NCCB Cheryl's Stuff

ABOUT our CONDUCTOR

Cheryl (Sutton, Baker) Woldseth

Cheryl is an accomplished conductor, performer, clinician, and educator. 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, and various percussion instruments.

She teaches music privately, and teaches instrumental music, drama, and choir at two K-8 and the adult education schools. She is a member of the music fraternity Sigma Alpha Iota, and also owns the music publishing company Bronze:FX. Cheryl has served many years at the local and national levels within the Handbell Musicians of America, is a professional artist with Sonos Handbell Ensemble, a jazz violinist with the Raspberry Jam Band, and often sits in with the local symphony orchestras. She has been the music director for several churches in the San Francisco Bay Area and the community handbell groups Bay Bells and Bay Bells Ensemble.

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	This is a beautiful video called “I Want to Understand Music.” The Melbourne Symphony plays bottles for a Victoria Bitter Beer commercial Travel Wisconsin made this commercial to promote both the arts and the climate with a symphonic snowball fight. The Really Terrible Orchestra plays “Trumpet Promenade” (website) (Wikipedia)
Musicians with Too Much Leisure Time	A view of life if it was actually set to music – orchestra hidden camera pranks. This Warner Brothers cartoon “High Note” brings the musical symbols to life. One bored member of e-Mnozil Brass performs “Lonely Boy” on nearly every other members’ instruments – at the same time. Workers play a selection from Bizet’s “Carmen” on found, created, or discarded instruments. Jazz is not just for people, as demonstrated New Hot 5 (an American-based jazz band) plays for a herd of cows in Autrans, France. Buddy Greene plays classical tunes on his harmonica in Carnegie Hall. Michel Lauzière plays Mozart’s Symphony No.40 (Mvt. 1, Theme 1) using wine bottles and rollerblades. Les Luthiers play a duet with piano and basketball horns. 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. Learn how to beat-box using the words boot and cat. How to teach your dog to play the piano – really! How you can make changes to a live choral concert with your remote control. It’s Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story is now Web Site Story, updated to reflect the modern-day electronic lifestyle. “A Grand Grand Overture” by Malcolm Arnold features the Hoover Quartet. Our own NCCBand played this number at its August 2010 concert “Musical Chairs.” Gustavo Dudamel conducts Leonard Bernstein’s “Mambo” from West Side Story with the Venezuelan youth orchestra.
Do It Yourself Instruments	Here’s the fastest beatboxer I’ve ever seen. 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 and it sounds pretty good too, at least when Linsey Pollack plays it. 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! Linsey Pollack can play anything. This link shows him making an instrument from a bicycle. Here are The Bottle Boys (from Denmark) playing “Party Rock Anthem.”
Mixed Ensemble	If you’ve never heard of the all-girl band The Ingenues, this video will help you never forget them as they play the top hit songs of 1928. Dixieland Crackerjacks play “The Original Dixieland One-Step” featuring Bert Brandsma on clarinet (he’s also in my saxophone links below) 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.”
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 is 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	The animated video “Swing of Change” shows that music transcends all boundaries – even social ones. 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	The quartet known as Genghis Barbie plays Seal’s Kiss from a Rose. Beautiful! Here’s the contrabass French Horn. I didn’t even know there was such a thing!
Trombone	This German trombone ensemble plays “Peanut Vendor” on so many many sizes of trombone. Maniacal 4 Trombone Quartet really rocks while recording the Kansas song Carry On, My Wayward Son. 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.
Brass Ensemble	The Canadian Brass performs a horse opera in one-act called “Hornsmoke.”
Strings	The Piano Guys play a cover of The Turtles’ “Happy Together” in which Steven Sharp Nelson spends quality time bonding with his cello. The Piano Guys are at it again, this time with Cello Wars (Star Wars Parody) Lightsaber Duel. The MozArt Group (from Poland) bring both fine string quartet music and humor to the stage. The PAgagNINI Quartet a more modern spin (with extras) on Pachelbel’s Canon. The talented Willie Hall plays “Pop Goes the Weasal” with variations on the violin, only to follow it up with “Stars and Stripes Forever” using only a bicycle pump. This is an excerpt from the 1930 film “King of Jazz.” Willie was also a trombonist with the famous Paul Whitman Orchestra, and later worked with Spike Jones. Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain (website) This North Korean ensemble of very young children play the guitar with an extraordinary talent. A talented 12-year old plays “Cantina Band” from Star Wars on the harp. Ethan Winer performs all 37 cello parts in his “Cello Rondo”
Piano	To play Rachmaninov’s “Prelude in C# Minor”, Igudesman & Joo demonstrate how 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. An IPhone captures the string oscillations from inside a 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	Blast! performs a high-energy show with “Marimba Spiritual and Earthbeat.” This is really funny! Three drummers use someone else as their drumset entitles “Tummy Talk: and Epic Drum Solo.” 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. Comedian Rowan Atkinson plays an invisible drum set. Andre Avaducci play Rossini’s “The Overture to the Barber of Seville” on an extensive drumset and exceptional accuracy.
Marching Band	His Majesty the King’s royal guard band and drill team of Norway (HMKG) perform an exceptionally precise routine. The Norwegian royal guard and drill team (HMKG) perform another exceptional show.
Conductors	A very talented 3-year-old conducts Beethoven’s 5^th Symphony’s fourth movement. 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 Quasimoto directing a bell choir performing “Carol of the Bells.”
Handbells	I perform with the Sonos Handbell Ensemble. Here are several of our videos: * J. S. Bach’s “Tocatta” * Edward MacDowell’s “Hummingbird” * James Mereidth’s “Smirti” (Rememberance of 9/11) for handbells, handchimes, and cello
Dance	Dance-walking with reporter Ben Aaron. My favorite flash mob: Sound of Music at Central Station of Antwerp, Belgium. This video will lift your spirits – see Matt dance all over the world! Cleary & Harding perform a very well done dance without using your feet to the song “We No Speak Americano.”
Choral and Vocal	This collaboration between various children’s choirs and Grandpa Elliot makes a beautiful rendition of What a Wonderful World. You’ve got see this rendition of “Seventy-Six Trombones” from the Broadway show The Music Man, sung in competition-winning barbershop style. Eric Whitacre masterminded this original composition using a “virtual choir” singing “Lux Arumque” (Light and Gold) He also talks about how he made it. The “a capella” men’s sextet The King’s Singers do a wonderful rendition of “Masterpiece” which is an historical timeline of musical composers and their styles.