Finding a past instructor / teacher / professor

[tarkus]

The master-class thread sparked the bulb.'

 

It's been almost 26 years since I graduated college.

In trying to go back to basics I've tried to find the former teachers and professors that helped me develop as a musician along the way.

 

It all begins with Felix Molzer when I was about 7 or 8 years old taking my first formal music classes.

Felix Passed away a few years ago, but he played an important formative part in the lives of many people regardless of their pursuit of music.

http://atl.gmnews.com/news/2005-08-04/Front_page/032.html

 

My classical guitar professor is currently teaching in Nashville (Francis Perry) - great teacher and a great player.

http://www.belmont.edu/music/faculty/faculty_current/perry_francis.html

 

Several other colege prof's have either passed away or I can't seem to locate.

 

I did manage to find Bill Rhodes on a few Youtube clips.

He's a great player and was a pioneer in teaching electronic music & synthesis. Craig Anderton's pamphlet "Applied Synthesis" was our textbook.

 

Here's Bill:

 

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[Bobadohshe]

I recently got back with a teacher of mine who was very formative for me 10 years ago, a jazz player named Kamau Kenyatta down here in San Diego (he's the cat that introduced Greg Phillinagines to jazz when they were kids in Detroit). At this point I am an established player myself, but I was blown away by how many ideas and how much focus I gained from taking 90 mins with him and letting a musical dialogue flow.

[Rusty Mike]

tarkus,

 

Bill Rhodes was a teacher of yours? I used to work with him back in the 80's in Edison NJ. We both worked the keyboard department at the local music store. I remember when he was recording his records at the time; I think I even helped him design his record label logo back then. As a matter of fact, I ran into him at last year's NAMM, where he was working for one of the Italian speaker companies.

 

Great player, funny guy. Plays very loud from what I recall.

 

I might have his business card around here somewhere.

 

[tarkus]

tarkus,

 

Bill Rhodes was a teacher of yours? I used to work with him back in the 80's in Edison NJ. We both worked the keyboard department at the local music store. I remember when he was recording his records at the time; I think I even helped him design his record label logo back then. As a matter of fact, I ran into him at last year's NAMM, where he was working for one of the Italian speaker companies.

 

Great player, funny guy. Plays very loud from what I recall.

 

I might have his business card around here somewhere.

Small world. Yeah Bill was an adjunct Prof at Monmouth College when I attended. He encouraged me to improve my playing and made synthesis a fun pursuit.

He did a few concerts at the school, one performance was top notch. A year later he does another concert, I help him set up. A sound guy shows up with huge horns and bins... :0

And there is Bill with a JX8P and a midi module playing at ear-splitting volume. lol! It was a deafening performance!

Outside the theater Some woman walks up to me and says "what the hell is happening in there?"

He was playing some pretty wild improvs lol!