2011 Winter Issue

MU AS PIuCblic aHtionA Of LThLe S oMcietya rks For The Preservation Of Music Hall 1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 1 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 30 Chris Thompson, Photographer Greetings SfroPm Mour bHeau t-if uPl, hris e- sidiceen, atn ’usp dMate eons sthae gRevitaliza - toric, Music Hall! I’m proud to re - tion was presented by Duncan Chris ThomSpsporn iisn agne erx pAeriu- ditoriCuhmris i(s cthoev feorun) der/editor of port that SPMH has completed Hazard, and guests were treated enced creative designer and mar - About Foursquare, the only blog de - another successful year. Our activ - to the lively playing of Trent Sims keter specializing in the business to voted to covering the social net - ities and accomplishments were on the Mighty Wurlitzer while en - business arena. He graduated with work, Foursquare’s news and detailed by committee chairmen in joying light refreshments. This a BFA in Graphic Design information, including reports to SPMH mem - newsletter will expand from Winthrop University apps, tips and a bers, at the Annual upon these topics, pro - in Rock Hill, S.C. in 2001. Foursquare FAQ to answer Meeting September vide you with a little As the Graphic De - all. In just a year this blog 26th, and, I hope you history, and address signer/Marketing Coordi - has grown to serve over were among the capac - various topics such as nator for QC Industries, half a million visitors each ity crowd. Emphasizing the use of Music Hall Chris has responsibility for month. our numerous market - and the 2012 World a variety of functions in - Chris Thompson’s ing projects and other Choir Games. cluding the design and de - photographs are stunning! efforts promoting Music Thanks so much to velopment of the His creative viewpoint, bril - Hall, our popular Mighty all our members for company’s web site; the liance of color and effective Wurlitzer Concerts, and your support and finan - design of its catalogues, Chris Thompson use of light give a subject our funding of several cial contributions. brochures, manuals and packaging; an added dimension, enticing the Don Siekmann tenant/patron initiatives, Know that we are sin - the writing and distribution of press viewer to take a longer look. In the reports took into cere and diligent in our releases and newsletters; photo - 2008 five of his photographs were consideration the Revitalization efforts to serve the interests of graphing standard products and en - chosen for “Capture Cincinnati”, projected to begin in about 18 Music Hall and we hope that you gineered specials; managing trade with one the winner for the “Scapes months and our continued commit - perceive that these efforts merit shows; managing pay per click and of All Sorts” chapter. In 2007 six of ment to the support of activities your continued support. Calendar search engine optimization cam - his photographs were chosen for worthy of our funding. It was a year–end is soon upon us, and, I paigns; creating and managing so - “Capture Cincinnati” with one the great evening during which five encourage you to renew your cial network strategy; managing the winner for the “Simply Cincinnati” new Board Directors were intro - SPMH membership by using the company’s distributor training pro - chapter. duced, retiring Directors were enclosed envelope. For those new gram; etc. thanked for their dedicated serv - to SPMH, welcome and thank you SPMH Newsletter Acknowledgements Table of Contents Editor Photo Credits: page 1 page 18 Kathy Janson SPMH President’s Message ...... Meet the New Board Members . Christopher Buchanan SPMH Mission Statement ...... page 2 .D .o uble Your Pleasure...... page 23 Contributing Writers Phil Groshong SPMH 2011 - 2012 Board ...... page 2 SPMH Members ...... page 25 Lisa Allison 2011 SPMH Annual Meeting . . . . . page 3 Carl Linder Tribute ...... page 26 Mary Ellyn Hutton Don Siekmann Cover Art page 9 Revitalization Presentation . . . SPMH Members Listing...... page 26 Music Hall Springer Auditorium All About Tradition ...... page 12 By Chris Thompson Chris Thompson Photographer . page 30 Design and Layout page 14 JMR Meets SPMH ...... Acknowledgements...... page 30 Creative Flair Co. Printing Passion Flower, Trumpet Vine . . . . . page 15 The Merten Company 29 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 2 Mr. & Mrs. Jack Rouse Dale Swisher for your donation! Season! We look forward together, S T Please join us for cheer and with optimism and enthusiasm, to Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Shiro Tanaka celebration in the Ballroom for the 2012 and our beloved Music Hall! The Saenger Family Foundation James R. Tarbell Wurlitzer Holiday Concert on De - - Don Siekmann James & Joyce Salinger Sue Thacker cember 15th! Best Wishes for the James R. Salutz Joyce A. Thieman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Salzer Norman Thomas SPMH MISSION STATEMENT Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schlachter Janet G. Todd The mission of The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall Cyril & Stacy Schmidt Marcella G. Trice Dr. & Mrs. Harold Schneider Mr. & Mrs. James S. Trowbridge is to preserve, promote, improve, and provide education about Music Hall, Charlotte & Richard Schnitz Miriam Tsevat funding special projects in addition to Music Hall management’s operational Mr. & Mrs. Richard Schorr and maintenance obligations, and facilitating communications among Mrs. Zell Schulman U Music Hall management, owner, and tenants, in order to perpetuate Music Hall as the premier cultural center of the Region, and as a Martha Seaman V Mr. & Mrs. Howard W. Seitz Joyce VanWye National Historic Landmark of international significance. Mildred J. Selonick Edward & Wilma Vignale, Jr. John C. Senhauser Ruth Ann Voet Mr. & Mrs. Owen G. Sexton Kathryn & Vishnoo Shahani W SPMH BOARD of Directors 2011- 2012 Raleigh Sharrock Sallie R. Wadsworth Jean J. Shaw Nancy Wagner President Adrienne Beaudet Cowden Trey Devey Carolyn R. Shine Patricia Wagner Donald Siekmann Joel Ebersole - Cincinnati Symphony Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Shott Mr. & Mrs. John M. Ward Jodi M. Geiser Orchestra Deb Shulansky Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Ward Immediate Past President Melissa Godoy Victoria Morgan Marge Hammelrath Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Siekmann Mr. & Mrs. Frederick D. Warren Norma Petersen - Cincinnati Ballet Barbara Harshman Mr. & Mrs. James Simpson Mark & Lisa Weadick Laure Quinlivan William Henrich Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sittenfeld Katie K. Weed Vice Presidents - City of Cincinnati Mary Ellyn Hutton Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Skidmore Ron Wehmeier Joanne Grueter Steven Sunderman Richard W. Wesp Ken Jones Sarah G. Skidmore Kathy Janson - Cincinnati May Mr. & Mrs. David Westerbeck Mace Justice Peter Koenig Adrienne A. Smith Walter E. Langsam Festival Alex Smith Dr. & Mrs. James Willis Ed Rider Donna S. Wirth Ramon Rodriguez Honorary Director Sisters of the Transfiguration Eugene Saenger, Jr. Shelby Wood Recording Secretary Claire Phillips Bill & Sue Sommer Rosemary Schlachter Stacey G. Woolley Karen McKim Life Members Richard & Lois Sprigg John Senhauser Dr. & Mrs. Richard Wurzelbacher Louise Dieterle Nippert Robert Staab Kathryn W. Shahani Corresponding Secretary Joyce Van Wye, Mr. John R. Steelman Sue Sommer X Marcella Hsiung Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman Jim Tarbell Co-Founder Julia & David Stephen Y Treasurer Norman Thomas Past Presidents Mary Stern Jr. John M. Yacher Ronald Wehmeier Mark Weadick Marlene Johnson Brett Stover & Chris Hassall Mr. & Mrs. Eric B. Yeiser Joyce Van Wye Mr. & Mrs. George E. Stump Ex Officio Directors Z Directors Music Hall Liaison Patty Beggs Lisa Allison Scott Santangelo Please let us know if we have duplicated,omitted - Cincinnati Opera or misspelled your name (513) 744-3293 Barbara Boyd 3 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 28 Marcella Hsiung & Tony Lang James & Rebecca McDermott Mary Ellyn Hutton Nancy A. McGary Dr. & Mrs. William McKim, Jr. SPMH Annual Meeting I SPMH 2hel0d it1s A1 nnual Meeting mier cultural center of the region.” The Merten Company on Monday, September 26th in the Mr. Siekmann then asked several J Jerome M. Miller Music Hall Ballroom. More than members of the SPMH Board to Atarah Jablonsky Ivan & Patricia Misrach 200 people, including Board mem - give committee reports on key ac - Michael & Kathleen Janson Donna S. Montgomery bers of several tivities and ac - Linda Busken Jergens Herta L. Moore major arts or - complishments Robert I. & Harriett M. Johnson Marjorie Motch Scott & Karolon Johnson ganizations, at - over the past N Lois K. Jolson tended. City year which Mrs. Svet Nankovitch Ken Jones officials were served to fulfill Sr. Ruth Nastold, R.S.M. Mr. Robert M. Jones also present. that mission. Jerry & Monica Nerl Mary Ann Jordan The guests min - Peter Janet Neumann Mace C. Justice gled over cock - Koenig, Chair of Thomas & Christine Neyer tails and a light the Nominating K Rita W. Nowikowski buffet catered by Committee, Mr. & Mrs. Reuven J. Katz O the Phoenix, be - thanked and Paul C. Keidel Jane & Ervin Oberschmidt Arleen Keller fore the meeting recognized retir - Carolyn R. O’Bryan David Klingshirn was called to ing Directors, Tamar & Alan Oestrich order by SPMH Maureen Dillon, Lee Koehler Don Siekmann, SPMH President Mr. & Mrs. William R. Oligee Peter E. Koenig President, Don Meredith Down - Fred W. Oliver Siekmann. ton, Alan Sakalas, Sallie Patrick M. Korb Don introduced the evening’s Wadsworth, Nancy Wagner, and Carol & Scott Kosarko P agenda and reminded the audience Stacey Woolley. Peter introduced Ken & Sue Kramer Ms. Lavonia Payton of SPMH’s mission: “to preserve, the newly elected directors who will Carol L. Kruse Mark & Kim Pearson promote, improve and provide edu - serve a three year term: Adrienne Norma Petersen L Mrs. Claire B. Phillips cation about Music Hall in order to Beaudet Cowden, Jodi M. Geiser, Susan Laffoon David & Alice B. Phillips perpetuate Music Hall as the pre - Melissa Godoy, Ken Jones, and Thomas L. Lake Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Pichler Walter E. Langsam Mr. & Mrs. John W. Plattner Mary & Alan Lehn Dr. & Mrs. Michael Porte Mrs. Cynthia A. Leslie Judith Prinz Carl H. Lindner Catherine Linnemann R Dr. Jennifer Loggie J. Lee Rasmussen Carl & Joyce Lohstroh Jean Ratcliff Mr. & Mrs. Phillip C. Long Prof. Edward J. Requardt Joyce & Dan Lorey Alene W. Rice Ralph & Frances Lowenstein Melody Sawyer Richardson Dr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Luttmer Mr. Ed Rider Richard P. Robinson M Ramon Rodriguez Helene & Millard Mack (L to R) Peter Koenig, Nominating Committee Chair, Ed Rider, Finance/Corbett Endowment Edward & Nancy Rosenthal Committee Chair and Kathy Janson, Newsletter Editor Mr. David J. Mason 27 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 4 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick E. Bryan III Gail F. Forberg Jim Tarbell. Peter also reviewed the funded by SPMH in the past year Otto M. Budig, Jr. Jane A. Foster roster of officers who have been including new gift shop software, Ann J. Bunis Mrs. Rochelle Fradkin elected to serve for another year: ballroom seating spacers, the re - Thomas R. Frank President; pair and refurbish - C Rita Fritsch Betty Carroll Don Siekmann; ment of all three Bercie C. Frohman Mrs. Mary E. Carroll Vice-Presidents: water fountains, and Joanne Grueter, Kathy restroom repairs and Cin. Stage Emp. Local No. 5 G Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Mrs. William F. Gallagher Janson, Mace Justice, improvements. Joan M. Clear Neil & Linda Gartner Ed Rider; Recording SPMH also partially John & Theresa Clock Joseph Ganim Secretary: Karen funded an upgraded Mr. & Mrs. Leland M. Cole Mrs. Philip O. Geier, Jr. McKim; Corresponding universal ticketing Mr. & Mrs. John P. Connole Jodi Geiser Secretary: Marcella system for all arts Corbett Foundation Dr. Michael & Janelle Gelfand Hsiung; Treasurer: partners. Notably, Dr. Robin T. Cotton Evelyn M. Gerdes Mark Weadick. SPMH will be a con - Adrienne Cowden Patricia Giglia Mr. Keonig com - tributor to the Revi - Jane G. Cox S. Bradley Gillaugh pleted his report by talization Project and David & Martha P. Crafts Gary L. Gilmer recognizing Norma Pe - will continue to fund Paul & Janice Crumrine Ralph Ginocchio tersen, who, as the Lisa Allison, Marketing Committee Chair Music Hall projects in David N. Ginsburg previous Board President, automat - the future. D Melissa Godoy Louis M. Dauner ically holds an officer position. Mr. Rider introduced Kathy Mr. & Mrs. John Goldman Sally H. Dessauer Ed Rider, Chair of the Fi - Janson, Editor of the Newsletter Carol Grasha & Christopher Knoop Maureen C. Dillon nance/Corbett Endowment Com - Music Hall Marks . Kathy shared William E. Griess, Jr. Paul J. Dirkes mittee, reviewed the projects that more than 2,500 copies were Robert D. Groszer Jean Z. Donaldson Joanne Grueter Connie Bergstein Dow Mrs. Charles Downton III H Marjorie W. Drackett Mr. & Mrs. Richard Haberstroh Sandra & Richard Drewes Priscilla G. Haffner Suzanne F. Dunbar Oliver & Jeannette Hagerman Richard B. Dusterberg Dr. Kelly Hale Margaret Hammelrath E Mercedes M. Hance Harold & Linda Eberenz Catherine Harris Janet & Joel Ebersole Dr. & Mrs. Morton Harshman Ann Ellison Mrs. Jack Hasselbring Charles N. Ellman Lenore S. Hatfield Constance Elsaesser Trautlinde R. Heater F William Henrich Evelyn Ferguson Betty Heldman James & Janet Ferguson Allison Herschede Mrs. Hilliard J. Fjord Mr. Daniel J. Hoffheimer Blair S. Fleischmann Joseph L. Hollmann Doris A. Fluck Robert & Dorothy Holzwarth Jack Rouse and Duncan Hazard 5 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 26 mailed bi-annually and over 400 architecture, history and events as - copies were distributed via Music sociated with Music Hall. While re - Hall displays. (Past issues are lating the wonderful life-long Music CSaPrMlH Hmeemnberr, ykn oLwni nand leovre d1, 9a f1rie9nd -to 2ma0ny1. 1 archived at www.SPMHcincinnati.org ) Hall memories of Karen Schulman- Pictured with Erich Kunzel. She stated that Music Hall Marks Bear, as retold in the “I Remember A JOB WELL DONE! provides information concerning “all When” feature of the spring issue, things Music Hall.” It informs read - Kathy invited everyone in atten - ers about SPMH activities and dance, to write down a favorite gives details about topics such as memory of Music Hall for possible

