinity School, where he has taught courses in church music and
hymnody. He appears
annually on the Duke Chapel Organ Recital Series. A native of
Kingston, NY, he earned the
B. Mus. degree from Oberlin Conservatory and the M. Mus. and D.M.A.
degrees from the Yale
University School of Music. His compact disc, Organs of Duke
Chapel,
is available on
Gothic Records. David is married to the Rev. Robin J. Townsley
Arcus, an ordained minister
in the United Church of Christ. They reside in Durham, North Carolina,
and enjoy hiking Kate Dobbs Ariail Kate Dobbs Ariail has written extensively about the arts since 1988. She holds an MFA from Syracuse University and lives in Durham, where she is currently engaged in building a not-for-profit art bronze casting facility. Stuart Burnham Stuart Burnham, a native of Spokane, WA, started writing for CVNC in 2004. As an undergrad he double majored in English and Music/Piano Performance at Wake Forest University, where he also ran cross-country and track on a full scholarship (1990-94). He then spent a year (1994-5) teaching English in the Czech Republic, where he met his (American) wife. They currently live in Wilmington, NC, and he teaches at Mount Olive College. He holds a Master's in Musicology from Stanford University (2001) and is currently completing a Ph.D. dissertation at Stanford on the Czech composer Václav Tomášek (1774-1850) and musical life in Prague in the early 19th century. Dr. W. Gerald Cochran, a plastic surgeon practicing in Salisbury, Statesville, and Lexington, is an amateur musician (piano) who sings in the the Concert Choir of Salisbury. He has served on the boards of the Salisbury Symphony and the Concert Choir. His reviews have appeared in the Salisbury Post and in Outlook, published by Observer News Enterprise (Newton, NC). During a life-long career as a musician, Roger A. Cope has served as an orchestral soloist, concert performer, recitalist, lecturer, recording artist, and college-level educator since 1978. Cope has premiered new music for guitar by Karen Thomas, David Leonard, Paul Elwood, and Bertil Van Boer. In North Carolina he has performed at Thomas Wolf Auditorium, The Diana Wortham Theatre, and Biltmore Estate in Asheville and at The Porter Center for Performing Arts in Brevard, The Henderson County Library in Hendersonville, The Muses Gallery in Flat Rock, the School of Music of Appalachian State University, and High Hampton Inn at Cashiers. He has also performed at the Dock Street Theater in Charleston, SC, and as soloist with the Charlotte Repertory Orchestra, the Hendersonville Symphony, and the Asheville Symphony. Cope joined the CVNC cadre of writers in 2003 and became Editor in September of 2006. Prior to joining us he has written articles for the original Florida Flambeau (now the FSView), Vintage Motorsport Magazine, and Guitar Review. In addition to liner notes for commercial recordings he has written feature articles for Guitar Foundation of America's Soundboard Magazine and GuitART International. He is author of The Bachelor Guitarist, Guitar: How to Audition, and A Composer's Guide to the Guitar. He attended the 2005 National Arts Journalism Institute at Columbia University, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. For nine years he was a member of the Affiliate Artist Faculty at Brevard College, serving as Director of Guitar Studies and Director of the Guitar Ensemble. (Roger A. Cope is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America, Inc., and the National Arts Journalism Program.) Roy C. Dicks Roy C. Dicks reviewed theater and classical
music for Raleigh's Spectator Magazine from 1978-1986.
Since 1997, he has done the same for the Raleigh News and Observer.
He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.
