Volume 20 Number 1: Winter 2018/2019

St. BotolphBulletin

From the Editor Bill Taylor

According to the astronomers, the vernal equinox is fast upon us: the earth has turned and tipped since the last issue of the Bulletin, but you wouldn’t know that from the sidewalks. Here in , despite Punxsutawney Phil, we’re still Bill Taylor whining away our winter weather. However, one measure of springtime cheer appeared yesterday evening at 199 Commonwealth. Arriving for a club night punctually at 6 PM, it was still light as we walked up the stairs. Astronomically speaking, in Boston in early March, the end of civil twilight (the time when the geometric center of the sun’s disk is at most 6 degrees below the horizon) was 6:05 PM. Daylight with 5 minutes to spare! Even better, daylight at the start of a club evening anticipates the summer, when there is nearly daylight at the end of the evening as we walk down the stairs. No time for a drink in the Library however, and leave a minute early because at its very latest in the middle of June in Twelfth Night: Abbot Michael Robbins ringing Boston, civil twilight ends at 8:59 PM. Summoning Bell on stairway More than simply raising our spirits at the end of the day, civil twilight is a functional concept. Indeed, the practical description of civil twilight is illuminating. Literally. From Wikipedia (so you know it’s true), “Under clear weather conditions, civil twilight approximates the limit at which solar According to the astronomers, the vernal equinox illumination suffices for the human eye to clearly distinguish terrestrial objects. Enough illumination renders artificial is fast upon us: the earth has turned and tipped sources unnecessary for most outdoor activities.” since the last issue of the Bulletin… Which introduces the main subject of this column. Across the street from 199 Commonwealth sits a renowned historian, man of letters and distinguished Botolphian, day in and day out, in snow, or rain, or heat, or gloom of night. One impertinent wag says he sits outside the Club for want of a necktie. IN THIS ISSUE: (Continued on page 3)

1: From the Editor 4: Fake News – Factions and Fictions 10: New Fellow 2: Upcoming Spring Fling 5: Burns Night 11: Shakespeare, Tyranny & Tyrants View from the Kitchen: Ragu? 6-7: St. Botolph Club Fellows History Book Reception 3: From the Editor (Continued) Fanfare Biennial – 2019 12-16: Photo Gallery 8-9: New Members

Acknowledgments Upcoming Spring Fling Editor Bill Taylor One of the joyous events of spring at St. Botolph is the Easter Brunch, this year on Photographers April 21. A sense of the occasion is provided Peter Van Demark by the accompanying picture from last year’s Buell Hollister Brunch, featuring children from the families David Wells Roth of Solomon and Sarah Garber, Friedrich Lohr and Angela Zhang, and Alexandra Marshall Contributors and James Carroll. Tim Fulham Chef Brad Hall Barbara Lucas

View from the Kitchen: Ragu? Announcements Chef Brad Hall

Calling All My parent’s house was a popular place when I was a child. Not Botolphians – quite museum status but it approached that. My father is an We Need Reporters enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, and the house was a constant and Photographers! reminder of that. A black bear rug with full head hung on the wall as you went down the stairs. A mule deer head greeted you The editor welcomes stories and articles from members. as you came in the front door. As you went through the house, Help us define and celebrate other mounts were spread throughout, including antelope, doll our Club with your contribu- sheep, moose, caribou, pheasant, ptarmigan, largemouth bass tions, both written and and lake trout. pictorial. Give us your thoughts and suggestions. From a young age, I remember learning how to gut and clean Email me at wtaylor276@ trout. As I got older, I helped in the butchering of moose, deer, and Chef Brad Hall gmail.com. caribou, and we always ate well during hunting season. I can re-call – Bill Taylor making large batches of something we called ragu: tomato, onion, garlic, meat Editor (bear, moose, and caribou) olive oil and seasonings, all simmered for hours.

I have always been a brave eater and my surroundings had a lot to do with that. One of my favorite meals I had from my father’s hunts was moose heart. The heart was cleaned and the ventricles were stuffed with cooked onions and mushrooms. The Club Attire entire heart was put into a roasting bag with some broth and cooked. That may have been my first and last moose heart but I will always remember how juicy and Members are reminded that flavorful it was. St. Botolph Club scarves, My love of the outdoors has been passed onto me from my father. I feel there are ties and other accoutrement far fewer people hunting and fishing now than from his generation. And a good are displayed in the ragu is hard to find. Hawthorne Room.