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A Mrs. Thomas S. Benjamin Charles & Mary Abbott Ellen A. Berghamer Lisa Allison Jean F. Bergstein Anonymous Mary Bergstein Stacey Schmidt with her Mom Sue Sommer Donald C. Auberger, Jr. Eileen Berke Mrs. Mary Aufmann Bruce & Barbara Best Dr. David & Elaine Billmire B Nancy Kohnen Black Elsa Jane Baer Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Blum, Jr. Michael & Kimberly Baranowski John & Mary Ann Boorn Mr. & Mrs. Wayne K. Barfels D. Michael Bootes Glenda B. Bates Kenneth B. Bordwell Robert A. Bauer Barbara Boyd Mr. Donald Beck Marilyn K. Braude Mr. & Mrs. Sheal L. Becker James & Carolyn Bruckmann Dr. Paul Bellet Thomas G. Bruckmann Mace Justice and Scott Santangelo Brian Siekmann with his Mom Linda 25 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 6 inclusion in future Newsletter is - website redesigned and maintained SPMH Members sues. by Board Director, Joanne Greuter. Since the early days of SPMH chitect. The Annual Meeting, a Lisa Allison, Chair of the Mar - Ms. Allison announced the introduc - in1992, Members have proudly catered event, is by invitation only keting Committee, recapped tion of a new SPMH sponsored shown their community support for and it presents members opportuni - SPMH’s efforts in that area. In addi - crystal ornament, featuring a deli - preserving, improving and promot - ties for mingling with Board Direc - tion to tours given throughout the cate, etched rendering of the Rose ing Music Hall. They know that by tors, City Officials and leaders of year, SPMH launched marketing Window, for sale at the Bravo way of supporting Music Hall, they Arts and Community Groups. Inter - initiatives including the new logo, Shop. Proceeds will fund SPMH are assuring that this historic venue national Theatre Organists provide newly designed posters, and the projects. Lisa also shared highlights remains an attractive one for Arts entertainment for the group with the and Entertainment Groups, as well ever popular ‘Mighty Wurlitzer.’ as for private groups who use the SPMH Members also have first op - Ballroom, Lobby and Corbett Tower portunity, before the general public, for social gatherings. to purchase tickets for the ‘Mighty In addition to receiving bian - Wurlitzer’ Concerts nual Newsletters, Members are Every Member contribution kept informed of SPMH activities, makes a difference, every donation at the Annual Meeting in Septem - helps keep Music Hall vibrant and a ber. The past two meetings have successful part of Cincinnati and featured Progress Reports on the the arts community. The following is Revitalization of Music Hall pre - but a partial list of the projects sented by Duncan Hazard, chief ar - funded by Members’ contributions: Susan Westrick, Carol Kruse and Virginia Cox

• Restored and Installed Mighty Wurlitzer Organ in Ballroom • Installed and Illuminated a 50 ft. Flagpole & American Flag in Front of Music Hall • Purchased American Flag for Stage • Created and Installed a Timeline in the Central Parkway Entrance Corridor • Added Chandelier Lighting in Music Hall Foyer • Installed Lighting for Front of Music Hall • Purchased Commercial Carpet-Cleaning Machine • Restored the Oil Painting “Carmen” • Purchased Draperies – Box Seat Area, Stage Front and Proscenium Valance • Remodeled Critics’ Club • Repaired Coffered Ceiling • Paid for Repairs for Water Fountains and Restrooms • Contributed to Purchase of Universal Ticketing System and Gift Shop Software

A Huge Round of Applause to All Our Members! Thank You! If not already a Member, Please join us… by supporting Music Hall! Steve Sunderman and Ramon Rodriquez Trey Devey, Rosemary Schlachter 7 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 24 from the popular Mighty Wurlitzer and introduced Jack Rouse, presi - Concert series, sponsored by dent of the Music Hall Revitaliza - SPMH. Over the past year, SPMH tion Company. He, in turn, THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MUSIC HALL presented “Happy Holidays” and introduced Duncan Hazard, En - presents “Salute to Broadway” programs. nead architect partner-in-charge of Through these concerts, SPMH the project to present an update on has drawn over 2,000 patrons to the Revitalization Project. As with Music Hall. last year’s presentation, the audi - Following this SPMH busi - ence was enrapt as Mr. Hazard ness, Don again took the podium provided details of plans and ren - Happy witdh the ays HMIGHoTYl WiURLITZER Thursday, December 15, 2011, 10:30 am & 7:00 pm Cincinnati Music Hall Ballroom

featuring : theatre-organist Mary Coyne selling Ornaments Trent Sims, Joe Hollmann, Ron Wehmeier Ken Double with special guest, Fairview-Clifton Kinderchor Performance Sponsor: The Walter and Olivia Kiebach Charitable Foundation

All Seats Now Reserved - $25 ($20 for seniors, students, groups of 10 or more) In cooperation with the Ohio Valley Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society TICKETS: CincinnatiArts.ORG. (513) 621-ARTS (2787) Aronoff Center / Music Hall Ticket Office / Group Discount (10+) (513) 977-4157 SPMH Board Directors and Liaisons with the Mighty Wurlitzer 23 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 8 derings of Music Hall’s restoration. Mighty Wurlitzer” will take place on Double Your Pleasure (See Mary Ellyn Hutton’s recap of December 15th. Don introduced organist, a sportscaster the presentation in the following ar - guest organist, Trent Sims, to lead who spent 32 years in ticle.) the audience in an all American broadcasting before turn - President Siekmann thanked sing-a-long, sending everyone ing to his passion, the Mr. Hazard for the stimulating and home with the knowledge that Theatre Organ! He has exciting presentation. He then an - SPMH is indeed an organization performed concerts nounced, with great enthusiasm, a with a mission, dedicated to the around the country and continuation of SPMH’s Mighty conservation of Music Hall’s legacy. around the world with Wurlitzer Organ Series! The holiday - Lisa Allison awards and several CDs concert “Happy Holidays with the to his credit. The Kinderchor of the Fairview German Lan - Ken Double guage School is one of And yes, Double Your Fun, the most popular and talented ele - when Ken Double at the Mighty mentary school choirs in the city. Wurlitzer, teams up with the angelic They have performed at the Union voices of Fairview-Clifton Kinder - Terminal, at Music Hall for the May chor on December 15th in Music Festival and for a number of Hall’s Ballroom! The word on the Cincinnati businesses and organi - street is that ‘Happy Holidays with zations. The children are in grades the Mighty Wurlitzer’, initiated in 2-6 and participation in the pro - 2010, is the ‘something new’ that gram is acceptance by audition greater Cincinnati has longed for only with practices held after as an addition to tradition! We wel - school hours. Be enchanted by come back Ken Double, Presi - their performance—a selection of dent/CEO of The American Theatre German carols—Sweet!! Organ Society, who played at the Relive your memories of yes - inaugural ‘Mighty Wurlitzer Concert’ terday as you create new memo - for the SPMH annual meeting, ries of tomorrow with your friends September 2009. Be wowed by this and family! fascinating and superb theatre pipe Trent Sims and the Mighty Wurlitzer

To get a unique look To learn more about MUSIC HALL, at Music Hall and learn about its rich history of Past, Present and Future, treasures untold, call visit the SPMH Website 744-3344 http://www.spmhcincinnati.org/ to schedule a Tour! 9 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 22

