The Spirit of KinhavenFall 2009

Kinhaven–Summer 2009by Nancy Bidlack, Director

One year ago it was anyone’s guess what the impact of an injured economy would be on a valued non-profit such as Kinhaven. It was equally challenging for the families of our talented musicians to fantasize about a summer of miraculous music making.

To fast forward through a very tough year of recruit-ment and finding auxiliary funding, 2009 emerged as a very special summer. Many Kinhaven friends stepped up to the plate and our Annual Fund kept pace with our needs. We enrolled sixty-two new students in Senior Session, a record, and our level of expertise met with no compromise. Junior Session, in some ways the jewel in our crown, proceeded with little awareness of the crumbling conditions around us.

Though tough to define, one of the unusual outcomes of this summer was the uncanny match of student and place. In the throes of competition for both students and diminishing dollars, our terrific students embraced the personality of Kinhaven immediately. The kids who needed to be at KMS somehow found their way there.

At Senior Session we again brought an array of con-ductors to the podium. The season began with Ankush Bahl conducting Sibelius Second. Larry Loh presented the difficult Symphonic Metamorphosis of Hindemith, and James Sinclair, the world authority on Charles Ives, conducted Three Places in New England. One of our recent traditions, bringing Jerry back to the orchestra, yielded a rousing Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony. To end the summer, a returning favorite, Jeffrey Domoto, brought the Debussy Nocturnes and the Symphonie Fantastique of Berlioz to a thrilling climax.

With our guest conductor program well established, we hope to bring in well-known artists for clinics and master classes. Keep an eye on our website for that announce-ment, and while you are there, you can peruse many new pictures, new Kinhaven info, and the opportunity to do-nate to either our Annual Fund or the Capital Fund. The Annual Fund assures us of adequate monies for financial aid and the Capital Fund is looking for matching income to complete our student housing. Each fund welcomes your participation.

Each program, the Chamber Music Workshop, the Piano Workshop, Senior Session and Junior Session met our ea-ger expectations. This should all bode well for 2010!

Orton Family Celebration

Dedicatory Address Given at Kinhaven on Saturday Morning, July 18, 2009

by Jerry T. Bidlack, Director Emeritus

Fifty-seven year ago in 1952, David and Dorothy Dushkin founded Kinhaven Music School here in Weston, Vermont. It was David Dushkin’s creativity, humanity, and educational dream that is still intact in today’s Kinhaven.

In 1952, in the town of Weston, among other early participants in Kinhaven, were the Orton brothers. This was the beginning of a lasting relationship between these two families––the Dushkins and Kinhaven and the Ortons and the Vermont Country Store. It is this relationship that has endured over these 57 years and that we celebrate today.

In particular, Mildred Ellen Wilcox Orton was an impor-tant friend of Kinhaven and David and Dorothy Dushkin. Her children attended Kinhaven, she studied piano with David and was a member of a music club with Mrs. Dush-kin. She was several times a member of the Board of Trustees and a participant in the Adult Piano Workshop and the Adult Chamber Music Workshop.

We happily celebrate this relationship between Kinhaven and the Orton family with this commemorative plaque.

The Kinhaven chorus, which David and Dorothy loved, will sing three pieces to commemorate this important day---

A Madrigal: Since first I saw your faceTwo Bach Chorales: Now all the woods are sleeping Rejoice and Sing!

Mildred Ellen Orton with her son, Lyman, receiving the plaque that will hang in the concert hall at Kinhaven.

She is applauded by members of the Board of Trustees.

Tony Mazzocchi, Senior Session Brass Faculty member, conducts the Brass Ensemble in a festive fanfare.

Below: Jerry Bidlack conducts the Kinhaven Chorus to conclude the program.

Dates: Summer 2010 Piano Workshop: June 10 -15Chamber Music: June 16 - 20

Senior Session: June 25 - August 8Junior Session: August 14 - 29

Piano Workshop Summer 2009

Chamber Music WorkShop Summer 2009

We Need Your Email Addresses!Kinhaven is continually attempting to

catch up with the 21st Century. Therefore we would like to update

our records with all of our alumni email addresses. Please send your email address

to us at either address below: kinhavenmusic@aol.com

or through the website: www.kinhaven.org

Now Available in theKinhaven Store!

Kinhaven 2010 Calendar

13 Full-Color Photos

To Order: visit our website atwww.kinhaven.org

and click on Kinhaven Store.

