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1997 (see ’99). CHANCE ENCOUNTERS 1999 has released a recording, Small Constructions (Sunnyside Records), with pia- Musical Meet-Up nist Dan Tepfer. In addition, the Boston-area alumni find each other while working (and playing) quintet Kneebody, which includes Wendel, , Shane together in the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra. Endsley ’97, and Kaveh Rastegar ’01, has released its fourth CD, The If you’ve moved away from Line (Concord Records). Rochester and live in a sizeable metro area, maybe you’ve met and 2001 Kaveh Rastegar (see ’99). even befriended a fellow Rochester alumnus or two. Someone you never 2003 Composer and trumpet- knew as a student. Someone who er Andre Canniere (MM) has may have attended many years released his second solo CD, Co- before or after you did. alescence (Whirlwind Record- ings). He’s based in London. That’s the kind of chance en- counter that happened to Lydia 2008 Shauli Einav (MM) re- Beall ’02, Abe Dewing ’93, and Kim leased two recordings in 2013: Etingoff ’10. Living in the Boston Generations (Posi-Tone Records) area, they met as members of the and The Truth About Me (Cristal all-volunteer Cambridge Symphony Records). After seven years in Orchestra. City, Shauli has moved YELLOWJACKET STRINGS ATTACHED: Living and working in Abe, who oversees digital adver- to Paris. . . . Ailbhe McDonagh the Boston area, alumni Dewing, Beall, and Etingoff (left tising for the Boston Herald, joined (MM) has released a CD, It’s to right) met while playing in the all-volunteer Cambridge the orchestra in 1994. A violinist, a Cello Thing (McDonagh), Symphony Orchestra. with her sister, pianist Orla he’d been in the University sympho- McDonagh. Both sisters teach ny and chamber orchestras at Rochester. “I was but casual enough that people who have full time at the Royal Irish Academy of able to enjoy music at my own pace. It wasn’t, jobs can do it simply because they love it,” she says. Music in Dublin. ‘Be an Eastman student or nothing,’ ” he says. She adds that the group is performing a lot of “I learned, ‘Hey, you know what? Maybe a commu- 20th-century music, “which is unusual.” 2009 Caleb Harris (DMA) has been named chorus master for the nity orchestra would be an option for me.’ ” Kim, a violist who’s working toward a master’s Utah Opera. He not only joined the Cambridge Symphony, degree in urban and environmental policy and but became a board member and took charge of planning at Tufts, says, “I was a part of both the the group’s marketing. He started an arts blog at chamber orchestra and the symphony orchestras at School the Boston Herald, for which he writes a weekly Rochester, so I wanted to keep that tradition going installment about the symphony. in my life.” The Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, of Medicine Lydia, also a violinist, runs an education she says, “was nearby, community based, and and Dentistry program at the Boston Museum of Science. A had a great repertoire, so that’s the orchestra I chemical engineering major, she didn’t join any gravitated toward.” She met Abe shortly after she 1946 John Kennell (MD) music groups while at Rochester. “I thought about joined, who in turn introduced her to Lydia. (see ’42 College). it,” she says. “But I thought it might be too much It’s a community-within-a-community that while I was in college.” could expand. “I actually know of two more 1965 John Santos (MD) has As a working professional, she decided she Rochester alums who just moved to Boston and won a 2013 Lifetime Achievement had the time and will to pursue her music again. are interested in joining the CSO as well,” Kim Award from the North Shore She’d been a friend of the orchestra on Facebook says. “So our numbers might keep growing!” Medical Center in Salem, Mass. Certified in internal medicine and and decided to join. She met Abe when she ap- —Karen McCally cardiovascular medicine, John has proached him about arranging for the orchestra been treating patients at the medi- to perform at the museum as part of a program Have you experienced a chance encounter cal center for more than 40 years. on the science of sound. you’d like to share? Write to us at rochrev@ “It’s a pretty rigorous orchestra environment, rochester.edu. 1982 Harold Paz (MD) (see ’77 College). 1994 Neal Lindeman (MD) the director of molecular diag- Syndrome (Springer), which of- 1985 Steven Schechter (MD) has won a College of American nostics at Brigham and Women’s fers an overview of the group of writes that he lives in Providence, Pathologists Distinguished Patient Hospital in Boston and associate disorders caused by compression R.I., with his wife, Naomi, and Care Award. He cochaired a panel professor of pathology at Harvard of nerves, arteries, and veins tra- two sons, Aaron and Avi, and has that established molecular testing Medical School. versing the base of the neck to the been named interim chief of the guidelines for various mutations arm. Karl is a professor of surgery division of colorectal surgery in in lung cancer patients and has 1995 Karl Illig (Res), ’97M and director of the vascular sur- the surgery department of Brown been a leader in efforts to stan- (Flw) writes that he’s lead edi- gery division at the University of University’s medical school. dardize molecular testing. He’s tor of the textbook Thoracic Outlet South Florida.

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