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$ "! # [24778-v1-0241] A1231-0909 CONTENTS MAGAZINE 8 Publisher Richard Briscoe Portage has Editor Penny Briscoe welcomed MARSHA WELLS Copy Editor Cherri L. Glowe back with a bond Assistant to the Publisher 2008 April 8 Issue 35 Volume issue success. Ronald Dundon
Contributing Writers Dave Dueweke, OD Shaun Hittle Larry B. Massie Patrice Mindock Theresa Coty O’Neil Robert M. Weir 16 Pictured with Marsha Wells are Poetry Editor middle school students Kim Smith Theresa Coty O’Neil Patience is key and Haley Phelan, with their for MARK CASSINO’s ceramic bowls for the February Contributing Poets Empty Bowls event. Dan Pettee stunning photos Bob Roche of nature. Cartoonist Craig Bishop
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First Committee that worked on the election. Photo: Courtesy Portage Public Schools Public Portage Courtesy Photo:
Marsha Wells’ appointment as PPS superintendent brought her back to her teaching roots. A Second Round in Portage
EW PORTAGE PUBLIC Schools As Wells talks nostalgically about up. It’s not that Wells isn’t accessible; (PPS) Superintendent Marsha her past recreational endeavors as a far from it. It’s that she is devoted to Wells always seems to have a mountaineer and avid outdoors enthu- being accessible to the people that make measured, focused, ready response for siast, the smile on her face reveals a past Portage Public Schools tick. It means questions and challenges that come her love. “I’m not a mountaineer anymore, that her schedule is booked all week, and way — with one exception: when asked though,” confesses Wells. even if you are able to get an appoint- about her future and past vacation plans. And whatever memories flash ment of some sort, be ready to resched- The always-ready public figure had through Wells’ mind, they are put aside in ule when school business meetings run to think a long moment when detailing short order as that smile again reveals her over or are added to her hectic schedule. her last vacation, the long pause giving other true love — working in the schools. indication that this is a very busy woman Fortunately for Wells, working in Coming Back Home who doesn’t spend much time thinking the schools is something she has been about time off or vacations. able to do full time (plus some) and at Wells’ appointment in July of 2007 In her long tenure in public service various levels over the past 30 years. to the superintendency of Portage Public to various school districts, and particu- But for Wells, finding time to even Schools was a homecoming for the ad- larly more recently as a superintendent talk about those 30 years and her current ministrator and former elementary- and of both the Grand Ledge Public Schools plans for Portage schools requires some middle-school teacher. and now Portage Public Schools, Wells planning ahead. Wells, who had previously worked has had little more than long weekends Keep in mind, also, that if your busi- in PPS as the director of instruction until to plan — and go — on trips. Now, she ness with the busy superintendent has 1992, said her return to the area was and her husband — a retired school little to do with improving and running an easy transition. “I was coming back administrator — find time only for short Portage schools, you will probably take a home,” said Wells, adding that maintain- escapes. back seat if some school business comes ing a lot of her previous connections to 8 &/$03&t"13*- Ron Kitchens of Southwest Michigan First and Superintendent Marsha Wells are shown at a WWMT-TV taping of the weekly “Business First” segment that airs at 9:06 a.m. on Sundays. Marsha is active with the area business community and serves on the Portage Advisory Board of the Kalamazoo Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Photo: Courtesy Portage Public Schools
As a way to re-energize herself, Marsha often visits students. Here she poses with Delton- Kellogg preschool students in 2000.
Photo: Courtesy Portage Public Schools for Marsha Wells By Shaun Hittle
the people in the Portage community has Staying Connected It’s a symbol of Wells as a gatekeeper proved very beneficial in her second go- and is just one example of how she makes round with the district. “I know the high A quick look at the new Portage a concerted effort to stay connected with caliber of people here,” said Wells. superintendent’s office gives you a pretty her students, her staff, and the larger Portage School Board President good sense of how the new district leader community. Shirley Johnson, one of the people approaches challenges for the district: by While Wells stays connected to the instrumental in bringing Wells back to being organized and focused. community in some of the ways expected the Portage community, said that hir- A sparsely decorated office with a of a school administrator and public ing Wells was an easy decision based few simple posters about respect and servant — member of Rotary, the Portage on Wells’ impeccable credentials. John- courage is about all that can be found in Chamber of Commerce, etc. — she also son said that she was very impressed Wells’ office: no huge pile of papers on the strives to stay connected in more innova- by Wells’ desire to rebuild connections desk, no large filing cabinets. In fact, no tive ways when attempting to improve the to the greater Portage community mess. Anywhere. Portage schools. when challenges in the district arise. Possibly more telling of her work A shining example of that innova- It’s a theme that emerges whenever philosophy, however, is the view her office tion in action was the way in which Wells you speak to someone who has worked gives her. Wells’ office, which she coinci- and Portage Public Schools reached out with Wells. dentally occupied in her previous time at to area residents for feedback in planning “She’s very good working with PPS, is on the ground floor of the school for a new elementary school on 12th St. in a wide variety of personalities,” said administration building. It’s positioned Texas Township. Instead of only focus- Johnson, further citing Wells’ problem so Wells is able to see the students at the ing on the school and the students who solving and listening skills — attributes neighboring Portage Central High School would be involved, Wells and PPS worked that Johnson says have only continued to drive in each morning — and drive out in hard to engage the community and the impress the Portage community. the afternoon. surrounding neighborhood. "13*-t&/$03& 9 Photo: Courtesy Schools Portage Public Photo:
Portage City Manager Maurice Evans and Superintendent Marsha Wells attend the noon Portage Rotary Club of which both are members. She was also a member of Rotary when she was school superintendent in Grand Ledge.
Marsha Wells addresses parent and staff members of the district’s Attendance Area Study Committee during a March meeting of the group. They are charged with developing recommendations on the redistricting planned to take effect in fall 2009, when the new 12th Street elementary school opens.
“We will impact that neighborhood,” said Wells, who knew that the district would need to find a way to help those in the area feel connected to the new school, even if they didn’t have children in the district. “The community really is the owner of the school system,” said Wells. So Wells and the district sent out personal invitations to 2,000 residents in the area around the planned school, Photo: Courtesy Schools Portage Public Photo: asking for feedback about various issues, such as increased traffic and noise. engage the community at large. “You see It’s an energy that suited her well Wells said that the invitations were her out there,” said Evans, “ … and she is in the Grand Ledge School District’s a great opportunity for residents to pro- outstanding in how she presents (herself battle for a new school bond, their first vide feedback, something Wells is always to the community).” since 1994. Grand Ledge School Board looking for from the community. The President Kim Mulvenna, who worked challenge, says Wells, is always: “Are we Challenges, at the Start with Wells for two years during the listening to the community?” bond preparation and vote, remembers The community, at least in the view Everyone remembers that first day clearly the moment when the school of Portage City Manager Maurice Evans, on the job: meet the coworkers, learn how district found out that the bond they put is saying “yes” to that question. Evans de- to use the fax machine, set up your office. together in May of 2006 did not pass. tailed how Wells invited the City of Por- But, as we all know, not much real work Mulvenna explained that many tage to the table when working through gets done that first day as we get settled who worked on the bond were at an the bond issue. It’s that spirit of coopera- in. For Wells, though, who started as area restaurant when they found out the tion, said Evans, that he has seen in Wells superintendent on July 1, there was little bond didn’t pass. The mood in the room since she began her tenure at PPS. time to get situated in her new role. became very somber as Mulvenna said “Collaboration is easy to say, harder Wells, however, brushed aside the she and the others involved felt deflated. to accomplish,” said Evans, who indicat- challenges of a quick start. “I hit the Years of work went into the bond, and ed that he continually sees Wells’ efforts ground running,” said Wells, who cred- Mulvenna said those who had gathered at working with all possible sides when ited her recent energy boost to dealing were struggling to imagine mustering dealing with issues in the district. with a bond issue in the Grand Ledge their energy to put a new proposal in Those efforts, said Evans, are signifi- school district in May of 2007 before she front of voters. cantly assisted by Wells’ willingness to came to Portage. Wells, however, shocked the room 10 &/$03&t"13*- %POBME-4BQQBOPT 1$ by asking how soon the group wanted to "mSNGPDVTJOHPODSJNJOBMMBX put the bond back before the voters. “She said, ‘August or September,’” Bad things can happen to good people. Mulvenna remembered. “She never took a breath.” We’re here when you need us. The bond did pass in May of 2007, just before Wells came to Portage. 4UBEJVN%SJWFt,BMBNB[PP .*t t'BY “She left our district in a good TBQQBOPTQD!NZXBZDPN place,” complimented Mulvenna. Board President Johnson had concerns when Wells was hired because she knew Wells had just come from that long and arduous process of getting a bond passed in Grand Ledge. “At the start, I was afraid we were going to burn her out,” said Johnson, referring to the Portage school district’s desire and need to pass a new bond. After a short time, though, Johnson said it was apparent that a lack of energy or high expectations would not be an issue with Wells. ! #$! % * '#)$"* Wells stepped into PPS in the wake A SPECIAL " !$ ) $!' of a $145-million bond proposal that GILMORE FESTIVAL ) "! ) failed to garner enough support to pass PRELUDE CONCERT in a February vote. She was forced imme- ' " )!) ! diately to find out what the community PRESENTING " )!) " )! "! ! " " !$ wanted in a bond, and she also needed THE INCOMPARABLE to determine how much they would be willing to spend. AMERICAN PIANIST ) $ &) !!$ ! Wells started right away by solicit- ) ! ) )! !$ " &) !! ) ! ing feedback from the community. RICHARD GOODE & &) !! ! 