Snow Pond Center for the Arts - Summer Concert Series

Presents
Broadway
Under the Stars
Patty Goble Mark Hardy Marian Murphy Sal Viviano
Paul Staroba
Sunday, July 5th, 2015
7:30 p.m.
Bowl in the Pines
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Contents
Welcome......................................................................................................................................................................3
Learning an Instrument Aids in Brain Development...........................................................................................5
The Maine Film Center.............................................................................................................................................7
New England Music Camp.......................................................................................................................................9
Friends of Messalonskee.........................................................................................................................................11
Snow Pond Music Festival......................................................................................................................................13
What Would This Look Like?.................................................................................................................................15
Snow Pond Community Music School...........................................................................................................16-17
Band Camp for Adults.............................................................................................................................................21
Donor Acknowledgment..................................................................................................................................23-24
Bangor Symphony Orchestra...........................................................................................................................25-28
Donor Acknowledgment 2015...............................................................................................................................30
Barn Raising - 2015..................................................................................................................................................31
Engage with Snow Pond Center for the Arts and New England Music Camp................................................32
New England Music Camp Association Board of Directors .............................................................................33
Snow Pond Center for the Arts Board of Advisors ............................................................................................33
Art & Music Revitalize Augusta.............................................................................................................................37
El Sistema, A Model for Music Education............................................................................................................39
Snow Pond Center for the Arts Summer Concert Series Calendar..................................................................41
Exploring Skowhegan: A Place to Watch..............................................................................................................43
Rent Space at Snow Pond Center for the Arts .....................................................................................................45
Public Charter School.............................................................................................................................................47..
Professional & Educational Partnerships........................................................................................................48-49........
Advertisers’ Index....................................................................................................................................................51
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Welcome!
It is with great joy that we welcome
you (or welcome you back) to our
79th summer at New England Music
Camp, and second year as Snow Pond
Center for the Arts on the shores of
beautiful Lake Messalonskee. The mission
for both of these programs is the
same: to provide a balanced and challenging
program of music education,
enhanced by excellent recreational
and social activities, to all deserving
young students. As we welcome over
300 young musicians from all over the world for our NEMC summer program, we also celebrate the 120
local children and adults who have shared the inaugural year of the Snow Pond Community Music School.
We have certainly started to “transform our community through arts education”, as so articulately put by
Douglas Lowry, the late Dean at Eastman College of Music.
As we continue to move forward with our goal of making music and the arts matter throughout central
Maine, our programs are expanding and reaching an increasing number of students and their families. Our
outreach efforts brought music to the students at Goodwill-Hinckley every week, where they have the opportunity
to take both group and private lessons in cello, flute, guitar and piano. Dozens of children enjoy
weekly music classes at the Alfond Youth Center in Waterville, the Augusta after school programs, and
Educare in Waterville. Every week at Snow Pond and in these community music programs, there are private
lessons, group classes, recitals, and other performance opportunities for 270 aspiring artists of all ages. It has
been a tremendously exciting year!
Our summer program at New England Music Camp has been designed to provide performances across
all genres of music and theater. In addition to our weekly free faculty and student recitals and weekend
concerts, there are four ticketed events that we are anticipating will be wonderful opportunities for everyone
to experience a world-class performance. Our first Bowl concert of the season, on June 28th, will bring
the Bangor Symphony to our site, where they will share the stage with NEMC alum, violist Evan Wilson,
formerly of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As part of our Independence Day celebrations, we welcome five
outstanding Broadway performers to the Bowl stage on Sunday evening, July 5th, for Broadway Under the
Stars. Our annual Pops Concert will take place on July 18th at the Messalonskee Performing Arts Center
in Oakland, where our very own campers have the chance to share their special talents in this outstanding
setting. We will then welcome the Air Force Strings to the Bowl on Friday, July 31st, preceeded by a family
barbecue in our grove. Our season will end with two performances of Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods
performed by the musical theater students of the NEMC program. Details about all of these programs, as
well as how to purchase tickets, can be found on our website, www.snowpond.org.
Our greatest joy at New England Music Camp and Snow Pond Center for the Arts is having the opportunity
to share the special talents of so many artists with our community. We hope you are able to join us
for many of these performances throughout the summer, here on the shores of Snow Pond. We have often
talked about a magic that happens here when music is reaching the hearts of so many, and we want to share
it with all of you. Please visit often, and take the time to introduce yourself to us. We are thrilled to welcome
you to this special place!
Photo by Richard Boghosian
. Kind regards,
. The Wiggin Family
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Learning an Instrument
Aids in Brain Development
Mia Chung
As a 7-year-old pianist, I experienced
the joy of learning Beethoven’s
“Für Elise.” My eyes deciphered the
notes on the page, my ears guided
me to depress the right keys, and my
fingers translated the symbols on the
page with the right speed, rhythm
and expression. The benefit in my
mind was the pleasure of making
music. What I didn’t know was that
I was wiring my brain for classroom
learning.
Yet in the years since music fed
my young mind and laid the groundwork
for further intellectual growth,
the country has steadily moved away
from music instruction. Too many
schoolchildren are learning without
this effective discipline. Instead, the
noisy national debates bounce from
one “fix” to the next, whether No
Child Left Behind or Common Core.
Left on the cutting-room floor are
music lessons — yes, music — that
new research shows is essential for
brain development.
Playing a musical instrument develops
an important neurocognitive
skill known as executive function.
Strong EF is critical for the brain to
operate in school and in life. Focusing
on a topic, memorizing information,
inhibition, cognitive flexibility
and paying attention to multiple
ideas simultaneously are examples of
it. It is at the heart of all learning.
Acquiring these skills starts in
early childhood and is crucial for
healthy brain development through
early adulthood. In fact, recent studies
from the Laboratories of Cognitive
Neuroscience at Boston Children’s
Hospital indicate that EF is a
strong predictor of academic achievement,
even more than IQ.
The solution to weak academic
performance isn’t simply standardized
testing or tutoring during the
elementary years and beyond. It is
music performance starting in early
childhood, which promotes EF skills.
A study from the Boston Children’s
Hospital this past summer demonstrated
through MRI brain imaging
that musical training promotes
the development and maintenance
of these abilities. Lead investigator
Nadine Gaab says the brains of musically
trained children display more
activation and “more mature executive
function networks.” This finding
supports the widely held perception
that music performance and academic
achievement go hand in hand.
Living evidence of music’s power
to turn the most underserved on to
learning exists in the U.S. chapters
of El Sistema, which is an intensive
after-school music training program
for the neediest children. Philadelphia,
Los Angeles, Baltimore, New
York City, and dozens of other cities
have programs that have produced
strong outcomes among students.
Stanford Thompson, executive
director of “Play on Philly,” the local
El Sistema program, boasts that its
students outperform peers who select
academic tutoring and other afterschool
programs, as measured by an
independent educational assessment
firm. In other major cities, similar
stories of improved academic performance
are emerging.
Unfortunately, these privately
funded programs are all after-school
initiatives that benefit a small percentage
of children. Music performance
happens outside of the school
day because districts have not understood
the positive impact it can have
on academic performance.
We must change preschool and
elementary education to include
music performance as a core subject.
Studies show that early intervention
is critical to avoid widening academic
gaps further down the road. Imagine
including music training as a central
part of the Head Start program,
which serves nearly one million
children annually. Preschoolers could
learn how to read music and play an
instrument. Music training in an ensemble
could be an important part of
the elementary curriculum. Students
would perform better on standardized
tests as they learn to process
information, focus, switch mental
gears and regulate thought patterns
more effectively.
Resistance to change and complacency
have shortchanged our children,
particularly the underserved.
Here is the truth: Playing an instrument
wires the brain for learning. By
teaching students to play music, we
can increase their success in other
disciplines.
It is time that we pay attention
to the evidence before us and rethink
education. No child should be without
music. My “Für Elise” moment is
available to all.
Mia Chung is a concert pianist and professor
of musical studies at the Curtis
Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She
wrote this for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
It was distributed by Tribune News
Service. Reprinted by permission.
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The Maine Film
Center
Greetings to Snow
Pond audiences from the
Maine Film Center, whose
mission is to enrich,
educate and entertain the community through film
and art. From the daily screenings of first run films at
Railroad Square Cinema to the Maine International
Film Festival’s annual feast of films in July, we offer
film programming that often can’t be found anywhere
else in Maine. With this unique programming, we
attract audiences from all over the state and beyond
to Central Maine, contributing to the Waterville area’s
reputation as a hub for arts and cultural activity and
also generating significant economic impact. According
to a study conducted by the Maine Arts Commission,
the film festival alone generates over $750,000 in
economic activity each summer.
It is important to note that the Maine Film Center
does not operate in a bubble. We frequently partner
with other arts and cultural institutions , such as the
Waterville Opera House, the Colby Museum of Art,
and the Waterville Public Library, to develop collaborative
programs and to ensure that this area offers a
rich canvas of arts opportunities throughout the year.
