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CHESAPEAKE PRICELESS Volume XXIII Issue 8 September 2020 © Style Serves and Celebrates the Chesapeake Bay Region and its People, Past, Present and Future 2 September 2020 Editor, Publisher, Chief The mission of Chesapeake Style Cook & Bottle Washer is to serve and celebrate the Fast Times on the Rivers Janet Abbott Fast Chesapeake Bay Region and its My daughter, who lives in Arizona , has developed an exercise Writers & Photographers people, past, present and future. routine for her 86 y/o father. She has choreographed a chair dancing Corinne Anthony, Cindy Letters to the editor are welcome. routine, and she works with him every week, to help keep him active. Balderson, Mary Beane, Mari For a number of years my friend Sandy and I swam every week, The editor reserves the right to Bonomi, Carol J. Bova, Deborah edit all submissions for clarity, first in Tappahannock at River Fitness, until the pool roof fell Butler, Dr. Jane Park Cutler, lousy spelling or any other in and later the pool was buried. Then we went to Irvington to Ellen Dugan, Ilona Duncan, Ann Westminster Canterbury and swam—usually 1/2 mile or more Eichenmuller, Eric Eichenmuller, reason that strikes her fancy. each week. Until the virus and lockdown stopped that. Needless Jay Fleming, RuthE Forrest, Chesapeake Style is a priceless to say it is difficult to maintain a decent exercise routine now. Sandra Fykes, Bill Graves, Martha magazine published eight times a So taking a page from my daughter's book, I invited Sandy to come over M. Hall, Torrence Harman, year by Chesapeake Bay Marketing. last Saturday to do some chair dancing. She brought me a series of exercise Melissa Haydon, Wendy Hyde, For delivery for one year, please routines, which I promptly discarded. I had downloaded Pharrell Williams Spike Knuth, Darleen Nichols, send your name, mailing Happy and Bruno Mars Uptown Funk. We had a ball, chair dancing. Michael Norvell, Kenny Park, address and a check or money Tyler Sanders, Gloria J. Savage, The night before I had watched and recorded Great Performances: order, for $24 for postage and Chelly Scala, Gerhard Straub, Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2019 Conducted by handling, to the address below. Ad Sales, Distribution Gustavo Dudamel on PBS. Renowned pianist Yuja Wang joined the Chesapeake Style orchestra for George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and performed Carol J. Bova, Susan Christopher, P. O. Box 802 Chopin’s Waltz in C Sharp Minor, op. 64 #2 for an encore. Willis Croxton, Bill Graves, Warsaw, VA 22572 Gustavo Dudamel, just completed his 10th season as the Florine Headley, Joanne Hunter, 804-333-0628 musical and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tracy Lanum, Tyler Sanders, Nancy Shelley, Marie Stone Yuja Wang, critically acclaimed Beijing-born pianist featured [email protected] as an artist-in-residence at three world-famous venues: Carnegie Proofreader www.chesapeakestyle.com Hall, the Wiener Konzerthaus, and the Luxembourg Philharmonie; Marie Stone The opinions expressed in named Musical America’s Artist of the Year in 2017. Ad Composition, Chesapeake Style are those As Sandy and I watched these gifted and talented Graphics, Layout of contributing writers and musicians, we were both struck by their expressions. It was Janet Abbott Fast, Julie do not necessarily reflect the astonishing to watch Yuja Wang—whose outfit created a Stanley, graphics designer opinion of Chesapeake Style or dramatic look. She was clearly flirting with the music. its advertisers. Reproduction in Animated conductor, Gustavo Dudamel enjoyed every minute. whole or in part of any material The narrator observed that he had no musical scores, he conducted in this publication without from memory—realize this means he memorized every part of every permission is strictly prohibited. orchestra members’ music. For one piece he did not use the baton, which ©2007-2020 All rights reserved created a gorgeous movement of his hands at the end of the piece. Chesapeake Style Watching their expressions was priceless. Chesapeake Bay Marketing. Recently I wrote that music feeds your soul. For me, clearly, a variety of music feeds my soul. I hope you know or will find, what feeds yours. About the cover~ Google them to see the entire performance. Sunset silhouettes a group was an exciting photographic of White Ibis roosting on an journey that would eventually lead abandoned duck blind near a him to his career as a professional nesting rookery of 1000+ pairs of photographer. At the age of 31, Jay wading birds. Jay Fleming photo. has an extensive portfolio that is Jay discovered his passion in sure to impress. Jay’s first book, photography