2 | ST. BOTOLPH BULLETIN From the Editor (Continued from page 1)

I speak of course of Samuel Eliot Morison and his statue on the Commonwealth Mall. Installed in 1982, the work in bronze by sculptor Penelope Jencks places Professor Morison informally, (no necktie), invoking his love of the sea rather than his role as a naval historian and academic. In addition to his many achievements, Morison’s statue celebrates a Boston legend: at Harvard as the last professor to arrive for lectures on horseback and among proofreaders for having no double letters in “Eliot Morison.”

But back to gloom of night. For large stretches of time, (in early March, from 6:05 PM until 5:47 AM), solar illumination is insufficient for the human eye to appreciate important terrestrial objects such as statues. At worst, in December, daylight is inadequate after 4:43 PM. At best, in June, civil twilight ends at 8:59 PM. Barely Morison Statue tolerable for us Botolphians who seek our beds at reasonable hours, this ill-lumination is a disgrace in a student town like Boston, where life in the summer begins at 10 PM.

In the ringing words of a previous Boston civic crisis: “These are the times that try men’s souls. In the course of our nation’s history, the people of Boston have rallied bravely whenever the rights of men have been threatened.” In that spirit, the Friends of the Public Garden have rallied around a plan to design and install permanent lighting for the statues in each block of the Commonwealth Mall. The work will involve repointing the stonework, restoring granite surrounds, walkways and turf as needed, in addition to installing permanent lights. Importantly for us, the first project will be the Samuel Eliot Morison statue this spring. See the before and after picture below.

As always, money is necessary. For more information, email Botolphian Margaret Pokorny at [email protected], or call the Friends at 617-723-8144. The plan is described at the website: https://friendsofthepublicgarden.org/2019/01/17/ commonwealth-avenue-mall-lighting-january-15-2019/ . Elves So after you stumbled up the stairs without natural light this winter, what did you experience at the Club that was memorable? For me, the traditional seasonal High- Five – the Christmas Concert, the Children’s Holiday Party, the Christmas Lunch, New Years’ Eve and Twelfth Night – is still the best reason for spending winter in Boston. In preparation for the season, see the Clubhouse elves work their decorating magic on December 3 (picture below).

n The Concert traditionally features the Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline, its Botolphian conductor Lisa Graham and Julia Scott Carey, its accompanist who makes a 10-fingered piano sound like an orchestra. The setting at the Gordon Chapel at Old South Church was festive and sonorous, the walk back the Club was brisk, and much more holiday music sounded at 199 throughout the evening.

n The Lunch: the boar, the martini fountain and for the first time in memory, the nametags. An excellent idea: I always remember your name, but at this Lunch I often forget mine.

n We missed the Moroccan-themed New Year’s Eve but from the picture below, it looks just like Rick’s in Casablanca, only in color instead of black and white. See if you can spot Sidney Greenstreet!

n And Twelfth Night! Lutes and guitars with Fellows Carl Straussner and Jonas Kublickas, the American songbook from Nancy Armstrong and Louis Raymond, a spirited election for Holy Prior – Hale to the Chief! – and a rollicking reading of a Christmas Carol, featuring Jeremiah Kissel, Deborah Wise, and a cast of bit players throughout the room.

New Years Eve (Continued on page 4)

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And there’s more! We celebrated the 50th Anniversary of of Picasso’s famous Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, from Matisse, Stanley Kubrick’s blockbuster 2001 with an update on artificial Cézanne, French colonialism and roots in African masks. (Fun intelligence from Professor David Jensen that put Kubrick’s fact: the Avignon in question is not the French town with the famous computer HAL (IBM displaced by 1 letter) in the shade. famous bridge but a disreputable street in Barcelona.) Professor Professor Annette Gordon-Reed reminded us how religion has Ned Friedman’s spectacular pictures of the Arnold Arboretum’s shaped constitutional law in the United States regarding sex, sin mutant eastern redbud, (one branch of white flowers among the and shame and induced concomitant effects on issues of race red) knocked our socks off, and vividly illustrated his story of the and gender. We celebrated the publication of St. Botolph Club role of mutants in evolution. of Boston – The First 125 Years with a memorable reception for the History Book Angels that made it possible. Together with Sadly, I probably missed as much as I saw. Professor Suzanne Preston Blier, we peeled back the sources

Fake News – Factions and Fictions

Fake news seems like the weather: everyone complains about it but no one does anything about it. This omission is particularly significant to us here at the Bulletin, as we struggle to maintain standards of journalism in a world gone mad. Happily, on November 27, Harvard Professor Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor of Government and Director of the Safra Center for Ethics, proposed to (at least) explain and (perhaps to some degree) rectify this oversight.