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Kalamazoo Valley Museum presents the students in the school district who made before the election to educate the worked hard to help the proposal pass, public about the need for the bond. April/May despite the fact that many of the students In the initial stages of the bond helping would graduate before the proposal preparation, Wells went to the Events For Adults changes from the bond would be imple- schools to find out what the students Music At The Museum mented. It’s part of a trend that Wells felt was needed in their schools. Instead Thursdays, 7:30 pm, $5 sees in the area youth and their desire to of concerns about the food, the parking, Great music the way it should be – eclectic and get more involved in their community. or athletics, Wells heard feedback from performed live in a fine acoustic listening room! 4/10 - Gardyloo Rogue Bassoons “I see a strong desire among students the students that focused on academ- 5/15 - Whiskey Before Breakfast to make a difference,” said Wells, who de- ics. The students, said Wells, expressed Film Movement Series tailed the house-to-house visits students concerns about class sizes and technol- Thursdays, 7:30 pm, $3 This is your chance to view award-winning foreign cinema on the big screen. 4/3 - Mother of Mine (Finland/Sweden) A Quest to Meet the Education Challenge During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden. This UST BECAUSE Marsha Wells preparation on the basics of math and latest film from award-winning director Klaus Haro currently occupies the highest science. The focus on those basics tackles this history with a tale about a 9-year-old named Eero. position in the Portage School helped Wells obtain her first teach- 4/24 - Dreams of Dust (France) District, don’t think she doesn’t know ing position with Grand Ledge Public A Nigerien peasant, Mocktar looks for work in a gold what it’s like on the front lines in the Schools as an elementary teacher, with mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, Africa, where he classroom. In fact, in Wells’ 30 years in an offer from the district two months hopes to forget his past. There he discovers a strange, the education business, she has held a before she graduated from MSU. timeless wasteland that manages to exist simply wide variety of positions, from elemen- After starting her teaching career in from force of habit. tary teacher to middle-school principal. the Grand Ledge schools, Wells moved 5/22 - The Way I Spent the End of the World But that career odyssey might on to Hartland Consolidated Schools (Romania) Eva lives with her parents and younger brother never have happened if Wells was a where she worked in numerous roles Lalalilu in Bucharest during the final year of Ceaus- better artist. for the district over the next 10 years, escu’s dictatorship. One day at school, Eva and her When she entered Michigan State including middle-school teacher, read- boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu and University in the early 1970s, her first ing consultant, elementary-school and are forced to confess their crime. major was fine arts, and her career am- middle-school principal, and director of Free Sunday Documentaries bition was as an artist. Fortunately for student and community services. It was Sundays, 1:30 pm – Raise the Roof the list of schools that she has worked in Hartland that Wells received her first 4/13 - PBS’ Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film by in and improved over the years, Wells experience out of the classroom and Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (Part One) said she quickly learned that her abili- into a more administrative role. Again, 4/27 - PBS’ Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (Part Two) ties as an artist would not provide her though, Wells said it wasn’t necessar- 5/11 - PBS’ Echoes from the White House: with a steady career. ily her ambition to keep moving up the Celebrating the Bicentennial of Art did provide Wells with an school career ladder that landed her a America’s Mansion introduction to the teaching life when principal’s position. Sundays, 3 pm – The History of Rock & Roll 4/13 - My Generation & Plugging In she taught a summer art class for Wells, whose role in Hartland had 4/27 - Guitar Heroes & The 70s: Have a youth in Warren, a community in the shifted from teacher to reading consul- Nice Decade metro Detroit area where she grew up. tant, said of her move to school prin- 5/11 - Punk & Up From the Underground The experience helped Wells realize cipal, “I had not planned on becoming that she enjoyed working with young- a principal. Again, it’s funny how life sters in a teaching role, noting that happens.” she “…enjoyed the energy, optimism The need in the district for a prin- and creativity that comes with helping cipal who exhibited the qualities Wells young people learn and grow.” possessed led some of the teachers and The career outlook at that time staff in Hartland to prod Wells into con- FREEFREE did not look promising for art teach- sidering such a role. It was that support, GeneralGeneral AdmissionAdmission OPENOPEN DAILYDAILY ers, and taking advice from her college said Wells, that convinced her to give advisor, Wells focused her teaching it a try. 12 &/$03&t"13*- Together we can better provide you with comprehensive wealth management services. ogy upgrades. Wells was encouraged by the enthusiasm for academics that she William A. Barnes Linda J. Barnes Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. VP - Investments First VP - Investments has seen in the Portage youth from day 555 W. Crosstown Parkway, Suite 201 one. 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and commitment. “It’s motivating,” said White, noting Wells’ focus and generos- ity with her time and expertise.
Goals
Those requests from students for technology upgrades coincide with Wells’ and the district’s plans and goals for the future. The upgrades, said Wells, will help give PPS “that academic edge” and allow students to improve their global literacy in a world where “global” is the name of the game in almost all business endeavors. That academic edge, as is true for most schools across the country, will need to be gained in tough economic times, something Wells has had to deal with at nearly every stage of her career. Wells cites the current issues in PPS, including nearly $4 million in cuts to
Marsha Wells poses at base camp after a successful technical climb to the summit of Mount Ranier (14,000 ft.) in the state of Washington in 1998.
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Motivation
So why does Wells put up with the long hours (7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. some days), the intense challenges, and the ever burdensome financial difficulties? And how does she stay motivated after Monologue 30 years? When asked, Wells lets the typical He breached the card store almost daily, public servant clichés fly: “I want to make fat and fortyish fellow in loose-fitting slacks a difference,” or “It’s a calling, not a job,” and, on wintry days, an outer coat he or “I know we’re shaping a future.” always kept unbuttoned, fabric the color of bricks What’s different when Wells says them is that they are delivered in a sin- faded from excess sun and rain; cere, genuine way. Every time she heads his beach-balled belly thrust itself between its folds in the direction of those clichés, you as he ambled the aisles, spinning a strange refrain begin to really believe them because you of jumbled phrases fraught with meaning in other worlds ... know she does “as well(s).” and in his feverish mind. His smile, when broached, was like a too-bright bulb in a basement room; and he rambled, rehearsing ancient hurts — “tetched,” some might have said, captive in a lost time
or times, boundaries drawn through repetition in security, a rumble-throated laugh, jocularity serving as some sort of forced pause, interim punctuation, without which words would come too fast, too furiously …
Indeed, it was a blur of words at speed and stir, the fire of certainty fanned to a fevered pitch unknown to most, spreading through a region where few of us would care to visit … or even approach.
And yet … he’d never, ever push beyond a level of acceptance; before then, he’d disappear while a business fuss was elsewhere — matter over mind — and you could only ask yourself … now where?
By Dan Pettee
A native New Englander, Dan currently operates his own free-lance writing business in West Michigan. His poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Texas Review, Amherst Review, Descant, Negative Capability, and Evansville Review.
"13*-t&/$03& 15 7FJKH?D=Å 7JKH;Å ?J>Å7ÅC7BBÅD OÅ7JH?9;Å ?D:E9A >;ÅB;DI;IÅE<Å 7HAÅ7II?DE«IÅ97C;H7IÅ7H;ÅE Mark Cassino enjoys an early March day at the Fred McLinden Nature Trails on East H Avenue, a favorite place for him to seek out his dramatic shots. ARK CASSINO BEGAN his foray into the photographic world in 1997, preferring to roam close to home in his backyard urban jungle or dodging dragonflies in nearby wetlands. He does not chase cheetahs — National Geographic style — in the back of a Jeep going 60 miles per hour over the grassy plains of Africa. When describing his photography on his Web site (markcassi- no.com), this artist refers to the majority of his work as photos of nature, “with a small ‘n’.” “I enjoy the close-up work, and I can imagine thousands of detail shots to be found in the little strip of land by my house,” he states. His favorite outdoor jaunts find him walking through the Allegan State Game Area, the Kalamazoo Nature Center, along the Kalamazoo River or through Fort Custer Recreation Area near Augusta. “In the 80 square miles of the Allegan Forest you’ll find the oak and pine barrens, the savannah, re- stored prairie areas and wetlands. With- in a concentrated area, you have many different types of terrain with diverse wildlife. You’ll even find a tiny skink liz- ard. There aren’t too many places to find them in southwest Michigan.” During his extensive treks, Cassino Photo © Rick Briscoe 16 &/$03&t"13*- Using infrared photography, Mark Cassino has created a breathtaking scene in Allegan County. A View of the Kalamazoo River, Photo © Mark Cassino. relies on his trusty GPS system to keep number of top honors. “I appreciate the He has since made his primary invest- from getting lost. “I start chasing a but- sense of feedback and different perspec- ments in digital cameras, but he still terfly or dragonfly and could easily lose tives that I receive from different jurors,” develops all of his own black and white track of where I was without it,” he says he says. “It is satisfying to have my work images. “I also continue to use medium- while laughing. “Part of the fun for me selected for recognition from among format film for landscapes and fall colors is to go to exactly the same spot and get thousands of entries in national shows, because I don’t believe digital quite to know it. I have a vernal pond I visit such as the 2004 U.S. Botanical Garden captures the detail I want,” he says. “The in the Allegan forest in all four seasons. Conservatory show in Washington, D.C.” digital technology is evolving so rapidly I spend a lot of time there in the sum- Three of Cassino’s insect photographs while the film medium is quickly fading mer because it is literally swarming were tabbed for that national exhibit, away. I want to stay off the consumer with dragonflies and butterflies. I also “The Great Pollinator Partnership.” treadmill, though, so I continue to use found out that area has plenty of black One of this shutterbug’s more enjoy- the older equipment in my arsenal. I’m a widow spiders, too.” While these small able challenges is entering the “Krappy photographer, not a camera collector.” insect and arachnid lives may be brief Kamera” contest each year, where the Cassino says he now shoots most of when compared to humankind, they rules only allow the use of cheap plastic his infrared applications with a digital have gained a type of immortality via the or disposable-style toy cameras to cap- camera because the Kodak film he pre- lenses of Cassino’s cameras. ture images. Cassino’s favorite device is fers has been discontinued. He has spent Cassino has found commercial suc- the Holga, complete with plenty of light years becoming adept at the art of digital