Malden Music 
"Music is nothing separate from me. It is me...You'd have to remove the music surgically." 
MALDEN MUSIC
Keeping in Tune with SEMO Music
Ray Charles
Are you looking for private music lessons in the Malden, MO area? Do you need
music for a special occasion? Or maybe you just want to keep up with musical events in Southeast Missouri. If so, you've come to the right place. My website will tell you about the private music lessons and services I offer & many other music related things.
My name is Cindy Lester & I grew up in Malden & began taking piano lessons at age five from Frances Arends; over the next 13 years I also studied with Pat Reece and Janice Stewart. During this time I taught myself guitar & took organ lessons from Clarice Goldsmith. I also played flute in the concert band & piano in the jazz band at Malden Schools for 7 years. At the same time I joined the school choir & stayed 6 years and was a choral accompanist as well. I graduated from Malden High School in 1975 & attended college to major in music. After college, I married Butch Lester, also from Malden & we lived in Oklahoma & Colorado where I kept active in music. Over the years I've taught myself to play a few other instruments. In Oklahoma I gave music lessons & played flute in the Tulsa Community Band as well as being organist & handbell choir director for my church. While living in Colorado,in addition to giving music lessons, I played flute with the Alpine Orchestra, was a vocalist & flute soloist for the Wet Mountain Valley Chorale & pianist/organist/vocalist for the United Methodist Church in Westcliffe.
Since moving back to Malden I've been an organist/pianist for the First Presbyterian Church & am a member of the choir. I taught music at Malden Elementary School & because of requests from students I began giving private lessons again. I accept piano students of all abilities as well as guitar students who are at the beginner or beginning intermediate level. Music lessons are once a week in my home for 30 minutes & cost $60 per month. (4 lessons monthly) Music performance & theory books are not included in the monthly cost. Lessons on other instruments are available as follows: flute, organ & voice for all levels. Think you might want to learn to play more than one instrument? No problem-I have several students who are taking lessons on two instruments. References are available from current & former students. Please read my private music lesson policies on Page 5.
See my ads on the Classified page for the other musical services I offer. If you need music for a wedding, funeral, or other occasion call me. For more information or to sign up for music lessons email me at: maldenmusic@yahoo.com or call 276-5716. You can send me your upcoming musical events, pictures or classifieds to post on this site. Check back frequently at www.maldenmusic.net for the
latest musical happenings in the Southeast Missouri area!
cfl
My Guitar website:
www.cindylouwhomusic.com
Bootheel Blues Society
www.bootheelblues.info
Fall Music Recital 2009
(Front row-Evin Smith, Nia Walker, Christina Dowdy, Gracie Thomas and Makayla Turner; 2nd row-Allyssa Hoehn, Rickie Smith, Ben Owens and Daniel Smith; Back row-Alison Davis, Sam Turner, Lois Gregory, Cassie Armstrong and Sarah Harrison)
My students presented their Fall Music Recital Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009 at the United Methodist Church in Malden, MO. Fourteen of my students were able to participate and they played classical, pop, sacred and Christmas music to a large crowd. As always, they did an awesome job. Their next recital will be in May of 2010.
cfl
Lighting the Way
for Malden
Downtown Lighting Ceremony a Huge Success
FreeFall
George Al Mewhirter, Paul Williams and Cindy Lester of FreeFall entertained the crowd with several gospel songs as well as tunes by the Eagles, Byrds and the Carter Family.
(To hear one of our songs click below for the YouTube link)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwTECEe_aE4
A crowd estimated between 1000-1200 gathered in Malden, MO Sept. 3, 2009 to see the newly remodeled downtown area. The audience was entertained by local musicians playing gospel, rock and blues and enjoyed food donated by area businesses as well as prizes and give aways. The high point of the evening was the turning on of the newly installed lighting system. The weather was perfect for this once in a lifetime event and from what I observed everyone, young and old, had a great time. I would encourage the city to continue to have more musical events like this in Malden's now beautiful downtown area!
cfl
If you attended the ceremony and enjoyed the music entertainment please let your Malden City officials know that you would like it to continue. Better yet, volunteer your time to help with any future events!
cfl
For Pictures of the Chicago 2009 Blues Festival go to Page 5
ENTERTAINING THE TROOPS!