His musical background includes singing in and directing opera,
authoring two commissioned opera librettos, and singing in university
and community choruses. He has a B.A. in English and a B.A. in
Drama from East Carolina University and a Masters of Library Science
from UNC-Chapel Hill. Martha A. Fawbush is a classical singer whose major
interest is opera but who also performs as much jazz, gospel,
blues, and Broadway music as she can. She is also a teacher of
voice,
does some coaching for recitalists and opera singers, teaches
music classes at NC State’s Encore program for senior citizens
in this community, is active in church music, and writes reviews
of classical music performances. Alan R. Hall: Triangle Theater Review Alan R. Hall is a Chapel Hill, NC freelance writer, reviewer, novelist, and poet. He has written theater reviews for the Georgia State University System and the online writers' network "Themestream." For 11 years, he wrote reviews of theater, music, dance, and film for The Chapel Hill News. For more of his candid critiques on Triangle theater, see Front Row Center: http://hometown.aol.com/theonlyarhall/reviews.html. Carl J. Halperin Carl J. Halperin was born in Chicago but has lived for many years in central North Carolina. He attended the N.C. School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, receiving his B.M. in voice in 1982. Long writing stints at Spectator Magazine locally (where he received his first literary experience) and for Opera News in New York led to work in public radio, as a local NPR affiliate station anchor (also submitting stories directly to the network proper) and time spent writing for Raleigh's News and Observer and for Durham's Herald-Sun. Halperin has performed leading baritone roles in operas by Mozart, Pasatieri, and others, and participated in two recent opera productions at Raleigh's Meredith College, in one of which his role was written for him. He has interviewed leading celebrity singers from opera's Golden Age (c.1950-75) for a prospective volume and is hoping to do other work with smaller to moderate-sized publishing houses in the Southeast. Joseph Hartman Joseph Hartman is a North Carolina native who currently lives in Drexel, NC, with his wife and two children. He is a freelance writer who focuses on the literature and history of the piano and the organ. Though not a trained musician, he grew up in a musical home and has been immersed in music and art from a very young age. He is an avid collector of rare and historical piano recordings. Timothy W. Holley is a graduate
of Baldwin-Wallace College and the University of
Michigan. He is a cellist; he was a member of the Toledo Symphony
Orchestra for twelve
years and was also affiliated with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
during that time. He
is Assistant Professor of Music at North
Carolina Central University (since 1996) and
also taught at the Ken Hoover was born in Chicago, reared in Portsmouth, VA, and earned his BA in English with a minor in sociology at Richmond College, University of Richmond. He went on to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest and from there to serve churches in Virginia. Beginning in 1970, he was involved in Clinical Pastoral Education, which brought him to Duke University Medical Center in Durham in 1971. Apart from a three-year stay in Sanford from 1972-75, he has lived in Durham since then. He is currently retired after thirty years as a substance abuse counselor. The landmark event of his life was a 1950 trip with other members of his high school band to Richmond to hear Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra on their last nation-wide tour. The Maestro and the sounds he brought forth from the instruments on stage captivated him, and he has been an avid classical music buff ever since. In college, he sang in Men's Glee Club and Chorus and played trombone in the school band and in a jazz ensemble. He sang for two years in Carl Fehr's "The Common Glory" choir in Williamsburg and in the Chorus of Alumni and Friends of the University of Richmond (CAFUR) with the Richmond Symphony under James Erb. Locally, he sang with the Choral Society of Durham under Larry Cook and Rodney Wynkoop. Hoover studied music sporadically at University of Richmond and at UNC-Chapel Hill. He studied composition privately with Peter Klausmeyer. He has composed ten choral anthems and a number of service pieces, some performed widely. Since about 1988, Hoover has been a part-time announcer
at WCPE. He currently hosts "Weekend Classics" early
Saturday morning and "Great
Sacred Music" on Sunday morning. In addition he has recently
assumed responsibility for the coordination of the "Thank
