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Born: September 4, 1952

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Biography

Secretary Michael (the old pen-name of Michael Laschober) is a St. Louis peace activist with a large catalog of compositions that have been put into the public domain and are free to download [1]. Among his major works: "Secular Hymnal" [2] (SATB and Solo versions, each containing 144 secular hymns), "Choral Dialectics" [3] (each dialectic is a rational argument, battled-out chorally in 4 short movements), "Little Machines" [4] (a collection of 28 very short mechanical works for unaccompanied mixed chorus), "Joe Puma - Wild Choir Music" [5] (a collection of 36 secular shape-note hymns), "Candelescence" [6] (a "free peace opera" for singers and piano), "Aren't We the Lucky Ones" [7] (The story about a commune of deterministic science students in which the young child "Twimfina" first appears. Her name is an acronym for "The World Is My Family, I'm Not Afraid". Later, as a young adult, she appears as the central figure in the opera "Candesescence").

BIO: A graduate of the UMKC Conservatory of Music, Secretary Michael has been an elementary school teacher (teaching Science and Music in both public and private schools), a private piano teacher, the founder of "Junkyard School" (a popular collection of afterschool programs), a choir director (Oakland Children's Chorus, St. Louis Peace Choir), a maker of weather charts (Metropolitan Weather Charts), a botany facilitator (St. Louis Nature Study Society) [8] and a longtime St. Louis concert piano tuner/technician (Academy Piano Service).

Today Michael is a volunteer leader of Botany Walks for St. Louis teachers [9], an anti-gun advocate, a volunteer counselor on Discord's "Determinists Support Group" for those troubled by determinism, and a composer of choral works that celebrate peace and egalitarianism [10].

See also: Secretary Michael's editor page.

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 "''Joe Puma - Wild Choir Music''" [http://www.machinistsunion.org/jo_puma.html] (a collection of 36 secular shape-note hymns),
 "''Candelescence''" [http://www.machinistsunion.org/candelescence.html] (a "free peace opera" for singers and piano),
-"''Aren't We the Lucky Ones''" [http://www.machinistsunion.org/arent_we_lucky.html] (The story about a commune of science students in which the young child "Twimfina" first appears. Her name is an acronym for "The World Is My Family, I'm Not Afraid". Later, as a young adult, she appears as the central figure in the opera "Candesescence").
+"''Aren't We the Lucky Ones''" [http://www.machinistsunion.org/arent_we_lucky.html] (The story about a commune of deterministic science students in which the young child "Twimfina" first appears. Her name is an acronym for "The World Is My Family, I'm Not Afraid". Later, as a young adult, she appears as the central figure in the opera "Candesescence").
 BIO: A graduate of the UMKC Conservatory of Music, Secretary Michael has been an elementary school teacher (teaching Science and Music in both public and private schools), a private piano teacher, the founder of "Junkyard School" (a popular collection of afterschool programs), a choir director (Oakland Children's Chorus, St. Louis Peace Choir), a maker of weather charts (Metropolitan Weather Charts), a botany facilitator (St. Louis Nature Study Society) [http://www.stlnss.org] and a longtime St. Louis concert piano tuner/technician (Academy Piano Service).