DAMAR- DAVE & MARGARET 
MUSIC COMPANY

Once upon a time, my dream was to be a professional musical arranger.  I did all the things necessary including writing and arranging my own songs, assembling the singers to record them, and submitting the songs and recordings to the music publishers. After a couple of years, I figured out that I could just as well write and arrange for my own choirs and remain a choir director...so I did.  Many of these songs/arrangements have been used by my choirs over the past twenty years.  Listen to the songs below. They are good recordings. 

What do you want to do when you grow up?  I think I have spent my entire life asking myself this question and trying all of the many artistic endeavors that interest me.  From 1986 to 1991, Margaret and I started our own music publishing  company.  I wrote the songs and arrangements and she produced them on the computer.  This was quite a feat considering that she doesn't really have any training in music.  But, she is a smart one, and made that sheet music look as professional as any you will find out there.  We acquired a Los Angeles business license, and we were off. 


Whenever I completed new original song arrangements, I would pull together the best voices I had available to me in my Choir at Nogales HS and record the arrangements at the now defunct MUSIC STORE RECORDING STUDIO in Walnut.  In all, we probably recorded 20-25 original songs and arrangements.   Although DAMAR did not prove to be a long lasting venture, the music is still here, recorded and ready to share. Some of the people who recorded with me over the years were Bo Eder (drums), Francine Stewart (piano), Don Cloud (piano), Linda Atherton, my sister (1st Soprano), Doug Kuhl (bass), myself (tenor) and a few dozen choir kids from the mighty Nogales High School Chamber Singers.  Enjoy these songs and arrangements. You may recognize a few, as I have occasionally used them for my own choirs at Nogales, Diamond Bar and Brea-Olinda High Schools.  I will continue to add songs as they become available to me. 

Just one little trick if you decide to listen to these.  For some reason, Weebly will only allow you to listen to six songs at a sitting.  But if you leave this page and immediately return, it resets and allows you to listen to six more.  A little inconvenient, but you can hear all 16 arrangements during one visit to my site as long as you don't mind changing pages and returning a few times. 

CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR MIXED CHOIRS

That Kind Of Day- 1986

Take My Hand- 1987

There Is A New Day A Comin'- 1988

Happy Folk- 1988

Heart Of America- 1988

The Search- 1988

Just Love Me (Jaime Zavala)- 1988

Just Love Me (Dave Willert)- 1988

Just Love Me (Linda Atherton)- 1988

A Kinder And Gentler Me- 1990

CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR WOMEN'S CHOIRS

My First Love- 1988

Let Me Be Your Friend- 1988

I Am Not Alone- 1988

CHRISTIAN CHORAL ARRANGEMENTS

Run To The River- 1989

Glory- 1989

Sing Your Praises- 1990

A Simple Prayer- 1990