Jeffry Steele - Chronology

Jeffry Hamilton Steele Life Path in the Last Millenium (variously illustrated)
Prepared for a "Meet Your Neighbor" lecture/demo given 12/12/2000 at the Ralph Waldo Emerson Inn, Rockport MA

age	teaching/ occupation	performances [excluding services/weddings]	compositions/ arrangements	education	community	stepping stones	residence
0	-	-	-	-	-	Born 8/26/54 in Gloucester	8 Woodbury St Gloucester MA
2	-	-	-	-	-	Birth of brother	8 Woodbury St Gloucester MA
4	-	-	-	Mrs Moshano's Nursery School	-	Birth of sister	1240 Washington Gloucester
5	-	-	-	Pigeon Cove Kindergarten	-	-	1240 Washington Gloucester
6	-	-	-	Brookside School Learn trumpet Teach self (on father's) guitar Mother practices Bach, Brahms, etc on cello Grandmother tries to teach me piano	-	-	36 Faculty Way Bloomfield Hills MI
9	-	-	-		-	See Beatles on TV
10	-	trumpet in Band	-		-	-
11	-	guitar in Xmas pageant "taps" on Mem. Day "The UFOs" at Barnacle Bazaar & Lanesville School, Gloucester	-		try operating after-school slot race track	Buy electric guitar
12	deliver Gloucester Times	Play a few parties with group [Miles H, Dean S, Steve C] Rock jam sessions [John G, Jimmie O] sing first madrigals	-	Cranbrook School do yearbook photography teach self harmonica teach self recorder Guitar w/Jack Pitt Art History w/Mike Kapetan Shakespeare w/Chuck Geroux Modern Dance w/Jessie Sinclair	-	Buy "Sgt Pepper" Listen to DJ Russ Gibb	10 Faculty Way Bloomfield Hills MI
13	-		-		Singing with Lanesville kids	See Hendrix live (twice), Cream, Canned Heat
14	-		rock songs		March against Vietnam War	Attend Woodstock (father's guitar stolen)
15	-		Daphne's Waltz Folk Songs		-	Purchase R2R deck & start recording song arrangements Dad teaches me to write Buy classical guitar "Adventure in Creativity"
16	-	Witch & the Wizard w/Reg Wells	Rock Mass Folk Songs Renaissance Songs		Become vegetarian Organize poetry readings w/Reg	Discover music of Josquin, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms
17	-	Direct Gallimaufry of Gambols & Cranbrook Broken Consort Theater & modern dance productions first solo recital	Rock Mass Folk Songs Renaissance Songs		Produce f ilm "Cranbrook & the Arts"	Discover music of Mozart, Haydn, Puccini, Debussy, Ravel, et al.
18	arts-crafts at Cranbrook Day Camp	Perform original songs w/Reg at Antioch College (OH) Handel's "Warbling Lute" [Smith Col.]	soundtrack for Paso a Paso	Hampshire [Smith, Mt Holyoke, Amherst] College Guitar w/Steve Josephs Guitar w/Phil de Fremery Composition w/Lew Spratlan Graduate Seminar on Berlioz K-12 Music Teacher Certification	volunteer at Detroit Baptist Children's Home [Jan.]	Draw low number in draft lottery, but obtain CO classification	Hampshire College Amherst MA
19	-	Act in "Midsummer Nights Dream" Sing in HC Chorus Improvise behind Stein play	Duet for Jeanne Can vei la lauzeta [chorus] sundrie Renaissance pieces		teach music at Brookside [Jan.]	Discover music of Berlioz, Mahler, Berg, Louis Armstrong
20	Shire Village Camp Cummington MA	Solo recital Act in Under Milkwood	3 Dreams Under Milkwood music [wind trio] Reusner Suite		contradances freighter to Honduras w/father	Michael Cone finishes commissioned guitar
21	-	Solo recital Act in "The Master Builder" Alpert's "Cathedral Music" [Smith] Final recital [w/songs, readings & Quartet]	Puccini Senza mama Folk songs Wind Quartet		-	Father gives me JVC cassette recorder for graduation
22	Shire Village Camp Newburyport YMCA [desk]	weekly gig at Rising Sun Restaurant, Nbpt	Movement for guitar & strings Margaret	Modern Dance w/Pam Fiala	arrested in Seabrook Occupation	Attend concerts, operas, museums in Britain, Brussels, Amsterdam	Travel in Britain YMCA Newburyport MA
