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the lake forest leader | January 11, 2018 | 19
New board president promises expansion for LF Symphony
Katie Copenhaver
Freelance Reporter
The Lake
Forest Symphony
continues
its
period of
growth and
evolution
by naming Frick
Raymond
A. Frick as the next president
to its board of directors.
This follows the
symphony’s return to performances
in Lake Forest
and moving its administrative
offices into the Gorton
Community Center in
2017.
“What makes it an exciting
time is all these things
are happening at once,”
said Timothy Corpus, executive
director of the
Lake Forest Symphony.
“It’s nice that it all happens
to fall on the 60th anniversary
of the organization.”
Frick has served as a
member of the board of directors
since 2008, during
which time he was part of
the search committees for
both Corpus, who came
on staff last summer, and
Music Director Vladimir
Kulenovic, who is in his
fourth season with the
symphony.
In addition, Frick has
been involved with many
arts and cultural institutions,
including the Grant
Park Music Festival Board
of Directors; Chicago College
of Performing Arts
Board of Advisors at Roosevelt
University; Chicago
Lyric Opera Guild Board
of Directors; Radford
University, Accra, Ghana,
Board of Trustees; 98.7
WFMT Radio Network,
Radio Committee; and
the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
Presidents at Pops.
Frick succeeds Stewart
Kerr as board president,
who was integral to the
symphony’s return to Lake
Forest, said Corpus.
“We’re grateful for
Stew’s service and leadership
during an important
period of transition,” Frick
said. “The full board joins
me in expressing how
pleased we are that Stew
remains on both the board
and its executive committee
in his new role as
community outreach and
engagement head.”
In accepting his new position,
Frick said, “I wanted
to give back and communicate
my own values.
It’s a privilege.”
In regard to the symphony’s
growth over the past
year, he said, “It’s almost a
quantum leap. We’re gratified
with the support from
foundations and the community.”
He and Corpus both
noted that the symphony
has a new staff, which
Corpus helped to bring in,
to manage the growth and
change.
“He’s terrific,” said
Frick of Corpus, explaining
that Corpus brings a
wealth of musical experience
as both a practicing
musician in percussion and
composer himself.
“We are so proud of our
musicians and the leadership
and programming of
Maestro Kulenovic,” said
Frick.
“It’s a very high caliber
orchestra,” Corpus added,
explaining that most of the
members teach at area colleges
and play with other
orchestras. “Some of them
go as far as Michigan and
Wisconsin.”
Also exciting for the
Lake Forest Symphony are
their new recordings with
the award-winning Cedille
Records. They made their
first recording for a CD
with Cedille in 2017 and
will continue with more in
2018, said Corpus.
The symphony begins
the 2018 half of its season
with concerts featuring
opera stars Nicole Cabell
and Alyson Cambridge.
The two sopranos will be
part of the full orchestra
concerts on Jan. 20 and 21
at the James Lumber Center
at the College of Lake
County in a crossover program
of opera, classical
repertoire and spirituals.
They will also perform in
the Salon Series concert,
“A Night at the Opera” at
Gorton on Jan. 25, accompanied
by Kulenovic on
piano.
One of the artistic endeavors
of Kulenovic,
according to Corpus, has
been to start symphony cycles
of well-known composers.
The symphony will
continue its Beethoven
and Haydn cycles during
the April concerts and
conclude its Brahms cycle
with the May concerts, all
at the Lumber Center.
As far as the Lake Forest
Symphony’s future, “We
will continue to expand our
presence,” Frick said, with
the goal of establishing a
permanent performance
venue in Lake Forest.
The public can expect
highlights for the 2018-19
season to be announced in
February, said Corpus.
More information and
tickets for upcoming concerts
are available at www.
lakeforestsymphony.org.
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Country students spent
time teaching students in
local schools how to speak
English.
Adventure Cross-Country
students taught an English
lessons, which they
had prepared in advance, to
eighth and ninth graders on
two different mornings during
their time in Ecuador.
“The service project that
had the most impact on me
was probably teaching to
kids in Ecuador,” Hanson
said. “It wasn’t the first
time we taught kids, but it
was the first time we connected
with the kids.”
Among some of the students
in his group, Hanson
said he knew Spanish pretty
well from taking Spanish
classes at school. His
Spanish skills propelled
him to connect with the
students he was teaching.
“I took the lead on teaching
the kids and it was really
impactful to see how
excited they were to learn
another language,” he said.
The Adventures Cross-
Country students spent the
mornings working at Saminay
El Legado, a private
high school that provides
full scholarships to roughly
85 students from the
farthest communities in
the Quichinche Parish. At
night, the group camped
out in a room on school
property.
In each country the students
visited they had a
home stay, where they
lived with local families to
help them understand how
the locals live and to learn
more about the culture.
Hanson said the home
stay in Ecuador had a
lasting impact on him as
the families they stayed
Daniel Hanson teaches English to kids in Patabamba,
Peru. PHOTO SUBMITTED
with were very poor and
it taught him how to be
thankful for what he has.
“The area was very rustic
and it showed us how
much we have here and
to not take anything for
granted. It was very eye
opening and to see how
happy [the locals] were despite
how little they had,”
Hanson said.
Hanson recalled the
house he stayed in and said
you had to walk 10-15 feet
from the house to go to the
bathroom, which was just
a hole in the ground. Hanson
also said some of the
homes people stayed in did
not even have walls.
Among teaching students
English, the Adventure
Cross-Country group
also completed a few community
service projects.
During their stay in Ecuador
the students worked
closely with Saminay staff
members building a corral
for a baby cow.
Hanson recalled this part
of the trip as a lot of work
with long days. He said
the group would wake up
early, work on the corral,
go teach students, work on
the corral more, have dinner
and go to bed.
In the afternoons, the students
took part in a number
of activities designed for
deeper cultural and local
engagement. They milked
and fed cows at Saminay.
Throughout the trip the
students also had opportunities
to go sight seeing
and participate in fun activities
such as zip lining
and surfing. Among the
many things the group did,
Hanson said seeing Machu
Picchu was his favorite.
Now that Hanson has returned
home and has a few
months left in his gap year,
he doesn’t have any plans to
slow down. He has secured
an internship with Special
Olympics and plans to take
some Spanish classes to
become more fluent, and to
prevent loosing the Spanish
he already knows.
In the fall, Hanson will
begin his freshman year at
the University of Colorado-
Boulder and will be majoring
in environmental studies.