Cincinnati’Rs Meuvsict Haallil zhaas tion P“Orure pslean itsa tot riaoisne the floor of the “Deep in December it’s Nice to Remember”. . . been evolving to meet the needs of north and south wings to the same the community since it was built in level as the main lobby. We want to . . . On Broadway! 1878. “It was originally remove the existing The May 5th Mighty Wurlitzer Con - just an enormous glass and metal cert featuring Lisa Ericksen, Mark room,” said Duncan walls, which separate Hardy and organist Walt Strony, was Hazard, founding part - the main lobby from a toe-tapping, finger-snapping, daz - ner of Ennead Archi - the stair halls on zling success! tects of New York, each side, to make chief architect of the them function as one Mark Hardy, Lisa Ericksen and Walt Strony at Music Hall Revitaliza - space. The escalator the Mighty Wurlitzer tion Project. “There in the south wing will was no stage, no be replaced by a proscenium. It held grand staircase as 6,000 people and re - per the original de - mained in that config - sign,” he said. “We uration until 1895.” Duncan Hazard want to return the Hazard recalled the history of whole front to a public space facing Music Hall as he revealed plans for the (Washington) park.” its “revitalization” at the annual “The old carriage ways and meeting of the Society for the garden courts, areas between the Preservation of Music Hall Sept. 26 buildings that once served as drop- in the Music Hall Ballroom. Plans off points for Music Hall, will be re- include moving the stage out into opened. The garden courts would the hall, reducing seating to be - be accessible so that Music Hall at - tween 1,900 and 2,300, creating a tendees could visit them during in - unified entrance on Elm Street with termissions,” Hazard said. In the a café and retail space, bringing in north lobby “we will be creating a the side and back walls to Springer consolidated box office operation, a Auditorium and reopening the old consolidated retail operation and a carriage ways between the main café which will be open all day Looking for the Perfect hall and the north and south wings. (closed during the evening). Here “The clear intention of the ar - we will also have what we call the chitect (Hannaford) was that this second rehearsal hall, which we Christmas Gift? was to be a destination,” said Haz - are hoping will double as a smaller ard. Pursuant to that, the hall will performance venue, perhaps for Purchase Music Hall: be “opened up,” he said. The many more experimental, smaller scale bricked-up windows will be uncov - works. The exterior doors in the “Cincinnati Finds its Voice” ered and the lobby of Music Hall main lobby will be returned to their will be restored to a single level. former height and some original DVD or VHS call (513) 744-3293 21 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 10 mer’s German Restaurant. Jim’s he was named Man of the Year by light fixtures will be restored,” he proscenium surround is slanted. passion for improving civic involve - the Over-the-Rhine Chamber of said. When the sound comes out of the ment and rebuilding the inner city Commerce. Born in Hamilton Mark Holden of Jaffe Holden pit, it hits that angle and all the drove him to found the Over-the- County, Jim was educated at St. Acoustics has done an acoustical sound is sent out into the house. If Rhine Chamber of Commerce. In Xavier and Withrow high schools analysis of Springer Auditorium with you look at the great opera houses 1994 he received the Charter Com - and The Lowell Institute in Cam - some perhaps surprising results. the ceiling area over the pit is flat. mittee’s Charles P. Taft Civic bridge, Mass. He and his wife, “Everybody knows that Music Hall We looked back at some of the old Gumption Award that honors per - Brenda raised their family in has this wonderful, mellow open Hannaford drawings and one of his sons of independent thought, inge - Cincinnati and currently live in sound, but there are areas where studies included squaring off the nuity and perspicacity, and in 1997 Pendleton. the sound falls off (under the bal - proscenium crown. We have sug - cony on the orchestra level and gested as part of our design to take Now Available in the Bravo Shop! under the gallery in the back). the existing proscenium and square This brilliant 3”-diameter lead crystal ornament, is available exclusively from Also, there are some hot spots on it off at the top.” SPMH and sells for $25 in the Bravo Shop. Beautifully etched with the iconic the orchestra level. He asked us to “Seating capacity in a refur - Music Hall Rose Window and the words “Cincinnati Music Hall 1878” the look at some architectural means to bished Music Hall will be variable,” adjust these two extremes. One said Hazard. The stage will be ex - scalloped-edge ornament comes with its own cord for hanging. Converted way is by decreasing the width of tended 39 ft. out into the hall and a from the Philp Groshong photograph taken for SPMH, and designed by the hall,” said Hazard. “If you look system of hydraulic lifts installed in Kelly Pennington of Strata-G Communications, this stunning ornament is at the great halls -- Musikverein in the floor. “There are three separate a ‘keepsake’. Presented in its box it is also perfect for gifting! Vienna (65 ft. wide), Concertge - lifts that can be configured depend - bouw in Amsterdam (88 ft.), Sym - ing on the use of the hall. In concert phony Hall in Boston (75 ft.) -- mode (CSO, Pops, May Festival), Music Hall is wider (110 ft.) than all of the lifts are up. For the first what seems to be the ideal dimen - time, the orchestra will be right sion of a concert hall. Mark Holden there in the room with you. They asked us to look at bringing in the will be sitting on these lifts in front side and back walls. In effect, they of the proscenium, and the acousti - would reflect the sound faster and cal towers will be placed at the distribute the sound better across proscenium arch instead of the the orchestra and across the bal - back wall. In theater mode (Opera, cony.” Ballet), two lifts will be down. In “The orchestra pit also has touring group mode, all of the lifts problems,” said Hazard. “There would be down and seating would have been complaints that when continue across the floor. Concert the pit is in place and the CSO is in mode would have the fewest seats, opera mode, they played so loudly about 1,900, Opera and ballet that they drowned out some of the would have 2,200 and touring performers. On the other hand, the groups that do not need an orches - SPMH would like to Thank you for your Support. musicians say, ‘we have trouble tra pit 2,300,” Hazard said. hearing ourselves.’” The solution is “There are many concerns yet Happy Holidays to you and yours! apparently a matter of degree. “If to be addressed in revitalizing you look, you will see that the Music Hall,” Hazard said. “One of 11 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 20 firm has successfully restored his - professional and civic affiliations Proposed changes for Music Hall seating toric churches, industrial, commer - and examples of civic participation Three-lift pit/stage A renovation plan for Music Hall would cial and residential buildings, and leadership are extensive indi - Three sections would rest on hydraulic lifts that improve acoustics and make total seating cultural institutions cating the energy of can be raised up, lowered or left at floor level between 1,900 and 2,300. and entertainment an individual who is for additional seating. venues. In addition to committed to promot - Theatre mode: Levels B and C drop down restoring buildings, ing his community. below the floor to create a pit for performers. Ken is equally adept Jim Tarbell , by Concert mode: Levels A, B in designing contem - mayoral proclamation, and C would rise up to stage porary homes from holds the title “Mr. level for performers. single-family to luxury Cincinnati” for life. He Traveling show mode: Levels A, B and C penthouses. Some of is a passionate and would be at floor level the well-known struc - experienced leader in and used for spectator tures which have southwest Ohio and seating. been renovated by Hamilton County. He his firm are Old St. has served on the Mary’s Church, Me - Ken Jones Hamilton County Re - morial Hall and the gional Planning Com - Current Floor original Diner on Sycamore. As an mission and on the City of seating area architect, Ken focuses on deliver - Cincinnati Planning Commission. ing unique solutions designed to He is a founding member of the The gallery and Seating beneath suit a client’s goals. He is an advo - Hamilton County Planning Partner - balcony levels would see some balcony would be cate of conservation ship. His service also modifications, including the addition removed and the walls and restoration of includes board mem - of boxes on the balcony level. brought in Over-the-Rhine bership on the South - where he lives and west Ohio Regional Source: Ennead Architects The Enquirer / Mike Nyerges works and he be - Transit Authority. He them is the two-ton crystal chande - said Jack Rouse, president of the lieves in preserving was a council mem - lier that hangs above the center of Music Hall Revitalization Company. OTR’s architecture ber for nine years and Springer Auditorium. Installed in “Music Hall was a public palace, a and detailing which a vice mayor for two 1969 as part of a major Corbett place where people came together embody Cincinnati’s years in the City of Foundation renovation, it obscures for all kinds of arts and culture and unique history and Cincinnati. As a coun - the ceiling mural, “Allegory of the entertainment. We are committed heritage. Ken pro - cil member Jim was Arts” by Conrad Arthur Thomas. It’s above everything else to making motes his goals by the founding chairper - quite beautiful, but a little difficult to sure that’s what it is going forward.” serving on the City’s son of the city’s Arts Historic Conservation and Culture Commit - see with the big chandelier.” “There -- Mary Ellyn Hutton Jim Tarbell are millions of details yet to come,” Board among other tee. Numerous arts like-minded organizations. He has and civic organizations have bene - “We have within ourselves a B.S. in Architecture from the Uni - fitted from his work as board mem - Enough to fill the present day with joy, versity of Kentucky. The awards ber. He owned and operated And overspread the future years with hope.” which Ken Jones and Associates several small businesses including have earned are impressive. Ken’s Arnold’s Bar and Grill and Gram - - William Wordsworth, poet 19 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 12 Way, for which she has won the on arts pieces such as the HD ex - New Century Community Service hibit in the Cincinnati Wing of the All About Tradition Award, Women’s Leadership Coun - Cincinnati Art Museum. Other re - cil Steering Committee; Cincinnati cent professional work has included ThAse t hWe daoyrs lredm aCinihngo tior th e Gamtowens i na Snepdtem Mber,u frosmic h isH hoamell Women’s Executive Forum: a documentary about creative 2012 World Choir Games (WCG) in Budapest, Hungary, to work with Founder and Committee Chair; aging narrated by Walter Cronkite are decreasing, the planning activi - the Cincinnati Organizing Commit - Cincinnati Women’s Business Re - called Do Not Go Gently . My work ties keep increasing. tee in helping to match the choir source Group: is interdisciplinary, in - Recently, I met with Gabor competitions, performances and Founder and Steering corporating principals Hollerung, senior artistic director concerts with appropriate venues. Committee; Cincin - of visual fine arts, and one of the founders Although not all plans nati USA Regional music, literature, the - of the World Choir are finalized, Music Hall Chamber; American atre, and journalism. Games. As senior artistic has already been chosen Heart Association; My method is to pull a director, he is involved in as the site of one of the Arts Wave. She has team together in the helping the Cincinnati Or - prestigious “Champions also channeled her telling of one eloquent ganizing Committee in Concerts”, featuring energies to United story that is personal planning the 2012 “Champions of the World Way, Gold Star Fam - and meaningful to the games, and is especially Choir Games” from vari - ily Grief Resource, participants, allowing involved in the Celebra - ous musical categories. Cincinnati Opera as a for discoveries that tion Concerts, Awards Music Hall will also host at Trustee and Cincin - are possible only in Gabor Hollerung Ceremonies and the least one “Celebration nati Chamber Or - the arts. Imagination, Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Concert”, an evening performance chestra as a Trustee. Melissa Godoy sense of humor and Gabor has great credentials for this by some of the best choirs in the Jodi graduated Summa Cum Laude ability to solve problems collabora - role. As a choral director in Hun - world as selected by the World with a B.S. in Accounting from Ohio tively are the most important tools gary, his choirs have won numer - Choir Games’ artistic committee. State University. of this journey.” Among recent ous competitions and worldwide Music Hall stage will be filled with develops inde - awards are a Best Electronic Media Melissa Godoy attention, and as a symphony con - prize winning choral groups from pendent film and programming for Award from the American Society ductor, he has ‘guest conducted’ around the world with their beauti - public television. “I have been on Aging, Gold World Medal in Hu - around the globe. Hollerung was in ful voices filling the hall. These will working in this field for 25 years, on manities at the New York Film and projects spanning from award-win - Video Festivals, Susan Shinagawa ning PBS documentaries, to 30 LiveSTRONG Cancer Leadership second commercials, to improvisa - Award, and Emmys. Melissa tional comedy and new theatre. My earned a B.S. from Northwestern current work includes shooting a University in Theatre/Creative Writ - documentary called the Rebirth of ing for Media. She currently Over-the Rhine, about current rede - teaches college level scriptwriting. velopment in Cincinnati’s historic Ken Jones has practiced ar - core neighborhood. I was also re - chitecture in the Cincinnati area for cently Line Producer of The Last over 35 years, specializing in com - Truck: Closing of a GM Plant , an plex restoration and sensitive reuse HBO Documentary. I enjoy experi - projects. As founder and principal menting with film and have worked of Ken Jones and Associates, his Gabor Hollerung conducting the 6th World Choir Games in China 13 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 18 be “hot tickets.” More construction. He elaborated that concerts/events, along with their lo - “shoebox” is a term used to de - Meet New SPMH Board Members: cations, will be announced later. scribe some of the best concert I asked Gabor why he thinks halls in the world. These halls were Adrienne Cowden, Jodi Geiser, Melissa Godoy, INTERKULTUR, the German- built long before the scientific de - based organization that founded velopment of acoustics and fea - SPMH hasK a terand itJioon nofe ast -ando fJ pirmoje cTts iancrlubdeinlgl the prepara - and operates the World Choir tured long, tall, and, narrow halls. tracting talented members of our tion of the National Register nomi - Games, originally chose Cincinnati He compares our hall to the community to serve as nations and local as its first U.S. host city and how Musikverein in Vienna, Berlin’s Directors. It is with historic designations Music Hall was part of that deci - Konzerthaus and the Concertge - pleasure that the five in the City of Cincin - sion. “Very simple,” he said, “it’s all bouw in Amsterdam. newest members of nati. She has been about tradition.” He was es - the Board are intro - involved in architec - INTERKULTUR pecially pleased duced. tural surveys for saw and felt the with the selec - Adrienne Cow - transportation and deep choral tra - tion of the den , founder of 720 gas pipeline projects ditions here in “Cincinnati Pops” Consulting, has as well as state and Cincinnati. as the “Host City worked as an Archi - locally funded inven - Cincinnati and Orchestra”. The tectural Historian and tories and National Music Hall are Pops, together Historic Preservation Register assess - closely linked in with the May Consultant in the pri - ments of cultural re - that tradition, Festival Chorus vate and public sector sources. Adrienne beginning with and John Morris for over 16 years. Her Jodi M. Geiser has documented our 150 year Russell will cele - professional experi - and/or assessed the Saengerfest his - brate our Inde - ence includes work in the Technical National Register eligibility of over tory which in pendence Day in Preservation Services division of 10,000 architectural resources. turn, resulted in connection with the National Park Service in D.C., Jodi M. Geiser is Partner of the construction the Spectacular the City of Cincinnati Historic Con - and has more than 20 years of pro - of Music Hall for WCG Opening Gabor Hollerung conducting closing in China servation Office, and as staff at pri - fessional experience with the Ac - the May Festi - Ceremony on vate cultural resource management counting Firm of Ernst & Young in val. Much of this choral tradition is July 4. The Pops will also be a firms. She earned a B.A. in History both industry and tax functions. on SPMH’s website and on the major part of the equally spectacu - from Smith College, holds a mas - She currently serves as Ernst & Music Hall DVD, which were both lar closing ceremony. ter’s degree in Historic Preserva - Young’s East Central Sub-Area Re - extensively used in the selection What an unbelievable treat this tion Planning from Cornell porting and Compliance leader process. event will be for the entire city. The University, and is listed as a quali - managing the tax functions of 12 Gabor also mentioned that he talent, color, enthusiasm, spectacle fied consultant by the Ohio Preser - cities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, D.C., “feels right at home here.” He com - and overall excitement will be as - vation Office. Ms. Cowden has Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky. mented that Music Hall’s bright and tounding! To have music Hall as a conducted independent research She also serves as the lead Tax open auditorium shares both Amer - focal point of this once-in-a-lifetime and survey work in numerous Partner for several Cincinnati ican and European characteristics. experience is very appropriate, so states including Ohio, Kentucky, In - based Fortune 500 companies. American, in that it is “huge” com - stay tuned for more information diana, New York, Maryland, Penn - Jodi is very involved in Community pared to European concert halls, about the games and Music Hall. sylvania, California and Vermont. and the organizations which she and European, with its “shoebox” - Don Siekmann She has worked on a wide variety currently serves include United 17 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 14 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition off. Put these and the other panels in Chicago, bolstered this reputa - in a place of honor with light and JMR Meets SPMH tion. The Cincinnati Art-Carved signage, appropriate for these ex - John Morris Russell, who re - South. He noted that this unique Movement was held in such high amples of our Cincinnati Art, our cently took the baton as the Con - placement brought a legacy of regard that the ‘amateur’ carvers Cincinnati History, our Cincinnati ductor of the Cincinnati Pops, was classical spiritual and blues music from the studios of the Frys and Heritage. They belong to this Music a welcomed guest of SPMH at the to the area. JMR also shared that Pittman merited a special room in Hall -- they are as important as are September 12th Board meeting. in the 1950’s, Cincinnati witnessed the Women’s Pavilion at the 1876 the bricks and mortar. (Information JMR, as he is now affectionately the birth of rock and roll with the Centennial. Over 200 examples of Sources Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture by known, took the opportunity to seminal recording company, King mostly carved wood from the stu - Jennifer L. Howe, The Cincinnati Organ by George Ward Nichols.) speak about his Records. (King dios in Cincinnati were rated the - Kathy Janson delight in returning Records had its best of the nation’s artistic entries. home to Cincinnati beginning in 1939 The Cincinnati Art-Carved Fur - and of his hopes with a store front niture Movement lasted and dreams for one block from over 50 years but the the future of the Music Hall. It was Music Hall Organ with internationally her - here that the leg - its famously magnificent alded Cincinnati endary James screen stood as a testa - Pops. Maestro Brown started his ment to the art form until Russell shared his career.) These are 1974 when it was dis - vision of maintain - just a few ideas mantled. Sections were ing the legacy of milling in JMR’s dispersed to the Histori - his revered prede - head as he con - cal Society, the Cincin - cessor, Erich Kun - templates bringing nati Art Museum (the zel, which includes the best of Pops panel ‘Morning’ is dis - free public con - classics along with played with honor and certs in the greater innovative pro - proper signage in the Cincinnati area, in - John Morris Russell, Music Director gramming to his of The Cincinnati Pops Cincinnati Wing) and ternational tours audience. many of the panels were and of course, recordings with the Mr. Russell acknowledged the given away to support - Pops own music label at Telarc. important role that SPMH plays in ers of Music Hall. The Additionally, JMR, like all influ - the life and future of Music Hall remaining few line the ential artists, has some ideas and thanked the Board for their orchestra pit below the about making his own mark on the work. At the conclusion of his talk, stage, invisible to the direction of the Pops. “Cincinnati Maestro Russell revealed to the general public. And the has such a rich musical history,” SPMH Board that the Cincinnati ‘Passion Flower’ and the declared the Maestro. “I would love Pops had been appointed the offi - ‘Trumpet Vine’ hang in to create programs that recall cial orchestra of the 2012 World the shadows of the those historical and cultural peri - Choir Games. SPMH was the first North Hall Stairs. Ques - ods in the Queen City’s past.” Mr. to learn of this exciting announce - tions: Why, and What Russell cited Cincinnati’s location ment! Now? on the Ohio River as a pivotal tran - - Lisa Allison Answers: Dust them Detail of The Passion Flower sition point between North and 15 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 16 They flit and twitter among the have been contributed by Pittman’s passion flowers, between the stems Passion Flower, Trumpet Vine 108 students alone. The vast sec - of the trumpet vines. In near obliv - ion, in the cloistered shadows of the century. Henry, with experience tions of the organ screen between North Stairs, the sparrows watch as working on carved screens in both the two grand towers were carved by patrons ascend in diffident haste, Westminster Abbey and in the the Frys and the pupils of their unknowing, unaware. It was not al - Houses of Parliament was well quali - school. The ‘Trumpet Vine’ and the ways so. The two carved panels, so fied with his son William, to open in ‘Passion Flower’ were designed and vivid in detail, one can almost hear Cincinnati, a private school dedi - carved by William Fry. Admiring the rustling of the leaves and the cated to the art of wood carving, in Fry’s work, Benn Pittman said “I chirping of the birds, once adorned the early 1870s. In 1873 another have seen much fine carving in the Music Hall’s magnificent Hook and British expat, Benn Pitman, estab - churches and at the principal deco - Hastings Organ. This largest of all lished the Department of Wood rative establishments of New York organs in America was one of the Carving at the University of Cincin - but nowhere have I seen carving most celebrated organs in the world. nati’s School of Design. Pittman and equal to that of Mr. William Fry of Describing these two panels, the Frys were followers of such this City.” All of the surrounding sec - George Ward Nichols, in his 1878 philosophers as John Ruskin and tions of the screen including the tow - book “The Cincinnati Organ” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. They ad - ers were executed by the students of “it is not faint praise to say that the hered to a return to the craftsman Pittman. Typical of Cincinnati Art- Middle Ages, so fruitful in carvings, ideal, to reunite the useful and the Carved Furniture, the organ screen nor modern days with its culture beautiful, to look to nature for inspi - glorified nature in great detail with have produced such noble work. It ration. delicately carved birds, flowers, never occurs to the beholder that Students of these master vines, and grasses. There were pan - this is stiff hard wood with difficulty carvers were principally women; els, depicting Morning, Noon and fashioned into the desired shape. It many were affluent and socially Evening, the Seasons and, signifi - has the texture of leaf and stem, the prominent. They prescribed to the cantly, names and floral representa - flexibility of foliage, the fragrance of belief that the receipt of payment for tions of 15 of the most beloved the forest.” a pastime which they enjoyed would composers. Carved in native wild Their place in the shadows be - diminish their class respectability cherry and treated with oil rather lies the significance of these panels and as a result, almost all of their than varnish, the resulting color and as excellent