You" gifts available to contributors who support the station. Alexandra Jones Alexandra Jones is a tuba player, aspiring journalist, and dedicated music fan in Raleigh, North Carolina. She’s also a recent (re)transplant to the Triangle area: after coming of age in Raleigh, she attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to study tuba performance with Professor Fritz Kaenzig. She immersed herself in working for the campus student-run newspaper, The Michigan Daily, where she served as an arts reporter, film and music reviewer, columnist, magazine editor, and associate editor of the Arts section. She graduated with Bachelor of Musical Arts and Bachelor of General Studies degrees in summer of 2006 and returned to Raleigh to pursue arts journalism and enjoy a respite from five-month-long winters. She became a member of the Triangle Brass Band in Fall 2006. Jones is interested in 20th-century and avant-garde classical music, the work of the "Moguchaya Kuchka," the "Mighty Five" (Balakirev , Cui, Mussorgsky, Borodin, and Rimsky-Korsakov), improvisational/experimental/noise/difficult listening, good pop music, soul, Elvis Costello, orchestral works that feature decent tuba parts, gamelan, American roots music, and psychedelic garage rock from the 1960s, just for starters. She relishes hearing new music and loves writing and talking about it almost as much. Joseph & Elizabeth Kahn Joseph Kahn: Joe Kahn escaped from Nazi Germany at age six and grew up on a chicken farm in what is now Israel. His life, nevertheless, has been steeped in classical music and listening to good music became an indispensable part of his life from childhood. With a good ear, avid interest and innumerable concerts, he acquired an eclectic musical knowledge — all of it self-taught. Joe is Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry from NCSU years. For ten years he hosted the classical music request program, first on WKNC and then on WCPE. He was classical music critic with Elizabeth at the Independent Weekly for ten years. He and Elizabeth now write program notes for musical organizations around the country. He believes that musical criticism should be geared to the interested lay person and aim to be both informative and accessible. Criticism should not only evaluate, but also explain and educate. *** Elizabeth Kahn: Daughter of a New York music critic, Elizabeth Kahn led a charmed life growing up with any and all concerts free for the asking. She majored in voice and piano at Brandeis University and continued at Brandeis as a graduate student in musicology. She received her PhD from Harvard in Comparative Literature, creating a special niche in the relationship between music and poetry. Her dissertation on the legends of Orpheus in the Middle Ages and Renaissance was published in 1987. She is also an amateur oboist. Elizabeth sees the critic's role as largely educational rather than judgmental. She believes that by explaining something about a program, both its content and performance, she can help readers sharpen their appreciation of music their own critical faculties. As in other areas, Elizabeth is a true musical liberal, believing that there is no such thing as a definitive performance. But that doesn't mean that performers can get away with just anything. Dorothy Kitchen Dorothy Kitchen, Founder and Director of the Duke University String School, has been an educator for 42 years. She was educated at the Eastman School of Music, Western Reserve University, the University of London, Brandeis University and the Longy School of Music, and her violin teachers have included Jaroslav Holesovsky, Millard Taylor, Wolfe Wolfinsohn, Eugene Kilinski, Julia Kohl, and Georgio Ciompi. She has taught violin and chamber music at the Longy School of Music, the Ecole Ste. Trinite in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and was Professor for Youth at the Fourth International Festival of Music in Lima, Peru. She now teaches violin, viola and chamber music and conducts the Duke University String School Chamber Orchestra. Her playing career includes solos with the Dayton Philharmonic, the Greensboro Symphony, the St. Stephen's Chamber Orchestra (SCOR; now the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle), and the Trinite Philharmonic of Haiti. She was Associate concertmistress of the Greensboro Symphony, Principal Second of the SCOR, and, for many years, Principal Second of the Duke Symphony Orchestra. She toured as part of the Kitchen-Nicolson Baroque duo for six years, giving concerts and masterclasses on the East Coast. She has served as String Chairman of the North Carolina Music Teachers Association and is Co-Chair of the Durham Music Teachers Association's Performance Festival. She is the author of a small book for beginning violinists and has written about music for the Durham Herald-Sun, the Dayton Daily News, and CVNC. Kitchen has been honored as "Teacher of the Year" by the NCSA, had a day named for her by the City of Durham, and received the Ella Fountain Lifetime Award for Service to Music from the Durham Arts Council. John W. Lambert, Executive Editor & Critic Since 1977, CDR