Many other items are alsoavailable - Perfect forHoliday gift-giving.

Hip, Hip, Hooray!By Kit van Winkle

Parent, Board Member and AvidSupporter and Participant in the

Piano Workshop andChamber Music Sessions

Exuberant musicians, some bare-foot, dashing across the Kinhaven campus to rehearsals, coachings, practice sessions. Cacophony of voices in the dining room. Laugh-ter, Backrubs, Madrigals, Evening parties. More laughter.

Senior Session? Junior Session? NO! The Adult Sessions! These musicians have taken their vaca-tion time to immerse themselves in collaborative music lessons and are playing and performing during the year. They sport Kinhaven t-shirts and hats and are wildly enthusi-astic about Kinhaven. They have formed strong friendships over the years. They keep in touch with one another during the year and count the days until the next year's ses-sions.

The workshops are evidence that we can enjoy the Magic of Kin-haven at any age!

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24 25 26

27 28 29 30

June 2010

List of Donors to Annual Fund

October 1, 2008 to September 30, 2009

Jeffrey DomotoBeth A. DonaldsonMarie T. Driscoll SpotoMaria Drum DresselhausLelah DushkinJohn D. Engels Jr.Michael R. EnglandJohn FalconeAnne Faulkner Schoemaker (In Honor:Ignat Solzhenitsyn)Carol Ferger KlepackRuth GersonSusan Malev GlassFred & Rachel GoldmanSara Goldman CurleyElizabeth GombosiCarol J. GotwalsAdam L. GraboisNeil & Miriam GraboisRoy G. & Elizabeth L. GrubeCharles E. HamlenJane R. HanksMartha E. HardyLucy Bardo & Benjamin HarmsJohn & Susan HartMarian & Ed HazzardJudy Chaves & Craig HeindelLinda HirschMadeline HirschlandJohn HoffmannRichard E. HoldermanJohn HortonShari HymanMary Louise Kates (In Memory: Stephen Kates)Daniel KatzShirley G. KnowltonRuth & Michael LammBruce & Nancy LandayMarcella LangmanThornton & Maureen M. LewisRobert A. & Susan LloydAlan & Lois Anne Logemann Whitney (In Memory: Hugo Logemann, Jr)Paul F. MalamudDavid MancusoMichael & Ruth MargolinLorraine MaskinasAmy Goldfarb & Preston MaynardRaymond McConnie ZapaterJ. Richard McIntoshSusan Mesner & Mark HageMr. & Mrs. Christian MilesDavid Gootnick & Betty MillerDonald & Sharon MillsSigna Lynch Read & Larry MillsBob MooreIsaac Nakhimovsky & Chitra RamaligamCory F. NewmanPeter Nye

Steve & Diane Karsh CovertDaniel & Susan DavisonAlain & Holly de MontmarinAlfred Stephen & Linda A. DeveauSidney DiamondPeter & Catherine Dussmann (In Honor: Angela Dussmann)Jane A. GilMaida GoodwinThomas GotwalsRobert Y. HarperJennifer KimLinda & Gustav LienhardJonathan LinJohn H. & Constance G. LoynesCarey McIntoshPamela M. MeryJoan E. MillerLen MitnaulRobert & Kay OverstreetDarrell PrescottJonathan E. RichmanGael Rockwell MintonBarbara RudolphSilberstein FamilyPeter & Paula TyackKari Van Winkle RustChristopher J. von BaeyerEric WeinerRichard Weinstock

Donors $100-$249Anonymous (2)Birgitta Norberg & Hans AaseNina Allen MillerChristine AndersonDavid & Alexandra AustinMary J. BartosMichael BartosTerrence BattsJoan BechhoferEllen Bechhofer KitchenEric BelsleyAndrea Bertocci WebberMary G. BirchConnie Bodine McCannAlec & Dinah BodkinRichard Goldsmith & Yari BondRaymond & Nancy BrungardJohn V. & Jessica B. CalcagnoJohn & Alison CariatiGary & Bonnie CholletJohn & Melanie Cognetta ClarkeMerlyn ClarkeSeth & Sharon ClarkeRuth C. CrossDavid & Caroline DawsonBobby Alter & Lisa de Lima (In Honor: Sarah Gregory Smith & Bill Smith)