representatives of the work, including the carving of the patina rivaled that of the richest ma - Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture Music Hall Organ screen was volun - hogany. Movement, one of the most impor - teered. “We will work with hands and The reputation of Cincinnati as a tant manifestations of the Aesthetic brains and heart, and offer the re - center of decorative wood carving Movement in the United States. sults of our labor as our contribution soared to international status as a Begun by British expatriates, Henry toward the people’s organ” they result of the efforts of these ‘stu - and William Fry, the Cincinnati Art- stated. The organ screen carving, dents’. Their work on three large Carved Furniture Movement drew following the general architectural public projects, the wood carving from the wealth of artistic talent culti - design of artist and artisan Robert display at the 1876 Centennial Inter - vated in the Cincinnati public Rogers, was begun in the fall of national Exhibition held in Philadel - schools and it flourished in Cincin - 1877 and was completed by the first phia (the first official World’s Fair), nati, a major center for the furniture May Festival in 1878. Over 20,000 the carving of the Music Hall Organ The Trumpet Vine manufacturing industry in the 19th hours of work were estimated to screen in 1878 and the display at the 15 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 16 They flit and twitter among the have been contributed by Pittman’s passion flowers, between the stems Passion Flower, Trumpet Vine 108 students alone. The vast sec - of the trumpet vines. In near obliv - ion, in the cloistered shadows of the century. Henry, with experience tions of the organ screen between North Stairs, the sparrows watch as working on carved screens in both the two grand towers were carved by patrons ascend in diffident haste, Westminster Abbey and in the the Frys and the pupils of their unknowing, unaware. It was not al - Houses of Parliament was well quali - school. The ‘Trumpet Vine’ and the ways so. The two carved panels, so fied with his son William, to open in ‘Passion Flower’ were designed and vivid in detail, one can almost hear Cincinnati, a private school dedi - carved by William Fry. Admiring the rustling of the leaves and the cated to the art of wood carving, in Fry’s work, Benn Pittman said “I chirping of the birds, once adorned the early 1870s. In 1873 another have seen much fine carving in the Music Hall’s magnificent Hook and British expat, Benn Pitman, estab - churches and at the principal deco - Hastings Organ. This largest of all lished the Department of Wood rative establishments of New York organs in America was one of the Carving at the University of Cincin - but nowhere have I seen carving most celebrated organs in the world. nati’s School of Design. Pittman and equal to that of Mr. William Fry of Describing these two panels, the Frys were followers of such this City.” All of the surrounding sec - George Ward Nichols, in his 1878 philosophers as John Ruskin and tions of the screen including the tow - book “The Cincinnati Organ” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. They ad - ers were executed by the students of “it is not faint praise to say that the hered to a return to the craftsman Pittman. Typical of Cincinnati Art- Middle Ages, so fruitful in carvings, ideal, to reunite the useful and the Carved Furniture, the organ screen nor modern days with its culture beautiful, to look to nature for inspi - glorified nature in great detail with have produced such noble work. It ration. delicately carved birds, flowers, never occurs to the beholder that Students of these master vines, and grasses. There were pan - this is stiff hard wood with difficulty carvers were principally women; els, depicting Morning, Noon and fashioned into the desired shape. It many were affluent and socially Evening, the Seasons and, signifi - has the texture of leaf and stem, the prominent. They prescribed to the cantly, names and floral representa - flexibility of foliage, the fragrance of belief that the receipt of payment for tions of 15 of the most beloved the forest.” a pastime which they enjoyed would composers. Carved in native wild Their place in the shadows be - diminish their class respectability cherry and treated with oil rather lies the significance of these panels and as a result, almost all of their than varnish, the resulting color and as excellent representatives of the work, including the carving of the patina rivaled that of the richest ma - Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture Music Hall Organ screen was volun - hogany. Movement, one of the most impor - teered. “We will work with hands and The reputation of Cincinnati as a tant manifestations of the Aesthetic brains and heart, and offer the re - center of decorative wood carving Movement in the United States. sults of our labor as our contribution soared to international status as a Begun by British expatriates, Henry toward the people’s organ” they result of the efforts of these ‘stu - and William Fry, the Cincinnati Art- stated. The organ screen carving, dents’. Their work on three large Carved Furniture Movement drew following the general architectural public projects, the wood carving from the wealth of artistic talent culti - design of artist and artisan Robert display at the 1876 Centennial Inter - vated in the Cincinnati public Rogers, was begun in the fall of national Exhibition held in Philadel - schools and it flourished in Cincin - 1877 and was completed by the first phia (the first official World’s Fair), nati, a major center for the furniture May Festival in 1878. Over 20,000 the carving of the Music Hall Organ The Trumpet Vine manufacturing industry in the 19th hours of work were estimated to screen in 1878 and the display at the 17 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 14 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition off. Put these and the other panels in Chicago, bolstered this reputa - in a place of honor with light and JMR Meets SPMH tion. The Cincinnati Art-Carved signage, appropriate for these ex - John Morris Russell, who re - South. He noted that this unique Movement was held in such high amples of our Cincinnati Art, our cently took the baton as the Con - placement brought a legacy of regard that the ‘amateur’ carvers Cincinnati History, our Cincinnati ductor of the Cincinnati Pops, was classical spiritual and blues music from the studios of the Frys and Heritage. They belong to this Music a welcomed guest of SPMH at the to the area. JMR also shared that Pittman merited a special room in Hall -- they are as important as are September 12th Board meeting. in the 1950’s, Cincinnati witnessed the Women’s Pavilion at the 1876 the bricks and mortar. (Information JMR, as he is now affectionately the birth of rock and roll with the Centennial. Over 200 examples of Sources Cincinnati Art-Carved Furniture by known, took the opportunity to seminal recording company, King mostly carved wood from the stu - Jennifer L. Howe, The Cincinnati Organ by George Ward Nichols.) speak about his Records. (King dios in Cincinnati were rated the - Kathy Janson delight in returning Records had its best of the nation’s artistic entries. home to Cincinnati beginning in 1939 The Cincinnati Art-Carved Fur - and of his hopes with a store front niture Movement lasted and dreams for one block from over 50 years but the the future of the Music Hall. It was Music Hall Organ with internationally her - here that the leg - its famously magnificent alded Cincinnati endary James screen stood as a testa - Pops. Maestro Brown started his ment to the art form until Russell shared his career.) These are 1974 when it was dis - vision of maintain - just a few ideas mantled. Sections were ing the legacy of milling in JMR’s dispersed to the Histori - his revered prede - head as he con - cal Society, the Cincin - cessor, Erich Kun - templates bringing nati Art Museum (the zel, which includes the best of Pops panel ‘Morning’ is dis - free public con - classics along with played with honor and certs in the greater innovative pro - proper signage in the Cincinnati area, in - John Morris Russell, Music Director gramming to his of The Cincinnati Pops Cincinnati Wing) and ternational tours audience. many of the panels were and of course, recordings with the Mr. Russell acknowledged the given away to support - Pops own music label at Telarc. important role that SPMH plays in ers of Music Hall. The Additionally, JMR, like all influ - the life and future of Music Hall remaining few line the ential artists, has some ideas and thanked the Board for their orchestra pit below the about making his own mark on the work. At the conclusion of his talk, stage, invisible to the direction of the Pops. “Cincinnati Maestro Russell revealed to the general public. And the has such a rich musical history,” SPMH Board that the Cincinnati ‘Passion Flower’ and the declared the Maestro. “I would love Pops had been appointed the offi - ‘Trumpet Vine’ hang in to create programs that recall cial orchestra of the 2012 World the shadows of the those historical and cultural peri - Choir Games. SPMH was the first North Hall Stairs. Ques - ods in the Queen City’s past.” Mr. to learn of this exciting announce - tions: Why, and What Russell cited Cincinnati’s location ment! Now? on the Ohio River as a pivotal tran - - Lisa Allison Answers: Dust them Detail of The Passion Flower sition point between North and 13 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 18 be “hot tickets.” More construction. He elaborated that concerts/events, along with their lo - “shoebox” is a term used to de - Meet New SPMH Board Members: cations, will be announced later. scribe some of the best concert I asked Gabor why he thinks halls in the world. These halls were Adrienne Cowden, Jodi Geiser, Melissa Godoy, INTERKULTUR, the German- built long before the scientific de - based organization that founded velopment of acoustics and fea - SPMH hasK a terand itJioon nofe ast -ando fJ pirmoje cTts iancrlubdeinlgl the prepara - and operates the World Choir tured long, tall, and, narrow halls. tracting talented members of our tion of the National Register nomi - Games, originally chose Cincinnati He compares our hall to the community to serve as nations and local as its first U.S. host city and how Musikverein in Vienna, Berlin’s Directors. It is with historic designations Music Hall was part of that deci - Konzerthaus and the Concertge - pleasure that the five in the City of Cincin - sion. “Very simple,” he said, “it’s all bouw in Amsterdam. newest members of nati. She has been about tradition.” He was es - the Board are intro - involved in architec - INTERKULTUR pecially pleased duced. tural surveys for saw and felt the with the selec - Adrienne Cow - transportation and deep choral tra - tion of the den , founder of 720 gas pipeline projects ditions here in “Cincinnati Pops” Consulting, has as well as state and Cincinnati. as the “Host City worked as an Archi - locally funded inven - Cincinnati and Orchestra”. The tectural Historian and tories and National Music Hall are Pops, together Historic Preservation Register assess - closely linked in with the May Consultant in the pri - ments of cultural re - that tradition, Festival Chorus vate and public sector sources. Adrienne beginning with and John Morris for over 16 years. Her Jodi M. Geiser has documented our 150 year Russell will cele - professional experi - and/or assessed the Saengerfest his - brate our Inde - ence includes work in the Technical National Register eligibility of over tory which in pendence Day in Preservation Services division of 10,000 architectural resources. turn, resulted in connection with the National Park Service in D.C., Jodi M. Geiser is Partner of the construction the Spectacular the City of Cincinnati Historic Con - and has more than 20 years of pro - of Music Hall for WCG Opening Gabor Hollerung conducting closing in China servation Office, and as staff at pri - fessional experience with the Ac - the May Festi - Ceremony on vate cultural resource management counting Firm of Ernst & Young in val. Much of this choral tradition is July 4. The Pops will also be a firms. She earned a B.A. in History both industry and tax functions. on SPMH’s website and on the major part of the equally spectacu - from Smith College, holds a mas - She currently serves as Ernst & Music Hall DVD, which were both lar closing ceremony. ter’s degree in Historic Preserva - Young’s East Central Sub-Area Re - extensively used in the selection What an unbelievable treat this tion Planning from Cornell porting and Compliance leader process. event will be for the entire city. The University, and is listed as a quali - managing the tax functions of 12 Gabor also mentioned that he talent, color, enthusiasm, spectacle fied consultant by the Ohio Preser - cities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, D.C., “feels right at home here.” He com - and overall excitement will be as - vation Office. Ms. Cowden has Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky. mented that Music Hall’s bright and tounding! To have music Hall as a conducted independent research She also serves as the lead Tax open auditorium shares both Amer - focal point of this once-in-a-lifetime and survey work in numerous Partner for several Cincinnati ican and European characteristics. experience is very appropriate, so states including Ohio, Kentucky, In - based Fortune 500 companies. American, in that it is “huge” com - stay tuned for more information diana, New York, Maryland, Penn - Jodi is very involved in Community pared to European concert halls, about the games and Music Hall. sylvania, California and Vermont. and the organizations which she and European, with its “shoebox” - Don Siekmann She has worked on a wide variety currently serves include United 19 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 12 Way, for which she has won the on arts pieces such as the HD ex - New Century Community Service hibit in the Cincinnati Wing of the All About Tradition Award, Women’s Leadership Coun - Cincinnati Art Museum. Other re - cil Steering Committee; Cincinnati cent professional work has included ThAse t hWe daoyrs lredm aCinihngo tior th e Gamtowens i na Snepdtem Mber,u frosmic h isH hoamell Women’s Executive Forum: a documentary about creative 2012 World Choir Games (WCG) in Budapest, Hungary, to work with Founder and Committee Chair; aging narrated by Walter Cronkite are decreasing, the planning activi - the Cincinnati Organizing Commit - Cincinnati Women’s Business Re - called Do Not Go Gently . My work ties keep increasing. tee in helping to match the choir source Group: is interdisciplinary, in - Recently, I met with Gabor competitions, performances and Founder and Steering corporating principals Hollerung, senior artistic director concerts with appropriate venues. Committee; Cincin - of visual fine arts, and one of the founders Although not all plans nati USA Regional music, literature, the - of the World Choir are finalized, Music Hall Chamber; American atre, and journalism. Games. As senior artistic has already been chosen Heart Association; My method is to pull a director, he is involved in as the site of one of the Arts Wave. She has team together in the helping the Cincinnati Or - prestigious “Champions also channeled her telling of one eloquent ganizing Committee in Concerts”, featuring energies to United story that is personal planning the 2012 “Champions of the World Way, Gold Star Fam - and meaningful to the games, and is especially Choir Games” from vari - ily Grief Resource, participants, allowing involved in the Celebra - ous musical categories. Cincinnati Opera as a for discoveries that tion Concerts, Awards Music Hall will also host at Trustee and Cincin - are possible only in Gabor Hollerung Ceremonies and the least one “Celebration nati Chamber Or - the arts. Imagination, Opening and Closing Ceremonies. Concert”, an evening performance chestra as a Trustee. Melissa Godoy sense of humor and Gabor has great credentials for this by some of the best choirs in the Jodi graduated Summa Cum Laude ability to solve problems collabora - role. As a choral director in Hun - world as selected by the World with a B.S. in Accounting from Ohio tively are the most important tools gary, his choirs have won numer - Choir Games’ artistic committee. State University. of this journey.” Among recent ous competitions and worldwide Music Hall stage will be filled with develops inde - awards are a Best Electronic Media Melissa Godoy attention, and as a symphony con - prize winning choral groups from pendent film and programming for Award from the American Society ductor, he has ‘guest conducted’ around the world with their beauti - public television. “I have been on Aging, Gold World Medal in Hu - around the globe. Hollerung was in ful voices filling the hall. These will working in this field for 25 years, on manities at the New York Film and projects spanning from award-win - Video Festivals, Susan Shinagawa ning PBS documentaries, to 30 LiveSTRONG Cancer Leadership second commercials, to improvisa - Award, and Emmys. Melissa tional comedy and new theatre. My earned a B.S. from Northwestern current work includes shooting a University in Theatre/Creative Writ - documentary called the Rebirth of ing for Media. She currently Over-the Rhine, about current rede - teaches college level scriptwriting. velopment in Cincinnati’s historic Ken Jones has practiced ar - core neighborhood. I was also re - chitecture in the Cincinnati area for cently Line Producer of The Last over 35 years, specializing in com - Truck: Closing of a GM Plant , an plex restoration and sensitive reuse HBO Documentary. I enjoy experi - projects. As founder and principal menting with film and have worked of Ken Jones and Associates, his Gabor Hollerung conducting the 6th World Choir Games in China 11 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 20 firm has successfully restored his - professional and civic affiliations Proposed changes for Music Hall seating toric churches, industrial, commer - and examples of civic participation Three-lift pit/stage A renovation plan for Music Hall would cial and residential buildings, and leadership are extensive indi - Three sections would rest on hydraulic lifts that improve acoustics and make total seating cultural institutions cating the energy of can be raised up, lowered or left at floor level between 1,900 and 2,300. and entertainment an individual who is for additional seating. venues. In addition to committed to promot - Theatre mode: Levels B and C drop down restoring buildings, ing his community. below the floor to create a pit for performers. Ken is equally adept Jim Tarbell , by Concert mode: Levels A, B in designing contem - mayoral proclamation, and C would rise up to stage porary homes from holds the title “Mr. level for performers. single-family to luxury Cincinnati” for life. He Traveling show mode: Levels A, B and C penthouses. Some of is a passionate and would be at floor level the well-known struc - experienced leader in and used for spectator tures which have southwest Ohio and seating. been renovated by Hamilton County. He his firm are Old St. has served on the Mary’s Church, Me - Ken Jones Hamilton County Re - morial Hall and the gional Planning Com - Current Floor original Diner on Sycamore. As an mission and on the City of seating area architect, Ken focuses on deliver - Cincinnati Planning Commission. ing unique solutions designed to He is a founding member of the The gallery and Seating beneath suit a client’s goals. He is an advo - Hamilton County Planning Partner - balcony levels would see some balcony would be cate of conservation ship. His service also modifications, including the addition removed and the walls and restoration of includes board mem - of boxes on the balcony level. brought in Over-the-Rhine bership on the South - where he lives and west Ohio Regional Source: Ennead Architects The Enquirer / Mike Nyerges works and he be - Transit Authority. He them is the two-ton crystal chande - said Jack Rouse, president of the lieves in preserving was a council mem - lier that hangs above the center of Music Hall Revitalization Company. OTR’s architecture ber for nine years and Springer Auditorium. Installed in “Music Hall was a public palace, a and detailing which a vice mayor for two 1969 as part of a major Corbett place where people came together embody Cincinnati’s years in the City of Foundation renovation, it obscures for all kinds of arts and culture and unique history and Cincinnati. As a coun - the ceiling mural, “Allegory of the entertainment. We are committed heritage. Ken pro - cil member Jim was Arts” by Conrad Arthur Thomas. It’s above everything else to making motes his goals by the founding chairper - quite beautiful, but a little difficult to sure that’s what it is going forward.” serving on the City’s son of the city’s Arts Historic Conservation and Culture Commit - see with the big chandelier.” “There -- Mary Ellyn Hutton Jim Tarbell are millions of details yet to come,” Board among other tee. Numerous arts like-minded organizations. He has and civic organizations have bene - “We have within ourselves a B.S. in Architecture from the Uni - fitted from his work as board mem - Enough to fill the present day with joy, versity of Kentucky. The awards ber. He owned and operated And overspread the future years with hope.” which Ken Jones and Associates several small businesses including have earned are impressive. Ken’s Arnold’s Bar and Grill and Gram - - William Wordsworth, poet 21 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 10 mer’s German Restaurant. Jim’s he was named Man of the Year by light fixtures will be restored,” he proscenium surround is slanted. passion for improving civic involve - the Over-the-Rhine Chamber of said. When the sound comes out of the ment and rebuilding the inner city Commerce. Born in Hamilton Mark Holden of Jaffe Holden pit, it hits that angle and all the drove him to found the Over-the- County, Jim was educated at St. Acoustics has done an acoustical sound is sent out into the house. If Rhine Chamber of Commerce. In Xavier and Withrow high schools analysis of Springer Auditorium with you look at the great opera houses 1994 he received the Charter Com - and The Lowell Institute in Cam - some perhaps surprising results. the ceiling area over the pit is flat. mittee’s Charles P. Taft Civic bridge, Mass. He and his wife, “Everybody knows that Music Hall We looked back at some of the old Gumption Award that honors per - Brenda raised their family in has this wonderful, mellow open Hannaford drawings and one of his sons of independent thought, inge - Cincinnati and currently live in sound, but there are areas where studies included squaring off the nuity and perspicacity, and in 1997 Pendleton. the sound falls off (under the bal - proscenium crown. We have sug - cony on the orchestra level and gested as part of our design to take Now Available in the Bravo Shop! under the gallery in the back). the existing proscenium and square This brilliant 3”-diameter lead crystal ornament, is available exclusively from Also, there are some hot spots on it off at the top.” SPMH and sells for $25 in the Bravo Shop. Beautifully etched with the iconic the orchestra level. He asked us to “Seating capacity in a refur - Music Hall Rose Window and the words “Cincinnati Music Hall 1878” the look at some architectural means to bished Music Hall will be variable,” adjust these two extremes. One said Hazard. The stage will be ex - scalloped-edge ornament comes with its own cord for hanging. Converted way is by decreasing the width of tended 39 ft. out into the hall and a from the Philp Groshong photograph taken for SPMH, and designed by the hall,” said Hazard. “If you look system of hydraulic lifts installed in Kelly Pennington of Strata-G Communications, this stunning ornament is at the great halls -- Musikverein in the floor. “There are three separate a ‘keepsake’. Presented in its box it is also perfect for gifting! Vienna (65 ft. wide), Concertge - lifts that can be configured depend - bouw in Amsterdam (88 ft.), Sym - ing on the use of the hall. In concert phony Hall in Boston (75 ft.) -- mode (CSO, Pops, May Festival), Music Hall is wider (110 ft.) than all of the lifts are up. For the first what seems to be the ideal dimen - time, the orchestra will be right sion of a concert hall. Mark Holden there in the room with you. They asked us to look at bringing in the will be sitting on these lifts in front side and back walls. In effect, they of the proscenium, and the acousti - would reflect the sound faster and cal towers will be placed at the distribute the sound better across proscenium arch instead of the the orchestra and across the bal - back wall. In theater mode (Opera, cony.” Ballet), two lifts will be down. In “The orchestra pit also has touring group mode, all of the lifts problems,” said Hazard. “There would be down and seating would have been complaints that when continue across the floor. Concert the pit is in place and the CSO is in mode would have the fewest seats, opera mode, they played so loudly about 1,900, Opera and ballet that they drowned out some of the would have 2,200 and touring performers. On the other hand, the groups that do not need an orches - SPMH would like to Thank you for your Support. musicians say, ‘we have trouble tra pit 2,300,” Hazard said. hearing ourselves.’” The solution is “There are many concerns yet Happy Holidays to you and yours! apparently a matter of degree. “If to be addressed in revitalizing you look, you will see that the Music Hall,” Hazard said. “One of 9 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 22

