SoundGuy's profile

Relationship

Domestic partnership

Hometown

Lancaster County, PA, well before it became overrun with tourists (if it's called "tourist season," why can't we shoot them?). Except for a year along the coast of New Hampshire, I've lived in central PA all my life and love it. Although I now in live nea

Places I've been

High School Name (City, State)
Pequea Valley High School (rah rah rah), Kinzers, PA
College Name
Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA
College Graduation Year
1968, one of the most momentous years in American history. Have we really ever recovered from it?
College Graduation Major/Concentration
BA in English.
Occupation(s)
In TV, I've been production crew, cameraman, lighting crew/best boy, stage manager, assistant director, announcer, producer, writer, and have two Mid-Atlantic Emmy nominations. In radio, I was an announcer, copywriter, producer, music producer, program director, music director, and --ugh -- pledge producer. I'm now a sound designer and board operator for two theater companies in Harrisburg, music director for two choruses, and a temp, which pays the bills.

More about me

I've been in a committed relationship for 30 years. I'd like to marry him; maybe some day that'll happen. I'm a freelance announcer and theater sound designer and soundboard operator. I was in broadcasting for 37 years, 35 of those years in public broadcasting, and finally found a way out. I'm music director for two choruses: my church choir (Unitarian) and a gay men's chorus. I'm also a writer and a music arranger. As the Doobie Brothers sang, "Music is the doctor of my soul."

Favorite Movies

Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, 42nd Street, Witness For The Prosecution, Psycho, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Camp, The Birds, Broadway Melody of 1940, I Am A Fugitive From A Chain Gang, any of the Margaret Rutherford "Murder" movies, the early "Carry On" comedies, Shall We Dance (Astaire & Rogers), Public Enemy, Dames, Guns of Navarone, Fantasia, Mary Poppins, Reefer Madness, The Maltese Falcon, After The Thin Man, The Grapes Of Wrath, Wuthering Heights (Olivier)

Favorite TV Shows

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Carol Burnett Show, M*A*S*H, American Playhouse, Roseanne, both Bob Newhart series, The CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite, A Christmas Memory, the Leonard Bernstein children's concerts, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, The Weather Channel

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