Her discussion began, of course, with the Internet and its propensity to create separate silos of people who agree on their own set of facts. How many New York Times subscribers watch Fox News? And vice versa? How can a democracy survive where there is no agreement on truth? Professor Allen took us back to the formation of the American democracy, particularly the Professor Danielle Allen on Fake News – Factions and Fictions 18th century world of James Madison and his Federalist Paper Number 10. Here, Madison downplayed the problem of parties 3. Election reform: and factions subverting democracy because the geographic dispersion of people across the United States and the inability to a. Expand representation in the House and Senate so communicate efficiently over distance would deter the formation that congressional districts and states could be served of factions. simultaneously by members of different political parties;

Fast-forward two hundred years and we see the unintended b. Introduce proportional voting to increase the influence consequences of technical change eroding Madison’s remedy: of minority parties; national newspapers, radio (Father Coughlin on the one hand; Then two off-the-wall possibilities relevant to her profession: FDR on the other), television, the Internet and social media. We are now instantly and constantly aware of what other people who 4. Geographic lotteries – preferences – for admission to elite are like us think. What’s to be done to preserve the independent universities; and voices that underlie a theoretical democracy? 5. Mandatory return home for some short period of time for Professor Allen listed three serious suggestions to counter this college graduates. technologically-driven factionalization: And good luck with those. Professor Allen’s argument was far 1. Mandatory public service: a mixing of geography, education, more articulate and tightly reasoned than the above summary. religion, wealth, etc. for a short amount of time, e.g. the Civilian But for this reporter, the important not-fake-fact was that the Conservation Corps during the Depression; evening began in despair and ended in the possibility of hope. 2. Private and public support for investigative journalism at the local level, e.g. Propublica, PolitiFact;

4 | ST. BOTOLPH BULLETIN Burns Night

On January 25, the literal 259th birthday of Robert Burns, the annual Scottish bacchanal and medicine show celebrating his Immortal Memory rolled once again into St. B. This year, the geographic locus was Glasgow, and, logically, the whiskey of choice was Auchentoshan, known as “Glasgow’s Malt Whiskey,” the triple-dis- tilled, pride of the Clyde. Tasting notes recovered from the floor of the Conserva- tory read: “First glass: nose is fragrant for a Lowlander. Complex. Mostly in the grassy/ vegetable part of the spectrum with hints of oil, cream and butter. Taste is not nearly as expressive as the nose with a rough finish.” Notes from the second glass were gibber- ish. You really had to be there. The wee ball finally in the hole. Scots and Nots were welcomed to the festivities as the Chairfolk - Lairds George Gilpatrick and Kenneth Smith and Lady Anne Marie Biernacki-Smith – were bagpiped into the Hall. Sir Jeremy Bell and his Scottish machete addressed the Haggis, which this year was a surprising innovation of Chef Brad, substituting salmon for the guts of a sheep. While perhaps a technical violation of Burns Night tradition, fine salmon is as Scottish a dish as any sheep. Moreover, far less is returned to the kitchen at the end of the evening, which honors the Scottish enthusiasm for frugality. Sir Jeremy Bell and the Haggis The traditional speeches were brave, bold and bawdy as the Toast to the Lassies and Response from the Lassies were given by Buell and Margaret Hollister, a married couple who apparently remained on speaking terms afterwards. Bagpipers and wee Caledonian golfers then roamed throughout the Highlands and Lowlands of the clubhouse; we sang, we danced, we drank, we exchanged Scottish whoppers (“Two taxis collided in central Glasgow and 18 Scots were injured!” “Did you know that more people attended Rabbie Burn’s funeral than President Trump’s inauguration?”), and somehow, at the end, we dragged ourselves safely home.

So until next year, would you all please silently recite the Burns- parody Toast?

Lads and lasses, Scot or not, Fill your glasses, raise them up In Toast, before this night adjourns, To the Immortal Memory of Robert Burns.

Some remained standing at the end of the evening.

VOLUME 20 NUMBER 1 | 5 St. Botolph Club Fellows Fanfare Biennial – 2019 Barbara Lucas

In 1999 the St. Botolph Club established a program to invite 25 talented, mid-career artists to join the Club for a period of three years. In 2010, this program was renamed the St Botolph Fellows. Participants in the program include representatives from the visual, performing, and literary arts.