upon inheriting his Working the Water - a photographic father, former National Geographic narrative of the Chesapeake Bay photographer, Kevin, hand-me- seafood industry, is in its third down Nikon film camera at the age printing and his second book, of 13. Jay immediately developed an Island Life, is expected to be affinity to looking at life through the released in the fall of 2021. lens of his camera and what ensued September 2020 3 Thank You For The Music By Dr Jane Park Cutler you? Lifts your spirits? or months Is it a favorite hymn or now, life has some ‘golden oldie?” slowed way, Classic music or rock way down: ’n roll? Instrumental no summer or vocal? Even as you guests,F no road or plane watch a movie, shift your trips, no friends over for attention to the music dinner, no ‘date nights’ to hear the mood it sets. with dinner and a movie. John Williams composed Doctors and therapists some of the most popular have noted that stress, musical scores in anxiety and depression cinematic history, Jaws, have increased and sleeping Star Wars, Home Alone, patterns changed, with some of the Harry Potter people all over the world series to name but a complaining of nightmares. few. Thanks to the radio, How are we to cope? various streaming services MUSIC! Some 400 years and YouTube, music can ago Shakespeare noted be just a click away. “music can raze out the I close by thanking written troubles of the Abba for this one:. brain.” As a therapist, I https://www.youtube. vacation from our troubled brains. a newlywed was when I surprised always had soothing instrumental com/watch?v=-EVFYfVDXH8 People of all ages must my husband and his parents music playing in the background. So I say remember some of Elvis’s songs with hard-to-come-by tickets to Recently I listened to a young Thank you for the music, whether it is Love Me Tender, Blue a recital by the renown pianist woman suffering from Tourette the songs I'm singing Suede Shoes or one of the hymns he Vladimir Horowitz at Constitution syndrome share how music reduced Thanks for all the joy they're bringing loved to sing. What’s your favorite? Hall. By age twenty, Horowitz was her involuntary movements. Who can live without it? Surely anyone who was a teenager acclaimed in his homeland Russia. https://www.ted.com/speakers/ I ask in all honesty in the 60’s remembers when Ed His European and American tours esha_alwani That’s not entirely What would life be? Sullivan introduced The Beatles. I were spectacularly successful. unexpected as music stimulates Without a song or a can still hear I Wanna Hold Your Yet, at age 50 he withdrew from more parts of the brain than any dance, what are we? Hand, and She Loves You over the public concerts, fearing that he other human function. It certainly So I say thank you for the music screams of the girls in the audience. was not good enough. For twelve changed this woman’s life, as it did For giving it to me. It’s 1964 all over again, and yes, in a years Horowitz gave no concerts. for Gaby Gifford who said “music Dr Jane Park Cutler is a retired heartbeat, I’m right back there. It’s That made this recital even more composed me.” How lovely is that! social worker living in Deltaville fun to revisit them on https://www. precious, never to be forgotten in The very popular Aretha Franklin with her husband Dr Gordon youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs my home. As we step out on our spoke about music transporting us B Cutler, Jr. Throughout her and https://www.youtube. own trips down memory lane, when back to the exact moment when we career she was concerned about com/watch?v=p3WnjKjlKTg. have we been overcome by doubts had certain experiences. During the wellbeing, physical and And, yeah, yeah, yeah, you or other sorrows and turned to these quiet times, trips down emotional, of her clients, students know you should be glad! music to mend our broken hearts? memory lane recalling music may and society in general. May A wonderful memory of mine as What inspires you? Comforts be just the thing we need to take a you find some comfort here. 4 September 2020 Style Spotlight~The Bay School~Sharing Art and Artists The state wide exhibition to go kits. The Afterschool Program Across Mathews will be partly had to be done online because will resume, but in a smaller scale. online and partly in person. of the difficulty in getting the Classes are continuing with One current plan is for Soup art to the gallery this year and much smaller class sizes of about six Sales at the Westville Christian ran from July 25 – August 25. people. Some techniques are harder Church next door to the Bay School If you missed the exhibition, or than others to show in videos or with soup in to go containers.