Cincinnati’Rs Meuvsict Haallil zhaas tion P“Orure pslean itsa tot riaoisne the floor of the “Deep in December it’s Nice to Remember”. . . been evolving to meet the needs of north and south wings to the same the community since it was built in level as the main lobby. We want to . . . On Broadway! 1878. “It was originally remove the existing The May 5th Mighty Wurlitzer Con - just an enormous glass and metal cert featuring Lisa Ericksen, Mark room,” said Duncan walls, which separate Hardy and organist Walt Strony, was Hazard, founding part - the main lobby from a toe-tapping, finger-snapping, daz - ner of Ennead Archi - the stair halls on zling success! tects of New York, each side, to make chief architect of the them function as one Mark Hardy, Lisa Ericksen and Walt Strony at Music Hall Revitaliza - space. The escalator the Mighty Wurlitzer tion Project. “There in the south wing will was no stage, no be replaced by a proscenium. It held grand staircase as 6,000 people and re - per the original de - mained in that config - sign,” he said. “We uration until 1895.” Duncan Hazard want to return the Hazard recalled the history of whole front to a public space facing Music Hall as he revealed plans for the (Washington) park.” its “revitalization” at the annual “The old carriage ways and meeting of the Society for the garden courts, areas between the Preservation of Music Hall Sept. 26 buildings that once served as drop- in the Music Hall Ballroom. Plans off points for Music Hall, will be re- include moving the stage out into opened. The garden courts would the hall, reducing seating to be - be accessible so that Music Hall at - tween 1,900 and 2,300, creating a tendees could visit them during in - unified entrance on Elm Street with termissions,” Hazard said. In the a café and retail space, bringing in north lobby “we will be creating a the side and back walls to Springer consolidated box office operation, a Auditorium and reopening the old consolidated retail operation and a carriage ways between the main café which will be open all day Looking for the Perfect hall and the north and south wings. (closed during the evening). Here “The clear intention of the ar - we will also have what we call the chitect (Hannaford) was that this second rehearsal hall, which we Christmas Gift? was to be a destination,” said Haz - are hoping will double as a smaller ard. Pursuant to that, the hall will performance venue, perhaps for Purchase Music Hall: be “opened up,” he said. The many more experimental, smaller scale bricked-up windows will be uncov - works. The exterior doors in the “Cincinnati Finds its Voice” ered and the lobby of Music Hall main lobby will be returned to their will be restored to a single level. former height and some original DVD or VHS call (513) 744-3293 23 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 8 derings of Music Hall’s restoration. Mighty Wurlitzer” will take place on Double Your Pleasure (See Mary Ellyn Hutton’s recap of December 15th. Don introduced organist, a sportscaster the presentation in the following ar - guest organist, Trent Sims, to lead who spent 32 years in ticle.) the audience in an all American broadcasting before turn - President Siekmann thanked sing-a-long, sending everyone ing to his passion, the Mr. Hazard for the stimulating and home with the knowledge that Theatre Organ! He has exciting presentation. He then an - SPMH is indeed an organization performed concerts nounced, with great enthusiasm, a with a mission, dedicated to the around the country and continuation of SPMH’s Mighty conservation of Music Hall’s legacy. around the world with Wurlitzer Organ Series! The holiday - Lisa Allison awards and several CDs concert “Happy Holidays with the to his credit. The Kinderchor of the Fairview German Lan - Ken Double guage School is one of And yes, Double Your Fun, the most popular and talented ele - when Ken Double at the Mighty mentary school choirs in the city. Wurlitzer, teams up with the angelic They have performed at the Union voices of Fairview-Clifton Kinder - Terminal, at Music Hall for the May chor on December 15th in Music Festival and for a number of Hall’s Ballroom! The word on the Cincinnati businesses and organi - street is that ‘Happy Holidays with zations. The children are in grades the Mighty Wurlitzer’, initiated in 2-6 and participation in the pro - 2010, is the ‘something new’ that gram is acceptance by audition greater Cincinnati has longed for only with practices held after as an addition to tradition! We wel - school hours. Be enchanted by come back Ken Double, Presi - their performance—a selection of dent/CEO of The American Theatre German carols—Sweet!! Organ Society, who played at the Relive your memories of yes - inaugural ‘Mighty Wurlitzer Concert’ terday as you create new memo - for the SPMH annual meeting, ries of tomorrow with your friends September 2009. Be wowed by this and family! fascinating and superb theatre pipe Trent Sims and the Mighty Wurlitzer

