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Contemporary

   
    Mark Bernfeld

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




Tracy Silverman
  Violinist extraordinaire, formerly with Turtle lsland String Quartet
    Performer, composer, producer, composition teacher


   


    Pat Wynne
    Founder and Director of SF/Bay Area Rockin' Solidarity Labor Chorus

    Progressive singer, arranger, composer, music teacher, vocal coach




John  Geist
Founder of Geoffrey Chaucer, Inc
Award-winning composer, composition teacher


Classical

 
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.





    John Knowles Paine
    Composer, organist, educator, founder of Harvard Music Department. A distant relative.
   






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