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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, drama, and choir at Chicago Park, Clear Creek, and Nevada Union Adult Education 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	You’ve got see this rendition of “Seventy-Six Trombones” from the Broadway show The Music Man, sung in competition-winning barbershop style. 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”) The Melbourne Symphony plays bottles for a Victoria Bitter Beer commercial How you can make changes to a live choral concert with your remote control. Check out the musicianship in this all-girls high school band from Fukuoka, Japan, performing Claude T. Smith’s “Variations on a Hymn by Louis Bourgeois”
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 Listen to J. S. Bach’s “Air on a G String” blown entirely on tuned bottles of water You will definitely enjoy the beautiful “CATcerto” played by cat piano soloist with orchestra.
Do It Yourself Instruments	Diego Stocco repurposes a broken piano and broken bass guitar into a Bassoforte. The Vegetable Orchestra – need I say more? A carrot can also be a clarinet (well, technically he’s using a saxophone mouthpiece), and it sounds pretty good too. 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 Here’s a stairway that is also a piano. What a great idea!
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 Listen to a nice jazz duet with flute and contrabass flute Yes, there really is such a thing as the subcontrabass 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 Eleven-year old prodigy Han Kim plays the delightful “Immer Kleiner” (Ever Smaller) in which his clarinet shrinks throughout the piece.
Saxophone	Ever seen a “slide saxophone?” Check out this Disneyland musician’s large collection. 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 The National Saxophone Choir of Great Britain plays “Crazy Rag”
Trumpet	This is a great video showing the manufacturing process for a trumpet Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of brass instruments
French Horn	Here’s the contrabass French Horn. I didn’t even know there was such a thing!
Trombone	See some humorous trombone-related art. 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 another guitar four-hands song: Tico Tico Here’s a fascinating breakdown on the acoustics of the guitar Watch Zack Kim play two electric guitars at once on “The Simpsons” theme. He has several other videos you may want to watch too.
Drums and Percussion	You won’t believe that Howard Wong is only 3 years old, judging by the way he plays his drum set. 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 The amazing Teddy Brown plays the marimba. Make sure you see the ending. Andre Avaducci play Rossini’s “The Overture to the Barber of Seville” on an extensive drumset and exceptional accuracy.
Conductors	Victor Borge conducts Bedrich Smetana’s “Dance of the Comedians” I have often felt like this conductor, especially when working with beginners! This is a claymation video of Quazimoto directing a bell choir performing “Carol of the Bells.”
Handbells	(I’m not in these clips, but I do play with the Sonos Handbell Ensemble) * Trio performing Boude Moore’s “Scherzo” * Quartet performing director Jim Meredith’s arrangment of “Sakura” * Full ensemble playing “Allegro Maestoso” from Handel’s Water Music Suite
Dance	This video will lift your spirits – see Matt dance all over the world!
Music and Comedy	Chico and Harpo Marx demonstrate how you must first excel at music before combining it with comedy in this scene from the 1935 film “A Night at the Opera.” Comedian Rowan Atkinson plays an invisible drum set. It’s Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story is now Web Site Story, updated to reflect the modern-day electronic lifestyle.
Harp	A talented 12-year old plays “Cantina Band” from Star Wars on the harp.