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    Presidents

    MessageIt is a privilege to serve as a trustee

    of Rocky Ridge Music Center and

    an extraordinary privilege to serve

    as president. The most rewarding

    aspect of my work has been my

    relationships with our faculty,

    students and parents, directors

    and staff, and fellow trustees.

    Ours is a remarkable community

    bound together by music, some as

    teachers and performers andothers as supporters and contribu-

    tors. Our common endeavor is to

    create a setting in which young

    musicians can receive musical

    training of uncommon value.

    Let me offer you a glimpse of my

    own background and past connec-

    tion to Rocky Ridge. At age

    thirteen, I studied here as a piano

    student, then returned home, to

    Although I did not win that year

    the next, I realized that I wo

    not become one of the maprofessional musicians that Ro

    Ridge produces. I came to rec

    nize that, thanks to Rocky Ridg

    would instead become an enthu

    astic and I like to believe, reas

    ably well-informed amateur wh

    life has been enriched by mus

    Today I do my best to remain

    musician - still an amate

    remember - by making time

    play the Steinway pia

    bequeathed to me by my moth

    an accomplished pianist. I h

    managed to learn a scattering

    waltzes by Chopin and Brahms

    Schuberts impromptus, and

    Bachs works. Ever the amateu

    pick out the easy ones. During

    summer months, I love to retu

    to Rocky Ridge to hear the

    classical repertoire performed

    musicians, both students a

    professionals, whose talent is greater than mine.

    My task now is to help to prese

    this marvelous place and

    promote its growth. If you

    already a member of our comm

    nity, I ask that you reflect on

    value that Rocky Ridge creates

    the lives of its students, alum

    and faculty; and that you ren

    your efforts to support our wo

    our common endeavor.

    MusicCentROCKY RIDG

    ESTES PARK, COLOR

    Rhythms!THE BEAT OF RRMCa publication

    Spring2008

    Jim Crump, PresidentHouston, Texas where to my parents delight, I

    demonstrated a new and strengthened musical

    focus, as well as a desire to take on serious music - in

    my case, Mozarts A-Major concerto, which I

    managed to play in a symphony audition contest,

    with competence if not with brilliance.

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    At first, I didnt think that I had any personal connection to

    Rocky Ridge but I was wrong. In a series of extraordinary

    coincidences, I have discovered that Rocky Ridge adult

    piano faculty member Gloria Chuang and I lived in the

    same house, had the same job, the same office, and knew

    the same people in Decatur, Illinois some 13 years ago (I

    replaced her at Millikin University). In another instant,courtesy of an applicant to the Young Artist Program, I

    discovered that my classmate John McGinness (Associate

    Professor in Music Theory at the Crane School of Music)

    from Santa Barbara days attended Rocky Ridge. I quote in

    part an email from him:

    I tell these stories because it is our connection with the

    place and people that create unique experiences that are

    etched in our memories and inform the decisions we make

    in our lives. We are also, in some way, connected to each

    other should we desire to find these hidden treasures. I

    invite you to join me in adding to the beautiful, ongoing

    tapestry that is Rocky Ridge.

    ContactContactRocky Ridge Music Center

    465 Longs Peak Road

    Estes Park, CO 80517-1790

    Telephone 970-586-4031

    www.RockyRidge.org

    Board of TrusteesBoard of TrusteesJim Crump, PresidentRobert Berzok, Vice PresidentL. Norman Paulu, Vice PresidentCharles Wright, TreasurerMichael HolmesKamilla MacarPaul Saunders

    StaffStaffSoYoung Lee, Music DirectorJean Denney, Office ManagerJeanne Zukowski, Office AssistantA. Hutch Monteson, Development

    Jon Bell, Property Manager

    Shad Finney, Chef/Cook

    From the Music Director

    SOYOUNG! SO FUNNY...to hear from

    you (via Emeline Dehn-Reynolds).

    Because...well, this is a little embarrassing,

    but if you go to the RRMC web page:www.rockyridge.org/photo/alumniPhoto/

    11.htm, you might notice that the blond kid

    in the tweed jacket is me. I was at RRMC

    for three summers, 1969-70-71. (The line

    up behind the two Davids playing the

    pianos in the photo is me, Steven Bauer,

    Lyle Rogow, Andy Nicoforous, Ed Grace,

    and Bob Gregg.)Beautiful spot. I remem-

    ber it fondly. I also remember that the water

    we drank (at least in the first year) came

    directly out of the stream to the tap.

