Sylvie Stewart

A brief (?) bio to a long life...

Sylvie met and became a colleague and eventually good friend of Roland Tec (aka Rolando Teco) sometime in the '90s when she joined his avant-garde musical improvisation group, New Opera Theatre Ensemble (NOTE).  Up until this point in her life, Sylvie’s career and education had been centered upon classical music, primarily of the vocal genre.   Being a member of NOTE opened up her creative spirit and spontaneous nature to a world of music and drama-making deliciously antithetical to her rather strict classical training.  This marked an epiphanic moment for her artistically as she realized that her inner musical language and propensities were quite at odds with what she'd been doing as a musician and performer most of her life.

Sylvie left NOTE and her career as a struggling artist and bored stiff music  librarian at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library at Harvard University when she got married and moved to Nashua, NH.  She became a music teacher in the Nashua Public Schools, a home-owner, a mother and step-mother,  and eventually a divorcee and single-mother, about in that order.

As moments of epiphany re-emerge, Sylvie’s future plans waver between moving to Vermont or Massachusetts, going to Goddard College to major in a degree in the Nature of Consciousness,  forming a rock band with her drummer daughter, teaching abroad, or becoming an educational reformer and trying to get the entire state to boycott NCLB and standardized testing.  All ideas and suggestions will be seriously considered. 

She hopes you will enjoy her critical commentaries when she has time to submit them, as they will come from the perspective of a single mother trapped in not-so-liberal and definitely provincial Nashua, NH.

•Sylvie's E.C. Archive