This is a love story.  Perhaps not your conventional love story, although there are aspects of passion sprinkled throughout.  It is the story of Teo Repel, best known to many as “my high school choir director.”  But he was much more than that.  He was a soldier, a farmer, and once studied for the priesthood.  He encountered challenges that would make many of us give up.  But Teo never did. 

This love story epitomizes one man’s love of freedom, and the roads he travelled to get it; his love of music, and the multitude of performances he directed to fulfill it; and the deep, enduring love of one man and one woman for each other.  Though they came from radically different cultures, the union they created spanned more than six decades and is woven throughout this musical love story.

Over ninety years in the making, this story spans continents and breaks through challenges at every turn.  Teo survived the Second World War but, perhaps more problematic, were the eighteen years he was required to study to get a Canadian university degree when they wouldn’t recognize the one he had already achieved in Poland!  His fortitude is legendary.

While I felt great compulsion to write this book as a tribute to a wonderful teacher, I discovered, in my research, even more–a wonderful husband, father, grandfather and friend.  I discovered I did not know the man as well as I thought I did.  His stature grew, in my eyes, each time I made a new discovery.

Read Sweet Sound: The Teo Repel Story–discover the full story for yourself.

Biography $24.95
ISBN  978-0-9699667-3-9

• 338 pages • 6" x 9" • Perfect Binding
• 250+ pictures • Bibliography & Index


Cover Photograph: Larry Rhead
Cover Design: Accugraphics, Inc. (Andy Naval)