Ultimately, it is our goal to encourage an atmosphere
of creativity and exploration that crosses institutions
and media and enriches the lives of our local residents
and visitors alike. The Maine Film Center is proud to
be an anchor institution in the newly established Waterville
Creates!, an organization that will build upon
this spirit of collaboration to enhance and expand arts
and culture as social and economic catalysts in our
region.
In the past year, the Maine Film Center has begun
in earnest to cultivate the education piece of our mission,
which we see as a crucial next step in engaging
youth in independent film programming and building
future audiences for arts programming in general.
These efforts have and will continue to include educational
opportunities in both film appreciation and
filmmaking. In addition to providing film-specific education,
these programs will help to promote literacy,
social skills, intergenerational collaborations, cultural
exchange, and an initiation to the creative process and
art appreciation. We see these developments as vital
not only to increased audiences for arts programming
but to a more engaged, healthier and happier community
as a whole.
We at the Maine Film Center are delighted to see
the development of Snow Pond Center for the Arts
into a vibrant year-round resource for the arts and
education and look forward to a rich partnership in
the years to come.
. . . Shannon Haines,
Executive Director
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New England Music Camp
Since 1937, New England
Music Camp has provided a
world-class music education
to aspiring young artists from around the globe. As
Snow Pond Center for the Arts continues to expand
its programs, NEMC maintains the same foundation
it has for the last 78 seasons. While the program is
always being groomed and fine-tuned, the philosophy
of the camp has remained the same; to provide an institution
dedicated to the cultivation and refinement
of musical skills in young people, while supporting
and developing their physical, emotional, and social
well-being. NEMC has, and always will, provide a
balanced program of music and recreation.
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. As NEMC continues to thrive, the demand for
certain programming has been expanded. Over the
last few years three areas in particular have grown to
fit the needs of the campers: Jazz, Chamber Music,
and Musical Theater.
The study of Jazz has always been an integral part
of the NEMC programming. However, as curricular
demand and popularity has grown, additional class
offerings have expanded. NEMC now boasts two Jazz
Ensembles, Jazz Combos, as well as several historical
classes with jazz focused syllabus. Also added this
summer is the Bill and Dorothy Schmearer Scholarship
for Jazz Studies, which is a single session, full
tuition scholarship, awarded to one camper each
summer, with a proclivity in jazz.
It is well documented that study in small group
settings, enhances a child’s ability to be musically independent.
The Chamber Music program at NEMC has
also developed in the recent years. Chamber offerings
now extend to all instrumental majors and studios.
Campers have the opportunity to participate in different
groups like String Quartets, Wind Ensembles,
Quintets, and Collaborative Piano. Area coordinators
assign students into several groups, with each ensemble
coached directly by one of NEMC’s Faculty Artists.
Last season, NEMC also reintroduced Musical
Theater into the camp programming. In the 70’s,
80’s and 90’s, musicals were a part of every summer.
NEMC brought theater back with a bang with their
production of The 25th Annual Putnum County Spelling
Bee, which had a sold out run at Alumni Hall in
2014. This new major studies in a workshop setting,
with the main focus on the fundamentals of musical
theater performance: acting, singing, and dancing.
This summer’s performance will be Stephen Sondheim’s
Into The Woods with performances on August
7th and 8th at 7:30pm in Alumni Hall.
Part of NEMC’s mission is that any child, regardless
of financial means, should have the opportunity
to attend camp. Building on that mission, NEMC
has added three additional Merit Scholarships to an
already generous Financial Aid and Scholarship Program.
The Bill and Dorothy Schmearer Scholarship,
as referred to above, the Gregorian Scholarship for
Violin or Viola, and The Damon Holton Scholarship
for Guitar. Now, with these three new merit scholarships,
as well as the existing Green Scholarship and
the financial aid program, NEMC will be able to
continue educating talented, young musicians from
across the world.
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Friends of Messalonskee
Friends of Messalonskee is a
nonprofit volunteer organization
dedicated to the preservation of
Messalonskee Lake/Snow Pond.
We have promoted responsible use
of the lake since our incorporation
in 1990 as the Messalonskee Lake
Association. Over the past 25
years, the challenges to the lake
have grown. Extensive development
along its shores and throughout
the Belgrade Lakes Watershed
has increased sources of harmful
runoff, and threats from invasive
plant species have multiplied. Our
lake is not only a great natural
and recreational resource but also
an economic engine for the local
communities. It is important to
protect this valuable resource for
residents and visitors alike, now
and into the future.
Today, Friends of Messalonskee
is actively involved in controlling
the spread of invasive variable
leaf milfoil in the lake as well as
protecting other lakes through
Courtesy Boat Inspections. It is
also part of a broader initiative
to improve the water quality
throughout the Belgrade Lakes
watershed by participating in
the Lake Trust. The membership
has grown from the handful of
individuals who first got together in
the early 1930s to 350 members and
over 1,000 Facebook friends today.
Snow Pond Center for the
Arts is an active member of this
engaged group of neighbors. We
all recognize that preserving the
quality of the Belgrade Lakes is
essential to the vibrant central
Maine communities in which we
live, learn, work and play.
Whether you enjoy working
on a loon count or helping set
up milfoil barriers, Friends of
Messalonskee needs your volunteer
support to keep our lake healthy
and accessible. Please join us
by becoming a member; all
dues go towards preserving and
maintaining the quality of the lake.
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Snow Pond Music Festival
June 7 -21, 2015
This summer marks the fourth year that the Snow
Pond Music Festival has attracted high-level college and
post-graduate musicians to the shores of Messalonskee
Lake. The highest caliber performers and educators
were again invited to join the SPMF faculty to present
specialized music programs with the sole purpose of
inspiring and challenging the next generation of classical
musicians. In addition to our established programs,
the Maine Chamber Music Seminar and the Frederick
L. Hemke Saxophone Institute, SPMF initiated two new
programs this year: Snow Pond Composers Workshop
and New England Group Piano Teaching Institute.
Led by Drs. Richard Nelson and Ed Jacobs, guest
composer Elliott Schwartz, and flutist Peter Bloom,
Snow Pond Composers Workshop’s mission is to guide
young composers interested in traditional composition
as well as those whose work incorporates electronics,
improvisation, jazz, rock, and other diverse elements.
The inaugural session of the Snow Pond Composers
Workshop was a week of intensive input and experiences
for creative compositional growth. The session
concluded with live performances of works created by
the participants.
Presenting effective, hands-on strategies for group
piano teaching with a single acoustic instrument or a
piano lab is the goal of the New England Group Piano
Teaching Institute. Professor Tony Caramia of Eastman-
School of Muisc and Dr. Jackie Edwards Henry of Mississippi
State University created a curriculum that offers
current and effective pedagogical insights to teaching
group piano in the 21st Century. NEGPTI was a huge
success and we look forward to expanding and welcoming
participants for years to come.
World-renowned saxophonist and pedagogue, Dr.
Frederick L. Hemke, brings 50 years of passion and
commitment to showcasing the saxophone as a beautiful
voice in classical music. Now in its third year,
the Hemke Saxophone Institute draws outstanding
musicians from Japan, Canada, and throughout the
United States to the Sidney campus for weekly lessons
and ensemble coaching. This year’s Artists-in-Residence,
the Masato Kumoi Saxophone Quartet, joined
us from Japan to share their virtuosity. Performances
took place throughout the 11-day institute, including
a recital at the First Parish Church in Brunswick.
Maine Chamber Music Seminar faculty members
Jo-Anne Sternberg, Martin Kuuskmann, Anna
Lim, Frank Shaw, Michal Schmidt and Sara Laimon
are veterans of such noted ensembles as Orpheus
Chamber Orchestra, The Knights Chamber Orchestra,
American Composers Orchestra, the Laurel Trio,
Sequitur, and Network for New Music. They offer a
unique chamber ensemble experience in which participants
focus on two to three major compositions
in the chamber music literature and work along side
this dynamic faculty. Special attention is paid to the
development of leadership skills and to learning the
delicate art of cooperation within an intimate group.
Recitals featuring MCMS participants took place during
the seminar, including one at the Belgrade Lakes
Resource Center.
The Snow Pond Music Festival is proud to host
these programs on the beautiful campus of New England
Music Camp... . . .
. . . . Dr. Gail B. Levinsky,
Director of Programming
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What Would This Look Like ?
The broad question that seems
to be on everyone’s mind is: How
do we create more economic prosperity
here in Maine? More specifically,
what would a better Sidney,
Belgrade Lakes, or Central Maine
look like? What are the things we as
a community need to do to attract
and retain our younger families, to
create more jobs, to make Central
Maine a very attractive place to live
and work? There is certainly lots
of activity and discussion on this
topic with our political and business
leaders and no shortage of
opinions. As we develop our path
for Snow Pond Center for the Arts
it is important for us to be mindful
of these collective efforts and more
importantly for us to do our part
in shaping a positive future for our
students and residents alike.
As an actuary by training, I am
most interested in data and trends
of other places that have populations
similar to Central Maine.
What we consistently see is that a
common ingredient of all vibrant
communities is first and foremost,
great schools and usually diverse
cultural opportunities as well.
What is also particularly interesting
is that the data is very clear and
consistent; students with music
training do better in school, in civic
engagement, and in leadership.
