Mary Gardner Knowles                                                                                                        
My mother was a librarian in Plymouth Meeting, PA.                            
She and the Quakers stood up to attacks made on her
during the period of McCarthyism. These "plain" pieces
aim to convey something of her character.

1300Piano
1320Piano
1317Piano - Children's Hour at the Library
1387Piano


Teachers and chorus leaders:


   
    Mark Bernfeld
    Professional drummer and singer in Laughingstock
    Director of the East Bay Urban Harmony chorus 


   


    Pat Wynne
    Founder and Director of SF/Bay Area Rockin' Solidarity Labor Chorus
    Progressive singer, arranger, composer, music teacher, vocal coach

Gustav Mahler                                                                                                                   
These two composers met in Helsinki, Finland in 1907. Jan Sibelius said:

"When our conversation touched on the essence of symphony, I said that I admired its severity and style and the profound logic that created an inner connection between all the motifs.  This was the experience I had come to in composing.  Mahler's opinion was just the reverse.


"No, the symphony must be like the world.  It must embrace everything."

- Ekman, Mahler Remembered, page 218.

   

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