The NoHo Arts Center for New Thought's Music Ministry focuses all of its energy toward one goal:

INSPIRE AND TRANSFORM THROUGH MUSIC!

Under the direction of Doug LeBow, and with our weekly and special music, the NoHo Arts Band, Namaste Vocal Ensemble and friends consistently create a meaningful musical experience which sets the stage for Reverend James' Weekly Message. Our annual concerts and fundraisers form the backbone of our community's opportunities to support The NoHo Arts Center for New Thought. Experience the music yourself by clicking on the link to the right to watch our Sunday Service Videos.

Doug is a licensed practitioner with International Centers for Spiritual Living and is the Music Director at The NoHo Arts Center For New Thought in North Hollywood, CA, where he is also currently a Science of Mind 400 ministerial student.
Doug is an Emmy™ award-winning producer of music and video, composer, arranger, music supervisor, and music engraver, with over 150 feature film, TV movie, television series, recording, and publishing credits.
Doug also served a five year, 635 episode stint as the Music Director on GENERAL HOSPITAL, ABC-TV's longest running daytime drama.  Currently under contract to Disney Publishing Worldwide as a producer, composer, songwriter, and recording artist, Doug has written, produced and recorded more than 80 songs for Disney’s Disney English project since 2008.
Doug is also the President and CEO of LeBow Music & Multimedia, Inc., an L.A. based B2B multimedia production company which creates all manner of music, video, streaming media, engraved music, and instructional design media for a wide variety of industries.
A graduate of The Grove School of Music, Doug’s affiliations and memberships include: The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS); The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL); The American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC); The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); The American Federation of Musicians; Professional Musicians, Local #47 Los Angeles, and the Recording Musicians Association of Los Angeles (RMALA).
Doug resides in sunny (and HOT!) Santa Clarita with his wife, Sharon Earle, RScP, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and sons Jesse (13) and Tyler (10).  Doug considers his greatest blessing to be the Universe's continual support of his creative expression, allowing him to support his family while feeding his Spirit!

Ivor Francis received his Bachelor of Music degree in composition with honors from California State University, Northridge in 1985.

His fifteen years of professional experience in the music business as a composer, producer and record company entrepreneur helped earn him a Nagel Scholarship from San Francisco State University in April 2000, where he returned to academic studies later that year. While in San Francisco, he received professional performances of his chamber works by Earplay and The Left Coast Ensemble.

His composition for Earplay entitled, Flashback on 52nd Street, won the Herb Bielawa Award for Composition in 2001 and earned Mr. Francis the honor of Composer-in-Residence at SFSU for the following year. In fulfillment of the Award, Mr. Francis composed and conducted an adventurous piece for piano quartet entitled, The Chalice Well, which incorporated extended techniques as well as preparations for
the piano.

In the spring of 2002, he was awarded the Otey Music History Award for his research paper entitled Mozart, Masonry, and The Magic Flute; and Second Prize statewide for his research presentation, A Postmodern Approach to the Techniques of Musical Organization and Development. He also won San Francisco State’s highest academic honor, The Distinguished Achievement Award for Academic Excellence 2001-2002.

After graduating from SFSU with a Master of Arts in composition, he attended the Composers Conference at Wellesley College as one of ten composition fellows. The Conference orchestra, under the directorship of Mario Davidovsky and the baton of Ephraim Guigui, gave Flashback on 52nd Street its East coast premier.

In February of 2008, his tone poem for orchestra, The Isle of Eriska, was performed by the USC Symphony under Donald Crockett on the New Music for Orchestra concert at Bovard Hall. In May of 2008, The Isle of Eriska was awarded the Sadye J. Moss Endowed Composition Award; the piece was also selected as a 2009 winner of the American Composers Orchestra Underwood New Music Readings and performed by the ACO at Miller Theater in New York City in May of that year.

Mr. Francis was also a presenter at the International Society for Music Educators (ISME) annual conference in 2008 in Bologna, Italy.

He is currently working on his doctoral recital in music composition at the University of Southern California, where he studies composition with Stephen Hartke.

Ray Frisby came to Los Angeles from Boston where he graduated with honors from Berklee College of Music.  He is currently very active both as a studio musician, live performer and educator. 

Among his many feature film soundtrack credits are “Public Enemies,”  “Batman and Robin,”  “Batman Returns” and “Alien 3.”  He has toured the US with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Japan with Ron Stein’s Hollywood Superstars, and Europe and the UK as principle percussionist and soloist with The Los Angeles Symphonic Winds. 

Locally and regionally, he has performed with such artists and ensembles as the Los Angeles Opera, the Long Beach Symphony, the Antelope Valley Master Chorale, the Musical Theatre Guild, Opera A La Carte, Mora’s Modern Rhythmists, Johnny Mathis and Rita Moreno.  He maintains a full roster of private drum and percussion students and has been rockin’ the house at the NoHo Arts Center for New Thought since 2004.

Robbie currently works as a musician, songwriter, arranger, musical director, and educator.  He is also an executive producer of film. Robbie has worked as a musician with such recording artists as Juice Newton, Nell Carter, The 5th Dimension, and Vic Leon. He plays for various singers in town currently working at the NOHO ARTS CENTER, the CREATIVE ARTS TEMPLE, the WONDERELLES and VINYL 66, a BEATLE tribute band. Days he works at CALABASAS HIGH SCHOOL playing for their choirs.

Robbie has had songs recorded by Juice Newton, Jennifer Warnes, and Liza Minelli.  He also co-wrote the music to TV’s game show ON THE COVER, and currently writes for Hilltop Records. Robbie has been the musical director for original stage productions of DORIAN and LIZARD, where he won the NAACP Theatre Award for BEST MUSICAL DIRECTOR.

After studying at GROVE SCHOOL OF MUSIC, Robbie taught there for 12 years and continues his instructional work at CALABASAS HIGH SCHOOL. Robbie is executive producer of the film THE KISS, which just won awards at the WEST HOLLYWOOD INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL for Best Picture, and the JUROR’S AWARD for excellence in filmmaking.