John W. Lambert, USNR-Ret., whose studies included violin, piano, voice and music history, has written over 3,000 reviews and articles published, variously, by The News and Observer, Leader, Spectator, Fanfare and Fi. A sketch of his thesis, on the North Carolina Symphony's first 50 years, was published in 1986 by Greenwood Press, in Symphony Orchestras of the United States: Selected Profiles (ed. Robert R. Craven); and his liner notes, for several Toscanini Lps, were published in 1982 by Music and Arts Programs of America, Inc. A recipient of the Raleigh Medal of Arts, the Durham Symphony's "Share the Music" Award, and a 2005 Triangle Arts Award, known as an Indie Award. Lambert is an avid collector of recordings, concentrating primarily on great conductors of the past. He is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America and the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. In "real life," he is a purchasing and contracting specialist in NC's Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Timothy H. Lindeman is the Chair of the Music Department at Guilford College, where he teaches music theory, piano, music history, and non-Western music. He received the Ph.D. in music theory with a minor in piano from Indiana University. Tim is a published writer and has presented papers at several national music conventions. For more than ten years he has written about the Triad music scene in both Triad Style and the News and Record. Tim is heard frequently performing on the piano and organ; he enjoys working as a soloist and as an accompanist. He is married to soprano and UNCG Professor Nancy Walker, with whom he has given many recitals across the country, and in Germany and Italy. Joel Mauger Critic Joel Mauger, a guitarist and keyboard specialist, of Raleigh, is currently a graduate student at NCSU. He maintains an active interest in playing music through his continuing study of the classical guitar and its literature in addition to having recently taken up the tenor banjo to play Irish Traditional music. He is a great fan of solo piano recordings of all vintages. Laura McDowell is Professor of Music and Coordinator of the Music Department at Brevard College in Brevard, NC. She also teaches Music History and Literature, and Secondary Piano. She has performed on harpsichord and recorder for the Colonial Williamsburg Restoration and, more regularly, with the Cullowhee Consort, an early music ensemble active in western North Carolina. As writer she was a contributor to Carl Maria Von Weber: A Guide to Research (Garland Publishing, 1990) and editor of Nicolas Payen: Motets and Chansons (A-R Editions, 2006). She earned a B.M. in Music History from Converse College, the M.A. in Historical Musicology from Columbia University, and the Ph.D. in Historical Musicology from Florida State University. In addition, she holds the Zertificat Deutsche als Fremdsprache from the Goethe Institute, Salzburg, Austria, and a Certificate in Early Music from Florida State University. Robert W. McDowell: Triangle Theater Review Triangle Theater Review editor and publisher Robert W. McDowell is a Raleigh, NC, freelance writer, editor, and theater critic. Since 1973, the Columbia, SC, native and 1970 graduate of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, has written theater, book, and music previews and reviews for the Raleigh News & Observer, The Raleigh Times, North Carolina Magazine of Raleigh, and Spectator Magazine of Raleigh. He also co-edited and supervised the production of Jim Valvano's Guide to Great Eating (JTV Enterprises, 1984), a 224-page celebrity cookbook; and he served as a fact checker for Valvano: They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, and Then They Declared Me Dead (Pocket Books, 1991). In April 2001, Robert McDowell established Robert's Reviews, a free weekly e-mail theatrical newsletter, to help fill a growing void in Triangle theater coverage. Classical Voice of North Carolina began publishing Robert's Reviews (Online Edition) in September 2002. The multipart online edition of Triangle Theater Review is an expanded version of the original newsletter. To receive Triangle Theater Review via e-mail, simply e-mail RobertM748@aol.com and type SUBSCRIBE TRIANGLE THEATER REVIEW in the subject line. Ted McIrvine used his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cornell University during a career that included research management, academic administration and consulting. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has served on the Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics. McIrvine has published for general audiences in Scientific American and Physics Today, and on the impact of technological change on society in the 1967 book Dialogue on Technology edited by Robert Theobald. While living in Rochester, NY, McIrvine was President of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, for which he hired David Zinman as music director, negotiated the first-ever multi-year labor contract with the musicians, and stabilized the finances. After studying piano and clarinet in his home town of Winnipeg, McIrvine decided at age 14 not to become a professional musician. At age 15, he decided not to become a journalist. However, he has rekindled those interests in retirement. He resumed piano study with Joseph Werner in Rochester and Content Sablinsky in Charlottesville, and now plays chamber music privately. Since early 2001 he has written Arts Spectrum, a weekly Sunday column on the arts in Hendersonville's Times-News. He wrote Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra reviews until they were discontinued. He is now delighted to be reviewing events for Classical Voice of North Carolina. Tom Moore holds degrees in music from Harvard and Stanford and studied traverso with Sandra Miller. From 2004 to 2007, he was visiting professor of music at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UniRio), where he co-directed the early music ensemble, Camerata Quantz. In April of this year he became music librarian at Duke University; he is the new director of the Duke Collegium Musicum. He has recorded with Kim Reighley and Mélomanie for Lyrichord (USA) and with Le Triomphe de l'Amour for Lyrichord and A Casa Discos (Brazil). He participated as flutist and interviewer for the CD released in Oct. 2006 marking ten years of music for flute by Sergio Roberto de Oliveira. Mr. Moore writes about music for BrazilMax.com, Musicabrasileira.org, 21st Century Music, Opera Today, Flute Talk, Flutist Quarterly, and other venues. He has also sung professionally with the Symphonic Chorus of Rio de Janeiro and Concert Royal and Pomerium Musices of New York. Karen E. Moorman Violinist and teacher Karen E. Moorman is a self-proclaimed late-bloomer, beginning her musical life as a singer, piano hack, and self-taught folk musician who became a serious student of the violin. Along the way, thanks to word-processing; the art of writing has become a compelling interest. Among her academic treatises are The Recitatives of the Late Beethoven String Quartets; Amy Beach: An American Composer; and Chaos Theory and Experimental Music: The Intersection of Two Avante-Gardes. She also writes for the Suzuki Association of the Americas and North Carolina Suzuki Association. With an interest toward educating young listeners, Moorman planned, coached students, and hosted Arts Now for Kids as part of the 2004 Arts Now Series directed by Dr. Rodney Waschka II at NC State University. Art criticism is her most recent mode of educating children of all ages. She holds a BA in music from UNC-CH and a MA in Liberal Studies from NCSU and currently is a lecturer at NCSU and maintains a violin studio in Durham. I believe that the concert review is an educational tool, a means of communicating and inviting the public to become an integral part of the artistic community, for without an audience, [art] music has little meaning. Todd Morman: Triangle Theater Review Todd Morman is a Raleigh, NC freelance writer, reviewer, blogger, and host of the "Monkeytime" community-access cable television show. For more of his no-holds-barred commentaries on current events and the arts, see the Monkey Media Report: http://www.monkeytime.org/. Mary Elizabeth Nordstrom A member of the American Guild of Organists since 1966, Mary Elizabeth Nordstrom was until recently music director and organist at St. George's Episcopal Church, Sanford, Maine. In 2004, she moved from NC to Maine, became director and organist at the Congregational Church of Wells, ME, 2004,and has been summer organist for the past two years at Union Church, Biddeford Pool, Maine. At a meeting early in 2006, the Portland Chapter, American Guild of Organists,presented four members including Nordstrom, with framed citations noting more than 60 years at the organ. Before moving to North Carolina in 1972, she was for four years organist and glee club director at Holderness School. Long ago accompanist for the New Hampton School Glee Club, she was also organist for a total of 11 summers at Chocorua Island Chapel (Church Island) on Squam Lake. At age 13, until she entered Middlebury College, she was a professional organist in Bristol, New Hampshire, where she had studied with the late Gladys Lydston, member of more than one conservatory faculty in Boston. A graduate in political science, she developed her Music Appreciation (101 and -2 and -3) and writing skills at Middlebury College in Vermont. She wrote the first Arts column in her native state: "Des Beaux Arts in New Hampshire," for the Manchester Union Leader. She often reviewed NH Music Festival concerts for The Telegram. The "naturalized North Carolinian" initially relocated with her family from New Hampshire to Winston-Salem, where she wrote "Spotlight on the Arts," in Steve Neal's The Suburbanite. She also represented