23	YMCA & private guitar lessons	Pam Fiala dancers Guitar improv w/J. Craft dancers Recitals w/flutist Lea Pearson First Boston recital [Hirshberg Gallery] Recital at Christ Church Cranbrook [MI]	Chopin & Haydn pieces	Modern Dance w/Janet Craft Voice w/Mary Ann Valaitis attend Nick's NEC classes	-	-	15 Otis Pl Newburyport
24	Golden Temple Emporium Cambridge MA Castle Hill Children's Week	Recitals w/pianist Nick Underhill Solo recitals in Boston & Cambridge	-	Modern Dance w/Ina Hahn Improvisation w/Lisa Parker	-	Nbpt friend designs my first brochure	21a Linden Ave Somerville MA
25	All-Newton Music School Phillips Andover Academy Castle Hill	Recitals in Gloucester & Boston area Threepenny Opera Begin 10-year collaboration w/soprano Barbara Winchester first WBUR interview	-	Guitar w/Alice Artzt Performance of 20th C. Music w/John Heiss	first psychotherapy	Visit friend in Palo Alto [& rule out grad schools for the time being]	119 Oxford St Cambridge MA
26	all above plus: Belmont Music School Walnut Hill School	Solo recitals in Newton Recitals w/Barbara in Cambridge Berger Trio w/Dinosaur Annex	Jon S. American Car Dreams No. 2 Poet to Tiger [sop/gtr]	Guitar w/David Starobin	-	Buy Les Paul electric guitar New guitar by Frank Hasselbacher Start listening to popular music for first time in a decade Meet Robin Williamson (I.S.B.)	119 Oxford St Cambridge MA

age	teaching	performances	compositions/arrangements	education	community	stepping stones	residence
27	All-Newton Music School & Belmont [Powers] Music School	Chaconne for Crescendo Club Formation of Primary Colors [fl, vla, gtr] Berger Trio in Boston & again at Fromm Festival [Tanglewood] Newton Cable TV Weddings/parties	Ravel Mother Goose Suite [gtr duet] & Five Greek Songs [sop/gtr] Chopin pieces Crossings [PC] Bach Am Violin Sonata, et al	Coached by Joel Smirnoff [hang out with him in Cambridge over next few years]	Attend Central America presentation at upstairs neighbors' March on Washington	Praised in Boston Globe	119 Oxford St Cambridge MA
28		First Night Boston, Boston Classical Guitar Society, Glastonbury Historical Society, Kaji Aso, Gordon College and Cambridge River Festival w/ Primary Colors MIT, Emmanuel, Cambridge Art Association, WBUR & All-Newton w/Barbara W. Rodney Lister Yellow Cake Revue Peter Maxwell Davies The Lighthouse [guitar, banjo and bass drum in 21 performances] Concierto para el Monseñor	Debussy Arabesque & Suite Bergamasque; Ravel Sonatine, Beethoven Serenade, Op.8; Haydn Quartet, Op. 33, No. 5; Bach 3 Contrapuncti from Art of Fugue; Rachmaninoff Vocalise; Mozart Divertimento, K.270 [PC] Rodrigo Adagio [w/winds] El Salvador: March 1980 [el.gtr/winds/slides/readers] Santiago [PC]	-	Make a Dance Friday tape Participate in & attend Central America Solidarity events	Praised in Boston Globe & Boston Phoenix Put out picture brochure: "Music for These Times"
29		Voices of Latin America* Cambridge, Newton Newton U.U. church First Night WBZ-TV Nosotros	Canciones del Pueblo [PC+sop] Pablo Neruda's Funeral [pno, tpt, e-gtr] Rodrigo Adagio [w/cello] begin "opera": La Tienda political "pop songs" begin Stravinsky Les Cinq Doigts	Free lesson w/Arthur Berger: new look at Stravinsky	first Artists' Brigade to Nicaragua [ending 13 years both as vegetarian & CO]	Buy Roland MC-202 synth-sequencer & Tascam PortaStudio Hear David Bowie in Foxboro
30		Laura B & I interviewed by Pat Badner, WBUR Rochberg piece at Brandeis Primary Colors King's Chapel, Peasant Stock Restaurant, Kaji Aso Maxwell-Davies The Blind Fiddler Vale Estate w/Barbara Songs from Nicaragua Emmanuel Church, ICA, et al Bolling Picnic Suite	political "pop songs"	Primary Colors coached by John Heiss and Julius Baker	Write article for Black Sheep Review & Brigadista [Praeger Books] Artists' Brigade to Nicaragua	Buy SC drum machine & synth Discover music of Silvio Rodriguez, Bossa Nova