cess with his macro-image botanicals leaks, lens distortion and no fine adjust- improvement to make slight adjust- and insect photographs. “Scientific pub- able settings. The Holga is basically ments in lighting or other special effects. lications now want some creativity,” he considered a rangefinder version of the “When I used traditional slide transpar- notes. “Textbooks and journals feature classic Kodak Brownie “Just point and ency film without the printing process, more natural settings than they have shoot,” Cassino says with a laugh. “It’s I was limited to the basic shot that came in the past, and the best scientific shots all random when you can’t control the off the camera,” he says. Now, he consid- seem to be the ones that are put together exposure or focus.” Mark calls some of ers himself a student of Ansel Adams’ with an artistic motivation.” his best Holga pieces “happy accidents.” style. “He once likened the exposure of Cassino also submits his work to Cassino, who discovered this the negative to a musical score, with the numerous competitions and is not in the photography passion at age 40, didn’t final enhanced print as the actual perfor- least jaded by his success in achieving a even own a decent camera at that point. mance of the music,” he explains. "13*-t&/$03& 17 Cassino assino is pursuing his photogra- phy full time while maintaining consulting relationships with a Cfew human-resources clients. “Ultimate- ly, I hope the photography will become a self-sustaining business venture, but the commercial success is not why I do it,” he stresses. “I simply love creating and producing the images and writing. I con- sider it a real art form, even though the skills required to produce a photograph are so different from the skills it takes to create a painting. My challenge to myself is to question whether I am doing some- thing different. In any visual art, there is a tendency to see another person’s work Photo © Mark Cassino Experiments with various techniques resulted in a method to capture the illusive intricacies of the and think: ‘That is the type of piece I delicate snowflake. Mark’s book, “Imperfect Symmetry,” details his experiences and showcases his want to do.’ It’s important to me that my photographs. photography not become a prescriptive process or a meaningless exercise.” photography,” he stresses. “Photography of images that your eye collects and your One of the underpinnings of Mark is a slice of time and light on one focal brain constructs into one mental image. Cassino’s work is an understanding of plane. It’s a two-dimensional frame, while To look at something and try to catch per- vision. “Vision is entirely different than your vision is a composite of thousands tinent details, with some feeling attached 18 &/$03&t"13*- Cassino sees his photographic ex- peditions as a practical extension of the ideas he wants to express. “Photography allows me to see the world more clearly,” he notes. “When I am looking through a camera lens, it seems to open more possibilities and I see things differently.” Cassino says he finds it peaceful to focus so intently on such tiny portions of the environment. “It’s a quiet, introspec- tive time for me,” he adds. “In my larger landscapes, I try to capture a feeling, a fleeting moment like the burst of sun- light in the Midwestern woods. I do this as a means of communication, a unique Photo © Mark Cassino connection with my audience.” Mark names his photograph of this stunning creature “Winged Wonder.” With his premiere book under his belt, a self-published collection of snow- to it, is the real challenge.” branches. “It was magical to watch the flake photographs entitled “Imperfect Cassino once spent hours on the branches swaying and sparkling in the Symmetry,” Cassino is looking ahead to cold banks of Fish Creek in Van Buren sun, but I simply could not capture the more compilations of his work County, trying to get some shots of complete effect,” he admits. “I will try it According to Mark, the major chal- crystals of hoarfrost sparkling on tree again, because I don’t give up that easily.” lenges of photographing snowflakes lie "13*-t&/$03& 19 Cassino Reach New Heights in the temperature and the set-up of the shots. “I worked outdoors in an unheated with the Symphony garage,” Cassino states. “Through trial and error, I found I had to use thick glass plates to collect the snowflakes, The Planets 2008-09 Season because even the tiny bit of warmth from Fri April 18 Raymond Harvey’s 10th Season my fingers transmitted through the thin glass of a microscope slide to melt them.” 8pm Miller Auditorium (Check out the “how to” rig on his personal Web site blog.) He describes the Season Highlights effort as similar to creating an interlock- Holst’s masterpiece accompanied • Dancers on Opening Night ing puzzle. “In the early days, I worked by deep-space images from • Beethoven’s Ninth in March with film and a manual flash, carefully NASA. • Season Spotlight on controlling the exposure factors, using Sergei Rachmaninoff lens extensions and testing different ap- erture settings. The new digital imaging • So much more! options make the technical aspect much less of a challenge.” Even though other successful photographers have advised him to specialize, Cassino prefers to let his moods carry him from one image style KalamazooSymphony.com to another. “I hear a lot about branding, but I do not want to be stereotyped as ‘the snowflake guy’ or ‘the bug guy,’” he stresses. “That would take all the fun out of photography for me. I get enjoy- ment switching from cheap toy cameras to macro work and then to infrared images.” Mark says he accepts the fact c M Closkey & Company that part of the process of photography CUSTOM BUILDERS, L.L.C. means spending weeks out shooting, hoping to achieve something special. “Sometimes, that just doesn’t work,” he says. “Then I have to backtrack and try to determine what I have to change to achieve the effect I want.” orn in Adrian, Mich., in 1957, BEFORE Cassino grew up with parents Extraordinary… who were artists. His father, BMichael Cassino, now deceased, moved from New York City to Michigan and AFTER founded the art department at Adrian Transformations. College, where he taught for many years. He was also an accomplished CUSTOM BUILDING AND RENOVATIONS painter and photographer. Mark’s mother, Barbara, who now lives in Iowa, 1050 E. Michigan Ave. • Kalamazoo, MI 49048 is a painter and a potter. “As a kid, I had Phone: (269) 382-0114 • Fax: (269) 382-0978 constant exposure to the visual arts,” E-mail: [email protected] Cassino recalls. “Our family took many weekend jaunts to Cleveland, Toledo, 20 &/$03&t"13*- Yesterday What about yesterday Where did it go What did I exchange it for It’s gone it’s over it’s yesterday Let’s plan for tomorrow And not lose another yesterday Tossed back and forth With other ideas Of what my today should be Today is yours What will it be like It’s a blank canvas By Bob Roche Photo © Mark Cassino Bob is a local entrepreneur who makes Hepaticat. his living in real estate and is president of Mortgage Plus. He has recently Indianapolis or Detroit to visit art ex- dappled in shade, delicate flower pet- published a book about negotiating life hibits and museums.” als and iridescent wings. He also has a and the real estate market, “Harness While the foundation for the artist fondness for what he terms, “incidental the Hurricane Within.” life was always there, Cassino branched photographs” — close-ups of odd bits of out into the formal business world after rusted metal set into concrete, Roman getting his degree from the University numerals carved onto a Lake Michigan of Michigan in English Literature. He pier, a delicate bas relief on a tombstone, has had a varied work history, including crude graffiti scrawled onto the wall of working in the natural history museum an abandoned building or a scattering of in the U of M library archives and serv- spent shell casings that a careless hunter ing as a human-resources executive for left lying on the ground. a regional bank, an attorney’s assistant, Among these “incidental” pieces, and most recently as an assistant su- you’ll also find a unique view of perintendent in an urban public school mundane items that most of us take district. He and his wife, Pam, share for granted — a pattern of footprints their home with Mark’s photographic marring the pristine dusting of snow on paraphernalia and studio on the west a sidewalk, a single nail crookedly set side of Kalamazoo. into a wall, or an ancient laundry sink “I consider photography as both an buried deep in the bowels of a base- artistic endeavor and my new career,” ment. When asked about his penchant Cassino states. He is currently working for finding such interesting subjects on a book detailing some of his tech- to photograph in his own “backyard,” niques of macro photography, a natural Cassino explains: “To me, understand- outgrowth from the workshops he has ing my personal surroundings is more taught in the past. Cassino says he is also important than searching far and wide toying with the idea of including some for the ‘perfect’ shot. It would become a of his more polished prose and poetry mechanical chore if I merely set out to along with collections of dragonfly pho- record an objective area, one that may tographs or landscapes in future efforts. be more photogenic. With my work, I Within Mark Cassino’s eclectic attempt to create an emotion, to share collection of photographic art, there are photographs that evoke a subjective sweeping landscapes, lush green trees reality.” "13*-t&/$03& 21 The Drummer Boy of Chickamauga By Larry Massie during the bloody Battle of Chickamau- At age 9, Young Johny ga on September 20, 1863. Born August 13, 1851, in Newark, Clem became a legend Ohio, John Clem ran away from home in May 1861, a month after the bom- when he wouldn’t bardment of Fort Sumter and President Lincoln’s call for 75,000 volunteers forsake his quest to to suppress “the insurrection.” When serve his country. 9-year-old Clem offered his services as a drummer boy to a company commander of the 3rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the officer laughed in his face and sneered, randishing his cavalry sword, the “I’m not enlisting infants.” Actually, Confederate colonel galloped up throughout the war fully 10,000 soldiers to the tiny, 12-year old soldier and 17 or younger enlisted in the Union Byelled, “Stop, you little Yankee devil!” Or Army: At least 25 were less than 11 maybe he said, “Surrender, you damned years old. little Yankee!” Still another source Undeterred by the Ohio officer’s published during the height of Victorian rude rebuke, the patriotic tyke tried the morality has the colonel crying, “Surren- 22nd Michigan Infantry, which had been John Lincoln Clem, who began serving in the der, you little -----!” recruited in southeastern counties and Union Army at the age of 9, became the “most famous drummer boy of the Civil War,” accord- What happened next, all three organized in Pontiac. During the late ing to some sources. sources agree on: Johnny Clem of the summer of 1862, the regiment traveled 22nd Michigan Infantry Regiment lev- through Ohio to the Kentucky front solemn music at the burials of men of eled the diminutive musket with which lines. Again, an officer rebuffed the lad. the 22nd Michigan killed in battle, or he had been furnished and shot the Still determined to be a soldier, the many more who died of disease or colonel off his mount. Dripping with Clem tagged along with the regiment, wounds in the hospital. On occasion journalistic circumlocution typical of the making himself useful in camp, and dur- he drummed a disgraced soldier, head era, a contemporary newspaper account ing the march he “acted just the same as shaved and shorn of his buttons, out of put it so: “The proud colonel tumbled a drummer-boy.” He finally wore down camp who had been convicted of