Every two years, the St. Botolph Fellows gather to share some of their many talents during the Club’s Fellows Fanfare events. This Barbara Lucas speaking with Fellows behind her. year, the Fellows held two eye- and ear-pleasing programs. The first was on January 16, with the opening night of the Fellows Art Exhibit in the Stairwell Gallery. The second event, on February 4, celebrated the performing and literary arts.

Part I: Visual Arts

At the January 16 art reception (and for five weeks thereafter), Botolphians were treated to an impressive display of painting and sculpture by the talented visual arts Fellows at the Club. Participating visual artists were: Ibrahim Ali-Salaam, Charcoal drawing; Julie Beck, Painting; Emanuela De Musis, Painting, Nathan Miner, Painting and Mixed Media, Ellen Schön, Sculpture, and Charles Schoonmaker, Painting. At the start of the evening, participating visual arts Fellows spoke about their work including their inspiration and techniques and elaborated on the artist statements presented in the exhibition catalogue. Fellow Ellen Shön and her mother, Botolphian Nancy Shön, with Part II: Performing and Literary Arts their collaborative sculpture L’Dor V’Dor (From Generation to Generation). On February 4, Fellows in the performing & literary arts performed in the music room. Jonas Kublickas played solo lute selections from John Dowland. Later in the program, Carl Straussner, on classical guitar, joined Jonas for duo performances of additional works by Dowland and also treated us to several solos.

Three compositions from the Polish Renaissance Suite by Robert Edward Smith were performed by Fellow David Feltner, violist, accompanied by Henry Weinberger on piano. Botolphians moved to the stairwell to hear Fellow Elinor Spiers’ violin improvisation based on paintings and sculpture by the visual artists in the stairwell.

Back in the music room, Christopher Castellani treated us to a synopsis of his latest novel, Leading Men, which was recently reviewed in the NY Times. The evening ended with a performance of music of Gershwin by Steve Lipsitt, piano and voice, with Elinor Spiers providing improvised violin responses.

Emanuela De Musis with “Catherine of Siena, 2018” and a color study for “Catherine of Siena”.

6 | ST. BOTOLPH BULLETIN Every two years, the St. Botolph Fellows gather to share some of their many talents during the Club’s Fellows Fanfare events.

Nathan Miner with “Chimera, 2014”.

Ibrahim Ali Salaam with “Fist, 2018”.

Charles Schoonmaker with “Monhegan Island, Maine, 2014”. Julie Beck with “The Creation of Eve, 2018” and “Not My Circus, 2017”.

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Yoon Doelger Kathleen Dolan Roger Fox

