Composer, longtime Lewis and Clark teacher Gerald Hartley dies at 99
For decades, composer, musician and teacher, Gerald Hartley helped the youth of Spokane become "architects of their own fates" as he mentored them with music.
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In this 1954 photo, going over the score with the composer are principles of those sections: left to right, John Harris, trumpet; Whelan, Hartley, Fred Hartley, tympani; Wendell Exline, horn; Harold Treadwell, trombone. Harold Paul Whelan was set to raise his baton at the start of the Spokane Philharmonic orchestra's 10th season in the Post theater. A feature of the program will be Gerald Hartley's "Concerto Grosso for Woodwinds, Brass and Percussion."
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Gerald Hartley won a festival composition prize for his “Sonatine for Piano and Orchestra” in 1948. Hartley is shown with a girls choral ensemble rehearsal in 1962.
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Gerald Hartley, Music Director, in a 1966 photo.
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In this 1964 photo, Donald Thulean, left, and Gerald Hartley scan the score of Howard Hanson's choral work, "Song of Democracy."
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Composer Gerald Hartley in 1978.
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In this 1956 photo, these three French horns, left to right, Maurice Morelli, Dolores Gibler and Wendell Exline, were featured in the Spokane Symphonic chorale's spring show in Lewis and Clark high school's auditorium. Gerald Hartley's "Choral Suite" was commissioned by the chorale.
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In this 2007 photo, Gerald Hartley holds the plaque he received, surrounded by Reunion Committee members, from left, top row: Kathleen Blair, Richard Ellis, Bill Anderson; 2nd Row: Joan Polzin, Carol Miyamoto, Berne Indahl, Lois Berg; front row: Connie Christman, Sandy Riebe and Laurie Dolan.
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