D'Lynn Waldron

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Association of California Symphony Orchestras' Most Valuable Player Award 2004
(Given in 2004 to a non-instrumentalist for using the media to popularize classical music in all segments and ages of the community.)
Artwork, Animation and Scores for TV Specials
Musical Theatre 1949 - ongoing
20th Century Fox 1956 and 1959
Computer technology for the entertainment industry 1984 - ongoing
CD covers and advertising portraits 1989 ongoing
Patriotic paintings of eagles
BAFTA, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Composers of Music for the Movies
Classical Music Management
How to photography your maestro, his symphony and his soloists
Los Angeles County Museum of Art- Photo-Digital Imaging of the Sundays Live concerts.

MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES
Interviews, photos, biographies, discographies of composers

PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC SITES
Saving the Santa Monica Pier
Saving the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium

SANTA MONICA-MALIBU SCHOOL DISTRICT
Photography, Recording and Video of Music Events, etc.

E-PUBLISHING VS. VANISHING BOOK ROYALTIES
Torn up book contract due to royalties only on net

BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
The Traditional Way of Life in Connemara, Ireland, a second edition as an interactive, multi-media e-book of this photo-ethnographic study through the seasons of the year.
The Traditional Way of Life in the Mountains of Andalucia A photo-ethnographic study through the seasons of the year.

AWARDS & DEGREES (all linked to above www.dlwaldron.com):
Elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Elected Fellow of the New York Explorers Club
BA summa cum laude (first in class) Phi Beta Kappa, Washington University.
MA, All University Fellow
Multi-Disclipinary PhD three years after BA as Ford Foundation Fellow (experiment in accelerated study), and Haynes Multi-Disciplinary Fellow
Post-Doctoral Study in Oxford, 2 years
For many years a voting member of BAFTA, The British Academy of Film and Television Arts
Most Valuable Player - Association of California Symphony Orchestras 2004
for the development and use of digital technology to popularize classical music in all ages and segments of community, which helped the Santa Monica Symphony win five successive grants from The National Endowment for the Arts.

Click for a brief summary of work in the media, with links.

I am a pilgrim on a journey to an unknown land, seeking for something I cannot define.
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Now in my 8th decade, I am beginning to find in the wisdom and scholarship of the ages, in modern science, and in my own experiences in life, all with the help of the Holy Spirit, some of the understanding I am seeking including a concept that we are all players in God's Great Game of Life. with the Bible as our playbook.

In my search for understanding. I have been a participnt-observer in the lives of scholars, research scientists, and the famous, rich, and royal. But most important in the livesof the people in isolated communities in Andalucia, Spain and Connemara, Ireland, where they had entirely different versions of the best life possible in the modern world.
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After I had learned from each of my lives, I moved on to the next life. I could not go back to any of those lives now, because they no longer exist. All that remains is what I have learned and the archival Kodacromes I took as a photo-ethnographer for British Geographical and other publications.
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The greatest joy and blessing in my life was in the unexpected chance to work with symphony orchestras to bring classical music into young lives and to popularize free symphony concerts among all ages and segments of the community. The grants for the concerts included from the National Endowment for the Arts.

This work was done using the latest digital technology for the arts and media, of which I was a developer and technical writer. I chose to donate my time and the skills I was gven to classical music organizations in Los Angeles and to our Santa Monica School District. .LINK.