Mr Os Music Academy of the Arts 6th Street Hollister Ca
This article was written past BenitoLink intern Andrew Pearson.
The strain of the COVID-19 shutdown has prompted Joe and Frances Ostenson to shut Mr. O's Academy of the Arts at 360 Sixth Street in Hollister on July 31 afterwards a 10-year run.
Bruce Gilsenan, the academy's first music teacher, said the Ostensons created a local musical space just as a previous one, the Hollister Music instrument shop, was endmost down in 2010-11. The then-new academy compensated for public schools' cuts to music programs by giving kids individual music lessons and feel as members of Mr. O'southward Jazz Band.
Lucy Rodriguez, mariachi dance teacher for the troupes Alma de México and Folklórico, was ane of Mr. O'south first practice studio rental clients.
"We were able to bring students in and innovate them to music, which was Mr. O's dearest along with teaching kids," she said.
Gilsenan and Rodriguez contacted the academy during San Benito Canton'due south Stage 3 reopening, expecting to resume lessons, but they learned that Mr. O'south was to close.
John Rialson, trumpeter for the jazz band and mariachi groups that apposite at the academy, said that Mr. O'southward "helped to get everyone involved with music. There were individual lessons going on here in just virtually every instrument."
Though the academy is closing, Rialson said that young musicians haven't gone anywhere: "We've got some 50 mariachi students. Some teachers are using Zoom to give their lessons."
Mr. O'due south Jazz Ring met every Thursday night to play big band and fusion jazz tunes. The group added color to many local events.
"We played for Christmas concerts, we played for jump activities, and the Fourth of July, the Saddle Horse Show. Nosotros were busy," said Joe Ostenson.
Noelle Sladon, one of the jazz band'south singers, said that the people of San Benito County got great "pro bono" entertainment from the performances, which held no auditions and admitted players of any skill level.
The broad variety of people in the academy and the band fabricated a stiff impression. Gilsenan explained that the jazz ring attracted many at present-grown musicians whom Ostenson had taught in his 45 years every bit a band teacher. Some were fifty-fifty "kids that were just starting out playing in the school band who got a lot more than experience playing with him." Musicians "from eight to eighty" were in the ring and taking lessons, said the 78-year-erstwhile Ostenson.
Sladon, who besides taught piano and voice at the university, agreed. "There were a couple guys who were in their late 70s, even 80s, and and so in that location were junior loftier kids" in the jazz band.
Colleagues praised the way the Ostensons presided over the music academy. "You don't go to hear about Frances a lot, just she ran that place," Gilsenan confided. Rodriguez said that "they were both very cooperative, very understanding, they loved the kids coming around, and we really enjoyed beingness there."
Of the academy itself, Gilsenan said, "All the other teachers in that location were actually cordial, everyone was actually friendly, piece of cake to work with too. I've worked at places where the teachers were more competitive, trying to steal students, or complaining a lot—no 1 seemed to be doing that much in that location." And in Rialson's stance, "they offered a wonderful service having this here for people, and I think it's enriched a lot of lives."
While Mr. O's University of the Arts and the jazz band have been engines of the local music scene, they are non the only ones. Ostenson plays cornet for the Pacific Contumely Band and trumpet for the Watsonville Customs Ring. Gilsenan teaches guitar, bass and ukulele out of the Rosas House in San Juan Bautista.
"Obviously, there aren't any gigs," Gilsenan said, calculation he also stays decorated by playing guitar for the bands Somos, the Kelly McDonald Band, and Con Corazon.
"And don't forget," Ostenson said, "we've got mariachi groups going on here in town," like Rialson's bands and Rodriguez'due south dance group Folklórico.
Mr. O's Jazz Band will continue—its members are coming together on Zoom. Right now they're "going to try to record something, and then practice beginning outside and then maybe we'll observe another place to play," Sladon said.
"We have all the music ready to go, when we can get back together. At that place have been a number of places that take offered us places to rehearse," said Rialson.
The academy nevertheless has several instruments which are available to anyone who makes a donation and is able to cart them away. Call the Academy at (831) 524-0812, ask about the remaining instruments and come for the ones you want between ane and 3 p.m. past July 31.
Asked near the future of music after the pandemic, Ostenson said "We've got to settle down before we have people playing in bands." He said he'south hoping public music volition resume "by mayhap Christmas, January. I don't know. Before long, I hope."
Gilsenan projected that "When it blows over, people are gonna be really hungry to become out and heed to music, and you lot know that at that place'south going to exist floods of new music coming out, because anybody's at home writing songs and recording." Yet, "There will maybe be fewer venues, considering a lot of places probably won't exist able to afford to stay open" afterward the shutdown.
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