yes!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
formspring.me
Ask me anything http://formspring.me/musicborders
Have you heard about the Open House at Ensemble Arts Academy on Dec 12, 3pm. Prizes.
Have you heard about the Open House at Ensemble Arts Academy on Dec 12, 3pm. Prizes.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
can you attend our open house? http://tinyurl.com/EAAOpenHouse
can you attend our open house?http://tinyurl.com/EAAOpenHouse
can you attend our open house? http://tinyurl.com/EAAOpenHouse
can you attend our open house?http://tinyurl.com/EAAOpenHouse
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Would you rather date a lot of different people, or be in a committed relationship?
Be in a committed relationship, when the time is right
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Do you play a musical instrument or sing? If you don't would you like to learn?
Do you play a musical instrument or sing? If you don't would you like to learn?
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Last Chance to Enroll in Camp Rocks! Summer Day-Camp
"Everyone will want to experience CAMP ROCKS! This 2-week day-camp will give your child an opportunity to shine and have a fulfilling summer. If your child has nothing to do, this is where they will explore and do what they could not even imagine they had the capability of doing. I encourage you to take the time to look... at a camp that is affordable and worthwhile. The students learn music techniques and how to use their creativity".
~ Charmaine, Grandmother of a student at Ensemble Art Academy & Camp Rocks!
Hurry and Enroll before it's too late! Only a FEW spots left for June 21-July
2, 2010. Ages 6-18 Everyone's a Star!
Refer a friend and get a discount
on tuition!
www.EnsembleArtsAcademy.com
702.388.0014
~ Charmaine, Grandmother of a student at Ensemble Art Academy & Camp Rocks!
Hurry and Enroll before it's too late! Only a FEW spots left for June 21-July
2, 2010. Ages 6-18 Everyone's a Star!
Refer a friend and get a discount
on tuition!
www.EnsembleArtsAcademy.com
702.388.0014
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Jail and Bail March of Dimes
I'm going to jail and I need your help please. I'm in need of $1-$1000+ bail. Anything will help! My son Joshua was born at 28 1/2 weeks and was about as big as my hand. He is now a happy and healthy 10 year old violinist, with the unfortunate lose of one eye due to retinopathy of prematurity. The March of Dimes arrest...ed me last week and charged me with fighting premature birth. I am guilty as charged. Please visit, share, and donate if you can on my site!
http://jailandbail.marchofdimes.com/musicborders
Claude Borders
http://jailandbail.marchofdimes.com/musicborders
Claude Borders
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
My Grandmother is my inspiration
My Grandmother, Catherine Campbell, just passed away a few months ago at the beautiful age of 104. She was a wonderful and devout Christian. She did so many things in her life that have impacted me and shaped my character. I would like to share several if I may.
She read through the Bible nearly every year for most of her adult life. She lead the missionary meetings at her small Nazarene church where she was a member for almost her whole life. She couldn't read music but she figured out a way to play the piano for the services when my Grandpa preached at the homeless missions in Bloomington Illinois. She helped me complete my Bachelor's of Music Education degree at IWU and generally get through my college years by occasionally doing my laundry, inviting me to meals and church. She lived most of her adult life in a single wide mobile home without complaint, making it a cosy, welcoming home. When my grandpa died in 1980, she invited my to live in one of the rooms in her home. She crocheted wedding handkerchiefs for all the ladies in the family until she had cataracts and arthritis too bad, and then she switched to knitting hand towels for all the families. She hosted the Campbell family reunion every year having married into the Campbell family. When she was near the end of her life, while my mom was visiting her in the nursing home, she said she wanted to go home. We were not positive, but we think she meant she wanted to go home to heaven. She lost her husband in 1980 and her youngest son, my uncle, around Christmas.
She is my inspiration for so many things in my life. The characteristics I've learned from her are to be a servant leader and to be tenacious.
I feel that as a business owner I am a servant to my staff in many ways. I'm learning how this works all the time. My tenacity led to winning a nationwide audition for the Disneyland Band after one audition where I did not win but was an alternate, and winning the audition into the USAF Band at the cut-off age of 35, and making it through basic training at that age!
