BM, EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY (VOICE CONCENTRATION), MARSHALL, TEXAS

MCM, SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (VOICE CONCENTRATION, FORT WORTH, TEXAS.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF COMPREHENSIVE STUDIES IN VOICE SCIENCE AND CHORAL CONDUCTING:

CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, KANSAS CITY AND SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, POST GRADUATE STUDIES

WESTMINSTER CHOIR COLLEGE, PRINCETON, N.J.

VOICE FOUNDATION, PHILADELPHIA, PA. (a group of the most outstanding research scientists from all over the world in a symposion on the function and care of the human voice)!

INSTEAD OF COMPLETING MY DOCTORATE, AND BRAINWASHED WITH NARROW CONCEPTS, I DECIDED TO BECOME AN "ECLECTIC" LEARNER. THE PAST TWENTY-FIVE (25) YEARS, I HAVE CAREFULLY SOUGHT OUT THE MOST NOTED, AND OUTSTANDING VOCAL SCIENTISTS, VOCAL TECHNICIANS, OTOLARYNGOLOGISTS, PhD's IN VOCAL RESEARCH, THE MOST PROMINENT CHORAL DIRECTORS IN THE WORLD. CONSTANTLY STUDYING PRIVATELY, AND STUDYING EVERY SUMMER THREE TO FIVE WEEKS- HAS PROVEN MOST VALUABLE IN MY TEACHING VOCAL PEDAGOGY TO SPEAKERS AND SINGERS ACROSS AMERICA.

THE MOST IMPORTANT "CUTTING EDGE" STUDY HAS BEEN WITH THE ‘VOICE FOUNDATION", WHICH MEETS ANNUALLY IN PHILADELPHIA, PA.

SAID: "IF A MAN DOES NOT KEEP PACE WITH HIS COMPANIONS, PERHAPS IT IS BECAUSE HE HEARS A DIFFERENT DRUMMER. LET HIM STEP TO THE MUSIC WHICH HE HEARS, HOWEVER MEASURED OR FAR AWAY."

MY INSATIABLE APPETITE FOR LEARNING HAS BEEN STRETCHED BY THE UNUSUAL QUOTATION OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:  MOST PEOPLE DIE WITH THE MUSIC STILL IN THEM.  THIS STATEMENT CAN BE APPLIED TO MOST ALL INDIVIDUALS THAT TALK. MOST EVERYONE CAN TALK, BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO SPEAK  AND/OR SING CORRECTLY!

TEACHING BACKGROUND

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF VOICE, AND CHAIRMAN OF THE CHURCH MUSIC DEPARTMENT, OUACHITA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY, ARKADELPHIA, ARKANSAS. RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDED UNIVERSITY ORATORIO CHORUS PERFORMING MAJOR WORKS EACH SEMESTER WITH ORCHESTRA. DIRECT NG THE OUACHITA SINGING MEN IN THIRTY TO FIFTY CONCERTS EACH YEAR. PREMIERED DAVE BRUEBECK'S JAZZ ORATORIO "LIGHT IN THE WILDERNESS". OTHER MAJOR WORKS INCLUDED BACH, BEETHOVEN, RON NELSON, HONNEGER, MOZART, SAIN-SAUS, RANDALL THOMPSON, HANDEL, HAYDN, AND MANY OTHERS.

DIRECTED MANY COMMUNITY CHORUSES IN MAJOR CHORAL WORKS WITH FULL ORCHESTRA

PHI MU ALPHA

AT THE END OF MY MILITARY DUTY RECEIVED THE HIGHEST ADMINISTRATIVE AWARD IN THE MILITARY SERVICE FOR "NON-COMBAT" DUTY: "COMMENDATION RIBBON WITH MEDAL PENDENT". THE AWARDED AND PRESENTED BY GENERAL MITCHELL AT FORT CHAFFEE, ARKANSAS,  FOR DIRECTING THE "SINGING MEN OF CCB". THE CHORUS , COMPOSED OF EIGHTY TO ONE HUNDRED SINGERS THAT TOURED EVERY WEEKEND ACROSS ARKANSAS AND OKLAHOMA PRESENTING CONCERTS. THE LAST PERFORMANCE WAS AT FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS. THERE WAS ONE HUNDRED (100) SINGING IN THAT LAST CONCERT.   EIGHTY FIVE (85%) PERCENT OF THE GROUP HAD SUNG IN COLLEGE CHOIRS; TWENTY-SIX (26) HAD RECEIVED DEGREES IN MUSIC.

IN 1996, THE EAST TEXAS BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION HONORED ME BY PRESENTING THE "MOST OUTSTANDING ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD" FOR MY TEACHING VOCAL FREEDOM SEMINARS IN UNIVERSITIES, HIGH SCHOOLS, NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AND AREAS ACROSS THE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT.

CONCERTS ACROSS AMERICA IN CHURCHES OF MANY DENOMINATIONS.