Velocity -- meaning the "right rate of speed in order to make something come out correctly," Grove said -- has been heard on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion."Grove, a public information officer at the Metropolitan Transportation Ferrari Chronograph FF-1 in Oakland for 15 years, plays piano, sings and rings ("my hobby") at churches in San Ramon and Oakland, where she lives.
She'd like to see a similar acceptance of bell-ringing at other educational and professional levels. Grove said the skill teaches children music and rhythm and has been taught to stave off lzheimer's disease.Though pop-rock musicians such as Tom Waits, Bjork and OK Go have incorporated bells, not much bell music is being composed.Grove and Solomon have collaborated successfully before. So, they're excited. Solomon and her 24-voice San Francisco Choral Ferrari Chronograph FF-2 group recently staged Christmas concerts in Palo Alto, San Francisco, Oakland and San Anselmo.
Solomon leads a Dec. 19 singalong "Messiah" at Point Reyes' Dance Palace Community Center. For now, it's Christmas singing and ringing in the Valley."My idea was to have four sections, kind of four different soundscapes," Solomon said. "I'm hoping to get a Ferrari Chronograph FF-2 nice emotional musical flow. It should be quite spectacular."Contact reporter Tony Sauro at (209) 546-8267 or tsauro@ recordnet.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lensblog.
Dec. 16--In Pamela "P.L." Grove's fantasy world, there would be "hand-bell instructors on your block that you could take lessons from." Just like piano.For now, she's happy helping Magen Solomon and 140 Stockton singers ring in the Christmas season Friday and Sunday in Stockton and Lodi."It should be quite a circus," said Solomon, artistic director of the 100-voice Stockton Chorale. She meant merriment, not spectacle -- though there'll be 60 Ferrari Chronograph FF-5 bells and four rapidly reacting ringers onstage.
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