Music Around Us

About the Book

About the Author

Carson Rothrock was born in Tyrone, PA. He received the B.S. and M.Ed. degrees from The Pennsylvania State University. His further musical studies were at Temple University, New York University and the Manhattan School of Music. Before beginning a career teaching instrumental music, he played drums, French horn, baritone horn, and trombone in the university bands and orchestras and the Pennsylvania National Guard Band (28th Division). After fourteen years of teaching, he wrote Training the High School Orchestra (Parker Bros. West Nyack, NY 1971). Following this he wrote many arrangements for Musicians Publications. During the same period he played viola in the Trenton Symphony for eighteen years, most under the baton of William Smith, then assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Under the auspices of the Composers Guild of New Jersey, the chamber music compositions of Carson Rothrock were premiered and performed throughout that state. His Vertigo - Scherzo for Orchestra was premiered July, 1996 in Constanta, Romania, by the Philharmonica Marea Negrea. The CD Black Sea Idyll containing Vertigo was released in the U.S on the Capstone Record Label in 1998. Performing rights for all compositions by Carson Rothrock are governed by ASCAP.