performing artists there in the '70s. Later, she and her husband, Everett, lived in Chapel Hill, where she researched, published and marketed Outdoor Drama and he was, during most of the '80s, Executive Director of the Medical Foundation of North Carolina, retiring in 1990. Prior to relocating to Maine in the summer of 2004, they lived in Pinehurst and Raleigh. For a couple of years, she was program director for Women of Weymouth and was Dean of the Sandhills Chapter, American Guild of Organists. She wrote occasional reviews for The Pilot. In 1998, she founded the Handel On Hunger annual events in the Sandhills; she hopes that there will be delayed spin-offs to "feed His flock like a shepherd" (Isaiah 40:11) everywhere that Messiah is performed or given in "sing along" readings. Nordstrom has edited her husband's manuscript, How
The Dome Was Done, which relates his professional fund-raising
experience as Campaign Director for the late Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles
and the Educational Foundation of UNC. Richard Parsons Richard Parsons was born and reared in Raleigh. He attended Ravenscroft
School, Broughton High School, and UNC-CH. He studied piano with
Valerie Peter Perret Born in Minnesota to a family of artists and scientists, Peter Perret was the Music Director of the Winston-Salem Symphony from 1978 to 2004. Previously Perret had served the Buffalo Philharmonic as Exxon/Arts Endowment Conductor for three years, and before that he was Principal Conductor of the Capetown Symphony (South Africa). Perret frequently lectures and leads workshops on the relationship of music to learning. Perret has co-authored a book (with Janet Fox), A Well-Tempered Mind; Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn, aimed at parents and teachers, released by the Dana Press in October 2004. Frank D. Pittman Pianist, accompanist, and chamber musician Frank D. Pittman is a long-time member of the faculty of Meredith College who is currently completing his D.M.A. at UNCG. He writes: "There is a saying that actors should never be producers and that producers should in no way be actors. The same applies to musicians and "reviewers." Almost inevitability, a 'reviewer' who is a performing musician cannot perform with the same level of mastery as the artists he (or she) reviews. The reviewer, consequently, is not often capable of ascending to the high echelons they advocate and demand — and that can be a frustrating experience. Conversely, musicians, as 'reviewers,' can never truly be objective, for when they try to be candid in their remarks, they invariably forge adversaries within their own professional circle when commentary is less than luminous. This, in turn, creates bias in the formation of the reviews and can thereby dissuade the writer from candor. It's a devil vs. the deep blue sea dilemma, for sure!" Scott Ross: Triangle Theater Review Scott Ross is a local playwright who won the 1995 Thompson Theatre Playwright Award (professional category) for The Dogs of Foo, which was produced by University Theatre at N.C. State. He received a 2000 United Arts grant for the production of his drama A Liberal Education, which debuted in Thompson Studio Theatre, and his one-act play Unreliable Witness was produced at REP in 1991, where it was directed by CVNC music critic Roy C. Dicks. He has written theater criticism for Spectator Magazine (1981-86), movie and book reviews for Raleigh's News & Observer (1986-91) and served as Dance, Comedy and Theater editor for Triangle.citysearch.com (1998-2000). He was the primary CD reviewer for the quarterly Sondheim Review from 1994-2004. He also penned two original musical revues — I Love A Piano: The Music of Irving Berlin and Serenading The Moon: The Songs of Johnny Mercer — for University Theatre's annual TheatreFest series. His most recent play is a dramatic adaptation of Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons, and his book on the films of Billy Wilder will be published by McFarland. He was awarded a B.A. in Playwriting from Hampshire College in 1990. Jeffrey Rossman After nearly a lifetime of studying and playing the classical guitar, but suffering from orchestra envy, Jeffrey Rossman turned his musical energies to learning the cello. He studied that wonderful instrument with Fred Raimi, cellist with the Ciompi Quartet. He is a member of the UNC and Duke Symphony Orchestras, as well as the Chapel Hill Philharmonia. During the past year (2007-08), Mr. Rossman has played with the Carolina Ballet Orchestra, the Orchestra Pro Cantores, and was selected, after a rigorous audition, to play with the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria. Being a member of ensembles and experiencing first-hand the complexity and work involved in playing great works of music has given him, he feels, greater sensitivity to the critic's role and responsibility. Rossman attended the 2005 National Arts Journalism