Peabody Johns Hopkins University Magazine

Vol. 9, No. 1 – Fall 2014

Vol. 9, No. 1 – Fall 2014

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Centre Street

So Long Bookstore, Hello Centre Street Performance Studio

When students returned to campus for the fall semester, they discovered an exciting new performance space had been created for them over the summer.

CLASSICAL MUSIC: ALIVE AND WELL

In July, National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm Show asked the question, “What is the future of classical music?” And Peabody’s own Fred Bronstein was there to answer.

On stage at the Fort Worth Opera Festival

A PROFESSIONAL IMPRIMATUR FOR WITH BLOOD, WITH INK

On the face of it, librettist Peter M. Krask’s and composer Daniel Crozier’s opera, With Blood, With Ink, seems a curious candidate to enter the contemporary repertoire.

MOVING OFF CAMPUS: THE ROAD SCHOLAR PROGRAM

For more than 30 years, the Road Scholar program has been a familiar presence on the Peabody campus.

Osi Atikpoh, left, with Dan Trahey

FIRST TUNED-IN STUDENT TO ENTER CONSERVATORY

Osita Atikpoh says he will always remember the day he learned he’d been accepted into the Peabody Conservatory for fall 2014. “It was one of the best feelings in the world, reading the acceptance letter,” he says.

Book - survival guide

HELPING PARENTS KNOW THE SCORE

If only the secret to producing a child who loves playing musical instruments was just that: a secret waiting to be shared and tapped. Author Amy Nathan knows it’s much more complicated.

Headshot of John Shirley-Quirk

IN MEMORIAM: JOHN SHIRLEY-QUIRK

Back in the 1970s, when celebrated English bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk was engaged to perform in Haydn's The Creation with the Cincinnati Symphony, James Conlon conducting, the first rehearsal began with Shirley-Quirk singing in English. Conlon stopped the proceedings, noting, apologetically, that the work would be performed in German. Unperturbed, Shirley-Quirk quickly resumed, this time in flawless German.

Headshot of Lynn Taylor Hebden

RECITAL HONORS LYNN HEBDEN

The Peabody Preparatory’s annual spring recital has been named to honor the Preparatory’s longtime director, Lynn Taylor Hebden, who died in February 2013. Held on May 4, the Lynn Taylor Hebden Recital featured students who were selected through the Part-Recital Competition judged by professional musicians.

Book - Fanfares and Finesse

FANFARE FOR THE TRUMPET

Professional trumpeter and Peabody graduate Elisa Koehler sees trumpets where most of us don’t. Like the symbol on your car’s horn button.

Headshot of Washington Garcia

WASHINGTON GARCIA: AN INSPIRING JOURNEY

Washington Garcia’s saga reads as if lifted from the pages of a vintage Hollywood screenplay: Piano prodigy born and raised in a foreign nation (Ecuador) receives full scholarship to esteemed American music institution (Peabody) ....

Headshot of Audrey McCallum

AUDREY MCCALLUM ESTABLISHES PREPARATORY SCHOLARSHIP

As a youngster, Audrey McCallum began her private piano studies in the home of Miriam Sachs, a Peabody Preparatory instructor who eventually gave McCallum a full scholarship to study with her at the Preparatory.

BIENVENIDO PANGANIBAN: STILL AT THE HELM, AFTER 52 YEARS

Bienvenido S.P. Panganiban was certainly grateful for the generosity of spirit and resources shown by unanticipated benefactors when he arrived from his native Philippines to study at Peabody in the early 1950s.

Nearly half of Peabody’s National Advisory Council have made legacy commitments to the Institute. Pictured: (Left to right/Top to bottom) Nancy Grasmick, Sandi Gerstung, Allan Jensen, Mark Paris, Dean Fred Bronstein, Christine Schmitz, Laifun Chung, and Taylor Hanex. Not Pictured: Barbara Bozzuto, Leon Fleisher, and Jill McGovern.

LEADING THE WAY IN LEGACY GIVING

As Peabody moves toward its goal of raising $75 million by 2017, legacy gifts are becoming an area of increasing focus.

Elana Byrd and the hall named for her late husband

EAST HALL RENAMED TO HONOR JAZZ LEGEND JOE BYRD

The name of late legendary jazz bassist and Peabody alumnus Joe Byrd has become permanently associated with Peabody’s principal jazz performance space with the formal rededication of East Hall as Joe Byrd Hall.

Headshot of Donald Sutherland and Phyllis Bryn-Julson

SUTHERLAND AND BRYN-JULSON DONATE PERSONAL COLLECTION

A 1920 score of Trois Préludes et Fugues, hand-annotated by composer Marcel Dupré for organist Arthur Poister, is among an extensive collection of scores, books, and music donated..

Robert E. Meyerhoff (left) and Rheda Becker (right) have committed over $2 million for Peabody scholarships named for Leon Fleisher (center).

LEON FLEISHER HONORED WITH SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Baltimore philanthropists Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker have donated $1 million to establish the Leon Fleisher Studio Scholarship Fund at Peabody, which is designated to support students studying with renowned pianist and faculty artist Leon Fleisher.