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CAMPAIGN 2009<br />
<strong>One</strong> <strong>Former</strong> Camper’s <strong>Memories</strong> <strong>Become</strong> a <strong>Legacy</strong>:<br />
Dan and Eve Kimball Establish Summer Music Camp Fellowships at RMF<br />
Local physicians Eve and Dan Kimball did<br />
not make their weekly trek to Wyomissing’s<br />
Atonement Lutheran Church on Sunday, April 19,<br />
expecting to establish a legacy for local children and<br />
to honor Eve’s parents at the same time. But an Adult<br />
Forum presentation by RMF between church services<br />
that day harmonized well with Eve’s fond childhood<br />
memories of four summers at Brevard Music Center,<br />
two as a music camper and two, years later, as Dean<br />
of Girls, and gave Eve the opportunity she had long<br />
sought to recognize her parents’ strong encouragement<br />
of her musical activities as a child.<br />
Dan and Eve have established the “Gladys and Carl<br />
Jensen Summer Music Camp Fellowships” at RMF<br />
to enable students leaving grades six through 11 to<br />
attend a summer music camp of their choice. Eligible<br />
children must reside and attend public school in<br />
Berks County and take lessons on any instrument or<br />
in voice. Applicants must complete an activity soon<br />
after camp that promotes both the camp experience<br />
and music education generally. Parents are required<br />
to contribute $50 toward the child’s fee to participate<br />
in summer music camp and certify that the child will<br />
not have the financial means to attend music camp<br />
without a Fellowship. The Fellowships are named<br />
after Eve’s parents.<br />
In selecting Fellowship recipients, RMF’s Scholarship<br />
Committee will prefer children who have not yet<br />
experienced summer music camp over those who have.<br />
Whether an applicant intends to pursue a career in<br />
music is irrelevant in the selection process.<br />
A pioneer in the delivery of pediatric medicine to<br />
a highly diverse clientele, Eve grew up in Alexandria,<br />
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Dan & Eve Kimball<br />
Virginia, where she started the flute in fifth grade<br />
and later played in a variety of school ensembles. She<br />
recently donated her flute to RMF’s Operation Replay.<br />
When she was 15, her mother and a few of her<br />
mother’s church friends encouraged her to participate<br />
in the summer-long music program at Brevard Music<br />
Center in western North Carolina, now in its 73rd<br />
season. The first six weeks offered campers intense<br />
ensemble experience, music classes and private music<br />
lessons. Campers were guests at Brevard during the<br />
last three weeks as professional musicians gathered to<br />
perform music festivals for the public.<br />
Eve credits her summer music camp experience at<br />
Brevard with exposing her to a wide range of music<br />
literature she continues to appreciate, developing<br />
persistence and other personality attributes of benefit<br />
to her in medicine and in life, and reinforcing her love<br />
KIMBALL, continued on page 4<br />
JEWELRY RAFFLE FOR 2010 SUMMER<br />
CAMP FELLOWSHIP ...See Page 10
Finding a Homeplace in Music and the Next Generation<br />
Mountain Folk Band CD Benefit for Readers<br />
When Berks Countains<br />
think bluegrass, they<br />
think of “East Side” Dave<br />
Kline. His foot-tapping<br />
music is revered throughout<br />
bluegrass circles, in Berks<br />
and beyond. His group, the<br />
Mountain Folk Music Band,<br />
has performed at the Berks<br />
County Fiddle Festival,<br />
Kutztown Folk Festival, Riverfest, Lyons Fiddle<br />
Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival and with Rhonda<br />
Vincent & the Rage.<br />
The person behind the guitar is just as engaging<br />
Riddle Answers<br />
Answers to Word Scramble, Music Question and Riddles in Last News of Note<br />
On page 2 of our Summer 2009 News of Note, we challenged the county’s music teachers to write<br />
about the mentor who inspired them, and we challenged our readers with a word scramble, a music<br />
theory question, and several riddles. Here are the answers:<br />
Word Scramble<br />
How many English words can you find within<br />
“bassoon”? We found the following 15:<br />
An Bassoon Snob<br />
As Boon So<br />
Ass Boss Sob<br />
Ban Nab Son<br />
Bass On Soon<br />
Music Question<br />
If the clef alone were changed from bass to treble, a<br />
bassoonist’s C major arpeggio would represent the<br />
dominant chord in what other key?<br />
This one is tricky! Changing the clef alone, the C major<br />
arpeggio (or broken chord) would contain the notes A, C<br />
and E in the treble clef, which would sound as an a minor<br />
chord and be the dominant chord in the key of d minor.<br />
To keep the chord a major chord would require that we<br />
sharp its third to become a C#, and that chord would be<br />
the dominant chord in the key of D major.<br />
Riddles<br />
By four new scholarship programs in 2004 and 2005,<br />
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SPECIAL OFFER:<br />
Dave has graciously agreed to donate the<br />
proceeds of the CD to the David L. Kline Family<br />
Mountain Folk Family Fund if purchased through<br />
the <strong>Reading</strong> Musical Foundation from now until<br />
April 15, 2010. Please contact Keri Shultz,<br />
RMF Executive Director, at (610) 376-3395 or<br />
kshultz@readingmusicalfoundation.org. Hurry,<br />
only a limited number of these autographed CDs<br />
are available!<br />
as the man on the stage. Dave Kline, a trustee who<br />
recently rejoined the board of the <strong>Reading</strong> Musical<br />
MOUNTAIN FOLK, continued on page 10<br />
how did RMF itself answer the challenge posed to the<br />
county’s music teachers?<br />
Between December of 2004 and June of 2005, RMF<br />
honored Kim Webster, Ann Cusano, Don Hinkle,<br />
Peter Brye and Willis Rapp for their extraordinary<br />
efforts as music teachers in Berks County by appending<br />
their names to a total of four new permanent music<br />
scholarship programs at RMF. These represented the<br />
Foundation’s first permanent scholarships named for<br />
living persons. Jim Seidel was honored at the same time<br />
by RMF’s commission of a new work for concert band,<br />
“Music in the Wings,” premiered by The Ringgold Band<br />
the following April.<br />
What does a bassoon have to do with all of this?<br />
Please read the article on the following page about the gift<br />
of a new bassoon to RMF’s instrument-lending program<br />
in honor of Edward J. Gobrecht, Jr., a retired member of<br />
the Ithaca College music faculty.<br />
Want more puzzles? Complete the special RMF-edition<br />
crossword puzzle on page 15. Answers will be listed on<br />
our website or by calling RMF at (610) 376-3395.