some dead from his horse, his lips stained with the officers’ resistance, and while he was offense such as stealing from comrades. the syllable of vile reproach he had flung too young to be formally sworn in, they When not drumming, Clem gathered upon a mother’s grave in the hearing of donated to the little drummer a regular firewood, helped the cook on “K.P.,” car- her child,” thus also giving a pretty good private’s pay of $13 a month out of their ried messages from officer to officer and hint of what the Confederate’s deleted own funds. performed other light duties. Not so light expletive had been. Clem soon became adept at playing a duty was that of assisting surgeons as Variant epithets comprise but one the big snare drum swung against his they sawed off wounded soldiers’ limbs. of the difficulties in determining the left hip on the march. He learned to rat- Another of Clem’s activities at real story of what happened to “the most a-tat-tat reveille, mess call, double quick which he proved adept was to help for- famous drummer-boy of the Civil War” and tattoo. He also increasingly played age off the land to supplement the regi- 22 &/$03&t"13*- ment’s rations. Because the government sought to preserve civilian support, Col. Charles Doolittle, commander of the brigade in Kentucky, issued an order against killing stray hogs. Shortly after, Doolittle heard a musket go off not far from camp. He investigated and found Clem red-handed with a hog he had shot. “John,” said the colonel as record- ed in the 1880 publication, Michigan in the War, “don’t you know it is against orders to kill hogs?” “I know it,” replied the fast-thinking youth, “but I don’t intend to let any rebel hogs bite me!” A contemporary steel engraving depicts a mother’s farewell to her young son enlisting as a drummer boy. During the Battle of Shiloh, Clem won national attention as “Johnny Civil War,” and a popular Walt Disney way into his service records, and suc- Shiloh.” When an artillery round shat- movie of the 1960s. cessive ranks of historians accepted tered his drum, he continued to bravely the story without verification until the face the enemy. To save his troops from las, here is where historical appearance of Dennis M. Keesee’s finely defeat, General Ulysses Grant rode up accuracy ruins a good story. researched tome about youthful Union and shouted, “Don’t let a boy and his The Battle of Shiloh, Tenn., was soldiers in 2003. General stand there and fight alone” — foughtA on April 6 and 7, 1862, about If Clem was not Johnny Shiloh, was or so the widely circulated story ran. four months before the 22nd Michigan he really the “Drummer-Boy of Chicka- “The Drummer Boy of Shiloh,” based on Infantry was even mustered into service. mauga?” The answer is “yes and no.” the event, became one of the war’s most Whoever that brave drummer boy was, if Clem and the 22nd Michigan Infantry popular songs. The incident also inspired indeed the incident actually occurred, he definitely fought bravely at the Battle a Vaudeville play that continued to jerk was not John Clem. It seems that a news- of Chickamauga, which pitted Maj. the tears from audiences well into the paper article published about Johnny Gen. William S. 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Benson returns home to to “The Crows,” which is about dog-fighting my next book.” discover a wounded man in her kitchen. and the different organizations that are “Most people who know me laugh Called a “psychological cozy” by available for the dogs that are rescued, both or nod because they know it’s true,” said publisher Thomas Gale, “The Crows” is aspects of a troubling but relatively un- Soule, whose latest mystery, “The Crows,” a wonderful book to curl up with by the known issue about which Soule would like was published in 2007. “It doesn’t seem fire on a winter night, and its gripping plot to raise awareness. to stop people from telling me things. If may even keep you up a little past bedtime. Even after anything, once people learn I am a writer, Soule, who over 25 years ago coura- 25 years and an they often tell me stories.” Sometimes she geously quit a teaching job with her hus- impressive list learns even more than she wants to know. band’s encouragement and began writing of publications, After all, a writer doesn’t need to romances for Harlequin, is a lover of plot. Soule said writ- know too much, just enough to spark her She found that the more romances she ing continues to imagination, like the shooting Soule heard wrote (she has 26 books to her credit), provide her with about that occurred not far from her former the more she was drawn to developing fresh challenges. home in Climax. Two hunters were found the mystery aspect of her stories. In 1998 “I’m constantly in the Fulton State Game Area. They’d been Soule departed the romance genre and en- learning. I’ve shot, and no one, at the time, knew why. tered suspense and mystery, with a little always had these “That really made an impression on romance thrown in for good measure. stories in my me,” said Soule, who often walks her dog In addition to the element of suspense, head, so it’s kind of Author Maris Soule in the woods. “What if I were walking animals and rural life are sure to make nice to have to put them down on paper in the woods and came upon a body? Or an appearance in Soule’s work. “In my and have people pay you for them.” what would I do if bullets started flying?” romances — and in this mystery — ani- She enjoys meeting her readers, who A decade later, Soule began her book. mals abound,” said Soule, who spent several happen to include a very loyal local fol- “The Crows,” which takes place in Zenith years raising Rhodesian ridgebacks, as well lowing. “I love it when people come up (a town based on Climax, Mich.), is part as pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens and horses to me and talk about my characters as mystery, part suspense, and begins grip- on her small farm. “Iditarod, barrel racing, though they are as real to them as they are pingly when P.J. Benson and her 4-month- dressage, search-and-rescue dogs — ani- to me. 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Also featured will be the families to experience together, this is the and rewrites and sanitizes its collective Portage Northern High School Women’s story of parents and children struggling for history. Apr. 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 8 p.m. Chorus. April 18, 8 p.m. Miller Auditorium, dignity and humanity in the grasp of racist Whole Art Theatre, Epic Theater, America. Apr. 3–5, 8 p.m. Apr. 6, 2 p.m. WMU. 349-7759. 359 S. Kalamazoo Mall. 345-7529. Williams Theatre, WMU. 387-6222. Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra “Movin’ Out” — The music of Billy Joel “The Foursome” — Tee off for laughter — This concert will feature the Stulberg and the direction/choreography of Twyla with this comedy in which four college International String Competition’s 2008 Tharp combine to create this spectacular friends discuss their lives 25 years after bronze medal winner. April 27, 4 p.m. new rock musical. April 8–10, 7:30 p.m. graduation while playing a round of golf. Chenery Auditorium, 714 S. Westnedge Ave. Miller Auditorium, WMU. 387-2300. Apr. 4, 5, 11, & 12, 8 p.m., Apr. 3, 349-7557. 7:30 p.m., Apr. 6, 2 p.m. Parrish Theatre, “On the Town” — A weekend in New York 426 S. Park St. 343-1313. with three WWII soldiers on leave is the “Hollywood Arms” — This play serves as basis for this toe-tapping, uplifting musical Chamber, Jazz, Orchestra a tribute to the grandmother who raised gem, featuring the well-known song, “New & Bands Carol Burnett and tells the story of young York, New York.” April 10–12 & 17–19, 8 Carol’s journey from shattered hopes to p.m., April 20, 2 p.m. Shaw Theatre, WMU. Spring Conference on Wind & Percus- realized dreams. April 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19, 387-6222. sion Music — This concert will feature the 8 p.m., April 10, 7:30 p.m., April 13, 2 p.m. Five by Design in “Radio Days” — Five conference all-star band and the University Civic Theatre, 329 S. Park St. 343-1313. vocalists and a big band will recreate 1940s Symphonic Band. April 3, 7:30 p.m. Miller “Bart the Temp: A Story of Wall Street” radio shows complete with commercials, Auditorium, WMU. 387-4667. — Based on Melville’s “Bartleby”, this game shows, soap operas and war era Artemis Quartet — Fontana Chamber play tells the story of a new administrative songs. April 20, 3 p.m. Miller Auditorium, Arts presents this young Berlin-based assistant who is there all the time and is WMU. 387-2300. group. April 5, 8 p.m. Dalton Center Re- slowly taking over the cital Hall, WMU. 382-7774. office. April 4 & 5, 11 “Experience University Concert Band — A free p.m. Whole Art Theatre, Dance is not what concert with John Lychner conducting. happens to 246 N. Kalamazoo Mall. Spring Concert of Dance — Wellspring’s April 6, 3 p.m. Miller Auditorium, WMU. a man; it is 345-7529. 387-4667. what a man “The Dining Room” — annual Spring Concert of Dance, featuring University Jazz Lab Band — Tom Knific does with Six performers portray a new choreography by Cori Terry and Mi- is the director for this free concert. April what happens wide array of characters chael Miller. April 17–19, 8 p.m., April 20, 9, 8:15 p.m. Dalton Center Recital Hall, to him.” who contemplate the de- 2 p.m. Wellspring Theatre, 359 S. Kalama- mise of the middle class zoo Mall. 342-4354. WMU. 387-4667. Aldous Huxley and the neglected dining Graduating Presentations in Dance — A University Percussion Ensemble — Judy room. April 4, 5, 11, 12, concert of dances by senior BFA dance Moonert is the director. April 10, 8:15 p.m. 18, 19, 25 & 26, majors. April 11 & 12, 8 p.m., April 12 & Dalton Center Recital Hall, WMU. 387- 8:30 p.m. New Vic 13, 2 p.m. Dalton Center Dance Studio B, 4667. Theatre, 134 E. Vine St. 381-3328. WMU. 387-5830. “Singing in the Rain” — The Kalamazoo “The Pierian Spring” — Written by Joan Concert Band will feature their 2008 Youth Miller of Kalamazoo College, this play Symphony Solo winner in this free concert. April 12, tells of Steve as he battles to successfully 7:30 p.m. Chenery Auditorium, negotiate his education, his professional 714 S. Westnedge Ave. 806-6597. The World of … Handel — Maestro Ray- life and his relationships at the end of his Festival Prelude Recital — Richard mond Harvey will guide you through the college career. April 25, 26 & May 2, 3, Goode will perform Beethoven, Bach, life and times of Georg Frideric Handel with 11 p.m. Whole Art Theatre, 246 N. Kala- Chopin and Debussey as a prelude to the music and a multimedia commentary. April mazoo Mall. 345-7529. Gilmore Keyboard Festival. April 13, 4 6, 3 p.m. Light Fine Arts Center, Kalamazoo p.m. Chenery Auditorium, 714 S. West- College. 349-7759. nedge Ave. 387-2300. 