Donors $1000 and upJohn H. M. AustinTom & Currie Cabot BarronThomas & Nina Daniel (In Memory: Margaret Truman Daniel)Stan & Deb Gerson, & Ruth, James & David GersonJames H. & Anne W. HardingDennis Yon-Joon KimSimon LipskarLola Lloyd HorwitzThomas G. MacCrackenAlexander & Alice NakhimovskyPerry K. & Susan NeubauerDeirdre O’LearyAriel & Tal RecanatiAlfred & Jane Ross FoundationDr. Richard SmithVermont Community Foundation/ Polk Family Fund

Donors $500-$999Mr. & Mrs. Steven AusnitChristine Ausnit HoodJerry & Nancy BidlackLucy Bodine NattrassMr. & Mrs. Francis H. CabotMarianne Cabot WelchDr. Alan M. & Carol EdelsonDr. Randall S. & Marcia Watson EdsonBill & Nancy Polk/ Five Twenty Five FoundationSusan Gellert Earl & Polly HoffmanLila Hutchins BahinMike LubaElizabeth P. Mansfield EstateIrene MendelsonMildred Ellen OrtonNancy Birdsall & David Post (In Memory: Annie Post)Mary Draper & Daniel ReichDavid & Kathy Paddor RotholzYael TaqquGeorge & Marcy ValleyPeter Spiegelman & Alice WangRegina & Walter WunschLauren Zalaznick

Donors $250-$499Anonymous (3)Daphne Bien TebbeAndre B. BondiErella BregmanAlice & Peter BuseckRobert CaneJeffrey Chesky

Dennis & Cheryl GaffiganLeslie GeilLeon & Arlene GoldbergGeorge & Ellen S. GoodwinPutnam & Kathy Goodwin-BoydAlice & Ross Goodwin-BrownDavid & Barbara GordonJohn E. & Peggy K. GordonRobert & Janet Gordon (In Honor: Leander Bien)Barbara & John GrausteinEmily Green CaplanSarah Gregory SmithChennon Grubb RadfordJeff J HaberMartin & Ruth HaberAlex HannaAndrea & Henry HardySerena H. CaperonisRodney & Janenne HenryAl & Jane HineJulie Howard & Peter HusakIsabelle Hunter (Marty Courts)Ariella HymanLydia IevinsSeymour & Patricia ItzkoffNora Joffe ElishClaire JolivetRoger D. Jones CPALaurie JuliaLisa Kalisman CohenMelissa Kamil GamageMuriel Kaplan ZwiebelAnnette Schwarz Kaye & Richard KayeJohn KeithLucy Kennedy (In Memory: Ellen Laura Repp)Michael & Wendy KleinRichard & Helen KluckDaniel KohnThomas Allen KovachKelly Kroeck HearnDaniel Grabois & Margaret LammHarvey & Susan LandressKaren LazarFlora LeePhil & Sue LefebvreRachel LefebvreBernard & Eliane Levy (In Memory: Cass Kossakowski)Eva LinfieldKatja LinfieldYvonne W LuiCarolyn MacGregor & Frank Luppino (In Memory: Diane MacGregor)Sanat K. & Flora C. Majumder (In Honor: Tiku & Shari Majumder)Daniel & Karen MakiManchester TaxiJane Starkman & Thomas Margulis

Lucinda Parker McCarthyTina PelikanJames & Margaret PerkinsValerie A. PurvinJames H. QuinnAllan & Leah Rabinowitz (In Memory: Edgar Prescott)Raman RamakrishnanSusan Erburu ReardonEckhart & Rosemary RichterStuart Rosenthal (In Honor: Marita Abner)Virginia & Bernard RowanMartha Saunders Nabatian (In Memory: Miriam Saunders)Dana Schaul-YoderLucia S. SchultzAdlyn Schwartz LoewenthalAllen ShawnStephen L. ShimanFenwick SmithMarilyn K. SmithEmily, Sarah, & David SokoloffWendy Solmnsen SommerWilliam StanbackCynthia L. SternauTibisay Guzman & Paul SturrBurt L. & Alice SwerseyDoris TamaiMichi TashjianCarl & Ching-Wen Pu TaylorDavid G. ThanassiA. Keith & Kit Van WinkleEllen Walkling WhiteRichard WeinertChristopher P Wilkins (In Honor: Nancy & Jerry Bidlack)Hon. Herbert P. & Angela M. WilkinsOrville & Eileen WilliamsonJohn & Linda Yang (In Honor: Bill Polk)Rosemary YiameosMary Marsh Zulack