(Pictured in the photos above from left to right, Al Mewhirter, Cindy Lester and Rev. Paul Williams)
During the ice storm of January 2009 which affected so many people in numerous states, my church, the First Presbyterian in Malden was fortunate enough to be able to prepare a daily meal for the people from Malden and other places who helped out during the crisis. For 5 days we fed members of the Malden Police Department, Malden Board of Public Works as well as power crew workers from Nixa, MO, Macon, MO, Kirkwood, MO and from the state of Minnesota in addition to members of the Missouri National Guard. After the meal on Feb. 1, Al Mewhirter, Cindy Lester and Rev. Paul Williams from the Presbyterian Church entertained the group with such songs as Somebody Touched Me, Amazing Grace, The Angels Rejoiced and other favorites.
Sgt. Leoni of the Missouri Natonal Guard Military Police borrowed Cindy's Taylor acoustic guitar and dazzled the crowd with his rendition of Sweet Home Alabama.
In spite of the unfortunate circumstances which drew everyone together, it was an honor to be able to pay back just a small amount of the generosity which we received from our out of town angels of mercy. From what I witnessed Malden was blessed by the help we received from everyone! A big thank you to everyone from Malden who worked so hard to restore power and keep things running as smoothly as possible and a special thanks goes to Malden Mayor Ray Santie who was on hand every day and helped keep morale high!
cfl
"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable." Leonard Bernstein "If you learn music, you'll learn most all there is to know. " Edgar Cayce "Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. " Ray Charles "There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music." George Eliot "You are the music while the music lasts." T. S. Eliot "We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. " Jerry Garcia "Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife." Kahlil Gibran "The history of a people is found in its songs." George Jellinek "Without music life would be a mistake." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche "Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. " Elvis Presley "It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. " Lou Reed "Music should never be harmless." Robbie Robertson “Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” Lao Tzu "All music is important if it comes from the heart. " Carlos Santana "The best music... is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. " Bruce Springsteen "In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain." George Szell "Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us." Unknown "Music at its essence is what gives us memories. " Stevie Wonder “I don’t find the songs; they find me. I just strum the guitar and wait for a lyric to come.” James Taylor “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom & philosophy.” Ludwig van Beethoven “The Blues? It’s the mother of American music.” B. B. King “Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.” Ursula LeGuin
MUSIC QUOTES
(Or "Wish I'd Said it First")
"Music can change the world. " Ludwig Van Beethoven
"Music touches something so deep inside me that nothing else dares try and follow." Cindy Folks Lester
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." Bob Marley
"If you've got time to breathe, you've got time for music." Brisco Darling
"Music really does become the soundtrack to the major events in your life." Sheryl Crow
"Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you and take some of you with it when it goes." Henry Threadgill
"Play the music, not the instrument." Author unknown
"Alas for those that never sing but die with all their music in them!" Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Music expresses that which cannot be said & on which it is impossible to be silent." Victor Hugo
"Music is what feelings sound like." Anonymous
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible, is music." Aldous Huxley
"Music is a healer. I can't think of anything on God's green earth that one can't see or hold that has such an effect on humans." Steve Pryor,
"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, & never dies." Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
"Where words fail, music speaks." Hans Christian Anderson
"Music, especially if it's the kind you really like, can do wonderful things for you." Juice
"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music & cats." Albert Schweitzer
"I'll play if first & figure out what it's called later." Miles Davis
"Music is the universal language of mankind." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Play the music, not the instrument." Author unknown
"We don't like their sound & guitar music is on the way out. " Decca Recording Company, referring to the Beatles, 1962
"Music is the medicine of a broken heart." Leigh Hunt
"Playing guitar is a never finished journey." John Fogarty
"A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over & over without getting tired of it." Woody Guthrie
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." Plato
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