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Hi, Bob --
Just got home after being away for a few
days; I was a professional actor for 25 years (NY, London stage and film/TV)
before becoming disabled in 1999 via an onstage accident in D.C. (links
below - but why bother?) Relatively minor disability, but enough to cease
my acting career. Wife, young son and I retired back to native
California in 2001 (high in the Sierra at 4,000 feet above the town of Mariposa
and just outside Yosemite) where I've been able to return to my first great love
and compulsion: the symphonic repertoire. Two years ago I formed the
(community) Mariposa Symphony Orchestra and have been having the absolute time
of my life. Every concert sells out, there's wonderful support from the
community and it's a rollicking happy, dedicated and learning, rapidly improving
group, now about 50 members.
I was intensively trained in my youth and
teens as an instrumental musician as well as in composition
and conducting. No matter how wonderful a career and time I had as an
actor, there was always a little voice nagging me from the back of my head:
'wouldn't you have been happier as a composer and conductor?' I
can't tell you how great it's been to finally shut that damned little voice up
with a resounding YES!!! I never stopped composing during all those
years as an actor but now have returned to it with a vengeance and
have enjoyed a few locally-designed premieres in the past 24 months with my
orchestra.
This was a wonderful idea of yours, Bob - I
too have wondered about our co-Listers; if anyone gets to the Yosemite area,
look me up. If I haven't already scared you off...
Oh yeah -- born February 26, 1957. Married college sweetheart January 20,
1985. Son (Maxfield Charles Marsden) born April 11, 1997.
Now can I go?
Best,
Les Les Marsden
Founding Music Director and Conductor,
The Mariposa Symphony Orchestra Music and Mariposa? Ahhhhh, Paradise!!! 209.966.6988
7145 Snyder Creek Road
Mariposa, CA 95338-9641
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Florence
Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: [Finale] OT: Who are you? I recieve so many e mails from the address listed above. I have met quite a few of you. However, I would love to know a little background of each and all of you. Are you a musician? Are you active? Are you retired? Where are you from and where are you residing now? What kind of music do you specialize in? Are you an instrumentalist, composer/arranger/copiest, teacher, etc.? If not a musician, what is your occupation? The answered questions are to satisfy my curiosity about who I am dealing with. I have seen all of your names many times. Now it is time for more information. Thanks; Bob Florence born may 20, 1932 in Los Angeles. I am an active composer/arranger, pianist, band leader and sometimes cook. I reside in Thousand Oaks, Ca. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale |
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