With the Gift of a Bassoon to RMF, I Honor a <strong>Former</strong><br />
Music Teacher, Edward J. Gobrecht, Jr.<br />
by C. Thomas Work<br />
The characteristics of great teachers and great<br />
leaders are equally elusive. Like great leaders,<br />
great teachers are passionate about their calling,<br />
inspire, and invariably bring out the best in those<br />
who choose to follow their lead. An idiosyncrasy or<br />
two often memorialize them. Most folks would say<br />
of both groups, “You know one when you see one.”<br />
And that might be the best we can do to define both<br />
great teachers and great leaders.<br />
Edward J. Gobrecht, Jr. was one of five children<br />
born to a shoemaker and his wife in Hanover,<br />
Pennsylvania, 85 years ago. By the age of five, Ed<br />
had learned the cornet, and by seven was performing<br />
with the Penngrove Band, Redman’s Band in East<br />
Berlin, and Southern York County Band. He<br />
eventually learned to play nearly every instrument<br />
of the concert band and, as a child, occasionally<br />
conducted bands in his father’s place when his father<br />
had conflicting engagements. Confronted with the<br />
choice of an oboe, a bassoon or a French horn to<br />
play in junior high school, Ed picked the one with<br />
the oddest sound and appearance - the bassoon!<br />
Six months later, Ed was playing bassoon with<br />
the York Symphony under Louis Vyner, a graduate<br />
of the Curtis Institute of Music who later led<br />
the <strong>Reading</strong><br />
Symphony<br />
Orchestra, from<br />
1961 until 1976.<br />
At 16 years of<br />
age, Ed became<br />
the principal<br />
bassoonist of<br />
the Harrisburg<br />
Symphony.<br />
Because he was<br />
still in public<br />
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school, Ed required<br />
his high school<br />
principal’s permission for early dismissal so that he<br />
could perform with Harrisburg’s orchestra!<br />
But Ed credits four summers of music camp with<br />
his decision to devote his life to music performance<br />
and music teaching.<br />
Ed was drafted<br />
into World War<br />
II soon after his<br />
enrollment as a<br />
music student at<br />
Ithaca College<br />
in 1942. Upon<br />
his return to the<br />
College in 1946, he<br />
was drafted again,<br />
this time to the<br />
Curtis Institute<br />
of Music, by his<br />
bassoon teacher, Edward J. Gobrecht, Jr.<br />
Sol Schoenbach.<br />
Dr. Schoenbach fudged Curtis’ rules by having Ed<br />
admitted at the relatively advanced age of 23 years.<br />
The woodwind faculty at Curtis, who also occupied<br />
the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal woodwind<br />
chairs, were world-renowned in the late 1940s and<br />
consisted of flutist William Kincaid, clarinetist<br />
Robert McGinnes, and oboist Marcel Tabuteau,<br />
in addition to Dr. Schoenbach. Ed received his<br />
performance certificate from Curtis in 1950.<br />
After performing with the orchestras of New<br />
Orleans and Baltimore for nearly 12 years, Ed was<br />
recruited onto the music faculty of Ithaca College<br />
by Dean Craig McHenry in 1962. In comparison<br />
to his two interrupted stays as a student, this tenure<br />
would be a long one. Ed remained on the faculty for<br />
28 years, teaching bassoon and serving as conductor<br />
of the College’s Symphonic Band and, after Walter<br />
Beeler’s retirement, its Concert Band.<br />
While I cannot vouch for his demeanor as a<br />
bassoon teacher, I vividly recall his rehearsals of<br />
the Ithaca College Symphonic Band. Spicing a<br />
smorgasbord of the best teaching methods were<br />
lessons for a lifetime. Two such lessons recurred<br />
frequently and were always heartfelt: First, no<br />
music is worth playing unless it is played musically.<br />
Second, tolerance of mediocrity is a capital offense!<br />
“Gobie’s” students would bear the imprint of his<br />
passion for excellence in music education and<br />
BASSOON, continued on page 8<br />
CAMPAIGN 2009 • NEWS OF NOTE •
Gregory Piszczek’s young organ music career<br />
blossomed last year with his acceptance into<br />
the Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division for the<br />
2009-2010 school year. Primarily an organist,<br />
Gregory has studied privately with American Guild<br />
of Organists member Marjorie Fitz for two years<br />
with merit and need-sensitive awards through the<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Musical Foundation.<br />
Gregory, the son of two Polish immigrants and a<br />
junior at Central Catholic, was hoping for significant<br />
scholarship funds through Juilliard to help cover<br />
the $8,400 tuition for the fall and spring semesters.<br />
Unfortunately, the award from Juilliard Parent<br />
Association covered just over 10% of the cost.<br />
It was at this time his music teacher developed a<br />
new goal for her student. Trading her educator hat<br />
for a development hat, Marjorie’s new charge was<br />
to ensure Gregory’s attendance in the prestigious<br />
Juilliard program. It was a selfless task, as Juilliard<br />
stipulates students in the Pre-College Division must<br />
stop taking lessons from their current music teacher.<br />
Eve Kimball’s childhood flute - now a member of the Operation Replay family!<br />
KIMBALL, continued from page 1<br />
of music. She exchanges holiday cards with a fellow<br />
camper to this day.<br />
Dan and Eve were lab partners at the University of<br />
Virginia Medical School and were married one week<br />
after their graduation. Opportunities available to<br />
both of them at The <strong>Reading</strong> Hospital and Medical<br />
Center lured the couple to <strong>Reading</strong>. Dan served as<br />
the <strong>Reading</strong> Hospital’s Director of Medicine and the<br />
director of its residency program for 15 years. Trained<br />
in internal medicine with specialties in hematology and<br />
oncology, Dan has “retired” into hospice service and<br />
• NEWS OF NOTE • CAMPAIGN 2009<br />
With a Little Help from My Friends<br />
<strong>One</strong> of Marjorie’s<br />
first stops was the<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Musical<br />
Foundation, which<br />
provided significant<br />
funding through<br />
the Colonial Oaks<br />
Parochial School<br />
Program and the<br />
Lee G. & Marian<br />
Kachel Organ Marjorie Fitz & Gregory Piszczek<br />
Scholarship Program.<br />
She and Michael Baal, Dean of the <strong>Reading</strong><br />
Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, shared<br />
Greg’s story with neighbors, family, other local<br />
AGO members and anyone else who would listen!<br />
Marjorie received firsthand advice from Valerie<br />
Strunk, the mother of Orin Strunk, another RMF<br />
scholarship winner and Pre-College Division vocal<br />
student in 2008. Thanks to her tenacity and her<br />
PISZCZEK, continued on page 9<br />
advocacy at the national level for improvements in the<br />
delivery of health care. Humbly claiming that he “can’t<br />
carry a tune,” Dan carries and listens to hundreds of<br />
classical, bluegrass and jazz “tunes” on his iPod.<br />
By establishing their music camp Fellowships<br />
at RMF, Dan and Eve hope to nurture children’s<br />
excitement in music and provide them with an outlet<br />
for their emotions throughout their lifetimes, through<br />
the appreciation of music. It is also a means for them<br />
to say “Thank you!” for the opportunities greater<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> has given them and their three children<br />
Written by C. Thomas Work
Looking back<br />
was eight years old, clutching a half-size violin, the<br />
I very first time the <strong>Reading</strong> Musical Foundation<br />
impacted my life. Having just performed a rousing<br />
rendition of Suzuki Book 4 favorites for an imposing<br />
panel of judges, including Maestro Sidney Rothstein,<br />
former music director of the <strong>Reading</strong> Symphony<br />
Orchestra, I was absolutely beside myself to learn I<br />
had been awarded $25 in the form of a Katherine<br />
N. Quartner - Rita Quartner Herman String<br />
Scholarship. Little did I know that seven years later,<br />
I would be honored with the opportunity to perform<br />
a solo with the RSO under the very same Maestro<br />
Rothstein, as a winner of the <strong>Reading</strong> Symphony<br />
Orchestra League’s Annual Youth Auditions. I gained<br />
further performance experience in Berks County<br />
through the ByndenWood Music Youth Recitals/<br />
Luncheon Series held at the YMCA of <strong>Reading</strong>. I<br />
was again honored by the incredible Berks music<br />
community with an invitation to perform with my<br />
string quartet as the season opener in the Friends<br />
of Chamber Music of <strong>Reading</strong> Concert Series. The<br />
chance to return home in a professional capacity,<br />
revisiting all the individuals and organizations who<br />
had a hand in shaping me as a musician, meant more<br />
to me than I can express.<br />
I owe my early love of chamber music to Peter Brye<br />
and the rest of the wonderful faculty at the Millersville<br />
University Summer Chamber Music Institute. I had<br />
the good fortune to encounter Mr. Brye through the<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Symphony Youth Orchestra, an ensemble<br />
in which I participated from 1996-2003. I distinctly<br />
recall my summers at Millersville as pivotal in my<br />
musical education; I was fascinated by the immediacy<br />
of expression and the new textures introduced to<br />
me in string trios, quartets, and piano quintets and<br />
I was equally fascinated by the fact that hanging out<br />
with friends and making music together all day was<br />
considered a viable career option!<br />
Having laid this solid chamber music foundation<br />
Reflections by Rachel Shapiro<br />
at such an early age, I continued to pursue quartet<br />
playing at various music festivals across the country.<br />
The RMF again came to my assistance in providing<br />
me with the Samuel L. Correnti Scholarship for my<br />
college tuition. In my second year as a performance<br />
major at the Cleveland Institute of Music, I began<br />
reading through enormous stacks of sheet music<br />
with three of my good friends. We began playing<br />
together as the Aeolus Quartet, participating in<br />
CIM’s Intensive Quartet Seminar, led by the Cavani<br />
Quartet and Peter Salaff of the Cleveland Quartet.<br />
Despite our schedules packed with classes, lessons,<br />
and orchestra, we made quartet rehearsal our priority,<br />
often to the chagrin of our academic professors. Our<br />
work paid off this past year, however, as we traveled<br />
to Los Angeles to compete in the 2009 Coleman<br />
Chamber Ensemble Competition and received<br />
the Coleman-Barstow Prize for Strings. We will<br />
begin this fall as the first ever Graduate Quartet-in-<br />
Residence at the University of Texas at Austin, where<br />
we will work closely with the Miro Quartet.<br />
During our Friends of Chamber Music concert on<br />
October 23rd, I had an opportunity to thank everyone<br />
in the Berks music community for their support<br />
and encouragement from the very beginning of my<br />
studies. This concert featured the world premiere<br />
of The Still Point, a seven-movement quartet written<br />
for the Aeolus Quartet by composer and dear friend<br />
Alexandra Bryant. We also presented a special<br />
community outreach program at the Wyomissing<br />
Hills Elementary Center, a place where I myself<br />
spent five memorable years. I hope that we sparked a<br />
passion for music in these students, who are so very<br />
lucky to live in this community that nurtures and<br />
promotes the arts.<br />
Editor’s Note: Rachel is a 2005 graduate of Wyomissing<br />
High School and a long-time recipient of merit awards<br />
through RMF. We wish her and the Aeolus Quartet the<br />
best of luck in their new venture!<br />
CAMPAIGN 2009 • NEWS OF NOTE •
Charting a Course for Successful Conservatory or College Admission<br />
by Gloria dePasquale<br />
Navigating the senior year college application<br />
process is daunting and stressful for students<br />
and families, but even more of a challenge for those<br />
students who want to pursue a career in music. High<br />
school guidance counselors are at a loss for almost<br />
any helpful information and sometimes even studio<br />
teachers are out of date and out of touch with the<br />
requirements and faculty at the major music schools.<br />
The plan I share with you in this article is a plan<br />
that I have successfully used to help my students<br />
and their families find the right fit for their higher<br />
education needs and finances in terms of teacher and<br />
school, but most importantly in terms of finding the<br />
right education for a future musical career.<br />
Often talented and accomplished high school<br />
musicians regard a career in music as one of two<br />
options: performing or teaching. In truth, there are<br />
many other options for successful and rewarding<br />
careers, and the business of music is a booming<br />
educational and occupational arena. However, in this<br />
article, I am focusing on those students who aspire<br />
to performing careers.<br />
GETTING STARTED<br />
Junior year should be devoted to making a huge<br />
“wish list” of schools of interest to the student.<br />
Factors to weigh should be location, size of<br />
school, conservatory versus college or university,<br />
private instructor for the student’s instrumental<br />
concentration, reputation of the school for the goal<br />
of the student, and, of course, cost.<br />
After making the rather broad list, visit<br />
each school’s web site and print out repertoire<br />
requirements for the current year. Then have a frank<br />
discussion with your private instructor concerning<br />
which schools you have or will be able to learn the<br />
repertoire for in the remaining time before your<br />
audition. Many of the more elite conservatories<br />
are now requiring a prescreening CD or DVD (in<br />
order to even secure an audition spot) which are<br />
due December 1st. So, a junior who begins the<br />
school quest in September will have at most 14-15<br />
months in which to learn the repertoire and become<br />
comfortable with it in performance.<br />
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After narrowing the list, examine carefully the<br />
private instructors at each institution of interest.<br />
Begin to e-mail them after right after the audition<br />
season is over (usually by end of February) to try<br />
to line up an introductory visit to the school and a<br />
lesson. I always send a brief introductory e-mail to<br />
the teacher for my student telling him/her that my<br />
student will be contacting them regarding a visit and<br />
possible lesson. In asking for the lesson, it is best<br />
to take the approach that you would like to play<br />
for the teacher to gauge his/her interest in you as a<br />
possible candidate for his/her studio the following<br />
year. It is good to have the first visit during spring<br />
break or sometime before school is out in the late<br />
spring. Often faculty are not in residence during<br />
the summer because they participate in summer<br />
festivals.<br />
VISITATION<br />
Your initial visit should include an official tour of<br />
the school through the admissions office and you<br />
should be proactive in asking questions regarding<br />
scholarships. Are there merit-based scholarships<br />
in addition to financial based ones? Is it possible<br />
to receive an academic and a music scholarship<br />
(colleges/universities)? What percentage of students<br />
receive aid, and of those who receive aid, what<br />
percentage of the total cost is the average award?<br />
Have several contrasting movements of your<br />
college repertoire ready to play at the lesson. The<br />
teacher will be watching and listening to see how<br />
you respond to instruction and will also be making<br />
a mental note of what was said to you. Make sure<br />
to ask what should be improved upon before the<br />
audition if it is not clear to you. This is a lesson for<br />
both the student and teacher to gauge interest and<br />
“fit.”<br />
After several of these spring visits, you may be able<br />
to narrow your list further, or revamp if you’ve aimed<br />
too high or too low in your estimation of where you<br />
have a good chance of being admitted or simply don’t<br />
feel a good fit with the teacher or are uncomfortable<br />
with something else about the school or its location.<br />
COLLEGE, continued on page 8
COLLEGE, continued from page 7<br />
SUMMER BEFORE GRADUATION<br />
Summer before senior year should be spent as much<br />
as possible with your private instructor. Often a<br />
student will go off to a festival and come back very<br />
confused after hearing different assessments of the<br />
college repertoire or his/her basic technique. This<br />
is the time for nitty-gritty hard work in ironing out<br />
all the lumps and bumps with the private instructor<br />
who will be your mentor during the audition<br />
process. Too many cooks spoil the stew at this point!<br />
SENIOR YEAR<br />
Senior year, the student should hit the ground<br />
running with repertoire ready to perform. I hold<br />
monthly master classes where students perform<br />
their complete programs several times in front<br />
of a “friendly but critical” audience of equally<br />
accomplished cellists. They learn to become<br />
comfortable with what is “ready” and learn what<br />
is not yet to the level it must achieve to become<br />
consistent under the glare of the stage lights. Many<br />
students, including my own daughter when she was<br />
working towards conservatory admissions, call up<br />
retirement centers and nursing homes and arrange<br />
to play free concerts for the residents. These recitals<br />
are also wonderful preparation. You don’t want the<br />
conservatory audition to be the first time you’ve<br />
played the program or the first time you’ve tried out<br />
a memorized piece!<br />
In the fall of the senior year, the students should<br />
make second visits to the now handful of schools<br />
on their lists and try to see the teachers once more.<br />
Make copious notes about anything the conservatory<br />
teachers wish to hear differently at the winter<br />
audition. Also make an appointment for your<br />
prescreen recording for early November. That way,<br />
if you are ill, or something doesn’t go quite right<br />
with the first session, you still have time to make a<br />
recording representative of your best efforts. Be sure<br />
to use a professional recording engineer who has top<br />
quality up-to-date equipment. The sound quality of<br />
the recording is of utmost importance.<br />
Make sure to complete and submit all application<br />
materials early and ask private instructors and<br />
others you would like to write recommendations<br />
for you early as well. Be clear on whether the<br />
recommendation letter goes directly to the school or<br />
back to you in a sealed envelope to be sent with all<br />
your admissions materials.<br />
Continue to polish and perform the audition<br />
repertoire in as many concert settings as possible.<br />
By the time the actual auditions roll around in mid-<br />
January through the end of February, you will be<br />
playing your very best and will have done everything<br />
to ensure success.<br />
Editor’s Note: After hearing that Mrs. dePasquale was<br />
coaching a local music student for college auditions,<br />
RMF approached her about sharing her experience<br />
with other students, parents and teachers through our<br />
newsletter. Mrs. dePasquale graciously complied, and<br />
the above article is sure to help a great deal - thank you!<br />
Gloria dePasquale (New England Conservatory, B.M. and M.M.) has<br />
been a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 1977. She serves<br />
on the board of directors for the Philadelphia Orchestra, the League of<br />
American Orchestras and the board of visitors for the New England<br />
Conservatory. Mrs. dePasquale maintains a large private studio in Narbeth.<br />
She is co-artistic director of the Philadelphia Region Youth String<br />
Music and principal lower string coach of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra<br />
and the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra.<br />
CAMPAIGN 2009 • NEWS OF NOTE •
The plaque affixed to the case carrying the Foundation’s new Moosmann bassoon reads: Moosmann<br />
Model 100A bassoon, serial no. 6699, donated to the Work Woodwind Program at the <strong>Reading</strong> Musical<br />
Foundation by C. Thomas Work on July 8, 2009, in honor of Edward J. Gobrecht, Jr., retired Professor of<br />
Music and Bassoon at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY. May the player of this instrument never tolerate mediocrity.<br />
BASSOON, continued from page 4<br />
performance. Those qualities made him a popular<br />
choice to serve as the guest conductor at band<br />
festivals throughout the northeastern United States.<br />
Besides the twinkle in his eyes and his interpersonal<br />
intensity, the fruit of an unrelated skill endeared him<br />
to his students - Ed’s fantastic home-brewed beer!<br />
At age 85, Ed continues to teach a handful of<br />
bassoon students privately in Ithaca, New York.<br />
My short stint as a music education major ended in<br />
2010 Scholarship Program Information Now Available<br />
RMF’s annual scholarship program for 2009-2010<br />
has been announced. A full directory of both<br />
audition-based and need-sensitive awards is available<br />
through the RMF office and on the Foundation’s website<br />
at www.readingmusicalfoundation.org.<br />
The first round of auditions will be held on Sunday,<br />
March 7, 2010, at Immanuel United Church of<br />
Christ in Shillington. These awards are for students<br />
in grades 1-12 on piano, voice, organ, woodwind,<br />
brass, percussion and string.<br />
The second round of auditions will be held on<br />
Saturday, April 17, 2010, at Atonement Lutheran<br />
Church in Wyomissing. Students will compete for<br />
college tuition, high school vocal and Atonement<br />
Bach Scholarship awards.<br />
Need-sensitive awards for summer music camp<br />
• NEWS OF NOTE • CAMPAIGN 2009<br />
the Fall of 1971. But 38 years later, not having seen<br />
Ed Gobrecht since I left Ithaca College, I donated a<br />
new Moosmann bassoon to the instrument-lending<br />
program I started at RMF in 2006, to honor a<br />
man whose lessons have guided me throughout my<br />
lifetime in tasks far removed from music. I proudly<br />
share the brand of thousands of Ithaca College’s<br />
music students whose lives were enriched by a<br />
master of his craft, Ed Gobrecht.<br />
scholarships, private music study and instrument<br />
upgrades are also listed in the directory. New for<br />
2009-2010 are the Full Circle Music Society Acoustic<br />
Music Study Award and the Gladys & Carl Jensen<br />
Summer Camp Fellowships.<br />
The scholarship program includes instrument<br />
awards where students can play a professional or<br />
preprofessional level instrument for a period of up to<br />
two years at no cost. Instrument awards that will be<br />
available during the first round of auditions include a<br />
Haynes flute (for students in grades 10-11), a Yahama<br />
flute or ownership of a Yamaha piccolo (for students<br />
in grades 7-9), a Yamaha clarinet (for students in<br />
grades 7-11) and a Moosmann bassoon (for students<br />
in grades 7-11). Instrument awards are made by adjudicators<br />
to the student deemed most worthy.
RMF and Our Community Lose Two Dedicated Volunteers<br />
We mourn the loss<br />
of two former<br />
1977. She was a founding<br />
member of the Berks<br />
officers of the <strong>Reading</strong><br />
Genealogical Society.<br />
Musical Foundation,<br />
A certified public<br />
both stalwart volunteers<br />
accountant with Ernst<br />
in our community. They<br />
& Young, LLP for 36<br />
are Ruth S. MacRae,<br />
years, Dick Tschiderer<br />
who died on May 30,<br />
served as RMF’s<br />
2008, and Richard A.<br />
sixth president, from<br />
Tschiderer, who died on<br />
September 25, 2009.<br />
Ruth S. MacRae Richard A. Tschiderer 1989 until 1991, and<br />
oversaw the process in<br />
Ruth MacRae served as RMF’s volunteer secretary which Ruth MacRae participated. Until then, the<br />
from June 1981 until the summer of 1992. Her presidents of RMF’s affiliates were also trustees of<br />
meticulous minutes of board and committee<br />
the Foundation and participated in the process of<br />
meetings, scrapbooks and other records contributed appropriating contributions from the public. The<br />
greatly toward a chapter in the Foundation’s history, efforts of Dick, Ruth and others culminated during<br />
Vision, Conviction and Compassion: 80 Years of the the term of RMF’s seventh president, Don Bristol,<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Musical Foundation. A Phi Beta Kappa when the presidents of RMF’s affiliates were excused<br />
graduate of Syracuse University, Ruth participated from RMF’s board and replaced with the Funded<br />
with fellow trustees Louise Dreisbach, Lee Kachel, Organizations Advisory Committee under Dr. Tom<br />
Harold Perkins and Kim Webster in the early<br />
Souders’ leadership. To this day, that committee,<br />
1990s on the Strategic Long-Range Planning<br />
consisting of representatives of RMF’s affiliates and<br />
Committee that advanced governance practices at of RMF, coordinates a common concert calendar<br />
RMF and redefined the Foundation’s relationship and serves as a clearinghouse for problems RMF’s<br />
to its music performing affiliates and the Star Series affiliates share, such as audience replenishment.<br />
Association.<br />
Dick was a member of the board of trustees of<br />
Ruth served on the staff of the Wyomissing Public Alvernia University, formerly Alvernia College, and<br />
Library, was a member of its board of trustees, and served as treasurer of Wyomissing Borough.<br />
wrote a history of the Library that was published in<br />
Written by C. Thomas Work<br />
PISZCZEK, continued from page 5<br />
own personal generosity, she secured the full tuition<br />
needed to pay for Gregory’s fall semester.<br />
The Pre-College Division meets every Saturday<br />
from September through May at the Juilliard School<br />
in New York City. In addition to their private<br />
lessons, all students in the Pre-College Division<br />
take a weekly theory class and a weekly solfège (eartraining)<br />
class. Gregory studies with Dr. Matthew<br />
Lewis, a Juilliard faculty member since 1993. Dr.<br />
Lewis is also the organist and director of music for<br />
the Church of the Incarnation in New York City. In<br />
addition to Juilliard, he is also an adjunct professor<br />
at Westminster Choir College.<br />
HOW TO HELP:<br />
A benefit concert will be held at Christ United<br />
Church of Christ (4870 Kutztown Road, Temple)<br />
on Sunday, February 7, 2010, at 3:00 PM. Gregory<br />
will be performing a number of organ works on the<br />
program, which will include featured performances<br />
by vocalists Brian Gibson and Katherine Aregood<br />
Crusi. Patrons for the concert are welcome; please<br />
contact Christ Church (610) 929-2020 or the<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Musical Foundation at (610) 376-3395 for<br />
contribution information. A freewill offering will<br />
also be received at the concert. All proceeds will help<br />
to offset Gregory’s spring tuition payment.<br />
CAMPAIGN 2009 • NEWS OF NOTE • 9
Give Shear a Home and Help Send a Musician to Summer Music Camp!<br />
Jewelry Raffle<br />
$5/Ticket<br />
Purchase tickets through the<br />
RMF Office at (610) 376-3395<br />
or at Goggleworks Second Sunday on December 13<br />
DRAWING: JANUARY 15, 2010<br />
Proceeds to provide a summer camp fellowship for 2010<br />
“SHEAR” CLARINET KEY BROOCH - Sterling Silver,<br />
Nickel Silver, Brass, Vintage Clarinet Keys, Epoxy<br />
Resin, Patina. 1.5 x 3.25 x 0.5” Retail Value $400.<br />
Created by Lisa & Scott Cylinder<br />
No playable instruments were harmed to make Shear!<br />
THE STORY OF SHEAR<br />
We began our exploration of musical instruments in 2007. Our daughter, a student clarinetist, piqued our<br />
interest in the instrument. By purchasing old clarinets to refurbish she could “upgrade” her instrument. We<br />
would buy one, fix it up, and if she liked that one better than the one she was currently playing, she would keep<br />
it and we would sell the old instrument. And so the cycle and our self-education began.<br />
Before an orchestra trip abroad, we purchased a real “junker” for our daughter with the intent of her learning<br />
to do repairs on her own. She disassembled the horn, and there it sat for months. We would look at it<br />
occasionally, wondering when she was going to put it back together. It never happened. Instead, we began to<br />
take a serious look at the parts.<br />
The materials, nickel silver, brass, grenadilla wood, were all materials we were already familiar with in our<br />
previous work. The shapes and mechanics were new and fresh and intrigued us. We began to deconstruct and<br />
reconstruct the parts we had from this one instrument. <strong>One</strong> thing led to another and today we continue to<br />
experiment and explore using clarinets as well as saxophones, oboes, cellos, flutes, etc.<br />
ABOUT THE ARTISTS<br />
Lisa and Scott Cylinder began collaborating in 1988, shortly after graduating from prominent university<br />
jewelry programs. They have created limited production studio multiples under the auspices of Chickenscratch<br />
for the past 21 years. Ten years into their venture, they craved a greater technical and creative challenge and<br />
began making one-of-a-kind pieces under “L and S Cylinder” in addition to their studio multiples. This jewelry<br />
is more substantial and more serious, both in concept and execution. To view more pieces of their work, visit<br />
their website at www.lisandscottcylinder.com.<br />
MOUNTAIN FOLK, continued from page 2<br />
Foundation, is using his experience, talent and generosity to share folk music with a new generation. His family<br />
recently established the David L. Kline Family Mountain Folk Scholarship fund, which provides private music<br />
study and instrument upgrade scholarships to guitarists and banjoists of any age. In keeping with his longstanding<br />
tradition, students must be committed to American folk music.<br />
“The Mountain Folk Fund has taken a lot of the revenue from the show and channeled it into a fund that will<br />
then be given to students who study any form of acoustic guitar or banjo…the point is, maybe next year, I won’t<br />
be able to do a show anymore. Maybe my life circumstances will change, I don’t know. None of us knows. So if<br />
this is the swan song, then there is going to be something left behind so people can still come to the mountain<br />
in some sense,” said Dave, in a recent issue of Bluegrass magazine.<br />
The Mountain Folk Music Band recently released its seventh CD, Music from the Mountain Folk Homeplace,<br />
which features eight original songs and four lively cover songs.<br />
10 • NEWS OF NOTE • CAMPAIGN 2009
200 -2009 Donations Gifts through September 1, 2009<br />
CORPORATE LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($5,000)<br />
Colonial Oaks Foundation<br />
Dopkin-Singer-Dannenberg Foundation<br />
East Penn Manufacturing Co., Inc.<br />
Henry Janssen Foundation<br />
M&T Charitable Foundation<br />
PA Council on the Arts<br />
Penske Truck Leasing, Inc.<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Eagle Company<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Music Teachers Association<br />
The Wyomissing Foundation, Inc.<br />
VIST Financial Corp.<br />
WEEU Broadcasting, Inc.<br />
CORPORATE VISIONARY ($2,500+)<br />
The Anderson Group<br />
Pagoda Printing<br />
Stevens & Lee<br />
The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
CORPORATE ADVOCATE ($1000+)<br />
Atonement Lutheran Church<br />
Music Educators of Berks County<br />
VA Productions, Inc.<br />
CORPORATE BENEFACTOR ($500+)<br />
Admixtures, Inc.<br />
Automotive Service, Inc.<br />
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus<br />
Blue Mountain Foundation<br />
Brenntag Northeast, Inc.<br />
Carpenter Technology<br />
James E. Fegley Violin Shop<br />
Lorish Marketing Group<br />
R. M. Palmer Company<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Chapter, American Guild of<br />
Organists<br />
Tray-Pak Corporation<br />
Waterfall Gardens<br />
Weik Investment Services, Inc.<br />
Yuasa Battery, Inc.<br />
CORPORATE PATRON ($300+)<br />
Scrolls & Strings Violin House<br />
Sovereign Center/SMG<br />
Stereo Barn<br />
CORPORATE DONOR ($125+)<br />
Berks Hematology-Oncology<br />
Associates Ltd.<br />
Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church<br />
Chris Talarico & Assoc., Inc.<br />
Fecera’s Furniture<br />
Lukens Construction Company<br />
Offset Impressions, Inc.<br />
Yocum Institute for Arts Education<br />
CORPORATE FRIENDS ($5+)<br />
Let’s Dance Orchestra<br />
Rabenold Koestel Scheidt<br />
Sweet Street Desserts, Inc.<br />
Woman’s Club of Muhlenberg<br />
Women’s Lifecycles, P.C.<br />
PUBLIC LEADERSHIP CIRCLE ($5,000+)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bengtson<br />
Eve & Dan Kimball<br />
Paul R. Roedel<br />
Tom & Dianne Work<br />
Anonymous<br />
PUBLIC VISIONARY ($2,500+)<br />
Marlin & Ginger Miller<br />
Eric & Jayne Schaeffer<br />
The Rosalye Levine & Richard Yashek<br />
Fund of BCCF<br />
PUBLIC ADVOCATE ($1,000+)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Andrew Maier, II<br />
J. Marc & Martha Aynardi<br />
Cynthia & Jim Boscov<br />
Elizabeth Cooper<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce L. Dietrich<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Frank C. Henderson<br />
Sidney & Barbara Kline<br />
Ollie & Natalie Koehler<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Kreitz<br />
Alma & Edwin Lakin<br />
Sydney & Gerald Malick<br />
Eric & Georganne Moyer<br />
Elizabeth Norcott<br />
Phyllis Peters<br />
Mrs. William K. Runyeon<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Souders<br />
David & Martha Swartz<br />
Stratton & Susie Yatron<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William Yeich<br />
Kristen & Peter Zacharias<br />
Anonymous<br />
PUBLIC BENEFACTOR ($500+)<br />
Carl & Holly Altenderfer<br />
Michael & Linda Anderson<br />
Bruce & Dawn Bachofer<br />
David and Rosemary Bestwick<br />
The Breidegam Family Foundation<br />
Mr. Brian J. Bubnis<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Carlino<br />
Doris F. Cosgrove<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Cedric N. Elmer<br />
The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. George S. Fitz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. E. Terry Groff<br />
June Gwyn<br />
Charles F. Harenza<br />
Vincent and Donna Hartnett<br />
Dr. & Mrs. J. Frederick Hiehle<br />
Mark & Carol Hornberger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael D. Hughes<br />
Lee G. & Elain Bertolet-Kachel<br />
May & Leon Kaplan<br />
Ed & Sandy Kern<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Kindig<br />
Kraines/Hoffman Charitable<br />
Fund of BCCF<br />
Kevin E. & Karen F. Longenecker<br />
Carole & Jack Lusch<br />
Thomas M. & Anne L. Overly-Moll<br />
Art Moore<br />
David & Dail Richie<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John F. Russo<br />
James M. Savage<br />
Jill M. Scheidt & Christopher R. Heslop<br />
Margaret A. Schuhmann<br />
Mrs. Margaret K. Schumo<br />
Barbara Spangeberg<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Thren<br />
Karen & John Tripolitis<br />
Charles & Anne Weiser<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Philip D. Wolfe<br />
Anonymous<br />
PUBLIC PATRON ($250+)<br />
Robert & Barbara Aregood<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Richard C. Baumbach<br />
Calvin & Ruth Bossler<br />
Carl & Christie Botterbusch<br />
Nicholas & Conchinta Braun<br />
Josee & Javier Cevallos<br />
Irvin & Lois E. Cohen<br />
Richard J. Jr. & Jane L. Cole<br />
Anne G. Constein<br />
Dr. Carl F. Constein<br />
VADM & Mrs. D. L. Cooper<br />
Rick Dietrich<br />
Harry & Esther Dunkelberger<br />
Sara S. Flowers<br />
Hazel H. Geracimos<br />
Mildred & Ivan H. Gordon<br />
Martha L. Hafer<br />
Rachel F. Herb<br />
Robert & Gail Hoch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J.F. Horrigan, Jr<br />
Meda Kern<br />
Frank & Dee Kiehne<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Burton Kominick<br />
Nancy S. Lawson<br />
June T. Lessig<br />
Lisa & Steve Longenecker<br />
Jeffrey Milkins<br />
Bob & Robin Miller<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth W. Miller<br />
Glenn & Jane Moyer<br />
Bob & Jean Norris<br />
Dr. & Mrs. C.S. Orquiza<br />
Henry & Janet Peters<br />
Tim Raub<br />
Amy H. & The Rev. Thomas H. Reinsel<br />
Larry & Allison Rotenberg<br />
M. J. Sawers<br />
Paul & Jessie Schell<br />
Linda Sensenig<br />
Thomas E. Shultz<br />
Mike Simmons<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Barton L. Smith<br />
Dr. and Mrs. John P. Stelmach<br />
James & Louise Stoudt<br />
Linda Tomlinson<br />
Peg and Bill Walter<br />
Kim Webster & Stacey Shannon<br />
Janice H. Wolfe<br />
Anonymous<br />
PUBLIC SPONSOR ($150+)<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Gene W. Aulenbach<br />
Cynthia Miller-Aungst<br />
Don & Chris Bristol<br />
The Rev. & Mrs. J. Raymond Brubaker<br />
Peter & Jane Brye<br />
Dr. C. Harold & Ruth K. Cohn<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Stuart S. Cohn<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Francis R. Deitrich<br />
CAMPAIGN 2009 • NEWS OF NOTE • 11
200 -2009 Donations Gifts through September 1, 2009<br />
Caroline Dunford<br />
Charles & June Dunn<br />
The Shapiro Family<br />
Beulah Fehr<br />
Jill & Steve Forst<br />
Phillip & Rosemary Fraley<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Harold Fries<br />
Diane L. Gaul<br />
Warren & Ina Grapenthin<br />
Clair E. Gross<br />
Steven Hahn<br />
Terry & Ginny Hand<br />
William & Dorothy Hartman<br />
John & Priscilla Hirschenhofer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. E. Robert Hottenstein<br />
Mark A. Kilpatrick<br />
Robin and Bill Koch, CPA<br />
Jeraldine & David Kozloff<br />
Mr. Irvin M. Loose<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Kurt L. Lorah<br />
Cissy Marabella<br />
Robert Bruce McLean<br />
Mrs. Judith K. Merkel<br />
Douglas Messinger<br />
Dee & Joe Miller<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey S. Mitgang<br />
Janet & James Neel<br />
Clair & Jeanne Noll<br />
Robert & Yvonne Oppenheimer<br />
John & Shirley Palmer<br />
Richard & Nedra Patrick<br />
Mrs. Mary V. Pendleton<br />
George and Debbie Pyle<br />
Curtis V. Rapp<br />
Donald & Marie Reber<br />
Gladys M. Rentschler<br />
Kristen Sandel, MD<br />
Katherine A. Savadelis<br />
Donald & Nancy Schwartz<br />
Al Seifarth<br />
Jane H. Sheetz<br />
Robert & Susan Showalter<br />
Mark Smith & Lisa Peterson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Smith<br />
Nancy L. Snyder<br />
Geoffrey & Judith Stoudt<br />
Julia Nazimov Swan<br />
Ailyn Terada<br />
David & Cynthia Texter<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Richard A. Tschiderer<br />
Gene & Madlyn Umbenhouer<br />
Richard & Elizabeth Wells<br />
Francis & Lynn Williamson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Williamson, Jr.<br />
Michael and Mary Wolfe<br />
Elizabeth C. Wolfe<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Stratton P. Yatron<br />
Anonymous<br />
PUBLIC DONOR ($75+)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Russell Angstadt<br />
Carol M. Aulenbach<br />
Michael A. Baal<br />
Dr. Daniel & Dr. Elaine Balkiewicz<br />
Harriet M. Baskin<br />
Robert & Lorraine Bell<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John V. Berry<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Carroll Bitting<br />
Irene C. Blatt<br />
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Mrs. Daniel Bollman<br />
Dan & Ute Boyer<br />
Rebecca Brenner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Briskin<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Brown<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Morris Brown<br />
Peter & Sharon Calder<br />
Alexander Cameron IV<br />
Mary Jo Cannizzaro<br />
Mary A. Capallo<br />
Mr. & Mrs. LeRoy A. Christman<br />
Bill & Susan Coughlin<br />
R. Cunnius<br />
Jane & Chris deGruchy<br />
Daniel & Barbara Downing<br />
Suzie & John Ernesto<br />
Marc & Marcia Filstein<br />
R. Jean Forry<br />
Ken & Ann Fox<br />
Mrs. Nancy R. Gardner<br />
Drs. P.L. Garrett<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Gerace<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James A. Gilmartin<br />
Tom & Penny Golden<br />
Matthew Goldstan<br />
Donald K. Gordon<br />
Deborah Greenawald & David Lawton<br />
Peggy & Mike Gumpert<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John F. Hampson<br />
Thomas P. Handwerk<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Harold Hehr<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John H. Henninger<br />
Gail Hesser<br />
The Himes Family<br />
Brian & Fianna Holt<br />
Garrett & Joann Hyneman<br />
Robin Costenbader-Jacobson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence E. Jones, Sr.<br />
James J. Kase<br />
Michael & Gayle Kastenbaum<br />
David Keen<br />
Kenneth & Kristel Kemmerer<br />
Doris Ketner<br />
Anton & Diana Kleiner<br />
Diane LaBelle<br />
Robert & Diane Lilarose<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Linderman<br />
Frank & Stella Macey<br />
Kathern & Ernie Marshall<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Howard R. Maxwell<br />
Doris & John Mazzacca<br />
Mr. & Mrs. John Mazzo<br />
Mr. & Mrs. George M. Meiser, IX<br />
Robert H. Melson<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Roy A. Mervine<br />
Charles W. Miller &<br />
Michelle Hettinger-Miller<br />
Deborah Miller<br />
Janice S. Miller<br />
Jeanne D. Miller<br />
Bill & Sandie Mills<br />
Lee & Joy Moyer<br />
Sharlene & Allen Moyer<br />
Dr. Robert L. Mulligan<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Leon Myers<br />
Jane Masters Nase<br />
Nancy O’Neill<br />
Mrs. Ruth Overholser<br />
The Oxholm Family<br />
Lottie & Walter Pascoe<br />
Darrell & Mary Phillips<br />
Mike and Nancy Poole<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Hugh Quigley<br />
David & Jane Reese<br />
Larry & Linda Rentschler<br />
Jim & Nancy Rhoads<br />
Scott, Max and Andrew Rhoads<br />
Jay & Diane Roberts<br />
William P. Sandel<br />
Helen Schell<br />
Wendy Holt Schmehl<br />
Dr. & Mrs. John Scully<br />
Margaret Seitzinger<br />
Dr. & Mrs. David Setley<br />
Nathan & Keri Shultz<br />
Dr. John Shuman<br />
Carol Siegel<br />
Willard & Ruth Smith<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J. Richard Smoker<br />
Dr. Martin & Julia Spangler<br />
Tom & Janice Szilli<br />
Jim & Donnasue Thompson<br />
Laree Trollinger<br />
Gerald & Joanne Wagner<br />
Mr. J. Richard Wagner<br />
The Walsh Family<br />
Lillian S. Walter<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Oscar W. Weber<br />
Gail F. Weimer<br />
Mr. & Mrs. William I. Wenrich<br />
Myrtle M. Wieand<br />
Caryl & Gary Wilkinson<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Randall S. Winn<br />
Jane M. Wolfe<br />
Sharon P. Woods<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Work<br />
Mary Alice Wotring<br />
Eleanore M. Youse<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Ziegenfuss<br />
Anonymous<br />
PUBLIC FRIEND (5+)<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Andre<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Benedict<br />
Mary Alice and Nick Bentz<br />
Antoinette & Juanita Bereczki<br />
Donna & Dick Brooks<br />
Kathleen A. Brown<br />
Walter R. Christ<br />
Gail & Greg Colahan<br />
Mrs. Raymond Comess<br />
John T. & Marian Connelly<br />
Dr. & Mrs. Paul C. Davis<br />
Bonnie Jo DeCarlo<br />
Pat Diefenderfer<br />
Rosemarie Dunkleberger<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Rod Eaken<br />
Donald & June Ellis<br />
Richard B. Feicht<br />
Elaine and Kenneth Fernandez<br />
Catherine R. Fox<br />
Jim & Elaine Fox<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Furrow<br />
William & Patricia Gault<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Hamilton<br />
Richard & Nancy Hampton<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bart Hannahoe<br />
Marianne & Roger Hertz
200 -2009 Donations Gifts through September 1, 2009<br />
Harold & Gloria Hetrich<br />
Jeanette M. Hettinger<br />
Paul & Kate Hoh<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Marlin Houck<br />
Robert & Karen Houle<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Lee W. Hummel<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Joffred<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Juckem<br />
Bob & Kay Kalbach<br />
Cindy and Dave Kercher<br />
Marlin & Debra Kerchner<br />
Suzanne & Larry Kirk<br />
Kermit, Bonnie & Amy Kleinsmith<br />
Howard R. Kline<br />
Mr. and Mrs. James Kurtz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. C.B. LePage, Jr.<br />
Mrs. Ruth Levan<br />
Robin Lilarose<br />
Mr. & Mrs. A.C. Lipawen<br />
Sue Loewenstein<br />
Jeanne Luckenbill<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Russell C. Marker<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James McCartney<br />
Patricia McMahon<br />
Larry & Dawn Medaglia<br />
The Rev. Charles & Geri Nease<br />
Barbara Nothstein<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Ollendorf<br />
Fred & Jan Opalinski<br />
Michael D. & Mary Alice Palm<br />
Margaret Patch<br />
Harold & Jeanne Perkins<br />
Phyllis B. Petrak<br />
Ruth B. Potteiger<br />
Barbara A. Rentz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Rochelle<br />
Mrs. Claire Roth<br />
Marilyn L. Ruffner<br />
Peter & Leigh Rye<br />
Douglas Samsel<br />
William & Nancy Sanders<br />
Frank & Janet Sands<br />
Margaret T. Schade<br />
Laura K. Seip<br />
Ruth Shaffer<br />
Robert R. Sharetts<br />
Mark & Aimee Shober<br />
Christine & Dale Shuey<br />
Richard & Janet Sillhart<br />
Caroline L. Simonson<br />
Anna Stroback<br />
J. Richard Strunk<br />
Len & Robin Stump<br />
Jim & Joan Sutton<br />
Noël Bausher Szundy<br />
Eleanor J. Trimbur<br />
Kathleen A. Wagner<br />
Scott & Donna Wainwright<br />
Blair Weaver<br />
Ronald & Shirley Weitzel<br />
Marianne Westendorp<br />
Edward Wiswesser<br />
Stewart & Sandra Wolf<br />
James and Marie Wong<br />
Albert Wynosky<br />
George H. & Catherine A. Ziegler<br />
Anonymous<br />
Scholarship & Restricted Gifts<br />
SCHOLARSHIP GIFTS<br />
American Guild of Organists Scholarship<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Chapter, American Guild of<br />
Organists<br />
Atonement Bach Scholarship<br />
Atonement Lutheran Church<br />
Bruce P. Bengtson Keyboard & Organ Fund<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bengtson<br />
Peter J. Brye Cello & Harp Fund<br />
Peter & Jane Brye<br />
Ann L. Cusano & Kim Webster<br />
Double Reed Scholarship<br />
Lee G. & Elain Bertolet - Kachel<br />
Kim Webster & Stacy Shannon<br />
James E. Fegley Orchestral String<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
James E. Fegley Violin Shop<br />
George Haage Scholarship Fund of RMTA<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Music Teachers Association<br />
Donald Hinkle Fund<br />
Berks Classical Children’s Chorus<br />
Bill & Susan Coughlin<br />
David & Dail Richie<br />
Michael and MaryWolfe<br />
Gladys and Carl Jensen<br />
Summer Music Camp Fellowships<br />
Eve & Dan Kimball<br />
Lee G. & Marian Kachel Organ Fund<br />
Lee G. & Elain Bertolet - Kachel<br />
David L. Kline Family Mountain Folk<br />
Scholarship Fund<br />
Meda Kern<br />
The David L. Kline Family<br />
Non-Specific Student Fund<br />
Robert & Barbara Aregood<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Bruce P. Bengtson<br />
Rebecca Brenner<br />
East Penn Manufacturing<br />
Mr. & Mrs. J.F. Horrigan, Jr<br />
Phillip & Rosemary Fraley<br />
The Rev. Dr. & Mrs. George S. Fitz<br />
James J. Kase<br />
Doris Ketner<br />
Mr. & Mrs. James McCartney<br />
Jeffrey Milkins<br />
Larry & Linda Rentschler<br />
Mark & Aimee Shober<br />
Anonymous<br />
Lewis “Skip” Norcott Scholarship Fund<br />
Elizabeth Norcott<br />
Anonymous<br />
Ruth & Spencer Overholser Fund<br />
Mary Capallo<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Douglas Linderman<br />
Anonymous<br />
Solomon Frank and Phyllis E. Peters<br />
Oboe & Harp Scholarship Fund<br />
Phyllis Peters<br />
Tom & Dianne Work<br />
Elaine Bausher Post Scholarship<br />
Noël Bausher Szundy<br />
Willis M. Rapp Percussion Fund<br />
East Penn Manufacturing<br />
Anonymous<br />
Runyeon Piano Scholarship Fund<br />
Mrs. William K. Runyeon<br />
Jill Scheidt & Chris Heslop Jazz Fund<br />
Jill M. Scheidt & Christopher Heslop<br />
Helen Smith Scholarship Fund of RMTA<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Music Teachers Association<br />
Isabel W. Sondheim Memorial Scholarship<br />
An anonymous donation in honor of<br />
Don Reber<br />
Ann W. Souders Fund<br />
Anne G. Constein<br />
Dr. Carl F. Constein<br />
Summer Camp Fellowships<br />
Eve & Dan Kimball<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen J. Kindig<br />
Ollie & Natalie Koehler<br />
<strong>Reading</strong> Music Teachers Association<br />
Tom & Dianne Work<br />
Anonymous<br />
VA Productions Drum Major Camp Fund<br />
VA Productions, Inc.<br />
Work Family Woodwind Fund<br />
Carol M. Aulenbach<br />
Tom & Dianne Work<br />
Wyomissing Foundation Middle School<br />
Brass Program<br />
The Wyomissing Foundation, Inc.<br />
RESTRICTED GIFTS<br />
Colonial Oaks Foundation<br />
Parochial School Initiative<br />
Colonial Oaks Foundation<br />
Rush and June Gwyn RSYO<br />
Fellowship Fund<br />
June Gwyn<br />
M&T Bank “Music & Teamwork”<br />
Instrument Program<br />
M&T Bank Charitable Foundaion<br />
Music Educators of Berks County<br />
Summer Camp Fellowship Program<br />
Music Educators of Berks County<br />
Music in the Schools<br />
Rachel Herb MIS Fund of RMF<br />
Henry Janssen Foundation<br />
Operation Replay<br />
Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church<br />
Tim Raub<br />
Sweet Street Desserts, Inc.<br />
VIST Financial Mileage for Music Program<br />
VIST Financial Corp.<br />
Rosalye & Richard Yashek<br />
Electronic Composition Program<br />
The Rosalye Levine & Richard Yashek<br />
Fund of BCCF<br />
Olivet Boys & Girls Club<br />
Outreach Programs<br />
Colonial Oaks Foundation<br />
Eric & Georganne Moyer<br />
The Wachovia Wells Fargo Foundation<br />
Tom & Dianne Work<br />
CAMPAIGN 2009 • NEWS OF NOTE • 1
200 -2009 Donations Gifts through September 1, 2009<br />
In memory of Josephine Eaken<br />
Louis and Grace Andre<br />
Patrick and Paula Barrett<br />
Jean S. Beaver<br />
Ruth Anne Bengtson<br />
Margaret Bobb<br />
Margaret Boyadjian<br />
Mary Capallo<br />
David & Joy Darkes<br />
Mr. & Mrs. David De Long<br />
Good Shepherd UCC Senior Choir<br />
Mrs. Carol Hake<br />
Rachel F. Herb<br />
Violet Hoffmaster<br />
In memory of J. Carl Borelli by Let’s Dance Orchestra<br />
In memory of Madeline “Molly” Borelli by Henry & Janet Peters<br />
In memory of Sara J. Cohn by Dr. & Mrs. Stuart S. Cohn<br />
In memory of Sara Joseph Cohn by The Shapiro Family<br />
In memory of Abigail Downing by Daniel & Barbara Downing<br />
In memory of Wes Fisher by Mr. & Mrs. Marlin Houck<br />
In memory of Nicholas G. Geracimos by Hazel H. Geracimos<br />
In memory of Rush C. Gwyn by June Gwyn<br />
In memory of Ruth E. Gross by Mr. & Mrs. Claire E. Gross<br />
In memory of Marguerette Hettinger by Jeanette M. Hettinger<br />
In memory of Yori Kitagawa by the Shapiro Family<br />
In memory of Mr. and Mrs. William E. Maier by Mr. & Mrs. Maier, II<br />
In memory of Ruth MacRae from John & Jane Sinclair<br />
In memory of Ruth MacRae from Tom & Dianne Work<br />
In memory of Harold Nazimov by Julia Nazimov Swan<br />
In memory of J. Spencer Overholser by Mary A. Capallo<br />
In memory of Spencer Overholser by an anonymous donor<br />
In memory of W. Edward and Olive Overly by<br />
Thomas M. & Anne L. Overly-Moll<br />
In memory of Elaine Bausher Post by Phyllis B. Petrak<br />
In memory of Elaine Bausher Post by Noël Bausher Szundy<br />
In memory of Loretta Rapp by Curtis Rapp<br />
In memory of Christina M. Savage by James M. Savage<br />
In memory of Edith Scornavacchi by Lisa & Steve Longenecker<br />
In memory of Willis Snyder by the Rev. Dr. & Mrs. George S. Fitz<br />
In memory of Edna Frantz Springer by Gail Hesser<br />
In memory of Edna Springer by Jeanne Luckenbill<br />
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Memorial & Honor Gifts<br />
Terrence and Irene James<br />
Mrs. Elizabeth Jennings<br />
James Lentz & Gail Ebersole-Lentz<br />
William & Linda Lucas<br />
Denise Madeira<br />
John and Ann McGlinn<br />
Jane and Warren Miller<br />
Christie Mills<br />
William Mills<br />
Mrs. Ann Petrie & Elizabeth Jennings<br />
Barbara & David Regar<br />
Albert Schantz<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Schmidt<br />
2010 Artists of Tomorrow Concert<br />
Featuring 2009 RMF Scholarship Winners<br />
Sunday, January 10, 2010<br />
Immanuel United Church of Christ, Shillington<br />
3:00 PM<br />
Free Concert!<br />
John & Marcia Schreffler<br />
Jim and Kathy Snyder<br />
The Swift Group at Merrill Lynch<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Donald Witman<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Peter Wolfe<br />
Janice H. Wolfe<br />
Cindy and Tom Wotring<br />
In memory of Robert Lilarose<br />
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Buterbaugh<br />
Don Kinnier & Judy Townsend<br />
Tom MacAloon<br />
Vitalistic Theraputic Charter School<br />
Robert & Mary Hoyer<br />
In memory of Paul and Evelyn Strunk by J. Richard Strunk<br />
In memory of James Troutman by an anonymous donor<br />
In memory of Richard Wright by Mark A. Kilpatrick<br />
In honor of Raymond Austin by Michael & Gayle Kastenbaum<br />
In honor of Dr. Cynthia DiBuono by Michael & Gayle Kastenbaum<br />
In honor of Linda & Bob Hocking by the Walsh Family<br />
In honor of Drs. C. Eve J. & Daniel B. Kimball, Jr.<br />
by Tom & Dianne Work<br />
In honor of Bill Maier by Mr. & Mrs. C.B. LePage, Jr.<br />
In honor of Kristen and Terrance McGlinn by Tom & Dianne Work<br />
In honor of Bruce & Julie Osterhont by Fred & Jan Opalinski<br />
In honor of Phyllis Peters from Tom & Dianne Work<br />
In honor of the RMF Board & Staff by Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey Mitgang<br />
In honor of William Sandel by Kristen Sandel, MD<br />
In honor of Jill Scheidt by Mr. & Mrs. Bruce L. Dietrich<br />
In honor of Rachel & Tim Shapiro by the Shapiro Family<br />
In honor of Don & Sally Simmons by Mike Simmons<br />
In honor of Stage Right Productions: John Ernesto,<br />
John Graff, Cat Davis, Mike Anderson, Gary Spencer by<br />
Nancy O’Neill<br />
In honor of Julia K. Walsh by Anna Stroback<br />
In honor of C. Thomas Work by Mr. & Mrs. James A. Gilmartin<br />
In honor of Mr. Tom Work by Henry & Janet Peters<br />
In honor of C. Thomas Work by Charles & Anne Weiser<br />
In honor of Thomas B. & Katharine A. Work<br />
by Tom & Dianne Work
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2 Last name of the Baroque composer who developed the<br />
fundamentals of four-part harmony.<br />
7 Last name of the Chair of Kutztown University's Music<br />
Department for whom RMF's percussion scholarship is<br />
named.<br />
8 Organizations supported by RMF.<br />
9 Wrote "Heritage of Honor," commissioned to celebrate<br />
RMF's 80th anniversary.<br />
13 Last name, composer who wrote "Adagio for Strings."<br />
14 Ice cream flavor and colorful chord consisting of a minor<br />
third and a minor sixth.<br />
17 First name of RMF's longest-tenured trustee.<br />
19 First president of RMF.<br />
21 Last name of the chairman of RMF's finance committee.<br />
24 Another word for "colorful" and a musical scale consisting of<br />
13 notes, inclusive of the octave.<br />
25 Late 19th/early 20th-century Austrian composer who wrote<br />
nine symphonies.<br />
26 First instrument donated to RMF's merit lending program.<br />
27 First name of RMF's Executive Director.<br />
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1 This RMF affiliate premiered "Der Haahne Greht."<br />
2 RMF's longest-tenured president.<br />
3 First name of BCCC's Executive Director.<br />
4 First RMF scholarship named for living music teachers.<br />
5 Latest instrument donated to RMF's merit lending program.<br />
6 "Theme and __________," a musical form.<br />
10 First name of the RSO's Executive Director.<br />
11 Randall ________, a former Director of the Curtis Institute<br />
of Music who wrote "Alleluia."<br />
12 The "king of instruments."<br />
15 "Devil's interval," tamed by Leonard Bernstein in the<br />
opening interval of "Maria."<br />
16 Music teacher who established the Berks Summer Band<br />
Institute, an RMF program.<br />
18 Honored by RMF's commission of "Music in the Wings," by<br />
Robert Maggio.<br />
20 First name of RMF's new Board Chair.<br />
22 A common musical interval, the higher note of which is twice<br />
the frequency of the bottom note.<br />
23 Three-note chord built upon a root, third and fifth.<br />
The answer key are posted on the RMF website at www.readingmusicalfoundation.org or by calling the office at (610) 376-3395.<br />
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<strong>Reading</strong>, PA 19612-4835<br />
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<strong>Reading</strong>, PA 19612-4835<br />
Phone: (610) 376-3395<br />
Fax: (610) 376-3336<br />
Keri M. Shultz, Executive Director<br />
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CHAIR<br />
Mark A. Hornberger<br />
VICE CHAIR OF FINANCE<br />
Kevin E. Longenecker<br />
VICE CHAIR OF DEVELOPMENT<br />
The Rev. Thomas A. Reinsel<br />
VICE CHAIR OF PROGRAMS<br />
Michael J. Simmons<br />
TREASURER<br />
Jayne R. Schaeffer, CPA<br />
ASSISTANT TREASURER<br />
David W. Swartz, Esq.<br />
SECRETARY<br />
Michael D. Hughes<br />
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR<br />
Jill M. Scheidt, Esq.<br />
TRUSTEES<br />
Michael D. Anderson<br />
Martha W. Aynardi<br />
Richard Dietrich<br />
2010 - 2011 APPROPRIATIONS<br />
NON-PROFIT ORG.<br />
U.S. POSTAGE<br />
P A I D<br />
READING, PA<br />
PERMIT 407<br />
David L. Kline<br />
Robert R. Kreitz, Esq.<br />
Eric J. Moyer<br />
Thomas B. Souders, MD<br />
Claire L. Troop<br />
Peter N. Zacharias<br />
HONORARY TRUSTEES<br />
Bruce P. Bengtson<br />
Donald C. Bristol<br />
Mary A. Capallo<br />
John T. Connelly<br />
Bruce L. Dietrich<br />
Louise E. Dreisbach<br />
Betty H. Hottenstein<br />
Lee G. Kachel<br />
I. Leon Kaplan<br />
Catharine R. Kiefer<br />
Leon S. Myers<br />
Harold W. Perkins, D.Ed.<br />
Donald Reber<br />
Paul R. Roedel<br />
Richard A. Tschiderer<br />
C. Thomas Work, Esq.<br />
The <strong>Reading</strong> Musical Foundation is now accepting grant applications for music<br />
presenting organizations and special projects. Applications are available on our website<br />
at www.readingmusicalfoundation.org or by calling the office at (610) 376-3395.