Donors $1-$99Anonymous (5)Steve & Marion Abbruscato (In Honor: Julie & Nina Abbruscato)Tuuli Morrill AdamsDiane R. AlancraigJane M. AllenYorke Allen III M.D.Lindsay Miller and Peter AmblerMichael AmorySally Rubin & Arthur ApplbaumClifton BalchJennifer D. BealThomas Jr. & Barbara BealLeoniece BeattyDr. Harold T. & Ingrid H. Becher

Ariel BekefiKaren L. Belsley PrattAlisa Belzer (In Honor: Ruth & Roy Belzer)Gerald & Miriam BerlinJeremy BerlinPeter A. & Chrysanthi BienRobert A. & Lynne D. BoieFridolin & Klara BoschJanice & John BowenCarlton & Agnes BoxhillKate Boyd & Kevin ConnollyJonathan & Frances BrentChristine Beard & Jonathan BrezonEverett Ellis & Sally BriggsEugene & MaryJane BrisbaneChristopher BrooksEric ByersHarold & Dorothy ByersJeff CalcagnoSusannah G. ChapmanPeter CharigDavid ChaseRichard G. CohenRuth Cole ChodrowDana & Ken CooperHelen Cowles Love (In Memory: Katherine Cowles)Cairn & Jean Marie CrossJoshua & Rebecca DanielsWilliam Z. DavidsonHubert & Dorothy D. DaviesMiles & Susan DavisNeal & Faith A. DavisAlice D. Dibble (In Memory: David Dushkin)Sally DidricksonGayle Griffith & Gene DiouWilliam DornbuschDaniel DruckmanJeremy DworkinDwight E. & Emily DyerGary & Cheryl EisdorferRachael ElliottJames Ellison M.D.Joan B. EschCatherine Fairbank MitchellRobert FallonPhilip & Diane FedoraMaeve Espy Feinberg, Alan Feinberg, Janet MurnaghanBart FellerJune FioreKaren Fleming RileyMarie-Lou FrancoeurKatherine FrewJoyce & Lev FriedmanMichael FriedmannJohn FrischNoel & Caroline Fritzinger

Chaninah MaschlerEd MatthewPatricia McCallHilary & Harold MeltzerLaura M. MendelsonLloyd H. Mims (In Memory: Betty H. Mims)Maggie MooreKarl E. & Carolyn MoyerEric & Martina MullerSally MullikinJustin Murphy-ManciniMimi NeffNancy K. NewmanAnna & John NewtonGerald & Liliane NissmanLisa Noble WassermanElizabeth B. O’BrienMartin & Lore OstwaldMowry PearsonMichael & Erika Penzer KerekesInger Petersen CarleThomas & Nina PfeifferLeonhard PfisterDavid P. Piech D.M.D. & Renee Z. SpringBarbara PierceP. William & Nancy PolkCarol PopeLaura Quackenbush SavageAnn E. QuinnJohn & Yumi QuinnSarah A. ReedPeter ReitEmily Feinberg & Robert RestucciaBenjamin C. Riggs Jr.Meg RissoXan RomanovJoyce Rose Romm (In Honor: Betty Miller, Nina Allen Miller, Janis White)Janet RossSusan RotholzPatricia RudoffKaren SanderGail SchechterPhilip Seib (In Honor: Caroline Dawson)Kate Sewall BeaudetteSteve ShafferCaroline ShawKate SheeranRobert SimonLinda Simon HallRochelle Itzen & Scott SingerJennifer SmithHannah SpenceGlenn D. & Marga S. SproulRichard C. & Gwen W. SteegeSteve StettlerDick & Sue Sweterlitsch

Danielle TierneySusan Hinely & Philippe VaillancourtDeborah ValenzeJudith Serkin & Rudolph Vrbsky (In Honor: Natalya Rose Vrbsky)Brianne WaiteAndrew WalklingSarah WashburnNoah WeberWendy Webster Ardizzone (In Honor: Lelah Dushkin)Robert I & Sandy WeinerPhyllis & Michael WellsCharles & Marietta WestonArthur WhiteShelley WillcoxAlton H. & Janet G. WilsonKent R. WilsonMr & Mrs Raymond WinklerMr. & Mrs. Leon Wohlbach

Matching Gifts to Annual Fund

Amgen FoundationBank of AmericaJohn Hancock Financial Services, Inc.LexisNexis Cares

Capital Campaign Donors will be listed in a subsequent issue of theSPIRIT OF KINHAVEN.

