Experience

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  Felix the Storyteller

  • Palmdale, CA

  • Professional Trombonist-Music Educator-Author-Businessman

    • Jan 1948 - Present
    • Palmdale, CA

    BA--State University of New York, Potsdam.MA--Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA--Published author of four children books, and a novel, "Diary of a Young Musician, Final Days of the Big Band Era." --Has 38 eBooks in Kindle, Nook, iPad, Sony, and smashwords.com. A CD, FELIX THE STORYTELLER, with the same 38 children's stories narrated by the author can be found on Amazon.com., and Fideli Publishing.com--Sells and rents band and orchestra instruments to children in school music programs.--Retired band director and Coordinator of Music for the Palmdale School District, Palmdale, CA, Twenty seven years.- Played trombone professionally on the road for 13 years with big bands; performed on TV, radio, did a big-band movie short, showrooms of Las Vegas, Reno, Lake Tahoe, and worked and recorded with Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians.--Married for 48 years to a beautiful Las Vegas show dancer, now deceased.

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  Palmdale School District

  • Band Teacher - Coordinator of Music

    • 1963 - 1990

    I was director of the Juniper Intermediate School Band and the Palmdale High School Jazz Band. I was also Coordinator of Music for 18 schools in the Palmdale School District, Palmdale, CA, now retired.

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  American Federation of Musicians Local 38 and 402

  • Professional Musician

    • Jan 1949 - Jan 1961

    -Professional trombonist-recorded, did radio, TV, and played the show rooms of Las Vegas, Reno, and Lake Tahoe.

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  US Air Force

  • Bandsman

    • Jan 1950 - Jan 1953

    I was first trombonist with the rank of sergeant in the 552nd U.S. Air Force Band for three years during the Korean War.