Dear Musical Masterworks:
How is it already the end of another season?!
BACK UP!
Elsewhere in these pages, I already used this amusing “farewell letter” gambit for the campaign-ending concert by the E.
Margaret S. "Peggy" Ayer died Jan. 29, 2024, at age 97. Born in Portland, Maine June 7, 1926, she was raised in Belmont Massachusetts. Having graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1947, she met John B. "Jack" Ayer of Franklin, Connecticut when she.
Naomi was born October 28, 1941 to George and Saima Wastila in Superior, Wisconsin. She passed away November 8, 2023 from cancer. Her family moved to Brooklyn where she saw Jackie Robinson play for the Dodgers and when she was 10, they moved back to Superior. She was a Wisconsin Scholar at the University of Wisconsin majoring in chemistry education. She went to graduate school in chemistry at USC doing research on organo-phosphorus compounds. It was there she met her husband, Ivan Otterness.
Tokiyushi “Toshi” Shimada has been in the classical music game a long time. He’s been music director and conductor of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra for 14 superb seasons. He has similar r.