Institute at Columbia University, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. Rossman grew up in Brooklyn, New York, and (he says) "as anyone from there will tell you, no matter how long you've been gone, you are always 'from Brooklyn.'" After the obligatory family pilgrimage from New York to Miami, he attended Florida State University (so long ago that, at that time, they had losing football teams). A teaching assistantship at Ohio State University led to the one bright spot of that tenure — he met his wife, Monica. In 1982, she was offered the position of Assistant Organist at Duke Chapel, so the Rossmans loaded up their truck and moved to Durham. They have 2 daughters: Jessica, a nursing student at UNC-Chapel Hill, and Natalie, a junior at UNC-Greensboro. Mr. Rossman earned a Juris Doctorate degree from North Carolina
Central Steve Row worked 24 years as a reporter and editor at The Richmond (Va.) News Leader (1968-92) and then 11 years in journalism education outreach on behalf of Richmond Newspapers, Inc., in scholastic journalism classes in approximately 20 Richmond area high schools (1992-2003). During his time in the newsroom, he was the main substitute classical music reviewer for the paper and reviewed Richmond Symphony, Richmond Sinfonia, touring orchestra, and other musical group performances, as well as wrote occasional music-related feature stories. After taking early retirement in 2003, he relocated to Knoxville, Tenn., where he edited the local city magazine for more than a year and did freelance writing. He sang in the Maryville Community Chorus for 2004, 2005, and 2006 spring programs. He relocated to Greenville, N.C., in June 2006 and does freelance writing for local and regional magazines, as well as Business Today, a monthly business newspaper published in Cornelius. He contributes articles regularly to the quarterly East magazine at East Carolina University, including fine and performing arts previews. He also volunteers in local high school journalism classes. Row sings in the St. Paul's Episcopal Church choir and the Greenville Choral Society, and he is a member of the board of directors of the choral society. George M. Stephens George M. Stephens, amateur musician, received the Raleigh Medal of Arts in 1985 for volunteer activities, including: member of NC Symphony Board of Trustees, Raleigh Chamber Music Guild president, Raleigh Performing Arts Center Task Force chairman, and Raleigh Concert Band president. He was chairman of the Buncombe County Chapter of the NC Symphony and Director of Development at its headquarters in Raleigh. He sang in the Brevard Festival Chorus, the Raleigh Oratorio Society and a church choir, and he plays flute in the Raleigh Concert Band. His service as a critic began in 2002 at the invitation of CVNC. William Thomas Walker: From the Foothills to the Hill Bluegrass on the radio and shape note singing in local churches constituted high art in Wilkes County, where William Thomas Walker grew up, but TV brought Bernstein's Young People's Concerts. He left the hills for the Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) and attended his first concert in 1969. Working 31+ years as Stacks Supervisor in Wilson Library and later in Davis Library has enabled him to fund his addiction to classical music by collecting recordings and attending 80+ concerts annually. This led to writing for Spectator Magazine and then helping launch CVNC with an "Overview of the 25th Anniversary of the Spoleto Festival USA. Note: Several Walker reviews of local eateries (from his pre-CVNC days) are available online at http://hkentcraig.com/BBQ.html. Marvin J. Ward Educational/professional background: Ph.D. French/English Medieval Studies, bilingual, former French teacher HS & college levels, free-lance translator and interpreter, former editor of professional newsletters, former officer in various professional and cultural organizations. Classical Music experience: singer in choruses, concert-goer, recorded music listener/collector for over 40 years, former announcer for classical radio station, board member of presenter organization, classical CD salesperson. Special musical interests: vocal (art song), piano, organ recitals, chamber, choral, harp, French repertoire, music new to my ears. Other interests: art/art history (former volunteer docent @ NCMA), architecture, cinema (esp. foreign), theatre, history, travel, museums, historical sites, nature, reading. Dr. Ward relocated from Raleigh to Massachusetts in 2003 but
continues to contribute to CVNC. Paul Williams, hailing originally from near Asheville,
is a graduate of Furman and Auburn universities. He retired from
the electronic
computing industry and later from a secondary career teaching
mathematics and computer courses at Shaw University. He has also
taught part-time at Auburn, Georgia State University, and Georgia
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