To get a unique look To learn more about MUSIC HALL, at Music Hall and learn about its rich history of Past, Present and Future, treasures untold, call visit the SPMH Website 744-3344 http://www.spmhcincinnati.org/ to schedule a Tour! 7 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 24 from the popular Mighty Wurlitzer and introduced Jack Rouse, presi - Concert series, sponsored by dent of the Music Hall Revitaliza - SPMH. Over the past year, SPMH tion Company. He, in turn, THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MUSIC HALL presented “Happy Holidays” and introduced Duncan Hazard, En - presents “Salute to Broadway” programs. nead architect partner-in-charge of Through these concerts, SPMH the project to present an update on has drawn over 2,000 patrons to the Revitalization Project. As with Music Hall. last year’s presentation, the audi - Following this SPMH busi - ence was enrapt as Mr. Hazard ness, Don again took the podium provided details of plans and ren - Happy witdh the ays HMIGHoTYl WiURLITZER Thursday, December 15, 2011, 10:30 am & 7:00 pm Cincinnati Music Hall Ballroom

featuring : theatre-organist Mary Coyne selling Ornaments Trent Sims, Joe Hollmann, Ron Wehmeier Ken Double with special guest, Fairview-Clifton Kinderchor Performance Sponsor: The Walter and Olivia Kiebach Charitable Foundation

