He taught in Kansas 15 years prior to coming to Missouri. Dr. Johnson is now retired and directing a 50-voice choir and men's chorus at the Foxwood Living Center, Raymore, MO 64083. They give four concerts a year, plus other demands. There are seven tenors and 13 basses in this choir.
Women make up the other singers.
Dr. Johnson is 86 years of age. One of choirs, The Northern California Chamber Chorale, has toured China and Japan, as well as Eastern and Western Europe and England. The choir has sung for the Pope in Rome, in Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, in City Hall, Gdansk Poland, and represented the United States as choir to the Celebration of America's Bicentennial by the city of Lyon, France. I reflect upon them as some of the best days of my life. Steve Denham , BM, trumpet, is now a pilot with Continental Airlines and a freelance trumpet player in Denver.