31	All-Newton Music School Belmont [Powers] Music School Buckingham Browne & Nichols School [lessons]	Murals Dedication Fiesta at La Plaza Cultural, NYC Act in The Nation Thief [Perrigo/Houston] Sephardic songs w/Suzanne Ehly Primary Colors at Duxbury Arts Complex Accompany actress Susan Anspach, Committee for Concern on Central America, Strand Theater Nation Thief performed at Clark U, Bradford College, Tufts U, in New Bedford and Arlington David Cleary songs at Harvard	compose recorded music for The Nation Thief political "pop songs" & narrated pieces	take Fundamentals of Re-Evaluation Counseling class	Artists' Brigade to Nicaragua	Buy Atari ST computer Sell first cassette: Songs for Nicaragua	60 McBride St Jamaica Plain MA
32		Milton, All-Newton and Peasant Stock w/Julia Stravinsky Four Russian Songs Griffin Ensemble Por la Paz [as duo] JP Firehouse & All-Newton	political "pop songs" & narrated pieces	-	500 of us arrested at JFK Building in Central America policy protest Begin leading RC Men's Group	First marriage Buy Oberheim Matrix-6 & Yamaha TX81Z Record & sell Suite for Nicaragua cassette
33		David Cleary Rock and Roll Star Somerville Sollberger original substance manifest traces Griffin Ensemble Por la Paz Fitchburg Public Library, Bradford College, Salem State College, King's Chapel, Blacksmith House, Fogg Art Museum, MIT, Boston Food Coop, Peacock Coffeehouse (JP), St. Michael's (Marblehead), Newton Arts Center, Cambridge School of Weston, & Windhover (Rockport), Needham Unitarian Church Interviews on WCRB and WUMB Music at Eden's Edge Series w/Barbara	-	RC Leaders' Class	Organize "feeder" protest march for "Days of Decision" action Help organize subsequent Arts for a New Nicaragua brigades Men's Group	Julia and I travel to Christchurch, England for a visit with my dad on his boat
34	above plus Guitar ensemble at ANMS weddings w/flutist Kathy Boyd	Por la Paz Milton Academy, Simon's Rock College, Moses Brown School, Lutheran Church of the Newtons, Mt. Hermon School & Refugee Bill Benefit Vivaldi Concerto for Two Mandolins w/John Muratore & other faculty Salem Hospital "Goodbye" Por la Paz [as trio] U.U. General Assembly (New Haven), Boston College, Coffeehouse off the Square (Hingham), Berkshire Community College, outdoors at Boston College and Berkshire Amistad, & Loomis-Chafee School Play on albums by Justin Sallaway & Sue Kranz	Mozart and Renaissance dances for gtr ensemble Folk/pop songs Begin expansion of Canciones del Pueblo	voice w/ Craig Wich RC Leaders' Class	Men's Group	buy Korg M1 synth
35	All-Newton Music School Greenfield YMCA Camp Apex	Farewell recital (Newton & Belmont) Of Bach and Brazil Blacksmith House w/Barbara Recital at Greenfield Public Library	music for AGOND Guatemalan orphanage video	voice w/Sherli Sherwood	-	-	11 Central St Turners Falls MA
36	Holyoke Public Schools Camp Apex	Green River Cafe, Greenfield	Folk/pop songs Jobim Wave & How Insensitive	-	letters to the editor & Gulf War protests	buy Tascam 234 4-track recorder

age	teaching	performances	compositions/arrangements	education	community	stepping stones	residence