I was born in Korea and, unlike I initially settled in Weston, but I began my formal association I was born in Warwickshire, my four siblings who were all soon moved to Beacon Hill, with the arts by joining Gallery United Kingdom and spent educated in the United States where I met my husband, Peter on the Green in Lexington, early years in UK and South and Europe from a very early age, Doelger, and where I lived until Massachusetts as a corporate Africa (Broadlands School, only moved to the United States moving to the Back Bay 15 years art consultant. Most of my work Transvaal). After returning to go to graduate school in my ago. We raised my daughter, involved Boston companies. At to the UK I was educated at early twenties. I had attended who is a lawyer in the New York one point I became a Director Solihull School, Warwickshire a specialized arts high school area, my stepdaughter who is of the gallery. and then spent a year in in Seoul as well as a fine arts a doctor in the San Francisco Kitwe, Zambia as a volunteer college, where I studied painting Bay area and my stepson who More recently, I have been teacher (Nuffield Foundation and woodworking. I moved to runs a business in Pennsylvania, an independent fine art Zambian Schools Link Scheme) Boston with my first husband primarily in Boston, while also consultant, managing before University of London and attended Boston University living and maintaining homes in commissions and placing – University College and St. where I received my Master Paris, France and Palm Beach, contemporary art all over the George’s Hospital Medical of Fine Arts degree, focusing Florida. My family and I have country. I have managed a School (prizes in Dermatology on oil painting and drawing. I traveled extensively throughout collection of over two hundred and Sir Charles Clark’s Prize) also studied to become an art the world, collecting art and fifty acquisitions, including – M.B., B.S. and later M.R.C.P. teacher, but realized soon after experiencing amazing cultures, works by Debra Butterfield, I was a junior doctor in receiving my teaching certificate as well as providing education Howard Ben Tre and Miguel Winchester (Royal Hampshire that I wished to focus my and unique experiences to our Rocha. County Hospital) and then attention on raising my young children. My daughter lived, returned to St. George’s. I currently work with corporate daughter, on my painting and studied and worked in France, art acquisitions and spend my on the study of Chinese art Italy, Korea and England, the I arrived at Beth Israel time between Cambridge and (1000 BC – 19th century AD), motivation for and ease of which Hospital, Boston in 1972 Cape Cod. Japanese art (17th-19th centuries she credits to her early travel to “see American Medicine” AD) and Korean art (16th – 19th experiences. We currently as a Fellow in Ambulatory centuries AD). live primarily in our Florida Internal Medicine at Beth home, where we frequently Israel Ambulatory Center I have been an avid collector and welcome my two beautiful until 1975 when I answered student of Asian art for the past grandchildren and five beautiful an advertisement in the New 45 years. When I first moved step grandchildren. I have England Journal of Medicine to to the United States, there was recently begun to play violin “forsake city life and come help less interest and knowledge of and continue my studies in start a clinic in Rural Vermont”. Asian art than there is today. I Asian art. We still travel quite a I agreed to stay for three years, was able to use my knowledge bit and after my grandchildren but am still working at the and expertise to assist many and children, my studies and same Mountain Valley Health collectors and gallery owners collections have been my Center, now also named the throughout the years, which has greatest pride and joy. “Dr. Roger Fox Patient Care brought me great satisfaction. Center” forty three years later! I have also been fortunate to I am thrilled to have become make lasting friendships with a member of St. Botolph and like-minded art scholars. look forward to the many new friendships and enriching experiences to come.

8 | ST. BOTOLPH BULLETIN Jeffrey Turco Thomas

I was named “Northern New I was born in Wakefield pleased to find a “Proper and the process of lighting in the England Rural Physician of the Massachusetts and spent my Bostonian” in the jungle of NYC. creation of images, regardless Year” in 2005. summers on Cape Cod in the Eileen asked me which magazine of the art form. It was 1988 town of Sandwich, where I now I hoped to work with first and when a black and white portrait I have held various adjunct live. I attended the University I replied Esquire, (as I felt their by Hollywood legend George teaching positions over the of Massachusetts at Amherst, award- winning writers lent a Hurrell, sold at Sotheby for the years and have been Medical majored in Psychology and had credibility to the publication) highest price a photograph had Advisor to the Londonderry all intentions of continuing my but it was rumored to be ever commanded. Hurrell was Volunteer Rescue Squad for studies, but decided to take impossible to get through their 88 years old and rumor had it many years. some time off to experience a gate. Eileen picked up the phone he still dabbled in photography. bit more than student life. In and I had an appointment with Esquire had featured his work in I married Nancy Sharkey in 1983 1981, I moved back to Boston, their Fashion Director the next the 1930s and they wondered if who practiced with me at MVMC got a job as a salesman at Louis morning. Esquire took a big he would even consider a cameo for 25 years before joining on Boylston Street, and what I chance and handed me a six sitting. Amazingly, he agreed. the University Health Service, thought would be a temporary page layout in their October The entire fashion, art and in 2007 (after change of pace became issue, to see what I could do. advertising industry was abuzz MPA, Kennedy School). something more. The photos were shot in Milan at the prospect. This was not just We have four children in the US and were a great success. They another photographer who took I wasn’t in sales very long and UK. I have had a life-long asked me if I wanted to work full amazing pictures of movie stars, before the store’s owner interest in the problems and time with the magazine, but I this was a pioneer in the field of noticed my awareness of possibilities in providing rural hadn’t been in NYC long and was photography and the man who color, proportion and style. I health care- still an unsolved hesitant to put myself into such outright created the look we all soon found myself handling issue. a highly charged environment, know as Hollywood Glamour. the visual merchandising so I declined. Randolf Hearst As time approached Esquire I am a (poor, but) enthusiastic and advertising. Louis was responded by offering me the was excited but trepidatious, so musician and singer and have a well-known international somewhat unusual status and they asked me to come along conducted the Christmas choir retailer and often played title of Editor-at Large. This and work on-set with Hurrell to for our church in Peru (Vermont) host to prominent fashion meant I would only work on the create the images. To everyone’s for over 30 years. designers who took note of most specialized projects for relief, George Hurrell was a my work and encouraged me Esquire and Town and Country delight to work with (he found Other interests include animal to leave Boston and move to a Magazines, and only if I wanted the whole idea of celebrity husbandry (prizes for chickens fashion capital to collaborate to. Naturally, I agreed as this also photographers “ridiculous”) and at the Union Agricultural Society with photographers and other allowed me to work freelance, had not lost his touch one bit. World’s Fair, Tunbridge, VT!) “creative souls”. with the understanding that The “pictures he made” caused a Polo-West River Polo Club, I could only collaborate with sensation. His pronouncement President 1985; European and I moved to NYC and began luxury brands and top-tier to Esquire that he’d only work American history (especially building a creative consultant photographers, and only at with them again if I was there, the role of colonialism) and the and stylist’s portfolio of “mock” Hearst’s approval. made my career. I became good Christian life. portrait, fashion and still life friends with George and had the images, with other young My next assignment with privilege of watching him work Nancy and I look forward to and aspiring newcomers Esquire was the most defining in his dark-room. Over the next increasing participation in the (photographers, models, etc.). moment of my career in NYC. I dozen years I was fortunate life of the Club as we have more had, by this point, become very to collaborate with a veritable Along the way, I was fortunate time in the future. aware of the importance of light laundry list of internationally to meet the legendary model agent Eileen Ford, who was (Continued on page 10)

