Welcome
to
Lawrie Schonfelder's Homepage
Potted biography
I was born and grew up in Melbourne Australia. I came to England to
study for a Ph.D. in theoretical Physics intending to stay for 3
or 4 years. Forty Four years later and I am still here in the UK
having retired from a career that was mostly spent running a computing
service at the University of Liverpool. For a slightly fuller career
summary see, biographic background.
A major reason for my continuing to live and work in the UK was that
during my post-graduate stay in London I met an English fellow student,
Linda, who was studying French literature at the time, and we married
in 1967.
We have two sons,
Andrew
who is attempting to create his own
specialist image library and photographic business, Light and Time, and
Robert
who is a ground staff supervisor for a small airline operating out
of Melbourne airport.
Linda and I currently live in a large late Victorian house
in a small coastal
town, West Kirby, at the end of the Wirral in the North West of England.
Recreational Interests
A major activity is now with the Hoylake Choral Society,
where I sing in the 1st Bass section. I make use of my computing
background to act as membership secretary, keeping the membership
database, and as webmaster, maintaining the society's website. As a
totally untrained musician as well as a less than expert singer, I attempt to learn my
part by creating a version of the music employing the music notation
software, MOZART. As well as displaying the music in standard form on the screen, this can play back the score, Karaoke like, with the
particular part accentuated. There is quite a bit of work involved in
doing this so I am making the fruits of this labour available in case
they might be useful to other choristers. Given that I am a 1st bass the parts accessible from Choral practice files
are mostly aimed at that part. Anyone can download a free viewer that
displays the music and can play it back; with the MOZART software
proper, which is not free, anyone would be
able to change the emphasis and a lot of the work of creating the score
has already been done.
This page last reviewed on 26-May-2009 by
Lawrie Schonfelder (lawrie@schonfelder.co.uk)