37	Lessons in Putney VT Camp Apex	The Sunshine Singers Green River Cafe w/John O'Connor Montague Bookmill Greenfield Public Library Sheffield Elementary MA Teacher's Association Conference, Williamstown	Funeral for the Archbishop & Liberation Waltz Music for Our Hometown & W.E.B. du Bois of Great Barrington WGBY-TV Assist Arnie Black on Michelin Tire and Jordon Marsh commercials Rodrigo Adagio [w/synth] Rework & write pieces for After the Rain & Dream Colors	RC Leaders' Class	Teach RC Big Brother volunteer Inter-action of Franklin County Host & organize talks for Nicaragua's Emilia Torres	buy DAT recorder & smpte interface Record cassette album: After the Rain (later retitled We were all poets)	11 Central St Turners Falls
38	Lessons at Linden Hill School The Sunshine Singers Music Critic for the Greenfield Recorder Camp Apex	Public Schools: Sheffield & Great Falls Middle (Turners Falls), Greenfield Middle, North Parish & Federal St. (Greenfield), Buckland-Shelburne Elementary, Mohawk Regional, Frontier Regional, Erving Elementary Colleges: North Adams State, Holyoke Community, Berkshire Community, UMass Dartmouth Prep schools: Hoosac (NY), Northfield-Mt. Hermon, Salisbury (CT), Moses Brown (RI), Cardigan Mountain (NH), The Fenn School, The Taft School (CT), Dublin School (NH) Porter-Phelps Huntington House Montague Cable TV MA Teacher's Association Conference	Dream Colors Folk/pop songs Finally finish Canciones del Pueblo	RC Leaders' Class	Montague Town Meeting member letters to the editor Big Brother volunteer Inter-action of Franklin County	Meet Bruce Cockburn & the Assad brothers
39	Readsboro (VT) Central School [K-8] Camp Apex Greenfield Recorder	Lew Spratlan Music for Peace concert, Amherst Public Schools:Newton St. (Greenfield) & Russell (Hadley) Elementary , Magnet Middle (Holyoke) and Pioneer Valley Regional Prep schools: Governor Dummer Academy, Woodhall School (CT), St. Paul's (NH), St. Andrew's (RI) All-Bach recital in Deerfield & Greenfield Northfield Cultural Council Series w/Tom Nielson [Gaviota] Montague Bookmill w/Richard Ullman Chapel Hill NC benefit w/youth string ensemble	Josquin Missa Pange Lingua [2 gtrs] Puccini Senza mama [el-gtr w/synth] Bach Third Cello Suite	Voice w/Judy Jones RC Leaders' Class	Montague Town Meeting member letters to the editor Big Brother volunteer Teach RC	First marriage ends
40	St Agnes School, Arlington [K-8] Winchester after-school program	St John's, Gloucester Arlington Cable TV [solo & w/Friday's Child 8th grade group] Annisquam Village Church [for CANCA]	Josquin Missa Hercules [2 gtrs]	RC Leaders' Class	Lead RC Artists' Group	House robbed Buy Mac laptop (replacing stolen Atari)	143 Horn Pond Brook Rd Winchester MA
41	St Agnes School Medford after-school program North Shore Conservatory	Guitarra Iluminada Gloucester UU Church Annisquam Village Church w/Wendy Eliot Church, Newton Gloucester Cable TV	Josquin Motets & Chansons [2 gtrs]	Children's Music Network Conference, NH	Lead RC	Meet Pete Seeger Buy VS-880 hard disk recorder	3 Pigeon Hill St Rockport MA 4 Spring St Gloucester MA
42	St Agnes School North Shore Conservatory	Gloucester UU Church & Endicott College El Espiritu Latino Magnolia & Rockport Heave To [as dancer] Wakefield Congregational Church St Agnes Church, Arlington Unity Church, Somerville	finish Stravinsky Les Cinq Doigts Rodriguez & Cardenal songs	Modern Dance w/Carl Thomsen	Sermon at Gloucester & Rockport UU Churches: "Angels, Victims & Love Songs" Church Choir	Record Guitara Illuminata CD	4 Spring St Gloucester MA
43	North Shore Conservatory & private students	Cape Cod Cummunity College Bennington College, VT Assumption College, Worcester Baroque & Beyond Gloucester UU Church & Endicott College Clear Away [play/dance] N. Congregational Church, Beverly Bucker Middle School, Wenham Triton Regional, Byfield New Years Rockport Eve & Beverly First Night	Compose music [& arrange Bok/Stewart songs] for Clear Away	Modern Dance w/Carl Thomsen	Chair Social Justice, Gloucester UU Church Church Choir Lead RC Moondance w/Carla	Buy CD "burner" Put out We were all poets [After the Rain] & Dream Colors CDs Record Voice of Creation CD Record first Clear Away CD Death of father