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Jeffrey Turco Thomas (continued) In June 2014, I graduated from the ‘Mozarteum’ University in prominent fashion, portrait to receive a good deal of Salzburg, Austria, receiving and still life photographers. media coverage in books and a Bachelor of Arts degree It was initially surprising and magazines, as well as having in classical guitar and lute always amazing to see how had my gardens painted performance with guitar their use of light and shadow, by local artists; which is virtuoso and pedagogue Eliot line and proportion, as well as always fun and flattering. I’ve Jonas Kublickas Fisk. In 2016, I received a Master the personal relationship they previously judged the Allen C. of Music degree at the New built with their subjects, created Haskell Award at the Boston I am delighted to be a part of St. England Conservatory (Boston, such vastly differing images. Flower Show, as I became Botolph club’s Fellows program. USA) in Guitar Performance All of them were continually close friends with Allen and I was born in , , with a Music-in-Education being inspired by fine art and his family through the course and from an early age I was concentration. sculpture and were in turn, of my career in the world of crafting a plan to become a often inspiring other artists with horticulture. musician. I was very lucky to be I participated in many their own work. Amusingly, no able to pursue my dream: at the international and national matter how celebrated these Throughout my professional age of 14, I was invited to start competitions of classical guitar photographers (e.g. Norman life, I’ve spent a lot of time the preparatory courses and two winning various prizes (first Parkinson, Albert Watson, Peter volunteering for a variety of years later entered the Bachelor prizes in Baltic States Classical Lindberg, Irving Penn) were, or organizations. of Arts program at the world- Guitar and Guitar Renaissance whether they were most known renown ‘Mozarteum’ University International competitions). I recently received my for their fashion, portrait or in Salzburg, Austria. To this day I am especially interested in Professional Fundraising still-life images, I was welcomed I still don’t have a high-school reaching out to new audiences Certificate from Boston into their world with a bit of a diploma, although my Masters and play regularly with several University, and now mythical status of my own as, of Music degree was hanging on early music and contemporary have my sights set on a “the man who worked with the wall in 2016 at the age of 23! groups that perform in final career where my George Hurrell”; to whom they alternative spaces. experience can hopefully all bowed their heads. My musical career includes help in communicating performances as an ensemble In 2014, I started a project In the late 1990’s I returned the importance of a cause leader, a composer/arranger, a called ‘Confero de Música’ home to Cape Cod and turned and mission to a broader recording artist, and a guitarist which connects the charm and my attention to landscape audience. in venues and concert halls charisma of Spanish melodies design. The sensitivity to light, around the world with such and the gracefulness of Baroque I’m delighted to be a new proportion and overall design artists as guitar virtuosos music. I’ve been performing member at The Saint Botolph that I learned during my career Eliot Fisk, Jerome Mouffe, on flamenco, classical guitar Club and look forward to in NYC has been of great help Cecilio Perera, Kostas Tosidis, and lute with ‘Occo Duo’ while meeting and engaging with in this arena. I’ve been lucky gayageum player DoYeon touring in Spain in the summer other members in the future. Kim and many others. I have of 2014. My collaboration with also collaborated in various DoYeon Kim called “DoJo” is a productions with some of one-of-a-kind world music duo the leading organizations in that is committed to performing today’s music scene, including intense and thought-provoking the Mstislav Rostropovich repertoire combining the power Foundation, “Live Music Now of plucked instruments - guitar – Yehudi Menuhin” musicians’ and gayageum (a Korean silk- development and outreach stringed zither-like instrument). organization, the European DoJo performs their own Union of Music Competitions arrangements of Tango, Spanish (Germany), the Museum of and Korean national music. Fine Arts (Boston) and the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum to name a few.

