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CBA SYMPHONY & CHORUS OFFICIAL PROGRAM It Was 20 Years Ago Today … (How It All Began) The CBA Chamber Orchestra’s debut concert at the 114 th Annual CBA Meeting on June 25, 1987 in the Gold Coast Room of the Drake Hotel It all began at the old Medina Temple on State Street at Christmas-Time in 1985. The annual Do-It-Yourself Messiah conducted by Margaret Hillis was being held there that year instead of the usual Orchestra Hall venue, due to construction, and two lawyer-cellists, Susan Chernoff (now Susan Chernoff Huvard) and Julia Nowicki, found themselves sharing a stand. During a break, Nowicki said “Wouldn’t this be fun to do more than once a year?” A light bulb went off in their heads and the idea for an all-lawyer orchestra was born. Nowicki recalls, “Susan and I talked. Got the hairbrained thing planned in our heads, took a deep breath, and hoped no one would laugh at us at the CBA. We were fairly young lawyers at the time. Taking a large dose of Imodium before the Board Meeting, we had no confidence at all that anyone would like it. Well, Esther Rothstein was on the Board. We barely got through our presentation, and she was taking it on as her cause. Of course, everyone in the room followed 40 | CBA SYMPHONY & CHORUS This article is reprinted from the 20th Anniversary Program Book for the performance of the Beethoven 9th Symphony in 2006 her lead. She said something like: ‘this is the best idea we have had presented to us in years---we MUST give it our full support.’” That board meeting took place early in 1986 and by March 1986 an ad appeared in “The Communicator” (the newsletter published by the CBA at that time) that read: Attention Music Lovers: Are you interested in getting together with other CBA musicians to play chamber music? We would like to start a chamber orchestra. Possibilities are unlimited, but include performing for Bar activities and receptions and participating in smaller ensembles (quartets, quintets, etc. – strings and winds). One rehearsal per week will be held beginning in the fall. If you are interested in playing or conducting, please call Susan Chernoff at 845-9249 by March 28. By the summer of 1986, the CBA’s “Chamber Music Committee” had been created. The
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