Music cultivates all of the traits we
most value in our citizens - creativity,
collaboration, critical thinking,
empathy, leadership, social skills,
and more. The differences are
especially profound for children of
lower income families.
With this in mind, we have
started very detailed discussions
and partnerships with the area
schools in the broadest sense which
include all of the local colleges, the
public schools (starting with RSU
18), and with the after school programs.
The goal of all of our programs
(both existing and planned)
is the same: to enrich and enhance
what is already in place and in the
end help create a school system and
community that is attractive to new
residents and new businesses. There
is also awareness of the scale needed
to make a notable difference.
The growing Community Music
School and the Outreach Programs
provided music to over 300 children.
We are currently exploring a
music based after school program
in partnership with RSU18 and the
Alfond Youth Center which would
provide music, academic support,
and recreation to each child every
day. Finally, we have a team developing
a plan for ‘Snow Pond Arts
Academy’, a high school charter
school. This includes looking at
the feasibility of being Maine’s first
school district authorized charter
school (with RSU18 and possibly
others).
The pages that follow provide
more details on our future plans
and programs. We welcome your
input on any aspect of our programming
or community building.
If we want to build a better
Central Maine - starting with great
schools – what would this look
like??? Please email your thoughts
to: john.wiggin@snowpond.org
.
. . John Wiggin
Executive Director - Snow
Pond Center for the Arts
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Snow Pond Community Music School
Igniting a lifelong love of music
Over the past year, Snow Pond
Center for the Arts has truly come
to life as a year-round education
center. The picturesque lakeside
grounds buzzed all winter long
with the energy of young students
acquiring new skills and adult students
revisiting techniques of their
youth. This energy comes from
Snow Pond Community Music
School, where local teaching artists
and families have gathered to enrich
their lives with the study of music.
Snow Pond Community Music
School engaged 120 students of all
ages in individual lessons, group
classes, ensembles and workshops
in this first year. The faculty and
students of Pineland Suzuki School,
under the direction of Betsy Kobayashi,
came to SPCMS last September,
bringing with them the
nurturing energy and exciting pro-
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gramming of the
Suzuki Method.
The SPCMS
faculty is a diverse
and talented group
of teaching artists
whose expertise
spans many genres, from classical
strings to rock guitar to Caribbean
steel drums. The SPCMS student
body comprises students from many
central Maine towns, from Bangor
to Damariscotta. And in true
community music school fashion,
a wonderful cross-pollination of
methods and talents has occurred.
Suzuki students perform in ensembles
together with more traditional
students, piano students are learning
accompaniment skills, students
experience other instruments in
rehearsal, and performance season
brings about a host of ways for stu-
dents to perform together.
The reasons for studying and
performing music are vast, beginning
with the fundamental way
music feeds our souls. Then there’s
the emotional engagement, the
intellectual stimulation, the self-expression,
and the sheer joy of making
beautiful sounds, not to mention
improved reading, verbal and
math skills, enhanced self-esteem,
increased sense of responsibility
and cooperation. All in all, music
makes us better people.
Snow Pond Community Music
School strives to offer music-making
opportunities to as many students
as possible. For this reason,
SPCMS has launched an Outreach
Program initiative, to help make
music education more accessible in
the wider community.
SPCMS Outreach
Programs
Even as the student body of
SPCMS grows, it is clear that there
are numerous community members
who desire to make music but
time and resources make it difficult.
Snow Pond Community Music
School is proud to partner with
neighboring schools and community
organizations to offer music
classes on site at partner locations.
150 students participated in outreach
programs in 2015, all free of
charge.

Photos by Richard Boghosian
The Alfond Youth
Center, Waterville
SPCMS faculty offer Chorus
and Percussion Clubs for students
in the AYC after school care
program. Students in Chorus Club
explore their voices and learn to
sing together in unison and simple
parts. Percussion Club students
make instruments from household
items, and study basic elements of
rhythm on traditional percussion
instruments and homemade
instruments together.
Augusta School Age
Childcare Program,
Augusta
At each of the four Augusta
Elementary Schools, SPCMS
Faculty offer Music Club for
students in the City of Augusta’s
After School program. Music Club
members have a chance to explore
the basic elements of music through
song, body percussion, movement
and instruments.
Maine Academy of
Natural Sciences at
Good Will-Hinckley,
Hinckley
MeANS students can opt for
guitar lessons and music theory
class with SPCMS faculty as part of
their school day. With an extensive
instrument library, SPCMS is
able to offer guitars to all students
participating free of charge.
Educare of Central
Maine, Waterville
SPCMS’s Music and Movement
program is designed for Educare’s
toddlers and preschoolers. In a
joyful atmosphere, children develop
musical skills through songs,
singing games, simple percussion
instruments and movement
activities.
. . Joanna Nelson
. . Director of Snow Pond
Community Music School
Support
With support from businesses
and foundations, these
programs will expand in 2015-
16. The Bank of Maine has
made a generous contribution
to fund scholarships for the
Community Music School.
Maine Community Foundation
and MaineGeneral Health are
among those who have made
generous commitments to the
Outreach Programs. We are
grateful for this support. Please
contact us at 844-476-6976 if
you could join our efforts.
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“Music gives a soul to the universe,
wings to the mind, flight to the
imagination and life to everything.”
Plato
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Band Camp for Adults!
New England Adult Music Camp in a noncompetitive,
safe environment, where “your best is
good enough!”
The Snow Pond center for the Arts offers a weeklong
music camp experience for those who play band
instruments -- you know the flute, clarinet, trumpet,
percussion, kind of band. This unique camp is a
chance to immerse yourself in music for a week by
making music, talking about music, learning about
music, making new friends, and enjoying a wonderful
camp experience with other adults.
You may ask, “I’m just coming back to my
instrument after a 55 year hiatus, will I be good
enough?” The answer is yes! Two distinct band
options provide the best opportunity for every level of
player, from the novice learner to the more advanced.
The goal is to learn and enjoy making music in a fun,
supportive and challenging atmosphere. We welcome
campers who are relatively new to their instrument
(what are those little black marks on the paper?) to
our NEMC alumni or Community Band members
who are well versed on their instruments. You will
also find that many of our campers also play in New
Horizons Bands in their hometown.
In August of 2014, the New England Adult Band
Camp hosted 120 campers who ranged in age from 30
somethings to 91. The camper s participated; in band
rehearsals, small ensembles, workshops and music
seminars. They played jazz, met new friends, learned
more about music and many rediscovered the joy of
playing an instrument. Music is one of those activities
in which anyone can take part, no matter what your
age or ability. Whatever level you are, you can play
music that you love and you can enjoy playing and
learning with others.
Aside from the sheer joy of making music,
playing an instrument has many benefits. If you play
a wind instrument, it improves your lung capacitygetting
more oxygen to your brain, heart and muscles.
Talk about giving your brain a work out! While you
are playing your synapses are firing away: where do
I put my fingers, how long do I hold the note, should
it be loud or soft or changing, am I in tune with
the person next to me, is my tone nice, is the note
accented, is this the correct rhythm, am I playing in
the right style, and so on. Talk about multi-tasking! In
fact, current research shows that playing music helps
the brain interconnect frequently used areas (Medical
News Today - How Music Benefits the Brain).
The Snow Pond Center for the Arts 2015 Adult
Camp will be held from August 23-29. Campers will
once again share the beauty of music and friendship
at our picturesque lakeside campus. To learn more
about registration availability and the details of
lodging, meals and our social hours at sunset visit
www.adultmusiccamp.com.
. . . . Diane Muffitt
. . .. . Program Director
Snow Pond’s New England Adult Music Camp
has become the highlight of our year since we
attended the first week-long session in August,
2013, my husband as a non-student, me as an
intermediate clarinet player. We couldn’t have
been happier with everything about it – the
beautiful setting, the extraordinary facilities,
the caring attention and flexibility of the
camp’s staff, the excellent and dedicated faculty,
the programming, the sound of loons at night,
the food variety each day, the camaraderie and
support of our fellow campers. I still pinch
myself when I realize that finally now, at the
age of 66, I have the same opportunity and
experience young kids have been getting at this
special place for so many years. Thank you for
expanding your summer schedule to welcome
adult students to Snow Pond!
Gail Berneike
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“I spent my first six weeks at NEMC last summer, and after the first day,
I already felt like I had been going there my whole life. I always feel weird
calling NEMC a summer camp, because for me it has been so much more
than that. I mean, what comes to mind when you think of summer camp?
Campfire songs, friendship bracelets, sports, and new friends tend to fit
the cliché of a summer camp description. Sure, NEMC has all of that, but
to call it a summer camp just does not do it justice. Imagine you could
spend an entire summer at a place where you could pursue your one most
powerful passion nonstop. NEMC is that place for me. And not only does
it give me the opportunity to develop my skills in music, but it allows me
to do it surrounded by some of the best people I have ever met. NEMC
is that place where people who spontaneously burst into song all alone
during the year can burst into song in six-part harmony with twelve
random other people during the summer. It is the place where teenagers
get out of bed at six in the morning without complaining because they
are too excited to start the day. It is the place where you can watch the
sunset over a lake while listening to someone practicing a cello concerto or
a horn solo. Even though I have as of yet only spent six weeks in total at
NEMC, it has already become my second home.”
