After 11 years of college classes, concerts, lessons, meetings, papers, and learning, Christian is one step closer to completing requirements for his PhD.
Saturday, March 17, 2012 was a big night for my sweet husband. He has been working for over a year on contacting the percussion Group, Talujon, to come play student works at Brandeis University. He wrote a grant, got the funding and organized the group coming to Boston. Once that was done, he started writing his dissertation piece for this amazing group.
Christian worked hard on his piece for percussion quartet called Tableaus.
As a special surprise, Christian's dad flew in from Arizona to be here for the concert. It was such a sweet and wonderful surprise!
The big night came, and wonderful works were written by seven of Brandies' finest composers.
Below: (in no particular order)
Travis Alford, Mu-Xuan Lin, Rebecca Sacks, James Borchers, Victoria Cheah, Richard Chowenhill, Christian Gentry, and their professors, Erick Chasalow, David Rakowski, and Yu-Hui Chang.
(Jared Redmond, a Brandeis composer is also in the picture, but shouldn't be as he had nothing played, silly composers).
Saturday, March 17, 2012 was a big night for my sweet husband. He has been working for over a year on contacting the percussion Group, Talujon, to come play student works at Brandeis University. He wrote a grant, got the funding and organized the group coming to Boston. Once that was done, he started writing his dissertation piece for this amazing group.
Christian worked hard on his piece for percussion quartet called Tableaus.
As a special surprise, Christian's dad flew in from Arizona to be here for the concert. It was such a sweet and wonderful surprise!
The big night came, and wonderful works were written by seven of Brandies' finest composers.
Below: (in no particular order)
Travis Alford, Mu-Xuan Lin, Rebecca Sacks, James Borchers, Victoria Cheah, Richard Chowenhill, Christian Gentry, and their professors, Erick Chasalow, David Rakowski, and Yu-Hui Chang.
(Jared Redmond, a Brandeis composer is also in the picture, but shouldn't be as he had nothing played, silly composers).
I was such a proud wife, can you tell? I have never been so proud of my amazing and talented husband; he has worked so hard for so long and is an incredibly gifted composer and teacher. Most PhD students do not graduate in 5 years it usually takes them 6 or 7 years to finish. Christian has worked his little bootie off while managing his job of stay at home dad, teaching classes at various universities and teaching a piano studio of 5-8 students not to mention being an loving and gracious husband and fun and adventurous best friend. He seriously amazes me with all he does! I am so proud of my man!
The Gentry boys. Christian, his dad, and his cousin Dwayne who just happens to be doing an externship in Rhode Island and drove an hour to support Christian. It was so touching to have some family there on Christian's big day.
I am truly humbled and grateful for all the support we had from our friends here in the Boston area on this big night. I counted 25 friends (not from Brandeis) who came to the concert to show their support for Christian and I. Many friends sent one spouse to the concert, and the other spouse stayed home and watched the little ones. It was wonderful that they made this sacrifice to be apart on a weekend night. I cannot begin to tell everyone who came how much your support means to us. Thank you so much for coming!
I tried to get pictures of everyone who came, but some people had to leave right after the concert.
Christian, Patrick, Stewart, and Dan
friends from Cambridge 1st ward
Some of my supportive co-workers at Shwartz Hospice
Our friend Kate made this DELICIOUS cake.
Congrats Christian, there is nothing we love more than stuffing our faces to celebrate :)
Christian, Justin, Laci, Gloria, Stef
Roth and Christian
(Christian's techie buddy)
Fellow composer and friend, Travis Alford and Christian
These two are good buddies.
Christian's dissertation adviser, Yu-Hui (pronounced "U-A") Chang.
Christian has really enjoyed working with her.
Many wonderful friends from the Cambridge 1st Ward
Alex and Celeste Douglas, Dave and Grace Poulsen, Karen and Karl Haglund (our Bishop), Megan Palmer, and Tracie Gillespie
Another great teacher, Eric Chasalow
Marty Boykan, one of Christian's professors who has retired but still keeps supporting his students. He is famous for giving very honest critiques, he gave Christian a thumbs up for his dissertation piece.
Robbie (graduated musicologist and pal), Christian, Jeremy (graduated composer, friend and neighbor) and Jeff (Jeremy's significant other and our good friend).
Other composer friends, Jared, Christian and Richard
(who has awesome dreds down to his butt!)
Our doctor buddies RyRy and Nikki
So much love, so much support. So many wonderful memories.
Thanks again to everyone who supported us on this big journey and on this big night.
Congrats to my talented, gifted, hard working, intelligent, handsome, amazing husband!
I could not be more proud of you and all your hard work!!
I will post a video of the performance soon.
3 comments:
Congrats Gentry Family! Can't wait for the video.
Congratulations Christian! I wish I could have been there, but got a good report from Stuart. What a great accomplishment!
A big MAZEL TOV to Christian! I so wish we could have been there for the big night, but I'll settle for the video.
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