Forrest-Strawn-Wing HS German Band 1953 With HS friends Jack Kuntz and Donald "Luke" Metz 1953 Accepting First Prize, BMI Student Composer NYC 1957 U.S. Army Band, Big Picture TV show, Queens Fox Studio NY 1963 Tampa Philharmonic, 1966 Yale Summer School of Music & Art 1960 NIU Faculty Brass Quintet 1970 With Shih hui Chen, NIU c. 1980 NIU circa 1980 First Prize New York City Opera. Stanley Silverman, Thomas Pasatieri, Beverly Sills, Jan Bach 1980 NIU Music Theory & Composition Faculty 1988 C. 1988 Taiko drumming, Japan 2004 With Jon Boen, 2006 NIU Music Library event, 2019 Performing with Kishwaukee Concert Band 2019