All Seats Now Reserved - $25 ($20 for seniors, students, groups of 10 or more) In cooperation with the Ohio Valley Chapter of the American Theatre Organ Society TICKETS: CincinnatiArts.ORG. (513) 621-ARTS (2787) Aronoff Center / Music Hall Ticket Office / Group Discount (10+) (513) 977-4157 SPMH Board Directors and Liaisons with the Mighty Wurlitzer 25 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 6 inclusion in future Newsletter is - website redesigned and maintained SPMH Members sues. by Board Director, Joanne Greuter. Since the early days of SPMH chitect. The Annual Meeting, a Lisa Allison, Chair of the Mar - Ms. Allison announced the introduc - in1992, Members have proudly catered event, is by invitation only keting Committee, recapped tion of a new SPMH sponsored shown their community support for and it presents members opportuni - SPMH’s efforts in that area. In addi - crystal ornament, featuring a deli - preserving, improving and promot - ties for mingling with Board Direc - tion to tours given throughout the cate, etched rendering of the Rose ing Music Hall. They know that by tors, City Officials and leaders of year, SPMH launched marketing Window, for sale at the Bravo way of supporting Music Hall, they Arts and Community Groups. Inter - initiatives including the new logo, Shop. Proceeds will fund SPMH are assuring that this historic venue national Theatre Organists provide newly designed posters, and the projects. Lisa also shared highlights remains an attractive one for Arts entertainment for the group with the and Entertainment Groups, as well ever popular ‘Mighty Wurlitzer.’ as for private groups who use the SPMH Members also have first op - Ballroom, Lobby and Corbett Tower portunity, before the general public, for social gatherings. to purchase tickets for the ‘Mighty In addition to receiving bian - Wurlitzer’ Concerts nual Newsletters, Members are Every Member contribution kept informed of SPMH activities, makes a difference, every donation at the Annual Meeting in Septem - helps keep Music Hall vibrant and a ber. The past two meetings have successful part of Cincinnati and featured Progress Reports on the the arts community. The following is Revitalization of Music Hall pre - but a partial list of the projects sented by Duncan Hazard, chief ar - funded by Members’ contributions: Susan Westrick, Carol Kruse and Virginia Cox

• Restored and Installed Mighty Wurlitzer Organ in Ballroom • Installed and Illuminated a 50 ft. Flagpole & American Flag in Front of Music Hall • Purchased American Flag for Stage • Created and Installed a Timeline in the Central Parkway Entrance Corridor • Added Chandelier Lighting in Music Hall Foyer • Installed Lighting for Front of Music Hall • Purchased Commercial Carpet-Cleaning Machine • Restored the Oil Painting “Carmen” • Purchased Draperies – Box Seat Area, Stage Front and Proscenium Valance • Remodeled Critics’ Club • Repaired Coffered Ceiling • Paid for Repairs for Water Fountains and Restrooms • Contributed to Purchase of Universal Ticketing System and Gift Shop Software

A Huge Round of Applause to All Our Members! Thank You! If not already a Member, Please join us… by supporting Music Hall! Steve Sunderman and Ramon Rodriquez Trey Devey, Rosemary Schlachter 5 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 26 mailed bi-annually and over 400 architecture, history and events as - copies were distributed via Music sociated with Music Hall. While re - Hall displays. (Past issues are lating the wonderful life-long Music CSaPrMlH Hmeemnberr, ykn oLwni nand leovre d1, 9a f1rie9nd -to 2ma0ny1. 1 archived at www.SPMHcincinnati.org ) Hall memories of Karen Schulman- Pictured with Erich Kunzel. She stated that Music Hall Marks Bear, as retold in the “I Remember A JOB WELL DONE! provides information concerning “all When” feature of the spring issue, things Music Hall.” It informs read - Kathy invited everyone in atten - ers about SPMH activities and dance, to write down a favorite gives details about topics such as memory of Music Hall for possible

