Galen Marshall was the founder of the Masterworks Chorale at the College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California in September 1964. Masterworks Chorale is a choral ensemble based in San Mateo California. College of San Mateo (commonly referred to as CSM is a community college and part of the San Mateo County Community College District San Mateo ( "san muh-TAY-o") is a city in San Mateo County, California, United States [1]
Biography
Born in March 1934 in Greensburg, Kansas (the city devastated by a massive tornado on May 4, 2007), Marshall's family moved to Modesto, California in 1942. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Greensburg is a City in central Kiowa County, located in Southwest Kansas Modesto is the County seat of Stanislaus County in the US state of California. He became friends with the future singer/actor Harve Presnell and they both attended Modesto High School. Harve Presnell (born September 14, 1933) is a Golden Globe -winning American film stage and television actor Marshall left Modesto to attend San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University), where he earned his B. San Francisco State University (informally referred to as San Francisco State, SF State, State and SFSU) is a public University A. and M. A. Marshall's longtime mentor at the university was Dr. John Tegnell. [2]
After teaching at Bay Area high schools and the City College of San Francisco, Marshall joined the faculty of the College of San Mateo in 1963. City College of San Francisco, or CCSF, is a two-year Community college in San Francisco California. College of San Mateo (commonly referred to as CSM is a community college and part of the San Mateo County Community College District [3] The college's longtime music department head, Fred Roehr, hired Marshall. He was director of both the A Capella Choir and the Masterworks Chorale, which he founded in September 1964, and taught various music classes.
With his choirs, he sought very high standards and developed a series of "rules" in his rehearsals, some of them inspired by legendary choral director Robert Shaw. WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes --> Robert Shaw ( April 30, 1916 – January 25 A common practice was the use of singing nonsense syllables or the beat numbers during rehearsals. If a musical line descended, Marshall would advise, "Give ground grudgingly. " He also advised singers not to sing faster if the music was louder or slower if the music was softer. Soft music should be sung with greater intensity, too. He also asked his basses to sing brighter when notes were especially low. [4]
In the early 1980s, some of Marshall's singers sang with Robert Shaw at concerts in San Francisco and then Shaw commissioned Ralph Hooper to write a new setting of the traditional mass for the Masterworks Chorale during the "Festival of Masses" at San Francisco's St. Mary's Cathedral. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Longtime members of the choir still remember watching Marshall consult with Shaw during the final rehearsal. [5]
Marshall retired in 1997 and is now music director emeritus of the Masterworks Chorale. He guest conducted the Chorale in 2004 to celebrate their 40th anniversary. He has also conducted a small choral group in the Bay Area in recent years. Marshall now lives in Groveland, California with his wife, Linelle, who sang in the Masterworks Chorale and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. Groveland-Big Oak Flat is a Census-designated place (CDP in Tuolumne County, California, United States. He has owned a relaty for a number of years. In 2006, he directed the Schola Summer Sing. [6]
Footnotes
- ^ Interview with Galen Marshall
- ^ Linelle Marshall
- ^ Interview with Galen Marshall
- ^ Eyewitness account by Robert E. Nylund, member of Masterworks Chorale, 1970-85
- ^ Robert E. Nylund
- ^ Galen Marshall and Masterworks Chorale websites
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