PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"Charles E. Charles taught elementary music (K-5) and instrumental music (band: 6-13) for over 36 years in Ottawa and Calgary. Concurrently, as a member of the Canadian Forces reserves, he served as a musician in and bandmaster of Ottawa's H.M.C.S. Carleton Band and the King's Own Calgary Regiment Band. During the summer months, from 1984 to 1993, he was a reserve instructor at the Canadian Forces School of Music retiring from the CF in 2005 with the rank of Chief Warrant Officer. It was his experience with both the military and school wind band traditions that led, in the 1990s, to the discovery, study and collection of historical Canadian literature for band. The result of this research is a private collection of over 1000 Canadian band titles dating from 1791 to the present. This collection became the basis for his 2004 Master's thesis entitled ""Historical Canadian Band Music: A New Source of Curriculum Materials for the Canadian Classroom"".The author has contributed articles to the CBA (Ont) Fanfare magazine, the Canadian Band Journal and Canadian Winds magazine. He was a contributor to the Canadian Musical Heritage Society's Music for Winds I: Bands volume and was briefly contracted by the Department of National Defence to provide critical editions of historical Canadian band music to the CF band branch. He has been a speaker at the Calgary City Teachers' Convention and a participant in the University of Calgary's Wind Conducting Diploma Program, both as a guest lecturer and as a student. He presently resides in Calgary with his wife Kathleen and plays horn in a local community band."