. . . . -Binah Schatsky
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Thank you to the generous donors whose contributions to
Snow Pond Center for the Arts and New England Music Camp
provide scholarships and financial aid, enhance the campus
and facilities, and strengthen the educational programs.
Every contribution is important. Gifts to
Snow Pond and NEMC not only support
scholarships, facilities, and programs but
also cast a vote of confidence in what we
are doing to develop young lives and enrich
the cultural fabric of central Maine. We are
proud to recognize all our donors in 2014
and to highlight a few who were able to be
especially generous in the past year:
Dead River Company has pledged a gift of $100,000
through The Mimi Foundation to support the infrastructure
improvements that are so vital to the longterm
stability of New England Music Camp and
the growth of year-round programming through
the Snow Pond Center for the Arts. In recognition
of this commitment, the music library that will be
constructed in the Arts and Education Center will
be named “The Mimi Music Library” to honor Ruth
Hutchins (“Mimi” to her grandchildren). Her 1911
Steinway piano is now one of the primary teaching
instruments at Snow Pond.
“The family of Dead River Company is grateful
to have the opportunity to give back to the communities
in Maine who have given so much to us,” said
granddaughter Julie Bracken, president of the Foundation.
“We just love New England Music Camp
and are thrilled to have the good fortune to support
their growth by contributing to the Snow Pond
Center for the Arts. The expansion of the renowned
summer camp into a year-round facility will allow
New England Music Camp to enhance the lives of
students and audiences all year long. We would like
to thank all of you who do business with Dead River
Company. Each of you is part of this donation. We
hope others in the community will follow our lead
and join us in supporting this campaign. May the
show go on…”
New NEMC Scholarships
In addition to hosting the NEMC New York area
alumni’s smashing holiday party at his iconic club,
The Comedy Cellar, in Greenwich Village, Noam
Dworman has pledged $50,000 to create the Damon
Holton Scholarship for Classical Guitar. This fullseason,
full-tuition scholarship for a talented guitar
student honors the profound influence that Damon
Holton and the New England Music Camp has had
on Noam’s life - in musical performance, aesthetic
appreciation, and the building of character.
Noam joins the Gregorian Family and the
Schmearer Family in establishing new merit scholarships
at NEMC: the Leon and Linda Gregorian
Merit Scholarship for a new violin or viola student
and the Bill and Dorothy Schmearer Scholarship
for Jazz Studies for students of trumpet, trombone,
saxophone, piano, bass, or drum set.
Thanks to the Davis Family Foundation and the
Maine Department of Economic and Community
Development (DECD), we now have an opportunity
to implement significant improvements to our facilities
through two matching grants totaling $275,000.
These grants are dependent on NEMC matching
this generous donation by September 1, 2015. This
is a rare opportunity for us here at NEMC. Eligible
donors will see their gifts fully matched, giving their
donations 100% greater impact.
Please go to snowpond.org to give today.
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John Dixon, Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment,
Inc.A special thank you to John Dixon, chief technology
officer for Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment,
Inc., with US locations in the Philadelphia area.
He has been involved in the design, installation and
operation of global communication systems and software,
television production facilities, satellite uplinks,
and information systems, and social media. John has
donated a significant amount of technology equipment
to Snow Pond, including our computer servers and
a point of sale inventory and card system. Each has
allowed us to greatly improve our computer, communications,
and tracking network throughout the entire
facility. John’s generosity will positively affect every
person who participates in any of the programs offered
at Snow Pond Center for the Arts.
Thank you to the following donors who contributed in 2014
Holly Aaronson
Roslyn Allison
Steven Almy
Jesse Applegate
John & Amy Applegate
Mort Backus and Sons Inc
Robert Bacon
Paul Badeski
Henry Barry
Abigail Belknap
Elizabeth Benedict
Gail Berneike
Judith Bettina
Catherine Bevier
Gordon Billington
Andrew Block
Susan Bodnar
Don Boucher
Etty Bousso
Marquis Boutin
Gary Bramnick
Wendy Brandes
John Bridge
Linda, Iain & Margo Bruce
Marvin Bunch
Jane Burke
Waldemar Buschmann
Cheryl Campbell
Jay Caplan
Kerry Casey
Brooke Charlesworth
Chris Chin
Pamela Church
Conn - Selmer Inc
Andy & Chris Cook
Judith Courtney
Arline Cox
The Crapser Family
Donna Cunliffe
Ray Cyr
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Lori Dahlberg
DANSR Inc
Sharon Darby
Adam Dash
Alli DeBoer
Matthew Dell
Delorme
Robert Dent
David Donaldson
Peter Dunn
Sally & Barton Dunning
Lorraine Duso & Thomas
Kitts
Dennis Dykes
Daniel Eccher
Maggie Elliott
Wanda Finke
William Fullard
Ida Gammon
Junko Givens
Robert Godfrey
Karen Goodell
Lucas Goodman
Mark Gould
Leon & Linda Gregorian
Lauren Gross
Mary Grow
Martha Guenther
Lori Guess
Robert Hains
Zachary Hampton
John Harrienger
Miriam Hathaway
Dawn and Joseph
Hedgecock Charitable
Trust
Cynthia Hodes
Jeffrey Hodes
Traci Hodes
Pamela Homer
Eric Hooglund
Richard Hyatt
Robert Jackson
Sarah Jackson
Kristen Johnson
John Johnson
Johnson Towing &
Recovery
Lynne & Richard Kaiser
Foundation
Marietta KalinPaul Kandel
Ann Keenan
David Kelley
Nancy Kline
Elizabeth Knapp
Joy Kubit
Wayne Kuhnly
Steven LaBold
Tom Leonard
Dorothy Leonard
Martha LeRoi
Kate Levin
David Levy
Grace Lewis-McLaren
Janice Locke
Ann Lutz
John Lutz
Stefan Magnusson
Robert & Mary Ann Marks
Alice Marshall
Michael McCarthy
Simone McCeever
Walter McKee
Kevin McKeever
Jon McMillan
Lenore Michaels
William Moody USN Ret
Margaret Moor
Matthew Morris
James Moss
James Muir
Paul Ness
Julie Nickolai
Mary Nojaim
Thomas Novak
Colleen Ober-Adams
Carolyn O’Connor
Mary O’Neill
Caroline Ostrander
Catherine Payne
Andrew Peterson
Douglas Petno
John Pistel
Anne Pizzamiglio
Arthur Poulos
Lyn Powell
Mark Prendergast
Robert Ramsdell
William Reeves
Anne Richman
Jonathan Ring
Claudia Romero
Ryan Romine
Lauren Morton
Barbara Russell
Edward Sack
The Schatsky Family
Bill Schettler
Robert Schloss
Dorothy Schmearer
Daphna Schmidt
Henry Schmitt
Patti Scordo
Wynn Segall
Stanley Segall
Deanna Segall
Jerrold Seigel
Iris Selig
Jean Sellers
Majorie Shansky
This list reflects gifts received between 1/1/14 and 12/31/14
Nicole Shealy
Rachel Silver
Ned Simpson
Ed Sirlin
Dick Sparks
Timothy & Susan Steel
Susan Steele
Michael Stein
Mildred Stengel
Cathy Stephenson
Peter Stern
Henry Sternberg
Patrick Stetson
Janet Stocco
James Stoltie
Michael Sullivan
Allen Thompson
Donald & Verna Thorn
Helen Timerman
Nancy Toff
Julianne Townsend
Melissa Tozier
Peter Von Euler
Howard Warner
Howard Washburn
David Webber
John Wentworth
Kate & Ryan Whitt
Wayne Whittier
Ronald Wilber
John Wilder
Adrienne Williams
Susan Wiswell
Samuel Wong
Sephan Yost
John Young
James Zelter

Broadway
Under the Stars
Featuring:
Patty Goble, Mark Hardy, Marian Murphy, Sal Viviano
Music Direction:
Paul Staroba
Pit:
Piano/Keys: Paul Staroba
Percussion: Jamie Powell
Bass: Wellington Gordon
Tech:
Stage Manager: Mary Hendersen
Sound Design: Nathan Powell
Lighting Design: Jeff Bettencourt,
Starlite Productions
Show Order
Act One
Together, Wherever, We Go from Gypsy......................................................................................................Jules Styne, Stephen Sondheim
Cast
The Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing from White Christmas............................................................................... Irving Berlin
Shall We Dance from Shall We Dance.................................................................................................. George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin
I Won’t Dance from Three Sisters...................................................................................................Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
Shall We Dance from The King and I......................................................................................Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Cast
Something Wonderful from The King and I.........................................................................Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Marian Murphy
The Song Is You from Music in the Air..........................................................................................Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II
Patty Goble, Sal Viviano
Night and Day from Gay Divorce.....................................................................................................................................................Cole Porter
Mark Hardy
Stepsisters’ Lament from Cinderella......................................................................................Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
Patty Goble, Marian Murphy
My Funny Valentine from Babes In Arms................................................................................................Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart
Sal Viviano
What Do the Simple Folk Do? from Camelot..................................................................................Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Mark Hardy, Marian Murphy
I Can Cook, Too from On The Town......................................Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green..........Patty Goble
Anything You Can Do from Annie Get Your Gun...................................................................................................................... Irving Berlin
Cast
Intermission
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Act Two
Hey Old Friends from Merrily, We Roll Along..................................................................................................................Stephen Sondheim
Cast
Losing My Mind from Follies...............................................................................................................................................Stephen Sondheim
Patty Goble
Pretty Women from Sweeney Todd
Agony from Into The Woods.................................................................................................................................................Stephen Sondheim
Mark Hardy, Sal Viviano
The Glamorous Life from A Little Night Music.................................................................................................................Stephen Sondheim
Marian Murphy
You Can Drive A Person Crazy from Company...............................................................................................................Stephen Sondheim
Cast
Bring Him Home from Les Misérables.................................................................................. Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg
Mark Hardy
Love Changes Everything from Aspects of Love
Unexpected Song from Song and Dance
I Don’t Know How to Love Him from Jesus Christ Superstar.............................................................................Andrew Lloyd Webber
Patty Goble, Marian Murphy, Special Guest
Music of the Night from The Phantom of the Opera.......................................................................... Andrew Lloyd Webber
Sal Viviano
Some Other Time from On The Town............................................Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden, and Adolph Green
Cast
Who’s Who in the Company
CAST (Listed in Alphabetica Order By Last Name)
As a professional singer and actress,
Patty Goble was recently seen on Broadway
as Miss Jones in How to Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying starring
Daniel Radcliffe and John Laroquette.
