Sounding The Chord Still Images > Completed Interviewees for Sounding The Chord
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Mary Riles (UCHS c/o 1987) In Concert In Seattle, Washington, USA (February 2011
Mary was the first person that we officially interviewed for the project. She played strings throughout her tenure in the U. City school district and has been a professional cellist ever since. She now lives, plays, and teaches in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Here official website is here: http://www.mellonmusic.com/
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James (Jimmy) Greene (UCHS c/o 1981) on Alki Beach, West Seattle, Washington USA
Jimmy was a member of multiple bands while at U. City and was a saxophone player most the time. He played in the Jazz Band 1 and was part of the recording that we have samples of on this website. Jimmy still plays his sax (not professionally) while he's being very busy as a gynecologist in Tacoma, Washington.
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Jenny Boyce (UCHS c/o 1988) @ Home in Portland, Oregon, USA (February 2011)
Jenny is an art therapist now in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. She was always into art during her days in U. City. She took classes at Craft Alliiance and additional art classes at the high school as well as participating in stage crew for Spring Musicals.
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Peter Martin Rehearsing @ The Sheldon Theater in St. Louis, MO (February 2011)
Peter started playing piano and violin from nearly the time he could move his fingers individually. He grew up in U. City and played in the jazz bands while also studying and playing classical music. He was slated to graduate with the class of 1988, but was able to graduate early in 1987. After graduating from high school, Peter received the Presidential Scholar in the Arts award. He then attended The Juilliard School in New York on scholarship, and moved to New Orleans in 1990.
While in New Orleans, Peter worked with Nicholas Payton, Germaine Bazzle, Alvin Batiste, Brian Blade and Victor Goines. He also embarked on an active solo career and toured and recorded with artists such as Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Dianne Reeves, Chris Botti, Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Roy Hargrove, and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
After many years playing all around the world and performing on Grammy winning records, Peter's house in New Orleans was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. He then moved back to U. City (only a few doors away from where he used to live) and he continues to play to this day.
You can go to Peter's website and check out some of his recent recordings and upcoming concerts: http://www.petermartinmusic.com
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Diane Davenport @ Home in University City, Missouri (May 2011)
Music educator and administrator in University City from 1964 through 1990.
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John Brophy @ Home in Creve Coeur, Missouri (May 2011)
UCHS Jazz Band teacher from 1980 through 1987 and lead the Jazz Band 1 to a European tour 1985 including an invitation to play at the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
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Todd Williams @ Tuxedo Park School in Tuxedo Park, New York (May 2011)
UCHS c/o 1985. World class jazz saxophonist who has played around the world and many recordings. Now also a music teacher at a junior high school in Tuxedo Park, New York.
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Todd & Jordan Williams @ Tuxedo Park School in Tuxedo Park, New York (May 2011)
Todd with his son Jordan at the school where Todd teaches.
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Roger Warner @ Home in Denton, Texas (June 2011)
UCHS Band teacher from 1961-1973.
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Karou Watanabe on a "Creative Walk" in Prospect Park, Brooklyn
http://www.watanabekaoru.com/e/
KAORU WATANABE, a former member of the Japanese taiko ensemble Kodo, is a practitioner of various Japanese traverse bamboo flutes, the taiko drum as well as Western flute. His music can be best described as an ever shifting blend of the folk and classical traditions of Japan with contemporary improvisational and experimental music.
Kaoru was born in St. Louis, MO to symphony musician parents. In 1997, after graduating from the Manhattan School of Music with a BFA in jazz flute and saxophone performance and performing with New York’s Soh Daiko, Kaoru moved to Japan and joined the internationally renowned taiko drum ensemble Kodo. Based in Sado Island in the Niigata prefecture, Kaoru toured across the globe with Kodo, performing the taiko, traditional Japanese folk dance and song, and especially the various fue (bamboo flute) such as the noh kan, ryuteki and shinobue.
In late 2006 Kaoru left Kodo and returned to NY to teach and continue performing fue, western flute and taiko in a variety of musical and artistic settings. Recent projects have taken him across the US, Canada, Japan, Mongolia, Jamaica, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Honduras.
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Linda Presgrave In Her Home in Midtown Manhattan, New York (August 2011)
http://www.metropolitanrecordsnyc.com/presgrave/index.html
Linda Presgrave - Music Teacher at Univeristy City Public Schools 1973-1980
Jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, relocated to New York City in 1998 leaving a very active music career in her native city of St. Louis. Since that time she has recorded four jazz CDs as a leader on the METROPOLITAN RECORDS label. On her newest CD, INSPIRATION, Linda continues in her exploration of compositions by jazz artists “who happen to be women”. This time around she recorded once again with her favorite jazz bassist Harvie S, her producer/husband Stan Chovnick on soprano sax along with the “inspirational” drummer Allison Miller and the newest addition to the Metropolitan Records artist roster, tenor saxophonist Todd Herbert. The CD consists of six tracks of originals by Linda inspired by people, places and things plus works by Joanne Brackeen, Melba Liston, Bertha Hope and Billie Holiday. Lindahas received rave reviews from critics and fans alike. This recording has helped to bring attention not only to her pianistic abilities but also to her compositional skills.
