Richardson to debut ‘Lodgepole Pine’ orchestration
Retired Nicolet Middle School band director Christine Richardson of Banning was inspired one day after taking a hike near Big Bear, to compose a musical piece aptly named after the trail she had meandered. Her first orchestral piece “Champion Lodgepole Pine” reflects the trail of the same name. “I accidentally discovered Bluff Lake Preserve nearby…
Longtime Banning school band director calling it a career
After 37 years with Banning Unified School District, Nicolet Middle School band director Christine Richardson is going to put down her conductor’s baton. She taught elementary school level music for 20 years, was band director at Coombs Middle School for 11 years and has been at Nicolet for the past four. During the early 1990s…