She has been a member of six original
Broadway companies that include the critically acclaimed
Ragtime with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald,
Curtains starring David Hyde Pierce, The Woman in
White, Bye, Bye Birdie with John Stamos and the Tony
Award winning Musical Revivals of La Cage aux Folles and
Kiss Me, Kate. Throughout her career, she has joined the
companies of Toronto, Broadway and The Music Box Tour
of The Phantom of the Opera having performed the roles
of both Christine and Carlotta. She has toured the United
States and Canada in the productions of Kiss Me, Kate,
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Music of the Night and Cats
(Jellylorum/Griddlebone).
Carnegie Hall appearances have included the NY
premiere of the controversial hit opera Jerry Springer, the
Opera starring Harvey Kietel, South Pacific (PBS) with
Reba McEntire and Alec Baldwin, Show Boat with Nathan
Gunn and The Sound of Music with the esteemed Steph-
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anie Blyth. She performed in Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing,
the Kern/Hammerstein operetta Music in the Air at City
Center ENCORES!, Candide (PBS) with the New York
Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall starring Kristin Chenowith
and Sir Thomas Allen, and Noël and Cole in Love at
Merkin Concert Hall.
As a concert soloist, she has sung with the Symphony
Orchestras of Akron, Alabama, Annapolis, Edmonton,
Colorado Springs, Louisville, North Carolina, Oregon and
Orlando. Regional credits have earned her rave reviews as
Anna in The King and I (opposite Lou Diamond Phillips),
Meg in Damn Yankees and Mother Abbess in The Sound of
Music and most recently, as Mrs. Sneed Hill in the newly
revised The Unsinkable Molly Brown at the Denver Center
for the Performing Arts. Her soprano voice can be heard
on the original cast recordings of Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime,
Curtains and South Pacific (at Carnegie Hall). She recently
recorded Songs of Love and Life, for voice and wind ensemble
by Frank Ticheli with the University of North Texas
Wind Ensemble with Eugene Migliaro-Corporon conducting.
After a professional career spanning nearly thirty
years, Patty returned to school and earned a Master of

Music degree in Vocal Performance from the New England
Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mark Hardy has appeared on Broadway
in Les Miserables and Titanic, as well
as the 75th birthday tribute to Stephen
Sondheim, Children and Art. At Lincoln
Center he played Roger in A New Brain
and off-Broadway he appeared in The
Rothschilds at Circle in the Square downtown, Juba at the
Vineyard, and Helluva Town at Rainbow and Stars, among
others. He toured with the first national companies of
Sunset Boulevard, Les Miserables, and The Music of Andrew
Lloyd Webber (in which he was the alternate for Michael
Crawford). Regional credits include roles at Denver Center
Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Long Wharf,
Houston Grand Opera, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati,
and GeVa. As a director, his productions of Trouble
in Mind and The Women received League of Cincinnati
Theatre directing awards; other notable directing credits
include Carousel, Titanic, Fiddler On The Roof, The Taming
of the Shrew, On The Town, The Threepenny Opera, the
Lippa Wild Party, and the new Maltby/Shire/Weidman
musical Take Flight in its university premiere. Mark has
also appeared as a guest artist with many symphony orchestras
celebrating classic Broadway music, including St.
Louis Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Long Island
Philharmonic, New York Chamber Orchestra, Calgary
Philharmonic, and Orchestra London.
He teaches musical theatre performance and acting in
Montclair State University’s prestigious Musical Theatre
program, rated among the country’s best training programs
in the field. His teaching has taken him to London,
China, Greece, Romania, and Croatia. Mark is delighted to
be a part of the dynamic creative environment at NEMC.
Marian Murphy is an accomplished
singer and theatrical artist who brings
a versatile background to her work on
stage, into the teaching studio and to her
directing. A veteran of national Broadway
tours and major regional theatre
productions, her favorite roles include: Cosette in Les
Misérables, Christine in Phantom, Mother in Bright Lights,
Big City, Marian in The Music Man, Fleur in Esmeralda
(world premiere), Mary Jane Wilkes in Big River and Fiona
in Brigadoon. She has been featured with several orchestras
around the world, including the Shanghai Symphony and
the Concordia Orchestra at New York’s Lincoln Center.
Her career has taken her to many stages here and abroad,
and to other venues such as churches, cabarets, cruise
lines, theme parks, dinner theatres and benefit concerts.
She has three solo recordings: “This Must Be Love”,
celebrating love songs from many genres, a jazz CD –
“Live at the Saturday Club” with renowned jazz pianist
Bill Schmearer, and most recently, “Amazed By You” – all
new cabaret music written by pianist/composer Matthew
Quayle. She can also be heard as a guest artist on Gail
Levinsky’s recently released “Tipping Point”.
As a teaching artist and clinician, Marian holds workshops
and assemblies in educational institutions ranging
from elementary schools to universities. She has a bachelor’s
degree and a Performer’s Certificate of Merit from
the School of Music at the State University of New York in
Fredonia and earned her Actor’s Equity Association membership
with the Tennessee Repertory Theatre’s Young
Artist Program. As a member of National Association of
Teachers of Singing, she has been teaching private voice
students for over twenty years. She has been a member of
the faculty at New England Music Camp for twenty-two
years and is currently the Artistic Director of its Musical
Theatre program. She is an adjunct voice teacher and the
Musical Theatre Artistic Director at The Hill School in
Pottstown, PA.
Marian resides in Collegeville, Pennsylvania where she
freelances and runs her own successful vocal studio. Her
favorite role is that of wife and mother and she continues
to be grateful for the love and support of her husband
Nathan and sons Jamie and Noah! She is thankful to be
sharing the stage with this talented group of friends for
“Broadway Under the Stars”!
