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NH music teacher Warren Muchemore left lasting impression PHS students

From fourth grade all the way through high school, Russ Grazier, co-founder and CEO of the Portsmouth Music & Arts Center, learned under Muchemore as a student at the old Portsmouth Junior High and later Portsmouth High School. For about four decades, Grazier said, Muchemore, who taught at both schools, wrote all the music for the high school marching band himself. Every single piece of music he composed was specifically designed to cater to the strengths of each student in the ensemble at that point in time. “He was just a very dynamic musician, a wonderful jazz musician,” Grazier said. For years, Muchemore and Bill Elwell, another music teacher at Portsmouth High School, led the Clipper Marching Band in a regime that left a lasting impression on students like Grazier. When in the marching band, Grazier said he and his peers traveled with Muchemore and Elwell to Virginia and Washington D.C. for national competitions.

Gossip: Creating a place for the arts to collaborate

Gossip: Creating a place for the arts to collaborate Jeanné McCartin Some major moves have taken place at the New Hampshire Theatre Project the past few weeks.  The big news is the departure of Artistic Director Catherine Stewart.  A lot of people automatically assumed Catherine was going to be my successor when she took the artistic director s job. But from the start it was our understanding, clear to us but not to the outside, she came on to do a number of things to prepare for succession, Founding Executive Director Genevieve Aichele says. Stewart did that in spades. Stewart helped create a strategic plan, reorganized the main stage season ( which was going great guns til COVID ), restructured the company s artists program, created a company handbook, rebranded NHTP and was instrumental in keeping it going during the pandemic.