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Piano teacher on TikTok talks music
It’s all aglow in lakeview The Lakeview Christmas tree lit up the night last Friday as people enjoyed music, food and more. Photos, story, Page 10.
gon.” Sekel’s TikTok channel, PatternsInPiano, focuses on breakCharles Sekel, of Malverne, ing complicated musical conhas taken panic out of learning cepts them down into managepiano — and has found TikTok able patterns and sound bites that people can recognize. fame while he’s at it. “Traditionally, music educaSekel has been teaching tors have made it music for the past more complicated decade. In August, than it needs to he added TikTok as be,” Sekel said. “It’s a tool in his educajust all patter ns. tional arsenal. His And once you kind channel has since of get the hang of taken off in a big it, it can be simple.” way, with his conSekel’s channel tent garnering hunhas been attracting dreds of thousands more views since of views. Nov. 5, when he Sekel said that posted a video the video-based walking the viewer social media platthrough different form helps emphakinds of chords. size something that The video is now traditional piano approaching a millessons sometimes ChARlES SEkEl lion views. lack: accessibility. music teacher “This is crazy, “I’m always interbut I feel like this ested in the students and the people that tradi- actually unlocked something tional piano instruction kind for me,” one user commented of leaves behind,” Sekel, 37, under a video. “I learned more from this said. “So even in my most technical, specific videos, I’m than I did three years taking always trying to leave the door piano classes in school,” said open for a more casual audi- another. To Sekel, that’s what it’s all ence, or someone who might be intimidated by too much jarContinued on page 12
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9/11 first responder honored as Firefighter of the Year By NIColE FoRMISANo nformisano@liherald.com
Victor Cantelmo III was the kind of guy who would take his neighbors’ garbage cans to the curb. The kind of guy who donated regularly to blood drives. Cantelmo, 57, died in February of lung disease brought about by his work at the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, but his lifetime of service to others is still being felt by the Lakeview community and beyond. Cantelmo was an easy choice for Lakeview’s Firefighter of the Year. “He would give you the shirt off his back,” Vic-
tor’s mother, Nancy, said. “Victor never hesitated. You didn’t even have to ask him if you needed something. If he saw that you needed something, he got it for you. He was a very giving person.” Cantelmo joined the Lakeview Volunteer Fire Department at age 18, following in the footsteps of his father, Victor II, who became a firefighter when his son was 5. Victor III was elected captain six years later, in 1990, and again in 1991. He served as assistant chief in 1993. He did all of this while also being a New York City police officer, having joined the New York Police Department at 22. He went on to become a Continued on page 5
’m always interested in the students and the people that traditional piano instruction kind of leaves behind.