Radio Credits:
Christoper Dale radio productions
A Cream Cracker Under the Settee (2006, written by Alan Bennett, produced by Chris Dale), soundtrack taken from the album From My Heart; Elaine (2006, written and produced by Chris Dale), soundtrack taken from the album Seasons of the Heart; both programmes recorded in Pinewood Studios, London, England
Boombox Classroom
Boombox Classroom, a production of Sweetbird Classics from 2001-2005, was a national award-winning radio programme providing music curriculum to children in the United States, grades K-5.
Original music: ‘Boombox Classroom Theme’, Melody (1-004, 2001); ‘Passing’, Women Composers (1-024, 2002) and Meet the Composers (1-030, 2002); and ‘The First Snowfall’, Snow Day! (2-016, 2002)
Scriptwriter/script assistant 2001-2005: Space Music (1-006), Civil War Music (1-007), Cowboy Music (1-009), Thanksgiving (SP-01), Black History (SP-03), Revolutionary War Music (2-008), Mediaeval Music (2-014), Giants of American Music (2-020), Victorian Era (2-025), Beasts & Birds (2-032), Mechanical Instruments (2-034), Cowboy Music II (3-008), Elizabeth I (3-009), Louisiana Purchase (4-004), and three unproduced episodes: River Boats, Game Show, and Gilbert and Sullivan (4-TBA)
Guest appearances: Music of the Civil War (1-007), Careers in Music (2-015), and Cowboy Music II (3-008)
Classical Café, KHFM-Radio
Wrote and presented various programmes during 1999-2000 including Accordion Music (2 parts), The Celtic Connexion, Mediaeval Music, Music in the Time of Anne Frank, Music of the Civil War (2 parts), and Railroad Music
Sweet Bird Classics
Wrote and presented two programmes for independent radio broadcast, The Celtic Connexion and Music of the American Civil War, both 2001
Television & Film Credits:
Ekkelins Knecht 2008; a film by Peter Klewitz and Reinhard Kungel. The mediaeval-flavoured work ‘Ausklang’ by Jane Ellen closes the soundtrack CD.
The Man Who Lost the Civil War 2002; a film by Rick Creese. ‘Glorieta’, instrumental theme (opening credits); full song (closing credits w/lyrics by Rick Creese); incidental use; chosen for the SCETV “Southern Lens” film festival October 2002; video available from University of NM Press; excerpts included on the 2004 Extended MGM 2-DVD release of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Printed Word:
As National Project Director for the Sigma Alpha Iota American Composers Bureau, I am responsible for compiling and editing composer updates and providing two articles annually, for the Winter issue of the fraternity’s publicationPanPipes.
Finally Organized, Finally Free: For the Office, Associate Editor, published in 2006 by author Maria Gracia and Get Organized Now!.
The poem ‘Alone’, published in Eternal Portraits and the companion three-volume audio collection The Sound of Poetry, International Library of Poetry (2005). Alone also received the August 2005 Editor’s Choice Award for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry, presented by the International Library of Poetry.
The poem ‘Reenactment’, published in The Silence Within and the companion three-volume audio collection The Sound of Poetry, International Library of Poetry (2001)
Cancer Takes a Holiday published in Hope Line (the newsletter for the Southeastern Arizona Region American Cancer Society), Winter 1999; song lyrics set to the traditional tune Auld Lang Syne for use by the Sierra Vista Oncology Clinic Team in the annual Relay For Life fundraiser