Sal Viviano has sung well over 300 pops
concerts with nearly 200 symphony
orchestras around the world, at a long
list of beautiful concert halls, and such
iconic venues as The White House,
Carnegie Hall, Wolf Trap, Teatro Lirico
Giuseppe Verdi, The Waldorf Astoria’s Starlight Roof and
Ballroom, London’s Palladium, The Kennedy Center, NY’s
Central Park, Teatro Massimo (Palermo), The Hollywood
Bowl… to name a few… A Detroit native, The New York
Times recently called Sal Viviano “… a luxuriant vocalist
with effortless style…” Viviano began his career as a
teenager opening for comedy greats of the last generation,
in Chicago, and in showrooms throughout the Midwest
(often in clubs at which he was too young to be ‘served’)…
After completing his degrees (Eastern Illinois University),
he taught high school, and worked and entertained
at Nippersink Manor Resort (WI) in the summers, while
also earning his Union cards as an actor doing theater,
jingles, voice-overs, and commercials in Chicago. Sal
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moved to New York City to make his Broadway debut in
the lavish Production of The Three Musketeers and has
since co-starred in the Broadway Productions of Romance/
Romance, City of Angels, Falsettos, The Life, and The Full
Monty. Off- Broadway, Viviano co-starred in the recent
revival of Closer Than Ever* (Broadway World Award -
Best Actor; Off-Broadway Alliance Award); as well as in
The Big Time; Golf The Musical* (Backstage Award- Best
Actor); Beau Jest; Cather County*; Weird Romance*;
Catch Me If I Fall*; Broadway Jukebox; and Hamlet, The
Opera (for Joseph Papp), among others. On tour he’s
starred in Chicago; Evita; Joseph and the…Dreamcoat;
Anything Goes!; The Pirates of Penzance; Hair; Sunday in
the Park With George (Helen Hayes Award - Best Actor
nom.). On film, Viviano starred in John Fasano’s cult classics
Black Roses* (newly released on a Collector’s Edition
DVD), and The Jitters; and appeared in (and recorded
songs for…) Legally Blonde 2*; Spike of Bensonhurst*; and
Life With Mikey*, among others. The ‘highlight’ of his couple
dozen primetime guest appearances and daytime television
credits: Vincent VanGogh in Disney’s Out of the Box
(Parent’s Choice Award)… Viviano’s recordings include
two LIVE albums recorded with full orchestra: his most
recent, a Solo CD entitled Perfectly Frank- A Century of
Sinatra (a 2-CD set of 40 Sinatra hits), and The Standards
of Love (of which Billboard said: “...a clarion and richlycolored
voice with a mellow, saxophone-like timbre…”) both
on The FRIARecords Label (with a new Christmas Album
also in the works). His original cast, compilation, and solo
CD recordings number over 70, on a dozen different labels
(including *’d titles above). A proud 20-year member of
the famed FRIARS Club, Sal has also sung our National
Anthem for over 30 seasons for NY’s Mets. Sal Viviano resides
in New York City and Culver City, CA with his wife,
the extraordinary actress Liz Larsen (currently co-starring
in Beautiful, The Carole King Musical, on Broadway), and
their boys, Alessandro Gian (18) and Joseph Dante (15)
Visit: SALVIVIANO.COM
Creative Staff
Paul Staroba (Music Director) is currently
the music director for the 2014
Tony Award-Winning Best Musical,
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and
Murder. Other conducting credits
include, Broadway: A Little Night
Music, Next to Normal, Grey Gardens. Off-Broadway:
Carrie, The Blue Flower, Lucky Guy, Happiness, Saved,
Take Me Along. Other selected keyboard credits: Big
Fish, Far From Heaven, Newsies, Sister Act, The Addams
Family, West Side Story, Spamalot, In the Heights,
Wicked, Young Frankenstein, Legally Blonde, A Chorus
Line, Les Miserables.
Mary Henderson (Stage Manager) graduated from
The Hill School in Pottstown, PA this year after stage
managing their production of Brigadoon and working
as an audio technician for its productions of Brigadoon,
Anything Goes, and How To Succeed in Business
Without Really Trying, among others. She has also interned
for Broadway’s Phantom of the Opera, Wicked,
and Rock of Ages. She will be attending Franklin and
Marshall College in the fall.
Nathan Powell‘s (Sound Designer) professional career
began as a sound engineer for the United States
Government in the early 1980’s. He was on the audio
engineers for President Reagan and Vice President
Bush’s 1984 Re-Election Tour. Following this tour, he
became a staff audio engineer for Opryland Productions
in Nashville, TN (home of the world famous
Grand Ol’ Opry & TNN).
During his 7-year tenure with Opryland Productions,
Nathan’s skill in audio production developed
to the level where he was responsible for the audio
engineering and mixing of some of the top entertainers
in both the Country and Rock music fields.
Additionally, he was contracted to co-design and mix
a number of top Broadway musical productions.
Jeff Bettencourt (Lighting Designer) Jeff is a resident
lighting designer for Starlite Productions of Moorestown,
New Jersey. He has been working with live
theatre for over fifteen years and has designed lights
for musicals, plays, fashion and talent shows, and
bands all over Delaware, South Jersey, and Philadelphia.
Jeff is pleased to be returning to NEMC for his
second summer and looks forward to the many more
to come.
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Thank you to those who have contributed or
pledged support thus far in 2015.
NEMC Scholarships
Jamey Applegate
Linda, Iain & Margo Bruce
Erika Cunliffe
Noam Dworman
Robert & Cora Fiehrer
Linda B. Hladek
Georg Kapelari
Cathi Levine
Hart Linker
Angela Meyers
Wendy Ohlson
Bill Schmearer
The Thorne Family
Snow Pond Music
Festival
Norman Abrams
Roslyn Allison
Wendy Brandes &
Joel Kassan
Sander & Norma
Buchman Fund
Melanie Clarke
Conn - Selmer Inc
Lenore Davis
Robert & Cora Fiehrer
Google
Cynthia Hodes
Jeffrey Hodes
Anne Hoyt
David Klafter
Gloria & Richard Kushel
Foundation
Gerald C. McNamara &
Renee K. Petrofes
Charitable Fund
Ruth Olsen
Jane Orans
Nathalie Orans
Patricia Rind
Beth Shaw
Kenneth Sternberg
Richard Sternberg
US Band & Orchestra
Supplies
Facilities &
Equipment
Erika Cunliffe
The Mimi Foundation
Chuck & Jennifer Padera
Marietta Ramsdell
Educational
Programs
Bank of Maine
Maine Community
Foundation
MaineGeneral Health
Diversity Scholarships
William Adams
Francisco Alegria
Sasha Anemone
Lani and Manny
Azenberg
Stephanie Canfield
Lauren Coleman
Matt Dell
Kayla Dillman
Christine Durgin
Morgan Furst
Dayna Harris
Tom and Lorraine Kitts
Elizabeth Knapp
Jonathan Lee
Alison Leonard
Gail Levinsky
Dave Levy
Sangmi Lim and Dino
Mulic
Jen Moss
Bethany Niedbala
Stephen O’Donohue
Christina Quintana
Abby Ross
Sarah Sala
Bill and Dorothy
Schmearer
Dan Shore
William Thompson
Andrew Wilmott
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Barnraising - 2015
Definition: the collective action of a community
I was very fortunate to have all of
my grandparents alive for most of
my youth. It was my grandfather
Paul who started the New England
Music Camp in 1937. It was my other
grandfather, John Willard Hovey,
for whom I was named. John was
generally considered
a potato farmer, but I also remember
him as a carpenter, a mechanic, an
avid reader, and an inventor – which
is probably the case for most that have
a career called ‘farmer.’
John Willard lived most of his
94 years in the County, specifically
in Houlton. From what I recall
of my early youth, I spent quite a
bit more time on the farm than at
the music camp. In looking back,
I most remember the closeness
of that farming community. The
endless hours of planting and other
chores, and the closing of schools
during the harvest season. This was
a time when the entire community
had a single-minded focus on the
task at hand. Farmers are also the
most proud and self-reliant group
of individuals on this planet. I see
this great trait in abundance here in
Central Maine. There are probably
many among us that could easily
qualify for government aid or
support, but simply don’t ask. It is
not in the farmers’ nature to ask for
help. However, there are sizeable
projects that a farmer cannot do
alone. The building of a large barn
was a community project, as was the
building of churches and schools.
These large scale projects were
turned into an event and the whole
community would bond together to
make it happen. Barn-raisings are
a piece of our history and a fabric
that reflects the power of how a
community can come together to
create great things.
I suspect that I have a lot more
of John Willard’s genes than Paul’s...I
know for sure that this is true because
the “music gene” is for the most part,
absent in my DNA. If you visit our
campus, you will most often find me
with a shovel or rake and never an
instrument. Self-reliance is also in
our camp’s nature; we don’t usually
ask for help. This camp has survived
for 80 years without any organized
fund raising except for assistance in
creating scholarship and financial
aid funds. Part of our mission with
any program is that it must be
available for all deserving students,
regardless of their families economics.
That mission remains unchanged
today as we move into year round
programming. However, to offer year
round programming, on a scale that
will make a significant difference, we
now have to implement a barn-raising
type task; we cannot accomplish this
endeavor alone. We need your help
to build this year round school and
to establish a financial aid fund for
our Maine students that attend this
school.
What can you expect from our
schools? A nurturing, supportive, and
safe environment that encourages
each student to collaborate, create,
inspire and engage – to be confident
and reach for their full potential.
You can expect a place that bonds
our community together with
magnificent music and art available to
all. Please help in whatever way you
can – I know we can make a positive
difference for our children and our
families.
Thanks to all! . .
. .
. . John Wiggin
For giving & volunteer instructions
please see page 32 for ways to engage
with Snow Pond Center for the Arts
and New England Music Camp.
Charleston, VT, courtesy of the Old Stone House Museum
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Engage with Snow Pond Center for the Arts
and New England Music Camp
We invite you to join us as we enrich lives
through music. There are many ways you
can get involved. Please inquire by calling
844-476-6976.
Refer a Student
Let students and their families, both local and “from
away,” know of the opportunities open to them
throughout the year to develop their musical talents
in a supportive community.
Donate an Instrument
Many students find the cost of musical instruments
prohibitive. With an extensive instrument library we
are able to pass along your well-loved instruments to
budding musicians.
Contribute
We are deeply grateful for your gifts in support of
scholarships and financial aid, facilities and equipment,
and programs in the community. From cash or
checks in the donation basket at concerts to bequests
through your estate, no gift is too small or too large.
BY MAIL: Send a check payable to Snow Pond
Center for the Arts, Att: Development, 8 Goldenrod
Lane, Sidney, ME 04330
BY PHONE: Make a gift or receive information
about wire or stock transfer options by calling
844-476-6976.