44	North Shore Conservatory & private students	Music for Pirates, Princes & Dancers Mass. College of Liberal Arts Rhode Island College Dowland Recitals w/sop Kristina Martin, Gloucester & Beverly Essex Elementary School w/Carl Rockport Middle School & St. Mel's School w/Carl & Anna New Years Rockport Eve	Complete and rearrange score to Clear Away: A Fisherman's Farewell 25 Dowland lute pieces	Modern Dance w/Carl Thomsen	Precinct Captain Church Choir Moondance	Buy laser printer & scanner Dialogue w/Gordon Bok Record Clear Away: A Fisherman's Farewell CD Open website at KSpace Buy PowerMac
45	North Shore Conservatory & private students	Ipswich Elementary Schools, Beeman School and Triton Regional w/Carl & Anna Dear Tom: A Tribute to T.S. Eliot [play/dance] Clear Away: A Fisherman's Farewell Gloucester City Hall New Years Rockport Eve J.S. Plays Bach Gloucester, Beverly, Hingham & Brookline 'Leven Annisquam Village Church [sing only] Rockport Acoustic Music Festival	A Gift of Vision: The Life & Work of Fitz Hugh Lane [gtr w/vocal ensemble - libretto by Maryclaire Wellinger]	Modern Dance w/Carl Thomsen	Sermon at Gloucester & Rockport UU Churches: "Growing Up Male" Church Choir Record Hazel Mae Rotimi Sing-Alongs Sermons [w/Carl Thomsen] at Gloucester UU Church: "Searching out the Root of the Problem" & "Holding Each Other's Dreams" Gave mini-workshop at Hampshire College [30th anniversary celebration]: "Fulfilling our Spirit Purpose"	Open jeffrysteele.com Record Semper Dowland CD Produce Flame Without End compilation CD (usurps Clear Away and Voice of Creation CDs)
46	North Shore Conservatory & private students Pine Grove School, Rowley	'Leven Salem & Newburyport [sing only] Marblehead School of Ballet New Year's Rockport Eve A Gift of Vision: The Life & Work of Fitz Hugh Lane Fuller School Theater, Gloucester El Espiritu Latino Bridgewater State College Scenes from Gloucester Legends productions [Dancers Courageous Studio] Rockport Acoustic Music Festival	Bach Violin Partita No. 2	Modern Dance w/Carl Thomsen Christian Initiation class	Poll checker Church Choir Jury Service Sing-Alongs Sermon at Gloucester UU Church for Epiphany	New guitar by Tom Knatt Marriage to Monica Cirrito From Dowland to Silvio (usurps Semper Dowland and Voice of Creation CDs)	4 Spring St 1111R Washington St Gloucester MA
47	North Shore Conservatory & private students	Play interludes for performance by Windhover Dancers Rockport Art Association Accompany Dawn Pratson dance performance Dancers Courageous Studio "Guitar Odyssey series" Endicott College Chapel, Beverly & North Shore Art Assn, Gloucester MA New Year's Rockport Eve: "Segovia in Paris"		Began Masters in Composition program at New England Conservatory, Boston Malcolm Peyton, principal mentor		J. S. plays BACH (new recording of Third Cello Suite usurps Voice of Creation one)	1111R Washington St Gloucester MA
48	North Shore Conservatory & private students	Final Scene from [work in progress] "Flesh & Stone" performed with 10 dancers for graduating student composers' recital Jordon Hall, Boston MA Play in Pamela Marshall's "Through the Mist" Just In Time Composers, Lexington & Brookline MA "Guitar Odyssey" Endicott College Chapel, Beverly New Year's Rockport Eve: "Recuerdos Espa–oles" "Guitar Odyssey" St Paul Lutheran Church, Gloucester			Speech given at Rockport High School Awards Night Music Minister for retreat of Boston Archdiocese, Gloucester		1111R Washington St Gloucester MA

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