ST. MARY ANNE'S MUSIC PROGRAM
SING,
CHOIRS of ANGELS!
The
choral program at St. Mary Anne’s has had much success and membership
has grown considerably.
Music is representative of all styles and genres.
Voices
are needed for every section of the Adult Choir—soprano, alto, tenor, and bass
and also for the Youth Choir.
If you like to sing and can carry a tune but really aren’t sure what
voice part is best for you, just ask our Director of Music Ministries and he
will be happy to place your voice where it can best be used.
Youth
Choir generally meets each Thursday at 6:15 P.M. for a half hour with Pizza
Night on the first regular rehearsal of the month.
Adult Choir rehearses afterwards at 7 o’clock for 90 minutes and warms
up on Sunday mornings at 9:50 for 20 minutes.
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The music Program is under the direction of our Director of
Music Ministry,
Robert Stephen Wallace, II. His biography follows:
Robert
Wallace II is known in the tri-state fine arts area and has been the Music
Director at
Bohemia
Manor
High School
in
Chesapeake City
,
MD
for thirty-seven years. He is
artistic director of the Band, Chorus, and teaches a variety of other ensembles
including keyboard and guitar. He
also wrote and teaches the Advanced Placement Music Theory class, along with
others, like American Popular Music. A major passion is production of an annual
musical with live pit band, and he has served as musical director for many
shows. He has served as choral adjudicator and has been the host conductor for
the
Cecil
County
Middle School
and High School All-County Bands and Choruses, and has also served in the
capacity of piano accompanist to the Choruses.
He is the organist-choirmaster at Saint Mary Anne’s Episcopal Church in
North East, MD, and has held other similar positions for over forty-six years.
He is also the professional musician (choir director and accompanist) at
Temple Beth Shalom in
Wilmington
,
DE
and has held other similar positions for about twenty-nine years.
He is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference,
Maryland Music Educator’s Association and the American Guild of Organists.
An
avid composer and arranger, he completed a major arranging project on the Hebrew
liturgical music from 18th Century
Curacao that was
published and released in 1999. Extensive projects completed for solo
organ of Heroic Music by Georg
Telemann and Requiem by Gabriel Fauré,
along with dozens of selections for handbells and SATB vocal ensemble, Advanced
Guitar Theory and an arrangement of the String
Quartet by Benjamin Franklin for brass quintet, a concert arrangement of Meditation
from Jules Massenet’s opera Thaïs for organ and brass, and his
newest work Symphonie Pour L'Orgue.
Under
his direction, students have been selected for both
Maryland
and Delaware All-State Chorus, Band and Orchestra and All-Eastern Chorus.
Many of his students have studied college music and perform
professionally on the operatic and concert stage and for the President of the
United States
, compose, and teach music in schools.
He
is a resident of Newark, DE where he proudly lives with his wife (of twenty-nine
years) Rose, and daughter Giuli who is attending DTCC. His other
daughter Krissy is presently working at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in
Washington, D.C.
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The various choir ensembles rehearse and perform regularly for worship and
parish functions. NEW MEMBERS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME. Click here
for more information.
For Sunday Music click
here.
Musician extraordinaire, Rick Waterhouse composes and performs his own
arrangements for 8:00 A.M. worship every Sunday. You will want to check out his
web site below for full details of his special music.
And . . .please check out Bob's own web site
http://hometown.aol.com/bach934/myhomepage/faith.html