10 | ST. BOTOLPH BULLETIN Shakespeare, Tyranny & Tyrants

In a riddle whose answer is pomegranate, the one word that cannot appear is “pomegran- ate.” On November 13, Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the at Harvard, discussed his recent book on tyranny and tyrants in the plays of Shakespeare. In an hour-long lecture and a 224-page book, the word “Trump” did not appear. Draw your own conclusion.

The basic questions Professor Greenblatt explored through Shakespeare’s kings, queens and accompanying sycophants are listed in the opening chapter of Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics: “How is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?” “Why would anyone be drawn to a leader manifestly unsuited to govern, someone dangerously impulsive or viciously conniving or indifferent to the truth?” “Why, in some circumstances, does evidence of mendacity, crudeness, or cruelty serve not as a fatal disadvantage but as an Professor Stephen Greenblatt discusses allure, attracting ardent followers?” “Why do otherwise proud and self-respecting people Shakespeare on Tyranny. submit to the sheer effrontery of the tyrant, his sense that he can get away with saying and doing anything he likes, his spectacular indecency?”

Of course in raising these questions, Shakespeare’s plays made no reference to the person or policies of , the tyrant du jour. Nor did Professor Greenblatt for the current President du jour. Rather, Professor Greenblatt explained, Shakespeare – from the safety of historical or imaginary distance – pointed his finger at the human flaws that drove historical or imaginary tyrants to seek and hold power and made ordinary people complicit in acts against their beliefs and self-interest. What we learned about the human condition – from Richard III and Macbeth, from and Coriolanus, from Claudius and Lear, from York and Jack Cade and from others - is both timeless and timely.

History Book Reception

Committee members Buell Hollister, Roger Howlett, Margo Miller, James O’Gorman, Daniel Shannon and Brad Rowell.

Editor Buell Hollister introduces Editor James O’Gorman. Brad Rowell talks to the Angels

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Christmas Concert: The Club at Gordon Chapel The Christmas Concert: Dinner Music

The Christmas Concert: Dinner Music The Christmas Concert: Director Lisa Graham

The Christmas Concert: The Herald Angels Sing! The Christmas Concert: The Metropolitan Chorale of Brookline

12 | ST. BOTOLPH BULLETIN Christmas Luncheon – the Music Room Christmas Luncheon – the Conservatory

Christmas Luncheon – the Boar’s Head Procession Christmas Luncheon – President Halperson addresses the room

Christmas Luncheon – Botolphian Musicians in Conference Christmas Luncheon – Table 6

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Christmas Luncheon – Table 12 Christmas Luncheon – Table 13

Christmas Luncheon – “Right here in River City!” Christmas Luncheon – Mermaids (Jolinda Taylor)

New Year’s Eve: Shervin & Carrie Hawley New Year’s Eve: Sandra Gilpatrick, Susan & Fred Putnam, George Gilpatrick

14 | ST. BOTOLPH BULLETIN New Year’s Eve: Janet Green, Jane Russell, David Cooper, Margaret New Year’s Eve in Fez Hollister, Buell Hollister, Adelaide MacMurray-Cooper

Twelfth Night: Pamela Carnicelli, Janet Plotkin, Irv Plotkin, Kate Van Twelfth Night: Heinrich Christensen playing for Nancy Armstrong Demark and Tom Carnicelli and Louis Raymond in Music Room

Twelfth Night: Group in Music Room toasting the Club President Twelfth Night: Prior Wendy Hale speaking from throne in Music Room

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Twelfth Night: Brother Phil Ponelli introducing staff

Twelfth Night: Jeremiah Kissel as Scrooge with Debra Wise Twelfth Night: Carl Straussner and Jonas Kublickas ready to play the Finale

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