Spring 08 Rhythms!

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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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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

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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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