    SoYoung Lee,Music Director

    It is with great optimism that I write to you this chilly spring

    day as many ideas and collective dreams are beginning to

    come into focus since my appointment this past fall. I

    believe that Rocky Ridge Music Center (RRMC) is at an

    exciting crossroads as it enters its 67th season. Organiza-

    tions, like people, must evolve and adapt to the challenges

    of our changing contemporary landscape and we are readyto meet them with a passionate and committed faculty,

    trustees, newly formed administrative team, and an ever

    expanding community of supporters composed of alumni,

    friends, and donors.

    Rocky Ridge has a strong musi-

    cal footprint (if you would

    allow me borrow a term from

    the Green movement; afterall,

    RRMC winter office is located

    in Boulder!) with a rich history

    stemming from the clear found-ing vision of Beth Harrod of

    Lincoln, Nebraska. The Direc-

    tors who took up the torch

    subsequent to Beth deserve

    special recognition and appre-

    ciation, without whom Rocky

    Ridge would not be celebrating

    its 66th anniversary: Patrick Gaines, Elizabeth Mueller

    Grace, James McWhorter, Carina Voly and Constance

    Cook Glen.

    The spirit of Beth Harrod and the contributions from past

    directors were evermore apparent at the Music Teachers

    National Association Convention held in Denver recently.

    Many alumni stopped by the Rocky Ridge exhibitors booth

    and it didnt take long before they were transported to their

    student days the nostalgic memories of music making with

    friends, the ineffable magic of the place, and the lasting

    effect of Beths teachings. One alumna, Charlotte Heer-

    mann, remembered the names of nearly every single class-

    mate pictured in the scrapbook we put together from

    photos dating back to 1946!

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    Programs

    Young Artist SeminarJune 9 to July 12(ages 15 to 24)

    Junior Student SeminarsJuly 15 to July 27(ages 10 to 14)July 29 to August 10

    SeminarsAugust 12 to 17In Brass, Guitar and Piano/Piano Pedagogy (ages vary)

    FacultyPlease visit www.RockyRidge.org for faculty

    biographies, updates and online application.

    Composition & TheoryDavid Ludwig (YAS)

    Daniel Kellogg, Visiting Artist (YAS)

    Jeanne Nelson (JSS1, JSS2)

    ConductingCynthia Katsarelis (YAS)

    Peter Holsberg (JSS1, JSS2)

    PianoGloria Chuang (JSS2, Piano Seminar)

    Sergio Gallo (Piano Pedagogy)

    Marina and Fred Hammond (JSS1)

    Catherine Herbener (YAS, JSS1, JSS2, Piano Seminar)

    Hsing-ay Hsu, Visiting Artist (YAS)

    Santiago Rodriguez, Artist-in-Residence (YAS weeks 2 & 3)

    Hugh Sung, Visiting Artist (YAS weeks 4 & 5)

    Naoko Takao (YAS)

    James Welch (Staff Accompanist, YAS, JSS1, JSS2)

    StringsAnnette-Barbara Vogel, violin (YAS)

    William Terwilliger, violin (YAS)

    Matthew Dane, viola (YAS)

    Mary Artmann, cello (YAS)

    Beth Root-Sandvoss, cello (YAS)

    Barbara Barber, violin & viola (JSS2)

    Michael Hanson, violin (JSS1)

    Catherine Hanson, viola (JSS1)

    Sarah Delevoryas, violin (JSS1, JSS2)

    Jakub Omsky, cello (JSS2)

    Joseph Miller, cello (JSS 1)

    Masakazu Ito, guitar (Guitar Seminar)

    Voice & ChoirDaniel Ihasz (YAS)

    Lisa Radakovich Holsberg (JSS1, JSS2)

    WindsWilliam McMullen, oboe (YAS, JSS1, JSS2)

    Claudia Anderson, flute (YAS, Program Director JSS1, JSS2)

    Christina Jennings, flute (YAS Visiting Artist, week 4)

    Stephanie Zelnick, clarinet (YAS)

    Heidi Mendenhall, clarinet (JSS1, JSS2)

    Cecily Sher, bassoon (YAS, JSS1, JSS2)

    Daniel Kuehn, trumpet (YAS, JSS1, JSS2, Brass Seminar)

    Matthew Scheffelman, horn (YAS, JSS1, JSS2, Brass Seminar)Bron Wright, trombone, tuba(YAS, JSS1, JSS2, Brass Seminar)

    Music in the Mountains2008 Faculty Concert SeriesRocky Ridge Music Center Concert HallSundays at 3pm (unless otherwise noted)

    June 15 Poulenc Woodwind SextetJune 22 Dvorak Piano QuintetJune 29 Compositions by David Ludwig

    and Daniel Kellogg

    July 5 Visualizing Schumann and MahlerSat. 7:30pm

    July 6 Scandinavian ComposersJuly 20 Land of FantasyAugust 3 Song and DanceAugust 17 Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Please visit www.RockyRidge.org for completeprograms, artists, updates and ticket information.