ONLINE: http://snowpond.org/support/
GIFTS-IN-KIND: We are pleased to consider gifts of
musical instruments and other property.
AMAZON SMILE: Designate New England Music
Camp as your preferred charity and .05% of all your
purchases on amazon.com will benefit NEMC.
Make a Planned Gift
Including New England Music Camp/Snow Pond
Center for the Arts in your estate plan or establishing
a trust or similar tax-advantaged life-income gift
leaves a legacy for future generations.
Volunteer
Volunteers range from office and publicity assistants
to board members. Please let us know how you would
like to help.
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New England Music Camp Association
Board of Directors – 2015
Lawrence Cooper
Paxinos, PA
Director of Bands, Shamokin, PA (retired)
Dr. James Holton, Vice President
Cassadaga, NY
School Superintendent,
Norristown, PA (retired)
NEMC Director 1970-71
Mary Holton
Cassadaga, NY
NEMC Asst. Director 1970-71
Wendy Manter
Sidney, ME
VP Physician Practice Management,
MaineGeneral Health
Robert Marden, Clerk
Waterville, ME
Attorney, Marden, Dubord, Bernier & Stevens
John Applegate
Bloomington, IN
Executive Vice President
Indiana University
Kerry Casey, Treasurer
Mount Vernon, ME
NEMC Finance Director
Larry Cooper, Vice Chair
Paxinos, PA
Director of Bands, Shamokin, PA
(retired)
NEMC Faculty, Staff
David Greenham
Readfield, ME
Director, Holocaust & Human
Rights Center, U. Maine Augusta
Former Artistic Director,
Theater at Monmouth
Leon Gregorian
East Lansing, MI
NEMC Music Director
Professor of Music Emeritus,
Dir. Graduate Orchestral
Snow Pond Center for the Arts
Board of Advisors – 2015
Conducting,
Michigan State University
Grace Lewis-McLaren
Brunswick, ME
NEMC Alumna
Michael McCarthy, Secretary
Storrs, CT
Director of Music/Organist, St.
Joseph’s Church,Willimantic, CT
NEMC Faculty
William McCartney, Chair
New York, NY
Director of Placement, The Town
School
NEMC Alumnus
Matthew Morris
Bethesda, MD
IT, Department of Homeland
Security
NEMC Alumnus
Roger Pomerleau
Augusta, ME
Dr. Dennis Ritz
Shippensburg, PA
Composer, Music Professor
Emeritus, Shippensburg University
Dr. Jeanette Wiggin
Essex, CT
NEMC Director ‘72-’09
Asst. School Superintendent, Granby, CT
(retired)
John Wiggin, President
Sidney, ME
NEMC Executive Director
President, Disability Re-insurance Company (retired)
Kim Wiggin, Secretary
Suffield, CT
NEMC Camp Director
Director of Academic Support,
Suffield Academy
NRF Distributors &
Marketplace at Augusta
William Schmearer
Bonita Springs, FL
Former Supervisor of Music,
Director of Senior HS Bands,
Spring-Ford School District
NEMC Faculty
Joel Simon
New York, NY
JSM Music
NEMC Alumnus
Nancy Smith, Ass’t Treasurer
Winslow, ME
VP & Manager, Bank of Maine
James Stoltie
Bradenton, FL
Dean Emeritus,
Crane School of Music
NEMC Camp Music Director
(retired)
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Art & Music Revitalize Augusta
The best Main streets across America
are built by establishing a sense of place;
offering the surrounding residents an
inviting destination to relax and enjoy
cultural events at the very heart of their
community. Creative Placemaking, a plan
developed by the National Endowment
for the Arts, offers support for cities who
wish to implement this very plan. The
Augusta Downtown Alliance, a collaboration
of government officials, property
and business owners, residents, artists
and other interested parties, is looking
to this method to create an arts-centric
downtown in Augusta. This committed
and passionate group of leaders hope
the positive changes taking place, along
with community engagement, will create
a momentum and turn downtown Augusta into a
regional destination.
The shift of big box retail service chains into suburban
areas across the country has left many cities,
like Augusta, with an in-town infrastructure largely
built for a 19th century world. There is a need for
major upgrades if Augusta’s downtown area wants to
compete in the modern marketplace. The revitalization
effort focuses on turning this quaint downtown
into a commercial and arts based district. One of the
many challenges with this initiative is determining
exactly what the broad vision for this 21st century
dynamic and vibrant downtown will look like.
. Augusta’s Waterfront Park provides ample green
space to watch for bald eagles and osprey fishing
for their meals above the Kennebec River. This
park hosts “Waterfront Wednesday;” a free evening
concert series which began on June 17th and runs
through July 29th. Beginning at 6:00 p.m., guests are
invited to bring lawn chairs, blankets and picnics
and enjoy the early evening air next to one of Maine’s
most beautiful rivers.
The Augusta Downtown Alliance is currently
raising money to commission a piece of public art
that honors Augusta’s past and celebrates its future.
Already in place are “Museum in the Streets” panels
placed along the waterfront and throughout the city
center.
Finally, the jewel in the crown, will be the re-
stored Augusta Colonial
Theater which
will serve as a performing
arts center.
The Alliance is working
with the Augusta
Colonial Theater, Inc.
to restore and revitalize
the 1913 silent
movie theater, which
later became a vaudeville
venue and a
“talkie” movie house.
The theater, listed on
the National Register
of Historic Places, has been dark since 1969 and is in
need of a significant, multi-year renovation. Although
it is still in its “rough” state, the Colonial will be hosting
an art installation by three Portland artists, called
“Home/Resilience” starting June 12th for one month.
The Augusta Downtown Alliance is excited about
an expanding partnership with the Snow Pond Center
for the Arts to bring music and arts education to
historic downtown Augusta. Keep your eye on downtown
Augusta…Amazing things are happening here!
. . . Steve Pecukonis,
Executive Director
Augusta Downtown Alliance
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El Sistema, a Model for Music Education
Snow Pond Center for the Arts is
committed to making music as accessible
as possible in our community and we are
looking at successful models from around
the world, such as El Sistema.
The transformative power of music is
sweeping the world through the inspiration
of Venezuela’s revolutionary El Sistema.
Founded in Venezuela in 1975 by
Dr. Jose Antonio Abreu, El Sistema is a
tested model of how a music program can
both create great musicians and dramatically
change the life trajectory of needy
children, deeply benefitting youth from
all backgrounds who participate. It now
teaches music to more than 500,000 of
Venezuela’s most vulnerable children, and hundreds
of thousands more young people around the globe.
El Sistema is not a replicable program or pedagogy,
but an inquiry into the most effective ways to achieve
youth development goals through intensive investment
in the positive social impact of the ensemble.
In 2009 Dr. Abreu was awarded the TED prize for
founding, growing and developing the National System
of Youth and Children’s Orchestras and Choirs in
Venezuela. Here are excerpts from his remarks upon
accepting the award:
Since I was a boy, in my early childhood, I always
wanted to be a musician, and, thank God, I made it.
From my teachers, my family and my community, I
had all the necessary support to become a musician. All
my life I’ve dreamed that all Venezuelan children have
the same opportunity that I had. From that desire and
from my heart stemmed the idea to make music a deep
and global reality for my country.
From the very first rehearsal, I saw the bright
future ahead. … I had received a donation of 50 music
stands to be used by 100 boys in that rehearsal. When
I arrived at the rehearsal, only 11 kids had shown up,
and I said to myself, “Do I close the program or multiply
these kids?” I decided to face the challenge, and on
that same night, I promised those 11 children I’d turn
our orchestra into one of the leading orchestras in the
world. Two months ago, I remembered that promise I
made, when a distinguished English critic published an
article in the London Times, asking who could be the
winner of the Orchestra World Cup. He mentioned four
great world orchestras, and the fifth one was Venezuela’s
Youth Symphony Orchestra. Today we can say that
art in Latin America is no longer a monopoly of elites
and that it has become a social right, a right for all the
people.
In its essence, the orchestra and the choir are much
more than artistic structures. They are examples and
schools of social life, because to sing and to play together
means to intimately coexist toward perfection and
excellence, following a strict discipline of organization
and coordination in order to seek the harmonic interdependence
of voices and instruments. That’s how they
build a spirit of solidarity and fraternity among them,
develop their self-esteem and foster the ethical and aesthetical
values related to the music in all its senses. This
is why music is immensely important in the awakening
of sensibility, in the forging of values and in the training
of youngsters to teach other kids.
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Bangor Symphony
with Guest Soloist NEMC
Alumnus Evan Wilson
June 28
3:00 p.m.
Bowl in the Pines
36th Annual NEMC
Pops Concert
July 18th
7:30 p.m.
Messalonskee
Performing Arts Center
Into the Woods
Presented by
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August 7th and 8th, 7:30 p.m.