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A Mrs. Thomas S. Benjamin Charles & Mary Abbott Ellen A. Berghamer Lisa Allison Jean F. Bergstein Anonymous Mary Bergstein Stacey Schmidt with her Mom Sue Sommer Donald C. Auberger, Jr. Eileen Berke Mrs. Mary Aufmann Bruce & Barbara Best Dr. David & Elaine Billmire B Nancy Kohnen Black Elsa Jane Baer Mr. & Mrs. Robert C. Blum, Jr. Michael & Kimberly Baranowski John & Mary Ann Boorn Mr. & Mrs. Wayne K. Barfels D. Michael Bootes Glenda B. Bates Kenneth B. Bordwell Robert A. Bauer Barbara Boyd Mr. Donald Beck Marilyn K. Braude Mr. & Mrs. Sheal L. Becker James & Carolyn Bruckmann Dr. Paul Bellet Thomas G. Bruckmann Mace Justice and Scott Santangelo Brian Siekmann with his Mom Linda 27 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 4 Mr. & Mrs. Frederick E. Bryan III Gail F. Forberg Jim Tarbell. Peter also reviewed the funded by SPMH in the past year Otto M. Budig, Jr. Jane A. Foster roster of officers who have been including new gift shop software, Ann J. Bunis Mrs. Rochelle Fradkin elected to serve for another year: ballroom seating spacers, the re - Thomas R. Frank President; pair and refurbish - C Rita Fritsch Betty Carroll Don Siekmann; ment of all three Bercie C. Frohman Mrs. Mary E. Carroll Vice-Presidents: water fountains, and Joanne Grueter, Kathy restroom repairs and Cin. Stage Emp. Local No. 5 G Mrs. Jackson L. Clagett III Mrs. William F. Gallagher Janson, Mace Justice, improvements. Joan M. Clear Neil & Linda Gartner Ed Rider; Recording SPMH also partially John & Theresa Clock Joseph Ganim Secretary: Karen funded an upgraded Mr. & Mrs. Leland M. Cole Mrs. Philip O. Geier, Jr. McKim; Corresponding universal ticketing Mr. & Mrs. John P. Connole Jodi Geiser Secretary: Marcella system for all arts Corbett Foundation Dr. Michael & Janelle Gelfand Hsiung; Treasurer: partners. Notably, Dr. Robin T. Cotton Evelyn M. Gerdes Mark Weadick. SPMH will be a con - Adrienne Cowden Patricia Giglia Mr. Keonig com - tributor to the Revi - Jane G. Cox S. Bradley Gillaugh pleted his report by talization Project and David & Martha P. Crafts Gary L. Gilmer recognizing Norma Pe - will continue to fund Paul & Janice Crumrine Ralph Ginocchio tersen, who, as the Lisa Allison, Marketing Committee Chair Music Hall projects in David N. Ginsburg previous Board President, automat - the future. D Melissa Godoy Louis M. Dauner ically holds an officer position. Mr. Rider introduced Kathy Mr. & Mrs. John Goldman Sally H. Dessauer Ed Rider, Chair of the Fi - Janson, Editor of the Newsletter Carol Grasha & Christopher Knoop Maureen C. Dillon nance/Corbett Endowment Com - Music Hall Marks . Kathy shared William E. Griess, Jr. Paul J. Dirkes mittee, reviewed the projects that more than 2,500 copies were Robert D. Groszer Jean Z. Donaldson Joanne Grueter Connie Bergstein Dow Mrs. Charles Downton III H Marjorie W. Drackett Mr. & Mrs. Richard Haberstroh Sandra & Richard Drewes Priscilla G. Haffner Suzanne F. Dunbar Oliver & Jeannette Hagerman Richard B. Dusterberg Dr. Kelly Hale Margaret Hammelrath E Mercedes M. Hance Harold & Linda Eberenz Catherine Harris Janet & Joel Ebersole Dr. & Mrs. Morton Harshman Ann Ellison Mrs. Jack Hasselbring Charles N. Ellman Lenore S. Hatfield Constance Elsaesser Trautlinde R. Heater F William Henrich Evelyn Ferguson Betty Heldman James & Janet Ferguson Allison Herschede Mrs. Hilliard J. Fjord Mr. Daniel J. Hoffheimer Blair S. Fleischmann Joseph L. Hollmann Doris A. Fluck Robert & Dorothy Holzwarth Jack Rouse and Duncan Hazard 3 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 28 Marcella Hsiung & Tony Lang James & Rebecca McDermott Mary Ellyn Hutton Nancy A. McGary Dr. & Mrs. William McKim, Jr. SPMH Annual Meeting I SPMH 2hel0d it1s A1 nnual Meeting mier cultural center of the region.” The Merten Company on Monday, September 26th in the Mr. Siekmann then asked several J Jerome M. Miller Music Hall Ballroom. More than members of the SPMH Board to Atarah Jablonsky Ivan & Patricia Misrach 200 people, including Board mem - give committee reports on key ac - Michael & Kathleen Janson Donna S. Montgomery bers of several tivities and ac - Linda Busken Jergens Herta L. Moore major arts or - complishments Robert I. & Harriett M. Johnson Marjorie Motch Scott & Karolon Johnson ganizations, at - over the past N Lois K. Jolson tended. City year which Mrs. Svet Nankovitch Ken Jones officials were served to fulfill Sr. Ruth Nastold, R.S.M. Mr. Robert M. Jones also present. that mission. Jerry & Monica Nerl Mary Ann Jordan The guests min - Peter Janet Neumann Mace C. Justice gled over cock - Koenig, Chair of Thomas & Christine Neyer tails and a light the Nominating K Rita W. Nowikowski buffet catered by Committee, Mr. & Mrs. Reuven J. Katz O the Phoenix, be - thanked and Paul C. Keidel Jane & Ervin Oberschmidt Arleen Keller fore the meeting recognized retir - Carolyn R. O’Bryan David Klingshirn was called to ing Directors, Tamar & Alan Oestrich order by SPMH Maureen Dillon, Lee Koehler Don Siekmann, SPMH President Mr. & Mrs. William R. Oligee Peter E. Koenig President, Don Meredith Down - Fred W. Oliver Siekmann. ton, Alan Sakalas, Sallie Patrick M. Korb Don introduced the evening’s Wadsworth, Nancy Wagner, and Carol & Scott Kosarko P agenda and reminded the audience Stacey Woolley. Peter introduced Ken & Sue Kramer Ms. Lavonia Payton of SPMH’s mission: “to preserve, the newly elected directors who will Carol L. Kruse Mark & Kim Pearson promote, improve and provide edu - serve a three year term: Adrienne Norma Petersen L Mrs. Claire B. Phillips cation about Music Hall in order to Beaudet Cowden, Jodi M. Geiser, Susan Laffoon David & Alice B. Phillips perpetuate Music Hall as the pre - Melissa Godoy, Ken Jones, and Thomas L. Lake Mr. & Mrs. Joseph A. Pichler Walter E. Langsam Mr. & Mrs. John W. Plattner Mary & Alan Lehn Dr. & Mrs. Michael Porte Mrs. Cynthia A. Leslie Judith Prinz Carl H. Lindner Catherine Linnemann R Dr. Jennifer Loggie J. Lee Rasmussen Carl & Joyce Lohstroh Jean Ratcliff Mr. & Mrs. Phillip C. Long Prof. Edward J. Requardt Joyce & Dan Lorey Alene W. Rice Ralph & Frances Lowenstein Melody Sawyer Richardson Dr. & Mrs. Joseph T. Luttmer Mr. Ed Rider Richard P. Robinson M Ramon Rodriguez Helene & Millard Mack (L to R) Peter Koenig, Nominating Committee Chair, Ed Rider, Finance/Corbett Endowment Edward & Nancy Rosenthal Committee Chair and Kathy Janson, Newsletter Editor Mr. David J. Mason 29 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 2 Mr. & Mrs. Jack Rouse Dale Swisher for your donation! Season! We look forward together, S T Please join us for cheer and with optimism and enthusiasm, to Mr. & Mrs. Eugene L. Saenger, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Shiro Tanaka celebration in the Ballroom for the 2012 and our beloved Music Hall! The Saenger Family Foundation James R. Tarbell Wurlitzer Holiday Concert on De - - Don Siekmann James & Joyce Salinger Sue Thacker cember 15th! Best Wishes for the James R. Salutz Joyce A. Thieman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Salzer Norman Thomas SPMH MISSION STATEMENT Mr. & Mrs. Mark Schlachter Janet G. Todd The mission of The Society for the Preservation of Music Hall Cyril & Stacy Schmidt Marcella G. Trice Dr. & Mrs. Harold Schneider Mr. & Mrs. James S. Trowbridge is to preserve, promote, improve, and provide education about Music Hall, Charlotte & Richard Schnitz Miriam Tsevat funding special projects in addition to Music Hall management’s operational Mr. & Mrs. Richard Schorr and maintenance obligations, and facilitating communications among Mrs. Zell Schulman U Music Hall management, owner, and tenants, in order to perpetuate Music Hall as the premier cultural center of the Region, and as a Martha Seaman V Mr. & Mrs. Howard W. Seitz Joyce VanWye National Historic Landmark of international significance. Mildred J. Selonick Edward & Wilma Vignale, Jr. John C. Senhauser Ruth Ann Voet Mr. & Mrs. Owen G. Sexton Kathryn & Vishnoo Shahani W SPMH BOARD of Directors 2011- 2012 Raleigh Sharrock Sallie R. Wadsworth Jean J. Shaw Nancy Wagner President Adrienne Beaudet Cowden Trey Devey Carolyn R. Shine Patricia Wagner Donald Siekmann Joel Ebersole - Cincinnati Symphony Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Shott Mr. & Mrs. John M. Ward Jodi M. Geiser Orchestra Deb Shulansky Mr. & Mrs. Paul H. Ward Immediate Past President Melissa Godoy Victoria Morgan Marge Hammelrath Mr. & Mrs. Donald C. Siekmann Mr. & Mrs. Frederick D. Warren Norma Petersen - Cincinnati Ballet Barbara Harshman Mr. & Mrs. James Simpson Mark & Lisa Weadick Laure Quinlivan William Henrich Mr. & Mrs. Paul Sittenfeld Katie K. Weed Vice Presidents - City of Cincinnati Mary Ellyn Hutton Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Skidmore Ron Wehmeier Joanne Grueter Steven Sunderman Richard W. Wesp Ken Jones Sarah G. Skidmore Kathy Janson - Cincinnati May Mr. & Mrs. David Westerbeck Mace Justice Peter Koenig Adrienne A. Smith Walter E. Langsam Festival Alex Smith Dr. & Mrs. James Willis Ed Rider Donna S. Wirth Ramon Rodriguez Honorary Director Sisters of the Transfiguration Eugene Saenger, Jr. Shelby Wood Recording Secretary Claire Phillips Bill & Sue Sommer Rosemary Schlachter Stacey G. Woolley Karen McKim Life Members Richard & Lois Sprigg John Senhauser Dr. & Mrs. Richard Wurzelbacher Louise Dieterle Nippert Robert Staab Kathryn W. Shahani Corresponding Secretary Joyce Van Wye, Mr. John R. Steelman Sue Sommer X Marcella Hsiung Mr. & Mrs. Thomas E. Stegman Jim Tarbell Co-Founder Julia & David Stephen Y Treasurer Norman Thomas Past Presidents Mary Stern Jr. John M. Yacher Ronald Wehmeier Mark Weadick Marlene Johnson Brett Stover & Chris Hassall Mr. & Mrs. Eric B. Yeiser Joyce Van Wye Mr. & Mrs. George E. Stump Ex Officio Directors Z Directors Music Hall Liaison Patty Beggs Lisa Allison Scott Santangelo Please let us know if we have duplicated,omitted - Cincinnati Opera or misspelled your name (513) 744-3293 Barbara Boyd 1 MUSIC HALL Marks MUSIC HALL Marks 30 Chris Thompson, Photographer Greetings SfroPm Mour bHeau t-if uPl, hris e- sidiceen, atn ’usp dMate eons sthae gRevitaliza - toric, Music Hall! I’m proud to re - tion was presented by Duncan Chris ThomSpsporn iisn agne erx pAeriu- ditoriCuhmris i(s cthoev feorun) der/editor of port that SPMH has completed Hazard, and guests were treated enced creative designer and mar - About Foursquare, the only blog de - another successful year. Our activ - to the lively playing of Trent Sims keter specializing in the business to voted to covering the social net - ities and accomplishments were on the Mighty Wurlitzer while en - business arena. He graduated with work, Foursquare’s news and detailed by committee chairmen in joying light refreshments. This a BFA in Graphic Design information, including reports to SPMH mem - newsletter will expand from Winthrop University apps, tips and a bers, at the Annual upon these topics, pro - in Rock Hill, S.C. in 2001. Foursquare FAQ to answer Meeting September vide you with a little As the Graphic De - all. In just a year this blog 26th, and, I hope you history, and address signer/Marketing Coordi - has grown to serve over were among the capac - various topics such as nator for QC Industries, half a million visitors each ity crowd. Emphasizing the use of Music Hall Chris has responsibility for month. our numerous market - and the 2012 World a variety of functions in - Chris Thompson’s ing projects and other Choir Games. cluding the design and de - photographs are stunning! efforts promoting Music Thanks so much to velopment of the His creative viewpoint, bril - Hall, our popular Mighty all our members for company’s web site; the liance of color and effective Wurlitzer Concerts, and your support and finan - design of its catalogues, Chris Thompson use of light give a subject our funding of several cial contributions. brochures, manuals and packaging; an added dimension, enticing the Don Siekmann tenant/patron initiatives, Know that we are sin - the writing and distribution of press viewer to take a longer look. In the reports took into cere and diligent in our releases and newsletters; photo - 2008 five of his photographs were consideration the Revitalization efforts to serve the interests of graphing standard products and en - chosen for “Capture Cincinnati”, projected to begin in about 18 Music Hall and we hope that you gineered specials; managing trade with one the winner for the “Scapes months and our continued commit - perceive that these efforts merit shows; managing pay per click and of All Sorts” chapter. In 2007 six of ment to the support of activities your continued support. Calendar search engine optimization cam - his photographs were chosen for worthy of our funding. It was a year–end is soon upon us, and, I paigns; creating and managing so - “Capture Cincinnati” with one the great evening during which five encourage you to renew your cial network strategy; managing the winner for the “Simply Cincinnati” new Board Directors were intro - SPMH membership by using the company’s distributor training pro - chapter. duced, retiring Directors were enclosed envelope. For those new gram; etc. thanked for their dedicated serv - to SPMH, welcome and thank you SPMH Newsletter Acknowledgements Table of Contents Editor Photo Credits: page 1 page 18 Kathy Janson SPMH President’s Message ...... Meet the New Board Members . Christopher Buchanan SPMH Mission Statement ...... page 2 .D .o uble Your Pleasure...... page 23 Contributing Writers Phil Groshong SPMH 2011 - 2012 Board ...... page 2 SPMH Members ...... page 25 Lisa Allison 2011 SPMH Annual Meeting . . . . . page 3 Carl Linder Tribute ...... page 26 Mary Ellyn Hutton Don Siekmann Cover Art page 9 Revitalization Presentation . . . SPMH Members Listing...... page 26 Music Hall Springer Auditorium All About Tradition ...... page 12 By Chris Thompson Chris Thompson Photographer . page 30 Design and Layout page 14 JMR Meets SPMH ...... Acknowledgements...... page 30 Creative Flair Co. Printing Passion Flower, Trumpet Vine . . . . . page 15 The Merten Company 2011 Winter Issue

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