    Rhythms! Facult

    photo by James

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    We invite you to participate in the Rocky Ridge CentennialCook Book Project. Feel free to send us one or two of yourfavorite recipes. To input your recipe online simplygo to: www.typensave.com

    Follow these instructions:

    Contributor : Your NameGroup Login: rrmc

    Password: pgd8mDrop in a recipe. In the Notes Section, include (in four linesor less) a couple of sentences, if you wish, about what youremember most fondly or comically about Rocky Ridge.We will include your recipe in the book along with yourmemories. If you have a favorite picture of your time spentat Rocky Ridge please date it and attach to your email.

    If you do not have internet access, you could mail in your

    recipe: Please include Category, Title of Recipe, Your

    Name, Ingredients, Directions and dated photograph.Please mail to:

    Shad Finney

    c/o Rocky Ridge Music Center

    840 Pearl St Suite Q Boulder, CO 80302

    The cookbooks when ready will sell for $15.00 ea plus

    shipping. Let us know how many copies to reserve for you.

    Name_____________________________________________

    Address___________________________________________

    Contact Name_______________Phone #________________

    Number of cookbooks to hold for you______

    Cooks Corner

    From the JSS Program Director

    Claudia Anderson,JSS Program Director

    In the spring of 1998, Junior Student Seminar Director

    Barabara Lien - music department accompanist and my

    colleague at Grinnell College invited me to her house and

    began talking about a summer music camp called Rocky

    Ridge. "The pay is terrible, the living conditions are primitive,

    and you'll be working pretty much all the time. But I think

    you would be terrific with the kids; why don't you give it a try?"

    Barb had neglected to mention that in June the above-

    ground pipes could freeze and the sewer "system" could

    back up, creating a perfect survivalist combo with the

    copious rain and snow that

    greeted me that first summer.

    For Barb, I gave it a try and

    stuck it out. The JSS sessions

    moved to July after that soggy

    season, and ten years later I find

    myself wondering both how I

    endured the first summer andhow I could now imgaine life

    without Rocky Ridge? Those of

    us who are alumni - as students,

    staff, or faculty - know the

    answers. Those who have not

    yet experienced the challenges

    and the magic that together

    make RRMC unique among summer music camps - well,

    they are the lucky ones to look forward to that "first time"

    that will hopefully stretch out into many more.

    During my ten summers, I have worked with marvelous

    faculty and Program Directors who inspired me with their

    commitment and persistence in finding ways to make our

    programs more successful. Now it seems to be my turn. As

    the first JSS Director who is a wind player, I am looking at

    areas in the program that can improve the daily schedule for

    each group of musicians - winds, strings, piano, and voice.

    Returning students will notice a few changes that should

    offer them more helpful structure and direction in their

    classes and practice times. The overall schedule remains

    intact, however, and we look forward to a truly exciting

    summer in 2008 of new ideas, new friends and old, lots andlots of music and mountains, and the rewards of carrying the

    mission of Rocky Ridge into the next generation.

    Shad Finney,Rocky Ridge Cook

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    with names and numbers on them-but they are much more

    than that. Each application represents a person hoping to

    be acceptedaccepted into Rocky Ridges 2008 seminars,

    accepted by a new teacher and into a new circle of friends,

    accepted to perform for peers, accepted for who they are as

    well as what they can become, some preparing to be

    accepted to college, some into the world of professionalmusicians.

    Even now as the office is accessible only with the assistance

    of snowshoes, I look forward to the first day of camp to

    finally connect real faces to the names with which I have

    become so familiar. I hope to help welcome and accept

    each student, staff member and teacher as they prepare to

    work, learn and live at Rocky Ridge, and perhaps just as

    importantly, to share with them my mountains.

    It would be difficult to live in Estes Park and not know about

    Rocky Ridge Music Center. Even non-musical residents

    here feel a connection to RRMCs rich cultural heritage in

    some way, perhaps through the history of the Hewes-

    Kirkwood Inn, summertime concerts in the mountains, or

    taking the wrong path back after climbing Longs Peak! In my

    childhood I claimed the mountains here as my own, and as aclassical musician I cant think of a better place to learn.

    It is with this spirit that I have

    entered into my new position as

    RRMC Office Manager,

    engaged in receiving applications

    from prospective students.

