Tobias Beale and Paul's Hall on CBC's Maritime Magazine
My half-hour radio documentary on Tobias Beale is now online here.
Tobias is a music teacher who lives near Halifax. And he tells great, great stories.
In some ways, it's been a rough year for Tobias. He's spent 15 years devoted to teaching music, and he finds himself doing it in an environment where it really doesn't seem to be a priority.
After spending 8 years teaching band at his local junior high, Tobias found himself out of a job. Today, he's a half-time band resource teacher who travels from school to school. It's crazy and fun, but not the same. He's also bought an old church hall, and is using it to revitalize a locally focused music culture, and to provide a performance space for teens.
Bonus feature: I've posted the raw audio of the first interview I did with Tobias, when I started working on this documentary several months ago. We were chatting upstairs at Paul's Hall, while three local teen bands prepared for a show downstairs.
The file runs about 25 minutes. Click to listen, or right-click to download and listen later.
The interview covers all kinds of fascinating stuff I couldn't work into the final show. I especially like Tobias's answer when I ask him why kids need performance spaces when they all have MySpace and Facebook pages to promote their music. That comes about three quarters of the way through.
Enjoy, and please share your comments by clicking the "comments" link below.
Tobias is a music teacher who lives near Halifax. And he tells great, great stories.
In some ways, it's been a rough year for Tobias. He's spent 15 years devoted to teaching music, and he finds himself doing it in an environment where it really doesn't seem to be a priority.
After spending 8 years teaching band at his local junior high, Tobias found himself out of a job. Today, he's a half-time band resource teacher who travels from school to school. It's crazy and fun, but not the same. He's also bought an old church hall, and is using it to revitalize a locally focused music culture, and to provide a performance space for teens.
Bonus feature: I've posted the raw audio of the first interview I did with Tobias, when I started working on this documentary several months ago. We were chatting upstairs at Paul's Hall, while three local teen bands prepared for a show downstairs.
The file runs about 25 minutes. Click to listen, or right-click to download and listen later.
The interview covers all kinds of fascinating stuff I couldn't work into the final show. I especially like Tobias's answer when I ask him why kids need performance spaces when they all have MySpace and Facebook pages to promote their music. That comes about three quarters of the way through.
Enjoy, and please share your comments by clicking the "comments" link below.
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Hi Phil,
I enjoyed this documentary. Nice to hear some of the kids performing as well (and of course Nicole). I went to the talent show at SJA last night. There were some good musicians there but also, interestingly, a magician, jugglers, interpretive dance and a stand-up comedian. All in high school and quite good.
Mr. Beale taught me french in junior high and I see him around highschool sometimes. Pauls hall is freaking awsome<3
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