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Frank Mairich Pooler (March 29, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American choirmaster and the director of choral studies at California State University, Long Beach. He also collaborated with pop music group The Carpenters.
Known in both academic and professional music circles[according to whom?] for his mastery of contemporary choral repertoire, Pooler served as a guest conductor, clinician, lecturer and adjudicator throughout the continental United States, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii, and Alaska. He published over 500 compositions, arrangements and editions which have been performed in Europe and North America. Articles by Frank Pooler in the area of choral art have been published in major professional journals,[citation needed] and he was a member of the Editorial Board of the "Choral Journal."
In 1943, while still a high school student, Pooler founded and directed the first children's choir at First (Norwegian) Lutheran Church.[citation needed] in 1953, studied and worked with Scandinavian composers in Norway, Sweden and Denmark resulting in the English publication of more than 100 Scandinavian choral works.[citation needed] In 1955, he was named a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
He worked for a year after that as the music director at the First Baptist Church in Albert Lea, Minnesota, before attending the University of Iowa and earning a master's degree. From there he worked for several years at Shimer College, then in Mount Carroll, Illinois. He often said that the years at Shimer were among the happiest and most productive of his life. He went on to work a brief stint at New Trier High School in Chicago.
In the middle of the winter of 1959 in Chicago, that he received a phone call from a former University of Iowa colleague, asking if he wanted to come to California to work at Long Beach State University. Frank's answer was "what's the temperature there?" He established the Department of Choral Music and taught at CSULB for 28 years, before retiring in 1988.
In the mid-1970s, he also taught summer school in Saratoga Springs, New York, at Skidmore College. He gave graduate level classes as part of the State University of New York (Potsdam) "Saratoga Potsdam Choral Institute" (SPCI), directed by Brock MacElheran.
Richard Carpenter accompanied Pooler's University Choir at California State University, Long Beach. Several years later, Karen Carpenter also joined the choir and recorded "Goodnight," "Crescent Noon," and "And When I Die" with the choir in 1969. Karen's parents hired Frank to give Karen music lessons
Richard Carpenter later composed the music to "Merry Christmas Darling," a lyric Pooler had written when he was 18. Karen later said,
Frank Pooler
Frank Mairich Pooler (March 29, 1926 – January 19, 2013) was an American choirmaster and the director of choral studies at California State University, Long Beach. He also collaborated with pop music group The Carpenters.
Known in both academic and professional music circles[according to whom?] for his mastery of contemporary choral repertoire, Pooler served as a guest conductor, clinician, lecturer and adjudicator throughout the continental United States, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii, and Alaska. He published over 500 compositions, arrangements and editions which have been performed in Europe and North America. Articles by Frank Pooler in the area of choral art have been published in major professional journals,[citation needed] and he was a member of the Editorial Board of the "Choral Journal."
In 1943, while still a high school student, Pooler founded and directed the first children's choir at First (Norwegian) Lutheran Church.[citation needed] in 1953, studied and worked with Scandinavian composers in Norway, Sweden and Denmark resulting in the English publication of more than 100 Scandinavian choral works.[citation needed] In 1955, he was named a Fellow of the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
He worked for a year after that as the music director at the First Baptist Church in Albert Lea, Minnesota, before attending the University of Iowa and earning a master's degree. From there he worked for several years at Shimer College, then in Mount Carroll, Illinois. He often said that the years at Shimer were among the happiest and most productive of his life. He went on to work a brief stint at New Trier High School in Chicago.
In the middle of the winter of 1959 in Chicago, that he received a phone call from a former University of Iowa colleague, asking if he wanted to come to California to work at Long Beach State University. Frank's answer was "what's the temperature there?" He established the Department of Choral Music and taught at CSULB for 28 years, before retiring in 1988.
In the mid-1970s, he also taught summer school in Saratoga Springs, New York, at Skidmore College. He gave graduate level classes as part of the State University of New York (Potsdam) "Saratoga Potsdam Choral Institute" (SPCI), directed by Brock MacElheran.
Richard Carpenter accompanied Pooler's University Choir at California State University, Long Beach. Several years later, Karen Carpenter also joined the choir and recorded "Goodnight," "Crescent Noon," and "And When I Die" with the choir in 1969. Karen's parents hired Frank to give Karen music lessons
Richard Carpenter later composed the music to "Merry Christmas Darling," a lyric Pooler had written when he was 18. Karen later said,
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