Tag: Acrylics
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Ann Arbor Part 3 – The Ark
The Ark Coffee House Ted and I started playing at the Ark on Wednesday nights. It was an open-mic night, and all the local musicians hung out there. Professional touring acts played there on the weekends. It was there that I met those who would be my closest friends and confidants while I lived there……
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Ann Arbor – Part 1 – Memoir Continued
Ann Arbor – Part 1 Yes, I was a little depressed after Gail. Ted A. was going to go and check out the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and invited me to go along for company. I was still without a driver’s license, so decided to enjoy a diversion. We went up for the…
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The Threepenny Opera – Memoir Continued
The Threepenny Opera (a band name that I used off and on for several years) Guy and I started singing folk music together. I also had met a young woman at the Hut, a bar in the front part of the Lorain Roller Rink on Route 6 out near Beaver Park. Her name was Jane…
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Senior Year – Part 3 – The Senior Choir Operetta – Memoir Continued
Senior Year – Part 3 – The Senior Choir Operetta, Spring 1966 The Unsinkable Molly Brown was the choice of our choir director and the English department’s drama coach. In previous years, I had played in the ensemble put together to be the pit-orchestra for our musicals. But this year, Guy and I both tried…
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1964-65 – Junior Year Part 1 – Memoir Continued
1964-65 – Junior Year Part 1 – Memoir Continued Orchestra rehearsal, first period: Seating was being assigned for each of the orchestra’s sections. In the violin section, we were moving up the seniority chain, and the first and second chairs were up for grabs. Both Guy and I thought we’d be sitting one and two.…
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Sophomore Year – Memoir Continued
1963-64 – Sophomore – Memoir Conrtinued Guy started his freshman year as I started my sophomore. We were both in the first period orchestra rehearsal first violin section. I sat 3rd chair violin, and he sat 5th, with Ellen Zahoric sitting 4h, right next to me, sharing a music stand. She was the city prosecutor’s…
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My High School Journey Begins – Memoir Continued
My High School Journey Begins – 1962 – Memoir Continued Admiral King High School in Lorain OH. It was brand new and opened the year before I started. So ours would be the 2nd class to graduate, completing all four years there, the class of 1966. I took Algebra in summer school so that I…
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The Colors Spell of Life
The Colors Spell of Life emotions color thewhole-cloth of our livesis love white, pink, perhapsblood-red… loveone degree north of hate is averice the greenof envy or does green indicate a love of nature all fauna yet anotherdegree of love anger may be crimsonor perhaps ultravioletrage just low energy segments of the color spectrum woven in so we sing the…
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Laying-on Paint
Laying-on Paint background music to start – sonatas for violin and guitar canvas preparedrough draft ofvision laid down paints on palateessential colorsmixed and ready brush-tip drips colorlaid on canvas andshapes are rendered with patient strokesor dabbed and scrapedwith palette knife bold music changes assessions fly bypainting completed in many winks ofthe eye – studiedthis playful…
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Tanglewood ’69
Tanglewood ’69 Intro I was working as a mechanical lab tech for the National Seal Div. of Federal Mogal in Ann Arbor Michigan. Had worked there for about a year and a half, but no seniority and no real prospects for advancement. I was living in a rented room in a house with some students…