Steele at Work - Goethe's Tragedy, EgmontJune 25, 2005: It is Saturday morning and many high school students are still asleep. But for members of the Northwood High School Philharmonic, the morning started hours ago: At the high school, some are rehearsing in Room 501; the others are in the theatre rehearsing with Stan Steele, Coordinator of Visual and Performing Arts for Irvine Unified. As Coordinator, Mr. Steele is responsible for the fine arts programs at 20 elementary schools, 7 middle schools, and 4 high schools. And yet he has never strayed far away from the classrooms. For the last several weeks, Mr. Steele has been preparing this tour orchestra for its Carnegie Hall appearance. In the video, the rehearsal in progress is of Beethoven's Overture to Goethe's Tradedy, Egmont. // As of this posting (05/31/07), Stan Steele has since relinquished his Coordinator job to phase in retirement, though he is still teaching at UC Irvine and conducting the Concert Orchestra at University High School and the Philharmonic Orchestra at Northwood.