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Larry Krone @ his Home Studio in Alphabet City, New York City (September 2011)
An Artist/Entertainer and born in 1970 in Chicago, Larry was raised in U. City and has lived and worked in New York City since 1989. He attended New York University and The Art Institute of Florence. -
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Sandy Weltman @ His Home in St. Louis (September 2011)
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Sandy Weltman @ His Home in St. Louis (September 2011)
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Trish Patterson @ Her Home in the Memphis Area (November 2011)
Singer/Performer
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Rosalie Will Boxt @ her Synagogue as Cantor in Kensington, MD (December 2011)
Singer/Guitarist and Cantor at Temple Emanuel in Kensington, Maryland
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James Smith @ Home In Orlando, Florida (December 2011)
Professional Broadway Dancer
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Don Wolff @ His Summer Home in Bonita Springs, Florida (December 2011)
We caught up with Don Wolff (UCHS c/o 1955) at his summer home in southwest Florida where he spends part of his time now when he's not in St. Louis. Don was never a professional musician, but he has a career of 35+ years as a jazz broadcaster in the St. Louis area on multiple stations on the radio and now the Internet with the program "I Love Jazz". Not only has Don been an extreme promoter and broadcaster of jazz for nearly 40 years, but he's had a full career in the St. Louis area as a lawyer and a judge.
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Tom Seltzer in his Studio in Brooklyn, New York
Tom Seltzer grew up in University City. His parents also went to U. City, and both sets of grandparents lived there as well. He went to U. City schools starting in kindergarten at McKnight and ending when he graduated UCHS in 1988. Cut him and he bleeds black and gold.
Tom has always been proud of his involvement in the U. City band program, in which he played saxophone, badly. If not for his participation, some genuinely talented musicians in that program might not have sounded quite as brilliant in comparison. (He also played piano badly, but that was on his own time.)
Tom moved to New York in 1988 to attend Columbia University, where he studied history. This is confusing in that he has made his living since graduating as an illustrator and graphic designer. He is the owner and principal designer of Seltzer Studio Graphics, where his clients include or have included Deutsche Bank, Second Market, The New York City Opera, American Lawyer, The Deal and the New York Times. He recently created the cover art for former U. City resident Jeremy Schonfeld’s Iron & Coal CD. Tom lives in Brooklyn with his wife Inés and seven-year old daughter Iliana -
Cara Reedy on the Brooklyn Promenade in Brooklyn, New York (April 2011)
Native U. Citian. Attended Flynn Park until 4th grade. Degree in photography and has many other arts intrests. Now a producer at CNN Money in New York City. She's assisting with shooting and researching for the Sounding The Chord project.
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Eric Fletcher @ His Home in Burbank, CA (February 2012)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0281995/
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Leonard Roberts In Venice, CA (February 2012)
Actor Leonard Roberts
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Denise Du'Maine At Home In New York, NY (March 2012)
Because the "quadruple threat", U. City High School Alum Denise Du'Maine, is constantly running around the New York City area she calls home either acting, dancing, singing, or choreographing, we were lucky to be able to find some time to sit down with her and hear about all of her work in the entertainment industry. Denise began work in "the business" while she was back at U. City and continues to this day.
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Ayako & Kaoru Watanabe at The Whitney Museum (May 2012)
Kaoru (UCHS c/o 1993) played flute along with his mom, Ayako, former harpist for the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and U. City resident. This was part of a performance installation "Bleed: Alicia Hall Moran & Jason Moran" at The Whitney Museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City.
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Tom Seltzer @ The Aurora Gallery in Queens, New York (December 2012)
U. City Artist/Illustrator/Graphic Designer Tom Seltzer (UCHS c/o 1988) displays some of his wares at his first New York City gallery show in Long Island City, Queens showing posters of his completely original artwork of mainly musicians at The Aurora Gallery in Queens. Subjects include Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, James Brown, and Miles Davis, among others. Tom is also the creator of the Sounding The Chord logo for this section of The University City Musician Documentary Project.
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Robert Ginsburg at KUAF in Fayetteville, Arkansas (July 2017)
Robert Ginsburg (UCHS c/o 1969) is the curator of jazz for the Walton Arts Center, founder and executive director of the Northwest Arkansas Jazz Society, and has been on the air playing jazz at KUAF since 1979.
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Stephen Winter at Core Public House in North Little Rock, AR (July 2017)
Stephen Winter (UCHS c/o 1979) is a musician based out of Little Rock, Arkansas that has taken his piano playing and voice around the world since leaving U. City. We went down memory lane about his times at U. City and playing music in the south and around the world...and spoke about his very well known brother, actor and documentarian Alex Winter (a Flynn Parker and Brittany kid that was in "The Lost Boys" and "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure" plus his directing of the story of Napster "Downloaded")