She read through the Bible nearly every year for most of her adult life. She lead the missionary meetings at her small Nazarene church where she was a member for almost her whole life. She couldn't read music but she figured out a way to play the piano for the services when my Grandpa preached at the homeless missions in Bloomington Illinois. She helped me complete my Bachelor's of Music Education degree at IWU and generally get through my college years by occasionally doing my laundry, inviting me to meals and church. She lived most of her adult life in a single wide mobile home without complaint, making it a cosy, welcoming home. When my grandpa died in 1980, she invited my to live in one of the rooms in her home. She crocheted wedding handkerchiefs for all the ladies in the family until she had cataracts and arthritis too bad, and then she switched to knitting hand towels for all the families. She hosted the Campbell family reunion every year having married into the Campbell family. When she was near the end of her life, while my mom was visiting her in the nursing home, she said she wanted to go home. We were not positive, but we think she meant she wanted to go home to heaven. She lost her husband in 1980 and her youngest son, my uncle, around Christmas.
She is my inspiration for so many things in my life. The characteristics I've learned from her are to be a servant leader and to be tenacious.
I feel that as a business owner I am a servant to my staff in many ways. I'm learning how this works all the time. My tenacity led to winning a nationwide audition for the Disneyland Band after one audition where I did not win but was an alternate, and winning the audition into the USAF Band at the cut-off age of 35, and making it through basic training at that age!
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
I'm the owner of Ensemble Arts Academy in Las Vegas. Since June 1, 2009 we have, through the faith and hard work of my instructors and dedicated receptionist, Andrea, grown from 5 to 10 teachers and from 17 to 50 students. Thank God for faithful staff, for the belief that we can succeed, and for the prayers of the faithful that buoy up our efforts. I am struggling with juggling the following:
tax time
running my academy
two classes toward my MBA online at GCU, at the Ken Blanchard College of Business
raising two wonderful kids
supporting my wife as she completes an online Education Media Design & Technology Master of Science at Full Sail University
Any encouragement would be greatly appreciated!
tax time
running my academy
two classes toward my MBA online at GCU, at the Ken Blanchard College of Business
raising two wonderful kids
supporting my wife as she completes an online Education Media Design & Technology Master of Science at Full Sail University
Any encouragement would be greatly appreciated!
Saturday, January 9, 2010
A funny thing happened on the way to the Disneyland Band
During my junior year at Illinois Wesleyan University, I was selected in a national audition as one of 2 hornists in the All-American College Marching Show Band at Disneyland. Art Bartner, the director (& director of the Trojan Marching Band at USC), was a great influence on me. That summer Disney paid all expenses and brought many of the top pros to perform with our band.
My claim to fame there was that on the last day of our 2 week orientation and rehearsals, after having memorized all the music and dance/marching steps, Art asked for volunteers to demonstrate the "Saint Louis Blues" routine. He was not happy with the band messing up the steps, and I was dumb enough to volunteer along with a tuba and alto sax player. After 12 forward steps I did an about-face and the tuba player didn't. To this day I don't know if he or I was correct. We slammed into each other with such force that I passed out. When I came to, all 20 band members hovered over me with their hands over their mouths and gasps of sympathy. I felt where my front left tooth should have been and it was cracked in half. I was rushed to a dentist who was fantastic. I got my first of 4 temporary caps on the tooth and went back to the band hall. The bell of my horn was crinkled and the mouthpiece was stuck tight! I had a very fat, sore lip and a bruised ego. I was not going to let this chance of a lifetime pass me by. So when our band was slated to debut the next day at the employee baseball game, I insisted on playing my horn. I played on the very corner of my lips for the first week and gradually moved the horn to the center again. The temporary caps were very painful, but I'm thankful for the great dentist that took care of me.
Fifteen years later, Art Bartner came to Las Vegas, where I'd moved to teach, and guest conducted the Henderson Philharmonic, the community orchestra that I was playing in. He didn't know I was there and I couldn't wait to surprise him. He started telling the story of a horn player who lost his tooth and had the tenacity to keep playing. It was then that I stood up and said, Art, you're telling my story. That was one of the highlights of my life.
I wonder to this day if someone set that all up as a surprise for both of us or if it was serendipity.
Years later I had a school principal tell me that my strongest attribute was my tenacity. I like that.
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