Kinhaven Music School

FoundersDavid Dushkin

Dorothy Dushkin

DirectorNancy S. Bidlack

Director EmeritusJerry T. Bidlack

Board of TrusteesAdam Grabois

PresidentChristopher von BaeyerSenior Vice-President

Darrell PrescottVice-PresidentSusan Mesner

TreasurerJames Harding

SecretaryP. William Polk Jr.Assistant Secretary

John AustinMichael BartosAdria Benjamin

Elizabeth GombosiAllison ScolaKate SheeranRichard SmithNancy TerhuneKit Van WinkleBarbara Wang

Michelle Yaiser

Ex-Officio TrusteesJerry T. Bidlack

Nancy S. Bidlack

Honorary TrusteesLelah Dushkin

Isaac PatchVictoria Sanger

Your employer may have a matching gift program.

Why not find out if your gift to Kinhaven can go even further?

A Letter from Kate Sheeran:

(Kate is currently the Associate Director of Mannes College of Music Pre-College Division. She was a Senior Session Student at Kinhaven from 1996 to 1998, she was on the Senior Session Staff in 2001, 2003and 2005 and now is a member of the Kinhaven Boardof Trustees.)

Dear Nancy, Jerry, and Board,

Part of the beginning of the year at Mannes Prep for me involves listening to many of our students play their orchestra and chamber music auditions. The stu-dents I heard that went to Kinhaven (both Senior and Junior sessions) have all taken off, musically, in a HUGE way. It is SO gratifying to see. There were upwards of 12 or so Mannes students at Kinhaven this summer and, across the board, they have all returned looking happier, healthier, more excited about music and friendship, and more eager to learn and share here. They look as though the light was turned on! Of course I remember that feeling myself as a student, but it is heartwarming to see it in these students, all these years later. They have all been telling me sto-ries about their great summer experiences and their parents have also approached me to tell me about how impressed they were with everything Kinhaven.

Nancy-- Thank you! This is yet another testament to the fact that everything you and the staff are doing is working to keep everything we know to be successful about Kinhaven just as it should be.

All my best to all of you,Kate

Editors: Thanks for the letter, Kate. It helps us work even harder here at the Kinhaven winter office.

Weston, Vermont

Non-Profit Org.US Postage

PAIDPermit No. 187Bethlehem, PA

OFF-SEASON OFFICE1704 Sycamore StreetBethlehem, PA 18017

610/868-9200

WWW.KINHAVEN.ORG

Return Service Requested

ALUMNI NOTES–FALL 2009

Leila Kells Newcomb Wolf S’63-64 viola: I still remember Kinhaven as one of the best experiences of my life—the beautiful and thrilling music, both instrumental and choral, the Dushkins, my counselors and friends who I would love to find, and the fresh air and peace. I made a living as a “folk-rock” artist for many years, but have returned to my classical roots. My current life’s work has been to expose my little granddaughter to classical music in this world of so much of the other. Much love to all!

Rob Shain S’72 trumpet/piano: I attended Kinhaven many years ago, and the Dushkins as well as Kinhaven itself had a tremendous influence on me. I have many wonderful memories, and after 37 years I’m coming back this year to at least see a concert, and possibly to participate in your Adult Chamber Music Workshop.

Jessica Sibelman S’03-04 clarinet: After Kinhaven, I went to the New England Conservatory of Music for

my musical studies, and studied clarinet with Ricardo Morales. I went on to form an orchestra, The New York Chamber Virtuosi, and we had our debut concert on June 28, 2009 at Merkin Concert Hall, The Kaufman Center in NY. We are also developing a chamber music series, as well as an outreach and lecture series.

Charlotte Kies S’06 clarinet: I am going into my second year at Indiana University, studying clarinet performance with Professor James Campbell!

Editor's Note: As you can see, our Alumni Notes for this newsletter are but a shadow of their former selves. In the '90's, we had three and sometimes four pages of notes and letters from our alumni. I know that now with the internet, twitter, tweak and squeak there is a plethora of ways to communicate with whomever you wish. However, we want to hear from you and a simple email to our of-fice with notes of your personal successes would be most welcome. Email: kinhavenmusic@aol.com or through the website: www.kinhaven.org.

The Spirit of Kinhaven is editedand produced in Pennsylvania by

Nancy and Jerry Bidlack andCaroline Dawson.