Simple Sonata Allen Schantz performed by Tanner Oharah
Channel: Allen Schantz
Date: 2022-12-14

Simple Sonata serves as a four-movement model of Sonata-Allegro, Theme and Variations, Minuet and Trio, and Rondo forms for listeners, performers, and aspiring composers.

About the Composer--Allen Schantz is Professor of Music Emeritus and the former Dean of the School of Music, Theatre, and Arts at Colorado Christian University where he served for 38 years (1976–2014). Dr. Schantz is an extinguished punster who plays around with words (see photograph, Fortune 500 magazine, May 21, 2012, p. 151). He is also an aesthetic philosopher, biblical scholar, educator, author, and editor. He has written Arts in the Key of Musical Joy with contributor Mark S. Dorn (Kendall Hunt Publishers); Music, the Arts, and the Book of Books (forthcoming); Pun with the Professor; Qui est l’artiste sur mon visage? [Who is the Artist on My Face?], a book of interactive French puns; co-authored Something Good Came Out of Saguache (a unique story about his parents and the power of Jesus’ love in a little Colorado town) with Robert Garcia; and edited Joy Spilling Over (a book of poetry by his mother). He and his wife, Esther, reside in Lakewood, Colorado.

About the Performer--Tanner Oharah is the Choir and Theatre Director at Buena Vista High School. He is an outstanding graduate from the School of Music at Colorado Christian University where he was a student of Allen Schantz.