    Currently we have students regis-

    tered from Japan, Mexico, Thai-

    land, Canada, France, Germany,

    Korea, Brazil and 23 United

    States. Overall we have

    processed over 150 applications

    since December, and each one

    that I receive is as exciting to me

    as the first. It would be easy to

    think of them as a pile of papers

    ContacRocky Ridge Music Cent

    465 Longs Peak Roa

    Estes Park, CO 80517-179

    Telephone 970-586-403

    www.RockyRidge.or

    Rhythms! From the Office Manage

    Jean Denney,

    Office Manager

    The s tudent s l i v e in formal ly a t Rocky Ridge where in t imate dai ly assoc ia t ion i s r emini sc en t o f th e European t rad i t ion o f

    c oming to the H ouse o f the Mast er . Thi s a f fo rds the oppor tuni ty of

    deve loping ind iv idual ab i l i ty and broadening the s tudent s musi ca l

    awareness in an a tmosphere that i s in sp i ra t ional and c reat iv e .

    Beth Miller Harrod(1910-2000)

    Founder

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    MusicCenterROCKY RIDGE

    ESTES PARK, COLORADO

    Development

    I remember Rocky Ridge as a parent. My daughterHeather, was preparing for her first trip away from home.She was signed up for the Junior Seminar in 2003 and wasa little reluctant to be away from home. The camaraderieimmediately took hold. The empowerment gained fromthe involvement in the program brought her great joy. Sheasked to stay on for the second session and the followingyear returned bringing three classmates from her middleschool.Coming back to this beautiful place as development direc-tor brings back all those memories of her joy and my happi-ness to see her flourish.

    The schedule for this season isquickly unfolding. Rocky Ridge

    hosted its first fundraising eventof the season featuring The

    Tamburitzans of DuquesneUniversity at the Historic Boul-

    der Theater. This is a group ofuniversity students who comefrom all four corners of the U.S.

    and from abroad. Theyperformed in a kaleidoscope of

    over 400 handmade costumeswith age old instruments, blend-

    ing their charming voices andacrobatic folk dances. The Tam-

    buritzans left our audience feeling like they had witnessed

    the best Eastern European village entertainment ever. TheQueen City Jazz Band will provide the entertainment at ourJune fundraiser for the golfers in our community; we are

    beginning to talk to Estes Park Golf Course about a mid-summer golf tourney and fundraiser.

    Please Consider Donating to Rocky Ridge This Year. OurFundraising Goal for 2008 is $150,000 and we need yourhelp to achieve this goal. Please note contributions can beearmarked for:

    General/Unrestricted $50,000 Goal for Scholarships Wastewater Project Mattress Replacement in Cabins Commemorative Bench Project

    The donation form can be found at the bottom of page 7

    and while on page 7, take note of the commemorativebench donation. We have just 4 benches remaining tobuild.

    As you know, Rocky Ridge is invaluable, bringing herbeauty, aliveness and deep peace to all who come here. Asa classical music center, her work continues to be ever moreimportant. Student tuition accounts for 60% of our operat-ing costs. Your donations help us make up the remaining40%. Please continue your support. Thank you for yourgenerosity. Thank you for caring and being a part of RockyRidge. You may securely donate online atwww.rockyridge.org.

    Hutch MontesonDevelopment Director

    Camp Photos by Heather Monteson

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    My Check is enclosed: Please make payable to The Rocky Ridge Music Center Foundation840 Pearl St. Suite Q Boulder, CO 80302

    Please charge my Visa MasterCard

    Card #______________________________________________Expiration Date_________________

    Name on card (Please Print)_____________________________________________

    Address______________________________Email___________________________

    City ________________________State_____Zip__________Phone_____________Please list my name with other donors in the 2008 Rocky Ridge Programs

    I wish to remain anonymous My gift (circle one) is in honor of / in memory of

    ___________________________________________

    KEEP CLASSICAL MUSIC ALIVE AS A FRIEND AND SUPPORTER

    I would like to make a fully tax deductable contribution to Rocky Ridge in the amount of

    $100 $200 $500 $1000 $2000 _______Other

    Contributions may be made to the following:

    General/ Unrestricted Gift $50,000 Scholarship Waste Water Project

    Mattress Replacement in Cabins Commemorative Bench Project

    Bench ProjectContributors purchase benches

    for placement at Rocky Ridge.These handmade benches were designed by Jon Bell andconstructed by Matt Clark. There are only four benches

    left in this project. Memorial benches made so far havebeen located in various scenic locations around RockyRidge. A metal plaque with the donor's memorial designa-tion is permanently attached to each bench.We appreciate and depend upon the generosity of ouralumni, parents, friends and others who believe in RockyRidge and want to make sure we can continue our missionin the future.

    Every year we need to raise $150,000 in unrestricted giftsthat help to meet the gap between tuition and operatingcosts at our national historic site. This includes a scholar-

    ship fund to support talented students and those who couldnot attend Rocky Ridge without assistance.Whatever theamount, we appreciate your unrestricted gift.

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