Alumni Hall
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Visiting Guest Artist
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See www.snowpond.org for
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July 1, 8, 22, 24 at 7:30 pm
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July 10, 15, 17, 29, 30,
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Exploring Skowhegan: A Place to Watch
Skowhegan, Maine is a rural community nestled
in a bend of the Kennebec River, just a mere 30
minutes north of the Snow Pond Center for the
Arts. Skowhegan is a former mill town, which is in
the midst of a renaissance and is rapidly becoming
a destination for foodies, arts lovers and outdoor
recreationalists. There are ample indoor and outdoor
activities and in the summertime, the Skowhegan area
becomes a hub for summer festivals and fairs, making
it a can’t-miss destination. It’s the perfect getaway for
a weeklong exploration or a weekend away. The name
‘Skowhegan’ literally means ‘A Place to Watch’, and
like a self-fulfilling prophecy, the region has become
exactly that.
Depending on who you ask, you may come up
with two dozen answers to the question, ‘What’s the
best thing to do in Skowhegan’? One answer is to get
immersed in the arts scene, led by Lakewood Theater
in Madison (www.lakewoodtheater.org) the oldest
summer theater in the country that produces a nine
show season over 18 weeks. Another destination is
the Skowhegan State Fairgrounds which has activities
every weekend from horse & dog agility shows, to the
Artisan Bread Fair (Aug. 1), or the Skowhegan State
Fair (Aug. 13-22).
Gifford’s Ice Cream was started in Skowhegan,
and their ice cream stand on Route 201 turns 35 this
year. You won’t want to miss the New Balance factory
store, or their large tent sale happening August 12-24.
If museums are your thing, you could spend
hours exploring the Skowhegan History House and
the Margaret Chase Smith Museum in Skowhegan, or
the L.C. Bates Museum on the campus of Good Will-
Hinckley, in Hinckley.
Outdoor excursions await the adventurer as
Skowhegan is home to several top notch walking
trails, and is the gateway to northern Maine with
whitewater rafting and mountain hikes just 30-
60 minutes away. Also Lakewood Golf Course is
challenging for any golfers in the family.
For music lovers there are several local
restaurants and pubs that have live entertainment,
and the Sunday night concerts in Coburn Park in
Skowhegan are a ritual for many in July and August.
Finally, wash all of your activities down at some great
restaurants like the Heritage House Restaurant, the
Old Mill Pub, Lakewood Inn Restaurant or the Pickup
Café, located in the Somerset Grist Mill, which is
a grain mill converted out of
the old county jail.
There is so much to
see in Skowhegan, and we
would love to show it all to
you. For more information
about the region please
contact the Skowhegan Area
Chamber of Commerce at
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Rent Our Space
Snow Pond Center for the Arts offers ideal
event facilities for rent. Year-round indoor
and outdoor space rental options are ideal
for recreational or business event planning.
From dining halls to business conference
rooms, our campus offers the best that
Maine has to offer for venue rental options.
This unique waterfront property houses
several professional buildings, housing and
cabins and even includes one of the largest
outdoor amphitheaters in the U.S. From
intimate weddings, private or business
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Founders Council Named for Public Charter
School on the Snow Pond Campus
The Snow Pond Arts Academy
public charter school initiative has
recently established a ten person
Founders Council to assist with the
development of a specialty public
high school. The school, which
will be located on the grounds of
New England Music Camp, will be
committed to providing an outstanding
arts education in a rigorous
academic environment. The
Founders Council will facilitate the
completion of the charter school
application and provide leadership
and oversight in the key areas
of governance, fund raising and
community relations. In addition,
the Founders Council will assist
with the recruitment of the school’s
board of directors, filing of the
501 (c) (3) application, and will
work to provide the Maine Charter
School Commission with evidence
of fiduciary stability and long-term
sustainability--especially in the
areas of enrollment management
and ongoing compliance with state
and federal secondary school curriculum
guidelines.
As the initiative continues to
gain momentum, the full Board of
Directors will be in place by early
fall and plans will begin for the
proposed upgrades in buildings and
infrastructure. The public charter
school initiative will complement
Snow Pond Center for the Arts’ desire
to be a year-round, community
engaged campus for arts education,
afterschool programming, adult
education, performance, and community
outreach.
The vision for Snow Pond
Arts Academy and the potentially
unlimited associated programming
emanates from John Wiggin who
is the current Executive Director of
New England Music Camp and the
reason why the campus has already
become a valued community asset.
New England Music Camp was
founded by John’s family in the
1930’s and it has served as a model
for combining rich exposure to
the fine arts, especially music, with
a well rounded camp curriculum
in a Maine setting of unparalleled
beauty.
While other public charter
schools in Maine have focused on
particular academic disciplines
such as the natural sciences or
STEM education, Snow Pond Arts
Academy will be the first charter
school in Maine to offer year-round
programming and enrichment in a
venue that is a camp, a school and a
center for the performing arts. The
charter school movement in Maine
was designed to generate alternative
secondary school pedagogies
in an atmosphere that fosters community
growth and development.
Snow Pond Arts Academy will
be the model for the next generation
of charter schools in Maine:
a campus where the vibrancy of
the arts will nurture community
involvement and serve the local
population, the State of Maine and
potentially students from around
the world.
SNOW POND ARTS ACADEMY
FOUNDERS TEAM
Founders Council
Scott Cowger
Jenny Elowitch
Greg Fahy
Anne Hammond
Gail Levinsky
Barbara Moody
Tom McCowan
Sally Mackenzie
Julie Richard
Tom Vigue
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Ronnie Weston, Bull Moose Group
Jim Hornor, Daniel Lee Associates
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Public Relations
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who wake up every day to invest ourselves and the resources at our disposal to help you accumulate, protect, and
conserve your wealth. Isn’t that worth smiling about?
©KWM 2015

Advertisers’ Index
A - Copi Imaging Systems ......................................... 10
Amici’s Cucina ............................................................ 34
Among the Lakes Bed & Breakfast ........................... 11
B & B Embroidery ...................................................... 20
Bacon Farm Maple Products ..................................... 22
Bangor Savings Bank .................................. Back Cover
The Bank of Maine ..................................................... 46
Best Western & Comfort Inn Augusta ..................... 36
Best Western Plus Waterville ...................................... 6
Bryan O. Bacon ........................................................... 35
Capital Area Federal Credit Union CAFCU ........... 38
Cappza’s Pizza ............................................................... 8
Central Maine Motors Auto Group ......................... 14
Century Pools ............................................................. 34
ColorGraphics ............................................................. 35
Conn Selmer ............................................................... 48
Damon’s Quick Stop ................................................... 34
Day’s Store ................................................................... 29
DCI Productions ....................................................... 12
Dead River Company ................................................... 4
DH Pinnette & Sons Roofing .................................... 34
DQ Waterville ............................................................. 20
Eye Care of Maine ...................................................... 36
Fireside Inn ................................................................... 6
Gagne & Sons Concrete Products ............................ 19
Granite Hill Estates .................................................... 52
Hammond Lumber ....................... Inside Back Cover
Harlow Gallery ............................................................ 12
Heritage House Restaurant ....................................... 42
Higgins & Bolduc ....................................................... 44
Inland Hospital ........................................................... 10
Jorgensen’s .................................................................. 42
Kennebec Savings Bank ............................................. 12
Kennebec Wealth Mnangement ............................... 50
Kents Hill School ........................................................ 40
The Korner Store and Deli ......................................... 20
Lakepoint Real Estate ................................................... 8
Lakeside Veterinary Clinic ........................................ 10
Lynch Landscaping ..................................................... 50
MaineGeneral Health ................... Inside Front Cover
Maine International Film Festival .............................. 7
Maine Made & More .................................................. 42
Maine State Music Theater ........................................ 18
Mainely Brews ............................................................... 8
Main Security Surveilance ......................................... 35
Maple Hill Farm Inn & Conference Center ........... 38
Marden Dubord Bernier & Stevens, PA LLC .......... 30
Marden’s ....................................................................... 22
Market Square Melodies ............................................ 36
Martha Ballard Assisted Living .................................. 2
Mattson’s Flooring Center ......................................... 34
McCormack Building Supply .................................... 42
MPBN .......................................................................... 42
Norwalk Youth Symphony ........................................ 40
NorthCenter Foodservice Corp. ............................... 19
Oakland Furniture ..................................................... 50
Onsite Mechanical ...................................................... 30
Penmor Lithographers ...............................................
38
Pete’s Pig Catering ..................................................... 38
The Pressey House ........................................................ 6
PTC Group .................................................................. 29
Riverfront BBQ & The Gin Mill .............................. 36
Riverside Farm & Restaurant .................................... 38
Selah Tea ........................................................................ 6
Servpro of Augusta/Waterville ................................ 36
Silver Street Tavern ....................................................... 8
Snow Pond Cruises..................................................... 10
Sodexo .......................................................................... 19
Stone Coast Marketing .............................................. 40
The Pond ...................................................................... 38
Theberge Accoustical Ceilings .................................. 35
Thompson Audi Mazda VW ..................................... 50
T-Mobile ...................................................................... 29
Tree Spirits ................................................................... 20
Vandoren ..................................................................... 49
Vivid Art & Design .................................................... 38
WBACH ....................................................................... 17
Willow Run ................................................................. 34
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