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In this oral history, Mill Valley music man Joe Angiulo discusses his nearly four decade-long career as a music teacher in Mill Valley's public schools, his family life, his community involvement, and his abiding love of music. Born in Ohio in 1941 to Italian immigrant parents, Joe recounts moving to California after graduating from high school, originally touching down in Sacramento where an elder brother of his was living. A trumpeter since the age of 12, Joe decided to move to San Francisco and study music at San Francisco State University. In 1966 he got hired to teach music---strings, to be exact---in the Mill Valley School District. In 1972 he married his wife Gail Retka, a French teacher in Mill Valley. Four years later, just as they were about to have their first child, Joe, they bought a house a stone's throw from Park School, where this oral history interview was conducted. A daughter, Vita, followed a few years later. Joe recounts his teaching career, including the hard times after the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, and describes his longtime friendship with fellow music man Bob Greenwood. Joe retired from teaching in 2002, but has remained active in the community working as a volunteer on the committee of the Milley Awards, the Mill Valley Chamber Music Society, Marin Music Chest, and the Southern Marin Hot Meal Coalition. This oral history concludes with a paean to music, which Joe describes as part of his being and his humanity, and as providing, moreover, the quintessential social experience.
Identifier
997ED086-B8CD-45D7-ADC5-634194547750 2016.105.001
Subject
Baune, Terrie Edna Maguire Elementary School Edna Maguire School Education Greenwood, Bob Marin Music Chest Mill Valley Chamber Music Society Mill Valley School District Milley Awards Music Oral history - Music Park School Retka, Gail Schock, Trubee Smiley, Dan Smiley, David Smiley, Mariko Tamalpais High School Teachers Valley Circle Wasserman, Abby Weiss, Penny
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