Choral conductor Ken Greenhouse began teaching at Berklee in 1982, and went on to chair the Voice Department from 1984 to 1996 before moving to Atlanta in 1999. He passed away July 16. (Read the obituary.) Yumiko Matsuoka, now a Berklee professor, met Ken when she began studying at Berklee herself. I came to Berklee [...]
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Remembering Charlie Chapman
July 22, 2011 – 3:02 pm
Charles Chapman, jazz guitarist and retired member of Berklee’s Guitar Department, passed away in Maine on July 18. We asked some of his former colleagues and students to share their remembrances. Feel free to add your own in the comments. Update: obituary in the Herald Gazette; family guestbook for condolences. Mark Small ’73, editor of [...]
Remembering Sa Davis
September 28, 2010 – 10:22 am
The Percussion Department is starting the new school year without colleague Sa Davis, who passed away this summer at the early age of 56 (read the Berklee obituary). Here are some remembrances from his fellow percussion faculty, collected by Percussion Department chair John Ramsay. We welcome Sa’s other colleagues, former students, and friends to post [...]
Henry Gaffney remembered
June 4, 2010 – 3:05 pm
Songwriting faculty member Henry Gaffney passed away on May 23. (Read the Berklee news story.) Alumnus David Ragland wrote a tribute. I was lucky enough to have Henry Gaffney for a lyric-writing class, a production class, and for a one-on-one directed study in songwriting class. He was brutally honest, and he encouraged everyone to follow [...]