Allison

Housatonic Valley Regional High School, Attended 1997 - 2001, Class of 2001

Housatonic Valley Regional HS; Ithaca College, UConn

University of Connecticut, Attended 2005 - Present, Class of 2007, Master's Degree
Ithaca College, Attended 2001 - 2005, Class of 2005, Bachelor's Degree

general/choral music teacher

MENC, CMEA, ACDA, SAI and the Democratic Party

music, singing, choirs, teaching, loving God & loving others, being a liberal Christian (or a liberal Democrat for that matter), educational theory, pedagogical practices, theology, yoga, NPR, grammar, children's literature, small towns, Ithaca NY, New England autumns, inedible things that smell so good that you want to eat them (lilacs, for instance), edible things that smell awful but are delicious (e.g. pickled herring in sour cream), Wanderlust, using ironing boards as shelves, growing into my 40-yr-old self

Teaching Harmony Polyphony & Form, The Bible, The Robert Shaw Reader, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Animal Farm, Blue Like Jazz, Opera Cat, Pride and Prejudice; Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman; Art and Contemplation by Josef Pieper; classic children's books, especially Little Women and The Borrowers and, yes, Harry Potter; most anything by Jane Austen, Garrison Keillor, David Sedaris, Maureen Dowd, Thomas L Friedman, and the late great Molly Ivins.

32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, As Good As It Gets, A&E's 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice, Party Girl, The Fisher King, the Hannibal Lecter trilogy, Waiting for Guffman/Best In Show/A Mighty Wind, Frida, Bridget Jones' Diary, You've Got Mail, The Philadelphia Story, It's A Wonderful Life, Amelie, Little Miss Sunshine

Oh, lots, but my absolute top two would have to be J.S. Bach and Benjamin Britten.

The West Wing, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Seinfeld, Cheers, The Office (US), the Prime Minister's Questions on C-SPAN; A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Keeping Up Appearances, House, Frasier

I"ll let Mr. Gould speak for me: