I just got home from a concert at the Eastman School of Music, given by high school students from across the country who are participating in the Music Horizons Program this summer. This evening was the Chamber Ensemble Concert, and my oboist goddaughter Linnea performed in three ensembles. Here she is with her quintet playing Edward Elgar's Harmony Music. She's amazing!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
StoryCorps has Left the Building
After spending three weeks at the Rundel Library in Downtown Rochester, the StoryCorps MobileBooth crew has moved on to their next recording site, Erie PA. Over 200 people in Rochester shared their stories, some of which will be heard on WXXI starting in September. Here is a sampling of some of the stories that will be broadcast:
- A one-hundred year old nun talks about what Rochester was like in the early 20th century. She remembers when Mr. Wegman used to push a vegetable cart through the streets of the city; now Wegmans is a huge chain of grocery stores.
- The director of the Center for Holocaust Awareness talks about growing up as a child of Holocaust survivors. She is also a singer/songwriter, and she shares a song she wrote to her grandparents, who died in Auschwitz.
- A young mother tells the tragic story of losing both her daughter and her husband. Her nine year old daughter died after developing flu-like symptoms, and her husband’s health declined in the wake of this untimely death.
- A Laotian-American artist created the sculpture “Let’s Have Tea” at the Susan B. Anthony House. He’s proud to be an American, and to create art inspired by the men and women of American history.
- A young man tells his mother about the time he stuck his tongue to the flagpole after seeing Ralphie do it in the movie “A Christmas Story.”
I’m proud to produce these stories in partnership with StoryCorps!
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