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Galen Marshall was the founder of the Masterworks Chorale at the College of San Mateo in San Mateo, California in September 1964. Born in 1933 in Modesto, California, Marshall attended San Francisco State University, where his roommate was future singer/actor Harve Presnell, and he earned a B.A. Marshall's longtime mentor at the university was Dr. John Tegnell. After teaching at Bay Area high schools and City College of San Francisco, Marshall joined the faculty of the College of San Mateo in 1964. He was director of both the A Capella Choir and the Masterworks Chorale and taught various music classes. With his choirs, he sought very high standards and developed a series of "rules" in his rehearsals, some of them inspired by legendary choral director Robert Shaw. A common practice was the use of singing nonsense syllables or the beat numbers during rehearsals. In the early 1980s, some of Marshall's singers sang with Shaw at concerts in San Francisco and then Shaw commissioned Ralph Hooper to write a new setting of the traditional mass for the Masterworks Chorale during the "Festival of Masses." Longtime members of the choir still remember watching Marshall consult with Shaw during the final rehearsal in St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco, California. Marshall retired in 1997 and is now music director emeritus of the Masterworks Chorale. He lives in Groveland, California with his wife Linelle, who sang in the Masterworks Chorale and the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. The College of San Mateo is a public community college in San Mateo County, California, formerly known as San Mateo Junior College (SMJC). ... Hillsdale Inn, Honeymoon Suite (demolished 5 April 2001) San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, USA. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Modesto is the county seat of Stanislaus County in the U.S. state of California. ... San Francisco State University is a branch of the California State University system. ... Harve Presnell (born September 14, 1933, Modesto, California) is an American actor. ... City College of San Francisco, or CCSF, is a two-year community college in San Francisco, California. ... Robert Shaw may mean: Robert Shaw (footballer) Robert Shaw (actor) This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... Nickname: The City by the Bay; Fog City Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom Area    - City 122 km²  (47 sq mi)  - Land 121. ...

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• Interviews with Galen Marshall, 1965-1985
• Eyewitness accounts
• Masterworks Chorale website