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ABOUT OUR CONDUCTOR

Cheryl (Sutton, Baker) Woldseth

Cheryl is an accomplished conductor, performer, clinician, and educator.  She has been the music director for several churches in the San Francisco Bay Area and the community choir, Bay Bells and Bay Bells Ensemble.  She holds a Bachelors of Music degree in Church Music from Westminster Choir College (Princeton,NJ), with her principle instrument as voice, with a minor in organ, although she plays many other instruments too, including violin, piano, saxophone, guitar, mallets, and various percussion instruments.

Cheryl has served many years at the local and national levels within the American Guild of English Handbell Ringers, is a professional artist with Sonos Handbell Ensemble, and often sits in with the Sierra College Symphony (Nevada County campus) and the Auburn Symphony.

She teaches music privately, and teaches instrumental music and choir at Chicago Park, Clear Creek, and Union Hill schools. Cheryl also substitute teaches throughout the Nevada County school district. She is a member of the music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, and also owns the music publishing company Bronze:FX. Cheryl lives with her husband Jan in Grass Valley, CA, and each have two college-age children that often visit.

CHERYL’S PICKS
Jokes	Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony (link) Here’s what the drummer’s part is like for “The Star Spangled Banner” Oh, say can you BOOM, CRASH By the dawn's early BOOM, CRASH What so proudly we BOOM, CRASH At the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright BOOM, CRASH Through the perilous BOOM, CRASH O'er the ramparts we BOOM, CRASH Were so gallantly streaming? 3 & 1...2...3... 2...2...3... 3...2...3... 4...2...3... 5...2...3... 6...2...3... 7...2...3... 8...2...Oh, BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOOMMMM; BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOOMMMM; BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!
Other Music Groups in the News	The Really Terrible Orchestra plays “Trumpet Promenade” (website) (Wikipedia) Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain (website) (plays “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers”) (plays “Fly Me Off the Handel”)
Musicians with Too Much Leisure Time	Michel Lauzière plays Mozart’s Symphony No.40 (Mvt. 1, Theme 1) using wine bottles and rollerblades Maestro Music plays a variety of music using bulb horns Stay through the introduction to see this early home video innovator perform every part in the Nola all by himself
Do It Yourself Instruments	The Vegetable Orchestra – need I say more? Dennis Havlena provides a video and details on how to make just about any stringed instrument plus musical saw, penny whistle, noisemakers, drums, and xylophones
Mixed Ensemble	Dixieland Crackerjacks play “The Original Dixieland One-Step” featuring Bert Brandsma on clarinet (he’s also in my saxophone links below) Violin, flute, oboe, and bassoon quartet perform PDQ Bach’s “Fuga Meshuga”
Flute	Watch a great video about how the flute is made Beatboxing flute player Greg Patillo plays “Super Mario Brothers” theme Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of the flute
Clarinet	Cuarteto de Clarinetes de Caracas play “Fantasia in 6/8” (where to order their CD) A robot plays “Flight of the Bumblebee” on an unmodified clarinet, and wins the Artemis Orchestra Competition Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of the clarinet
Saxophone	Toon Town Tuners at Disney World plays “Four Brothers” (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass) Sign up to attend San Jose’s Saxophone Christmas event This one is for Ellen, who is drooling over the possibility of owning a bass saxophone. It’s a comparison of a Martin bass saxophone vs. a Conn bass saxophone by professional sax player Bert Brandsma. And to help her dream even more, here’s a contra-bass saxophone. Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of the saxophone
Trumpet	This is a great video showing the manufacturing process for a trumpet Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of brass instruments
Trombone	Bones Apart (quartet) plays “The Stars and Stripes Forever” Extreme Trombone Quartet perform J. S. Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D minor” Trombonanza plays “Sabre Dance” Murray Crewe describes the lineage of his very rare contrabass trombone Discovery Channel explains how a bass trombone is made
Tuba	Sign up to attend a Tuba Christmas event
Cello	Ethan Winer performs all 37 cello parts in his “Cello Rondo”
Piano	To play Rachmaninov’s “Prelude in C# Minor”, you must have big hands The Science Channel reveals how a piano is made
Guitar	If you don’t have a guitar, just play your friend’s one with Four Hands Guitar Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of the guitar
Drums and Percussion	This is an excerpt from a 1989 educational film introducing the parts of the percussion family Here’s a fun instrument called the hang drum Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of the didjeridu/didjeridoo
Conductors	Victor Borge conducts Bedrich Smetana’s “Dance of the Comedians”
Handbells	Trio from Sonos Handbell Ensemble performing Boude Moore’s “Scherzo” (I’m not in this clip, but I do play with this group)
Dance	This video will lift your spirits – see Matt dance all over the world!