Summer of 2006
NEH Voices Across Time Institute at the University of Pittsburgh teaching us how to incorporate American Music into our curriculum.

   

Voices Across Time 2006 photos
Tammy takes notes at Gettysburg
Confederate soldier at Gettysburg
Deane and Kathy at Gettysburg
Federal City Brass Band begins to play
Lois and Diane sing at Gettysburg
Voices group sings at Gettysburg
Adam, Joe, Dave, Sandy listen to Mark at Gettysburg
Barn at Gettysburg
Beautiful field of flowers at Gettysburg
Whole Federal City Brass Band plays in Civil War Uniforms
Big Civil War horn
What once was a battlefield at Gettysburg is a field of wheat
Bob & Mark play at Gettysburg
Bugle & Drum
Cannon rifling at Gettysburg
Diane & Dave stand by cannon
Charles Parker is first black soldier to be buried at Gettysburg
Church at UOP
Confederate soldier walks home
Dave has donuts for trip to Gettysburg
Dave prepares for battle
Sandy prepares to fire cannon
Mark lectures at Gettysburg
Diane
Dave thinks about his next seminar at Phoenix Country Day School
Drum beats
fireworks on the 4th of July
Gettysburg Address plaque
listening to tunes of Federal City Brass Band
Group prepares to sing at Gettysburg
Judy & Deb kick back
Lisa listens to lecture
Little girl looks at rifling on canon
Mark & Bob play at Gettysburg
Mark fixes Mary's guitar strings
Mary checks out cannon
Steve takes photos at Gettysburg
Picket fences played a big part in battles at Gettysburg
It became hard to navigate picket fences during battles
Adam with one blue and one pink sock
Civil War poem
The original cannon rifling
sandy prepares to fire cannon
Stephen Foster Memorial
Soldiers rest
Mark strums guitar at sing along
A beautiful Pittsburgh sunset
Tim Shannon from Gettysburg College lectures on colonial times
A tombstone at Gettysburg
Vonzele and Annie
Vonzele
Vonzele rests on Cannon
Confederate soldier on his way back home
Do Dah Days
Playing music at Do Dah Days
Sunsets on graves at Gettysburg
Linda & Vonzele work in class
Sandy ponders words of wisdom
Tammy is never at a loss for words
Judy & Adam at Rivers of Steel pump house
Jan lectures on tour of Pittsburgh
Adam on TV on 4th of July
Steve at PNC Park on a very hot day
Steve & Bob work dilligently on apple computers while Dawn obse...
banjo
battle
Betty at Rivers of Steel
Bob and Dave at Point Park
Bob sings In My Neighborhood song at Mr. Rogers concert
Brass Band Plays
Bugle demonstrates one of 155 bugle calls
Horns play for Federal City Brass Band
The brass band plays in original Civil War costumes
Bugle
Public Transportation in Pittsburgh is awesome
Carnegie
Carnegie looks at you
Kicking at the party
The Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh
church
This is the music building that housed our class for five weeks
working hard in class to verify primary source documents
wall climbing at Point Park
Dave at Bulgarian Historical society
Mark,Dave & Bob play at sing along
Deane Root directed the Voices Across Time Institute.
Deb sings her assignment
Do Dah Poster
Doris is an ethno musicologist who directs Rivers of Steel
Steel workers uniforms
drum
Designs on Civil War drums are beautiful
Giving an explanation about the importance of drummers
Fire Works on the 4th of July
Ms. Fernandez from Carnegie-Mellon lectures on sixties
beautiful fire works on the fourth of July from our friends balcony
The Great Franco Harris of Pittsburgh Steeler fame
A short right field at PNC park in Pittsburgh
Gettysburgh National Cemetary
Gina shows off steel workers white gloves
Gina looks on at Gettysburg
Stephen Foster tombstone
Voices teachers watch and listen to Federal City Brass Band
More band performance
A view of the church at UOP
Quite a large horn
Indians
Irv gets interview for Voices from Washington DC radio station
Jan leads Rivers of Steel tour
Doctoral Candidate Joanna Smolko and her husband
Joe contemplates how to incorporate music in classroom
Joseph Horowitz lectures on Dvorak and New World Symphony
Judy and Gina study
Kathy displays guitar from Stephen Foster Collection
Bob kicks back at Shady Side Inn
Linda is an outstanding teacher and tennis coach
Lisa relaxes at Shadow Lounge
Lisa smiles
Mariana wrote the grant that funded Voices Across Time
Mark Snell leads tour of Gettysburg
Gina and Mark fill steel mill uniforms
Bob and Mark play instrument at Bulgarian Historical Society
Mark strings Mary's guitar
Megan may be youngest institute teacher but wise beyond her years
Remainder of steel mill
Mr. Mc Feely at Mr. Rogers sing along party
Old Pittsburgh home
older woman at Do Dah Days
Voices teachers listening to Federal City Brass Band
Pete Dinardo was our institute teacher in the classroom leader
PNC park is a must see ball park
Score board at PNC Park
The Pittsburgh Regatta
Map of Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh skyline
Voices teachers look at primary source documents
Mary, Dave and Joe read primary source documents
Lisa and Dawn study their documents
The Voices Across Time teachers were in class from 9-3:30 or 5 daily
The pumphouse at the steel mill
Adam and Bob at Gettysburgh
Rivers of Steel plaque
Scott Sandage from Carnegie-Mellon lectures on song "Strange Fruit."
Mike Seeger plays banjo
Mike Seeger plays auto harp
Mike Seeger plays guitar
Mike Seeger plays pipes from South America
More Do Dah Days singing
Stephen Foster's tomb
Why does Adam wear one blue and one pink sock?
Stacks left over from steel mill days
Views of Stadiums
Working in the steel mills which operated 24-7
How steel is made
Steve and Bob at the point
train
Trains brought the future to Americans at one time
One big Civil War instrument
twins
Where the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers meet
farm seen from last Gettysburg battlefield
a house on walk to school
Driving to school
Another beautiful house on way to class
Walking across the bridge to PNC Park
walt helps with presentation at Gettysburg
Women were important to the steel industry
Mark Dillon opens at the Shadow Lounge
Which way do I go?
Vonzele is a gifted teacher from Chicago who spins discs on the side
Vonzele stands with Cheryl Keyes from UCLA after her Hip Hop lecture
Mr. Black from the Heinz Museum discusses vietnam exhibit
Dale Cockrell from Vanderbilt discusses Minstrel shows
Ken Emerson lectures on Stephen Foster and discusses his PBS show
Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Waters home
Fort Pitt Museum
incline in Pittsburgh
Joe cuts record at Warhol
Ketchup has its day at Warhol Museum
Susan Key discusses parlor music
Professor Bloom from Wheaton talks about Vietnam
Lisa continues to work hard during the institute
Y'Landa dances Zydeco
Dancing Zydeco
Linda kicks up at storm dancing
Lisa reflects on Zydeco dancing
Vonzele, Dave, Steve, and Bob at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Bob makes last presentation on 1893 World's Faire
Dave thinks about seeing his dogs on returning to Texas
Dave does his last lesson plans on music in the sixties
Vonzele makes point using Elmo in his presentation
Lisa and Megan bid farewell to Pittsburgh
Megan, Steve &
Bob
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Pyramid
Steve wins PNC hat at last party
Vonzele and Mariana at last party
Vonzele makes a point
Dave & Vonzele
Steve & Bob
Thumbs Up
Vonzele & Steve
Bob singing Goober's Peas with his middle school students!