30 &/$03&t."3$) “Gilmore for Kids” — Vicksburg Commu- STEPPING BACK nity Schools presents pianist Alpin Hong WITH THE ARTS and an interactive piano program for chil- dren, youth and their families. April 23, 7 Pigeons are just birds, right? But you p.m. Vicksburg Performing Arts Center, might be surprised to find that they have, 501 E. Highway St. 321-1193. in fact, played an important role in his- torical events. In World War II, pigeons Vocal were used to carry messages back from the front lines. Thirty-two pigeons were Collegium Musicum — WMU’s early mu- awarded medals for gallantry-by-animals sic students perform under the direction called Dickin Medals. One recipient was of Matthew Steel. April 1, 8:15 p.m. Dalton the very first to bring news of the invasion Center Recital Hall, WMU. 387-4667. University Chorale — Also performing of Normandy back to England. Flying October 18, 1943, he delivered the mes- are the Collegiate Singers with James K. against a strong headwind for more than sage that the British Army had taken the Bass conducting. April 4, 8:15 p.m. Dalton 150 miles, the pigeon Gustav flew for five village of Calvi Vecchia in Italy just before Center Recital Hall, WMU. 387-4667 hours to bring news of the Allied inva- Allied planes were to bombard the village. WMU Women’s Chorus — “Cantus sion. Another heroic pigeon used in WW More than a thousand lives were saved. Femina” with Dee Gauthier, Conductor. II has a Michigan connection. Named G.I. Joe was given a Dickin Medal and April 11, 8:15 p.m. Dalton Center Recital G.I. Joe, he was one of 54,000 used by the retired to the comfort of the Detroit Zoo Hall, WMU. 387-4667. United States Army Pigeon Service. On where he died of old age in 1961. “A Festival of Music for Voices, Brass and Organ” — The Kalamazoo Singers accompanied by Janlee Richter at the key- High School Area Show — An annual, board of the 63-rank Casavant organ will juried exhibition featuring examples of sing in honor of Thomas Kasdorf and his Visual Arts the best art produced by area high school many years of service as Director of Music. April 20, 3 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, students. April 26–May 18. 321 W. South St. 373-1769. WMU Richmond Center for ARTbreak — Enjoy informal free lectures Visual Arts (RCVA) and presentations on art-related topics. 387-2455: “Jazz Casual: Count Basie and John Col- Miscellaneous trane,” April 1, “Beyond Pretty Pictures: Rethinking Art in High School,” April 8, Ron “Tater Salad” White in Concert — Foundations Exhibition — April 3–11. “A Trajectory of Indonesian Batik,” April This stand-up comic is best known as the John Link: Recent Paintings — An 15, “Where the Wild Things Are,” April cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking member of exhibition to run from April 3–June 14. 22, “Finding Warmth: A Story in Pictures the “Blue Collar Comedy Tour.” April 12, 8 Tiffany Speet— BFA Ceramics Thesis and Music,” April 29. Bring a lunch to p.m. Miller Auditorium, WMU. 387-2300. Exhibition. April 14–18 these 12:15 sessions. Cherryholmes — A six-member family Jacqueline Wilson— BFA Ceramics Thesis Art & All That Jazz — The KIA’s popular bluegrass band that will dazzle you with Exhibition. April 14–18 second-Friday series combines great art their vocal and instrumental abilities and Nicole Miller— MFA Painting Thesis with live music and free refreshments. Join throw in some Irish step dancing, too. Exhibition. April 21–25 April 19, 8 p.m. Miller Auditorium, WMU. musical guests Cabtown Checkers. 387-2300. Kalamazoo Institute of Arts April 11, 5–7 p.m. The Gilmore Keyboard Festival — Eigh- 349-7775: teen days of concerts, recitals, jazz clubs, (continued on page 52) films and more. April 24–May 13. For complete information and schedules visit Jacob Lawrence — A collection of works from one of the most influential artists to www.thegilmoreiscoming.com. For tickets Please send notification of activities to: call 387-2300. emerge from the Harlem Renaissance era All Ears Theater — Radio-theater is back containing nearly 100 lively colorful prints Encore “Events of Note” through these free, live productions at First including 36 individual pieces plus three 350 South Burdick St., Suite 316 Baptist Church, 315 W. Michigan Ave., 6 narrative series. Through April 20. Kalamazoo, MI 49007 p.m. “The Adventures of Danielle Holli in Young Artists of Kalamazoo County — Deal with the Devil,” April 5, “The Room,” A delightful exhibition of art created by 1IPOFt'BY April 19 and “Hansel & Gretel,” May 3. Kalamazoo County students in grades K–8. E-mail: [email protected] 342-5059. Mar. 29–April 20. ."3$)t&/$03& 31 Photo: Courtesy Gilmore Keyboard Festival Keyboard Courtesy Gilmore Photo: Briscoe Penny Photo: Lori Sims and her young son, Will, enjoy a moment at the piano together. EpoÖu!Njtt!Qjbojtu!Mpsj!Tjnt!bu!Uif!Hjmnpsf! Cz!Qfooz!Csjtdpf ESTERN MICHIGAN University that’s not happening, where the people School of Music and a faculty member Professor of Music Lori Sims are still really into it.” of Valparaiso University in Indiana. The will make her fifth appearance The Gilmore is an example of what duo-pianists will celebrate the centennial at the Irving S. Gilmore International a small community dedicated to the arts of Olivier Messiaen’s birth by performing Keyboard Festival this spring when she can actually make happen, she says. one of his great works. For Messiaen, a performs as a master-class artist, solo- “It’s not only the monetary support, but French composer, organist and teacher recitalist and chamber musician. people come out, and they are really ex- (1908-1992), the piano was essential, and Sims, who makes no secret of her cited about it. I wish this could happen the two-piano work they will perform is support for the festival, says: “The most in more places.” one of his masterpieces. fantastic impact of Gilmore is it shows Sims, who is the John T. Bernhard A native of Colorado who earned that given the right circumstances and Professor of Music, one of 13 named her bachelor’s in music at the University the right people, a little town, not Los chairs at the university, has performed of Colorado and a master’s at the Yale Angeles or New York, can experience throughout North America, Europe, and School of Music, Sims was raised in a the same type of musicians and the same China. Her list of honors, prizes and ap- family where music lessons were not artistic intensity.” pearances is long, including performing an option. “My parents just considered About other musicians’ impres- with the Fontana Chamber Arts in Ka- music part of being an educated person,” sions, Sims says: “It surprises people. lamazoo, and Opus 21, a local chamber she says. Both parents played piano, one They are used to playing only in, say, ensemble dedicated to performing more younger sister danced and played flute, New York, and then suddenly they are current compositions. She has also re- and a second played violin. getting offered enough of a fee that they corded a CD with cellist Natalia Khoma Now a parent herself, she is looking can play in Kalamazoo — so they come and will be recording the four Sonatas forward to 2 1/2-year-old Will’s develop- and find that they love it in a small of William Bolcom with violinist Renata ment of music appreciation, just as she town.” Artman Knific. advocates for her students to keep music As both an educator and performer, During the festival, Sims will in their lives in some form, although not Sims is concerned with the belief that present a master class and perform necessarily as a career. Her great hope is classical music is dying. “To a certain ex- with pianist Yu-Lien The, born in the that her own involvement in music will tent that can certainly be documented,” Netherlands and trained primarily in continue to impact society as a whole. she says, “but it is always nice when you Germany — and now a resident art- To learn more about Lori Sims, visit hear of the anomaly or the place where ist in the Western Michigan University www.thegilmoreiscoming.org. "13*-t&/$03& 33 Photo: Courtesy Opus 21 Courtesy Opus Photo: Opus 21 musicians. From left: Alexa Muhly, cello; Greg Secor, percussion; Judy Moonert, percussion; Henning Schroder, saxophone; Bradley Wong, clarinet; and Yu-Lien The, piano and recorder. Not pictured: Performing with Opus 21 at The Gilmore are Gabriel Bolkosky, violin; pianist Stephen Drury; and pianist and composer Frederic Rzewski. Also not pictured: Betsy Bogner Wong, administrative director; Michelle Miller-Adams, fundraising; and Richard Adams, founder and creative director. Efki('Fh[c_[h[iD[mF_[Y[WjJ^[=_bceh[Æ J^[d>[WZije9Whd[]_[>Wbb 8oHeX[hjC$M[_h hat would you do if you aries. “For Opus 21, boundaries exist for By blending the traditional, classi- ensembled a unique mix of one reason only: to be crossed,” declared cal piano and cello with the typical jazz musical instruments, played Chamber Music magazine under the and pop saxophone and clarinet, and Photo: Robert M. Weir M. Robert Photo: Wby outstanding talent, with the intention headline “The Eclectic Company,” in then tossing in two percussionists who of offering premiere performances? April 2006. play literally anything that resonates First, you would come up with a By crossing musical boundaries, — from glockenspiel, xylophone and theme that describes the ensemble’s Opus 21 is, in effect, creating a new vibraphone to cardboard boxes, tin cans, belief that anything musical is possible. genre that is in step with musical tastes brake drums and a basketball — you get, Second, you would commission emerg- of modern American society’s appetite well, you get a vacuum for opportunity, ing, as well as established, world-class, for the previously untried and unheard. because no composer had ever before modern composers to write original “In the past, audiences may have created music for such an ensemble. As scores that characterize that blend of favored only classical music or jazz Adams points out, “When we started, instruments and challenge the talent. or pop, but now people have interest there were no existing works for our Third, you would debut the ensemble to in more than one kind of music,” says specific instrumentation.” some of the most sophisticated audiences Adams. “People might go to a symphony Ergo, the need for original composi- in the world: New York City. but listen to a pop station on the radio tions. “There are many centuries of great “The defining element of Opus 21 while driving to or from the concert classical repertoire,” says Adams, “but by is to create new opportunities and to do hall, and they might go to a jazz club not limiting ourselves to what is already different things musically,” says composer afterward, and have a collection of world in existence, we are able to draw from Richard Adams, the ensemble’s founder music CDs at home. Yet, most concerts that which has not yet been composed. and artistic director. “Opus 21 is com- these days still present only one genre. Therefore, commissioning work and cre- mitted to multigenre eclecticism and the Our purpose, from the beginning, was ating new repertoire are integral to what creation and premiering of new works.” to do something different than all other Opus 21 does. And our instrumentation Indeed, eclecticism is a trademark of contemporary music ensembles and to was selected to allow us to have a diverse Opus 21, as evidenced by the ensemble’s give audiences a taste of multiple genres repertoire,” says Adams. theme statement: Music Without Bound- within a single concert,” Adams adds. Yet, there is a common thread 34 &/$03&t"13*- MCK7iieY_Wj[Fhe\[iieh WdZEfki(':_h[Yjeh H_Y^WhZ7ZWci[cf^Wi_p[i Yeccedj^h[WZi"ijWha YedjhWijiWdZkdkikWb cki_YWb[\\[Yji_d i^emYWi_d]Ç7c[h_YWÊi Ckbj_YkbjkhWbCki_Y$È Photo: Courtesy Opus 21 Courtesy Opus Photo: Opus 21’s Yu-Lien The plays piano and recorder. She is a soloist and recitalist who has appeared throughout Germany. She is a prize winner at the 12th International Piano Competition Viotti-Valsesia in Italy. he repertoire of Opus 21 con- composer and virtuoso pianist; in fact, certs, to date, portrays themes the Los Angeles Times credits him with of “America’s Multicultural being “the greatest pianist-composer of TMusic,” “Postminimalism in the 21st our time.” Century,” “New Works Inspired by Adams says, “Rzewski is definitely Motown,” and “Frederic Rzewski — an eclectic composer, a classical impro- Composer Portrait.” viser who draws on themes from modern “America’s Multicultural Music” radio, television and theater and works features six commissioned works, each them into his compositions in interest- by a different American composer, ing ways.” to illustrate the musical influence of For Opus 21, Rzewski has composed Cuba, China, Turkey, Spain, Central a piece called “Natural Things,” a 23- to America, Africa, Bali, Japan and Kenya 24-minute composition for clarinet, on American music. “Postminimalism soprano saxophone, violin, cello, two in the 21st Century” presents the work percussion and piano. Rzewski’s early of five composers who were influenced working title for the composition was Photo: Courtesy Opus 21 Courtesy Opus Photo: by the minimalist and post-minimalist “49 Damned Things,” and his note to Clarinetist Bradley Wong performs as part of composers of recent decades. “New Opus 21, which appears at the head Opus 21 and is a Yamaha performing artist who has given solo recitals throughout the United Works Inspired by Motown” is a col- of the score, reads: “The 49 ‘things,’ States, Canada, Italy, Spain, and the Dominican lection of newly commissioned classical although sometimes linked in a coherent Republic. He is currently principal clarinetist of the Southwest Michigan Symphony. and jazz pieces influenced by Detroit’s sequence, as often as not have little in Motown sound of the 1960s. common except duration (25 to 30 sec- to each Opus 21 performance. “Our “Frederic Rzewski — Composer onds each, totaling 23 to 24 minutes).” In concerts aren’t about variety for variety’s Portrait” is Opus 21’s newest program, other words, Rzewski composed eclecti- sake,” Adams continues. “An important and it’s the first to feature the work of cism within eclecticism — specifically aspect of the programs is the juxtaposi- only one composer, Frederic Rzewski for Opus 21. tion of genres that, at times, highlight (pronounced zheff-skee). That, by its A series of these “things,” which a common thread and, at other times, nature, makes it stand apart from all are like minicompositions, draws at- emphasize stark contrasts, which brings other Opus 21 performances and, tention to what has become known as new understanding to the works and enigmatically, by standing apart from the Haymarket Massacre, an histori- enhances the listening experience.” the rest, synchronizes it perfectly with cal event that occurred in Chicago on As an example, one Opus 21 concert Opus 21’s theme of Music Without May 1, 1886, and later became the includes authentic African drumming Boundaries. inspiration for May Day labor festivals, followed by a contemporary classical Rzewski is a Massachusetts native, marked by dancing, in Europe, around work that incorporates African rhythms. educated at Harvard and Princeton, a Maypole. “Chicago laborers were on “This allows audiences to hear something a Fulbright scholar, and currently a strike, seeking an eight-hour work day,” from within a given musical tradition and European resident who was among the explains Richard Adams. “There was then hear how a contemporary composer major figures of the American musical a rally, and confrontations occurred interprets or utilizes elements of that avant-garde to emerge in the 1960s. At between the demonstrators and police, tradition,” explains Adams. age 70, he is also a rare blend of both a and some people were killed. The "13*-t&/$03& 35 Opus 21 people responsible for the killings were dams points out that modern, never apprehended, but eight labor- technology-oriented audiences ers who organized the demonstration with highly attuned visual sens- were prosecuted and convicted. Seven Aes compel composers to find ways to pull of them were sentenced to death, and people into the performance. Some com- four of them, known as the ‘Haymarket posers use images projected on a screen, Martyrs,’ were hung. It was one of the but for “Natural Things” Rzewski asks greatest miscarriages of justice in U.S. the Opus 21 musicians to thump their history.” chests, stomp their feet, and play their NPEFSOTVTUBJOBCMFÙOFEJOJOH MCKÊiH_Y^WhZ7ZWci9h[Wj[ij^[Kd_gk[ TQSPVUSFTUBVSBOU Richard Adams, Opus 21 founder and at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Univer- TPVUILBMBNB[PPNBMM creative director, knew from an early sity of Michigan and has been associate age that he wanted to compose music. professor of music at Western Michigan “I always enjoyed making things, so the University since 1997 and coordinator of creative instinct has been there since the composition program since 2001. childhood. When I got serious about As a composer, he writes music XFEOFTEBZTBUVSEBZ music as a teenager, it was obvious for soloists, ensembles and orchestras <><> to me that creating music, making throughout the nation, including a num- TVOEBZ something out of nothing, was the ber of groups in New York City, the Tulsa <><> direction I wanted to go,” he says. Philharmonic, the Albany Symphony, the Born in Orlando, Fla., on January 1, Memphis Symphony, and the Kalama- 1963, Richard earned an undergraduate zoo Symphony’s 2004 Gilmore Festival degree from Louisiana State University, performance. which he attended on a violin perfor- “Because I play violin, I’ve always )*%&' mance scholarship; a master’s from the gravitated toward writing for orchestras,” Yale School of Music; and a doctorate Richard says. “I find comfort there.” But "U:PVS%FTL from the University of Michigan. All de- there’s a drawback, he continues, because "U:PVS%FTL grees are in composition. 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Uncharacteristically for musicians, Construction they also speak dramatic text, which Maintenance Rzewski draws from the martyrs’ final words on the gallows, which profess “the transition from the wage-labor system to are not performed often. “They do a premiere and there’s a bit of excitement with that, but then not many orchestras want to do a second or third perfor- mance of the same work. Some of my or- chestral commissions have been played a lot, but that’s not always the case.” Richard has also written for local groups, including the Western Brass Quintet, the Western Wind Quintet, and the Western Michigan University Symphonic Band, which he says is fun “because they’re people I know, and I know what they’re capable of musically.” The initial inspiration for Opus 21 came while he lived in New York City from 1991–1993 where he became involved with the contemporary music scene and many of the musicians and e composers who work in New York. rna- Those connections instilled a desire to help other composers present new '*/"/$*"- 4&37*$&4 music to the world. When he arrived °BOJOEFQFOEFOUGJSN° in Kalamazoo in 1997, he found many musicians with an eclectic interest in music. 5IPNBT+ (BVOUMFUU $'1 $*." 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Events like The Gilmore Keyboard .FNCFS/"4%BOE4*1$ Festival put this community on the artistic map.” "13*-t&/$03& 37 Opus 21 the co-operative or free-labor system.” Gilmore Festival director Dan Gustin, and in October 2006 to hear the Opus 21 There is no doubt that Opus 21, Frederic Rzewski first discussed the idea musicians play some of their earlier reper- itself, is at least part of the inspiration for for “Natural Things” in Boston in March toire, gain a sense of their musicianship, Rzewski’s composition. Richard Adams, 2006. Rzewski then came to Kalamazoo and discuss the project with them. But while talking and playing previ- ous work might serve as a foundation of understanding, accomplishing the theatrics of “Natural Things” requires that the Opus 21 musicians be unusual musical personalities. “Risk takers,” Adams calls them. “To be part of this group, you have to be willing to tackle challenges, to take on something new. And not every musician wants to do that.” From discussions with the composer, for example, came Rzewski’s idea to include a few bars to be performed on a musical saw, an uncommon instrument that no one in the ensemble had ever played, but the two percussionists said they were willing to try. Photo: Robert M. Weir M. Robert Photo: Photo: Courtesy Opus 21 Courtesy Opus Photo: Alexa Muhly, cello, is an Opus 21 regular and an active orchestral and chamber musician in the Chicago With commissioned work also comes area. She has performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Hungary and Lithuania. a frightening responsibility. “We know what the composer has written in the past, but we have only a general idea of what the composer will write for us. And yet, we are still committed to perform whatever we get,” Adams explains. Opus EXPERIENCE WEBSTER’S NEW 21 has commissioned 19 pieces in its first five years; some have been easy and Prime steak menu some have been major challenges. Yet, the group has performed every piece it has commissioned while acknowledging that GRILLED PRIME SIRLOIN. some were “massive undertakings that FILET MIGNON. required tremendous rehearsal time.” As an example, Adams states that PRIME NEW YORK STRIP. one composer misassumed Opus 21 per- GRILLED BONE-IN PRIME RIBEYE. formed under the direction of a conductor and included an abundance of complicat- GRILLED PRIME PORTERHOUSE. ed rhythmic, metric, and tempo changes GRILLED PRIME VEAL CHOP. in the score. “If we had someone in front of the ensemble beating time, the piece GRILLED PRIME LAMB PORTERHOUSE CHOPS. would have been easier,” states Adams, “but we don’t, and we didn’t want to insert a conductor into the group. The musi- cians did a great job with the composi- tion, but it’s a frightening thing to receive a piece of music that we are committed to perform but puts us in a situation where 100 West Michigan Avenue we might crash and burn.” 269/ 343 4444 While “Natural Things” is definitely webstersrestaurant.com an unusual and challenging piece of mu- 38 &/$03&t"13*- sic, it is also a piece with which Opus 21 will soar to new heights. The ensemble will premiere the work at the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival with a performance at Western Michigan University’s Dalton Center Recital Hall, on Monday, April 28. Then, they fly to New York City to perform the composi- tion again at Carnegie Hall three days later. “I love having the Opus 21 name appear in the same sentence with The Gilmore and Carnegie Hall,” says Rich- ard Adams, adding praise for both ven- ues as well as the musicians he directs. “The musicians are the best. They’ve played in Kalamazoo. They know The Lacquer Console Table Gilmore,” he says, “but the significance of playing at Carnegie Hall is that Carn- egie Hall is presenting Opus 21. We’re not Harbour Bay Furniture Co. renting space and presenting ourselves. Stuart, FL and Holland, MI We are part of their subscription series, ‘Making Music,’ which features the Downtown Holland · 212 S. River Ave., Holland · (616) 395-5554 Open Mon.–Sat. 10:00–5:30 www.harbourbayfurniture.com works of world-renowned composers.” In addition to the concert featuring Frederic Rzewski and the premiere of “Natural Things,” other performances by other musicians in the Carnegie series will highlight French contemporary classical composer and conductor Pierre Boulez and British composer, pianist and WELCOME conductor Thomas Adés. “The focus of the series is on the composers as well as the to your ensemble or musicians performing their works,” Adams adds. “For Opus 21 to be a part of that series, to be presented by Carnegie Hall, and to be able to perform Rzewski’s music is an exciting honor.” HOME his upcoming performance at town bank. Carnegie Hall, on May 1, will not be the first time that Opus T21 has appeared in New York City. In fact, the ensemble debuted in the Big Apple on March 1, 2003. “I tend to be a perfectionist,” Adams states. “I wanted this to be a first-rate ensemble from the beginning, not to start slowly and climb the ladder. So I decided we were going to start at the top and go all out in terms of musician quality, marketing, publicity and performances. That’s why we did our first concert in New York.” "13*-t&/$03& 39 Opus 21 That boldness paid off. The first concert was at Merkin Concert Hall, near Lincoln Center, a place noted for cham- Bringing someone into your home to care for a loved ber music that seats 350 people. “We one is a major decision. But we can make it easy. nearly sold out that first year,” Adams Our Home Care Specialists must undergo criminal says, “and since then have performed five background checks and drug screening, plus meet our competency requirements. And, we are accredited by concerts in New York and sold out three the Community Health Accreditation Program, so you times.” In addition, Opus 21 is develop- know you can trust and rely on the person taking care ing a growing number of followers in of you or your loved one. We offer 24-hour availability Kalamazoo and Ann Arbor, where they to help with transportation, meal preparation, bathing, have performed on several occasions. Af- dressing, housekeeping ... all aspects of compassionate care from Kalamazoo’s oldest and most experienced ter a performance at the U.S. Library of home health provider. Congress in Washington, D.C., in 2007, We offer Lifeline® Emergency Response System – trusted by more doctors, hospitals The Washington Post described the and professional caregivers to help provide protection and peace of mind. group as “exuberant and high-energy.” Adams credits Opus 21’s success to the combination of the ensemble’s multigenre concept as well as the high level of musicianship among its per- forming members: violinist Gabriel For more information call Bolkosky, percussionists Judy Moonert 1-800-772-3344 or visit us at and Gregrey Secor, cellist Alexa Muhly, www.homecare.borgess.com saxophonist Henning Schröder, pianist and recorder player Yu-Lien The, and clarinetist Bradley Wong, and behind- the-scenes persons Betsy Wong and Michelle Miller. The initial investment for Opus 21 originated with Richard Adams, who is also an associate professor of music and coordinator of the composition program at WMU, and his wife, Michelle Miller, who teaches political science at Grand Percussionist Judy Moonert performs with Opus 21 and is principal percussionist with the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra. Photo: Robert M. Weir M. Robert Photo: I suppose you’re going to call a let on that! 40 &/$03&t"13*- Experience life HE FOUNTAINS offers so much more than Ta service-enriched retirement living to the fullest environment. From our delicious meals and Valley State University and is authoring a Enrich your retirement at wide variety of social activities to our friendly book on The Kalamazoo Promise. staff, our residents find they have the time to Subsequent support has come from enjoy what’s most important to them while the Michigan Council for Arts and living amidst beautiful surroundings. 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Adams also conveys high praise and appreciation for local patrons of the arts who have contributed financially to some of Opus 21’s other commissioned works. “Some people think that being a patron More Than Memories of the arts is an outdated concept, but it’s not,” he says. “Many people in the Kalam- Leave a Legacy azoo community are active with commis- sioning music for Opus 21 and making a You’ve worked hard to provide financial security for your loved contribution to a particular composer. It’s ones and you want to continue providing it even after you’re gone. a way for individuals to be involved, and they are credited on the score.” Planning today will help ensure that your wishes After soaring at The Gilmore and are fulfilled tomorrow. Carnegie, Richard Adams expects Opus 21 to advance to even higher heights. It’s Personal. 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Yet, music, especially that of pianos, is the common thread in their lives. “Everything we do has to do with music,” states Jane, who hails from Muskegon where she attended Mus- OKINGLY, Jane Sytek and Rick Davies $35,000 when restored; a Steinway up- kegon Catholic Central High School and call their business Fourth Floor right made in 1869 that was once owned studied music at Muskegon Community Piano Restoration. What? Pianos on by Bob Trendler, the bandleader on the College prior to becoming a professional the fourth floor? Bozo the Clown show; a pump organ flautist, performing primarily classical Yes, pianos, some as large as a 1,100- made circa 1860; and a player piano, music at weddings. pound, 9-foot concert grand and others baby grands, square grands and uprights “I grew up with a paint brush in my old enough to have been played by Mary by various manufacturers that date to hand,” she adds. “Dad worked in sales Todd Lincoln reside on the fourth floor the early 1900s. They speak of another within a large engine factory, but he and of Kalamazoo’s Park Trades Center. dozen pianos at their home in Lawrence, my mother also built and maintained “This is an old factory, and we’re merci- and of the most vintage instruments an apartment complex. It was a family fully close to the freight elevator,” Rick they’ve restored: a square grand made business, and my brothers, sister and I explains, laughing. in 1845 and a melodeon (a reed instru- all helped with the work.” Actually, the name for Jane’s and ment) from the Civil War era. Jane’s mother was a talented singer, Rick’s business is Action Piano Service. With equal enthusiasm, as though and her father played several stringed And like jubilant parents, the couple trying to proffer their entire story in one instruments, including violin and man- proudly present the dozen works in breath, Jane and Rick pour forth a de- dolin. Recognizing the popularity of big progress in their Kalamazoo studio, in- scription of their other professional and bands of the swing era, he took up the cluding: the W.W. Kimball concert grand personal endeavors. But their lives are so upright bass, playing with Tiny Piper from the 1920s, with sound quality to multifaceted that their story cascades in and the Aristocrats, a nine-piece band grace the finest orchestral stages, worth multiple directions that include musical that became popular throughout Michi- 42 &/$03&t"13*- gan and was invited to play a 10-week house gig at the famous Aragon Ballroom in Chicago. The band rehearsed in the family basement, and Jane recalls feeling the horns resonate through the kitchen floor with such strength that, as a toddler, they would knock her from her feet. “I grew up thinking that every kid had a big band in their basement,” she says. “When I was about 7, I visited a friend and saw her basement filled with a wash- ing machine, dryer and furnace, and I asked, ‘Where does your band play?’” Rick was born in Boston, but his boy- hood homes included Flint, Chicago and Hokah, Minn. (near La Crosse, Wisc.), thanks to his father’s occupation as a journalist for a variety of major newspa- pers as well as The Journal of the Ameri- can Medical Association. Rick credits his father, who sang and played clarinet for a Weir M. Robert Photo: Dixieland band in college, for introduc- Jane Sytek sits at the keyboard of a Kimball Piano Company player piano, circa 1898. Rick was primarily responsible for bringing back to life the action, soundboard and exterior finish, while Jane ing him to music. His mother, who was a restored the components, which are yet to be inserted in the top cavity. The player mechanism may project manager for a pioneer cable televi- have originally been retrofitted into the piano after 1900, according to Sytek. sion company and who is now retired and living in Kalamazoo, introduced him to ommendation of a friend, to hear — and peractive kids would come in, she would good business practices. meet — him. They quickly discovered get them to focus and be calm. Parents At age 14, Rick began playing drums they shared the same birthday, Novem- would come back and be floored by the in nightclubs with a jazz ensemble of ber 21 — Jane was born in 1955 and Rick change in their child. She was able to get men in their 40s, an experience he in 1958 — and had many of the same kids off Ritalin.” describes as “quite an education.” Upon albums in their record collections. “And “We always charged very little,” graduation from La Crescent High we both loved pianos,” Jane says. Jane adds. “Martial arts were something School, he apprenticed with the group’s They soon began playing music I wanted to do for the kids, especially leader, who was also a piano tuner and together, becoming a two-piece band and those who were disadvantaged. We didn’t restorer. His tasks included hand sand- expanding their coffeehouse circuit to make a huge living at it, but we helped a ing and refinishing. include venues throughout the United lot of students. I loved it.” At 18, Rick followed his parents to States. With each having a daughter from When Jane and Rick moved to Muskegon where his father had taken a previous relationship, they became a Lawrence in 1989, the couple started a a job with the Muskegon Chronicle. foursome when they married in 1981. dojo in Paw Paw and satellite facilities in “That was the disco era, and I didn’t like The foundation of their relation- other west Michigan communities. That disco music, so I started playing guitar, ship also included martial arts. “When situation, however, prohibited them from singing and writing songs,” he says. His I met Rick, I was studying martial arts touring to perform music, so they dis- genre was folk music, and he toured at Muskegon Community College. Rick continued instruction in 1993; yet they the college coffeehouse circuit, includ- was a brown belt, and I started studying continue to practice on their own, focus- ing Western Michigan University. He with him,” says Jane, who since became ing on a combination of hands-on jujitsu recorded his first album, “Closing Time,” a black belt. and hard-style classical karate-do. in 1980 at age 22. Living in Traverse City in the early Jane and Rick met in Visconti’s 1980s, they operated martial arts schools ick began his piano-tuning busi- Tavern, a popular folk music hangout there as well as in Manistee, Ludington ness in Traverse City in 1986. in Muskegon, in that same year. He was and Lake Ann. “Jane is gifted,” says Rick. “Being a four-person family with playing there, and she went, on the rec- “Martial arts are meditative. When hy- Rchildren in school, it wasn’t practical to "13*-t&/$03& 43 Sytek-Davies tour full time anyway,” says Rick. “We can be removed rather easily, a function looked for a way to make a living and, that he often performs in clients’ homes. for me, it was either drive a cab or fix For most restorations, Rick and Jane pianos.” ship the actions to her brother, Joe, in Rick describes piano restoration as Muskegon, who is particularly skilled in a three-stage process with hundreds of that endeavor. steps. The second stage is the “belly work,” The first stage is to remove the which includes everything else on the “action,” which is the component from interior of the instrument: the strings the keys to the hammers. “Thankfully, and the plate to which they are attached, they made actions to be serviced,” he the soundboard and bridge, and the says, showing that the entire assembly inside rim. The Home of Fine Flowers Administrative Assistant’s Week April 21–25 Give a bouquet in a cup Weir M. Robert Photos: and receive a drink coupon! Rick Davies removes broken hammer flanges from the action of an upright piano in his Action Piano Service shop on floor four of the Park Trades Center. 343-2671 A look inside the restored player piano. The restored Kimball Piano Company player piano. 44 &/$03&t"13*- process and the delivery of parts to be be to ofparts delivery the and process in has Rick ofrestorations number the on depending ormore, forment ayear instru- the without be likely will client a actuality, but in attention, of devoted four months in piano a single restore instrument. ofthe appreciation and ance appear- overall the to vital ter, aprocess lus- piano’s out the bring to exterior the parts. wood new using frequently bridge, the recaps Rick sound.” stage, the To this complete with problems create itwill right, isn’t bridge the So, if strings. the from energy receives soundboard the that bridge the it’s through and soundboard, the to attached is which bridge, the across extend “The strings states. action,” Rick diaphragmatic “There’s avibrational shipped. is steel onwhich semitrailer aflatbed like much crowned is plate, ofthe weight the without which, board, sound- and bridge the replacing) ally (or occasion- refinishing and sanding coloration. fresh-from-the-factory nal, origi- its restore to painted and cleaned sandblasted, is plate the removed, Once over,” all Rick. adds it’s usually a plate, you crack If part. delicate most “It’s the hoist. a utilizes and points lift around straps wraps people, other two ofatleast help the with Rick, piano, grand a standard on 350 upto pounds weigh can and iron ofcast made is which plate, the remove to Then, placement,” hestates. original ofits inch of an 1/64 within to in back go to “It has position. its marks carefully properto assure replacement. amicrometer onewith ofeach diameter the hemeasures strings, individual ing remov- Before explains. board,” Rick sound- the not damage to order in evenly tension We the reduce onthem. tension of tons 20 upto have can “The strings cautiously. loosened be —must key per Rick claims he could probably probably hecould claims Rick refinishing involves stage The third hand includes work also The belly Jane. says wracking,” nerve is “This Rick plate, the removing Before three ofthem, 264 —all The strings Central Eastwood OshtemoPowell Central Washington Square just imagine Explore theworld "13*-t&/$03& @ your library. www.kpl.gov ® 45 Sytek-Davies ordered or handcrafted. “We’re small scale, so each instrument has its own study, its own universe,” he says. “We revolve our efforts around what we can do to best represent the original intent of the piano.” n addition to restoration, Rick tunes and services several hundred pianos per year and offers appraisals of Idamaged pianos. He’s particularly adept at adjusting the action on some new pianos as well as those that have seen a lot of usage, such as those in music conservatories. “Some pianos, especially the half-price models from Asia, are nice Weir M. Robert Photo: instruments, but often the action needs The junction box Jane Sytek is holding is part of the expression pneumatic component of a player to be reset so the keys and hammers piano. All player pianos have a pheumatic system allowing for loud or soft play, but an expression pneumatic permits volume control for each hand independently. respond properly to the pianist’s touch,” he says. Jane has become an expert on piano, also include a valve chest, tracker existing patent. But I think the makers, restoring player pianos, which, in ad- bar, expression pneumatics, pumping all of them, were geniuses. I’ve been do- dition to the components of a regular bellows and lots of cloth, leather and ing this for 22 years, and I still run into gaskets to make the “player” component things I haven’t seen before,” she says. airtight. “The wood can become porous Among the “things” she and Rick with age, so we do a lot of wood repairs,” have found inside a piano are hand- Jane says, “but once restored, they play drawn sketches, including a pencil beautifully.” diagram of a sleigh found in the Civil Jane restored her first player piano War melodeon. “The diagram looked in 1986, while also teaching martial as though the craftsmen were showing arts. “Rick brought this piano in and someone how to build a sleigh, and it thought he was going to do it, but I would not have been seen for 150 years did it instead. I almost cried my way until we rediscovered it,” she says. through it, it was so complex, like a Jane describes restoration of a player big puzzle with hundreds of parts,” she piano as “labor intensive.” She starts by says. But that feeling lasted only for taking apart everything that comes apart that one piano. “With the second one, and restoring all that can be restored. I numbered the parts and made careful She employs a master woodcarver to diagrams, and it became very interest- make new parts that are beyond repair. ing. I started to fall in love with it.” Jane She also replaces old cloth and leather, has since restored close to 100 player of various thicknesses and dimensions, pianos, nearly five per year. with the best available today. Unlike the basic design of a regular “There’s no happier sound than piano’s action and belly, which has seen a player piano,” she exclaims. “I defy little change in design for more than a anyone to listen to a player piano and not century, Jane says that each player mech- smile.” This is because of the inherent anism is different in some way. “In the entertainment value of a player piano player piano’s heyday, from 1905 to 1929, prior to phonographs and radio, she says. there were many innovations in player- “For 30 years, from the early 1900s to piano technology, probably not just for the stock market crash, over 2.5 million improvement reasons but so someone player pianos were manufactured in this could build a piano without violating an country, many of them in Muskegon, 46 &/$03&t"13*- A recruiting firm for retired professionals Grand Haven, Holland and South Haven. Building a new Chicago had 29 piano factories at one tomorrow for time, and these were huge factories that tomorrow for took up whole city blocks. For three or the retired four years, player pianos outsold regular pianos.” and reinspired! Abhorring the fact that many peo- 1PSUBHF3PBEt1PSUBHF .* An OnStaff USA Company ple, in the 1980s and ’90s, either junked Kenneth L. Otte Vice President, OnCore USA player pianos or relegated them to Call (269) 492-1169 or visit us at: www.oncoreusa.net basements and garages, Jane points out that people are now starting to realize these novel instruments are irreplaceable antiques. “They’re a piece of American ENHANCING history and deserve to be restored,” she YOUR says. CORPORATE Jane witnesses this point of view IMAGE poignantly when she and Rick deliver a restored player piano. “Invariably, it’s somebody’s family heirloom with stories attached to it. So, it’s a very positive thing to restore something that someone remembers. Often times, they 349-6805 CLIENT: WMU College of Aviation haven’t heard the piano play in decades, USE: Recruitment and Web but they still have the old rolls. And when they put a roll in and hear the sound and see the keys moving, they remember their mother or grandmother playing it and they’re in tears. Music brings emotion out of people anyway, but to have this visual of their mother or father or somebody special playing a Your newsletters should player piano …” LOOK BETTER than theirs. And, there, Jane hesitates with a combination of smile and tears of her own. “We love what we do,” she contin- ues. “It’s our passion. Our goal is to save as many pianos as we can, to keep them from going to landfills, and we’re going to keep working at that until the day we die.” Being inherently entrepreneurs and having chosen to eschew the “golden handcuffs” of corporate employment, Visit Jane and Rick speak of their 70-hour PortagePrinting.com work week with gusto. “Those moments to SEE HOW. when we deliver a piano make us feel Call good about what we do,” says Rick. “All 323-9333 of our clients are our bosses, but we set & ask how. our own schedules and we don’t have to ‘call in sick’ if we want to take time for 8FTU$FOUSF"WFOVFt1PSUBHF .* ourselves.” “And we always take time to listen "13*-t&/$03& 47 Sytek-Davies to the stories our clients tell us about aptly displayed on their their pianos,” Jane adds. “I absolutely Web site, www.fusion- love those stories. That’s one of the ben- folk.com. efits of this business.” “Fusion” is a term generally used in the nother benefit is the freedom to music business to have been legal advocates and describe an innovative save a child from his abusive blend of existing genres. mother,A a non-relative, in a seven-year In the case of Sytek custody battle in the 1990s. “We were & Davies, they fuse told by one of our attorneys that, to 1960s folk music with a help him, we would have to change definite Celtic influence Michigan’s child protection laws,” says that has been compared Rick. “We were blown away by that, but to Jethro Tull or Black- we did manage to change the law and more’s Night, plus the helped usher in what is now called the charm of Peter, Paul and ‘Binsfeld Legislation,’ named for Connie Mary and gentle vocal- Binsfeld, who was Lieutenant Governor ization of Cat Stevens. at that time.” Some of their songs, “We argued, if a parent is suspected especially one that of acting in a severely abusive manner, Jane wrote as a tribute that should be sufficient cause to begin to Mother Teresa, are the process of termination of parental receiving considerable rights,” says Rick. “Ultimately, the law recognition among radio did shift in that direction, and we got the audiences in Europe. little boy removed and placed in foster One album reviewer care with family members who ultimate- wrote: “Sytek & Davies ly adopted him.” Jeff Mitchell Photo: take a magic sword made Jane Sytek and Rick Davies pose for a publicity photo that has “Because we were self-employed, appeared on posters and literature to promote their “From the of gold and cut a hole in we were the only ones in our family who Shadow of Citadel” acoustic tour. thin air, creating a time could attend all the hearings,” says Jane. portal that transports Being self-employed, Jane and Rick drift and Wood” in 1995 and “From the you back into a magic kingdom where also give themselves the privilege of Shadow of the Citadel” in 2005, the title fairies, nymphs, sprites and leprechauns balancing their endeavors between pia- of which Jane conceived as a symbolic frolic about.” The reviewer credits Jane nos, songwriting and performing. Under reference to stepping away from what with having “a lovely voice … like a the name Sytek & Davies, they have Rick calls, “the war years of legal battle fair maiden transported from medieval cut a cassette tape album, “Circles and and getting back to our lives.” times” and Rick’s voice as being “soft yet Rhymes,” in 1984 and two CDs, “Spin- Their genre is “fusion folk,” as is convincing.” Blending in their instru- ments — Rick’s electrical and acoustic guitars and drums and Jane’s “sprite- style flute,” bamboo flute, pennywhistle and hammer dulcimer — produces “tapestries of rich layered sounds.” Even though Rick says there is not enough time in 2008 to be working on another CD, Sytek & Davies are. “We’re HeilmanNUTSNU & CONFECTIONS’s writing new material for it, but the music is not simple. So, we have come up with new ways to push the envelope, and kind of nutty, but in a good way! that’s a challenge,” he says, adding that 1804 SouSouthth Westnedge Ave 269-383-1188 www.nuts2you.com the album will debut Jane’s newly devel- oped keyboard skills. 48 &/$03&t"13*- When they complete the CD, Sytek & Davies will go back on tour within a reasonable distance from home and their piano restoration business, expanding their gig venues to include art galler- ies and weekend community festivals. “Fusion folk commonly falls under the Celebrating 150 broader category of progressive rock and folk,” Rick states. “That’s good because Homeowner Families those genres appeal to people from col- lege to retirement age.” Thank you for Plus, having hosted one success- building with us, ful concert, which featured other artists Kalamazoo! during a Friday night Art Hop, in their studio on the fourth floor of the Park Trades Center, they intend to entertain more in that venue. 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Noting their resiliency, Rick com- pares himself and Jane to navigation buoys that might get tossed about in a storm but always stay upright and afloat, even in Michigan’s current economic state. “In martial arts, there’s a constant forward motion,” Rick says. “When teaching someone to defend themselves, you teach them to be calm in the face of adversity. But once the decision is made to move forward, you don’t stand around and analyze it.” “That ties into everything we do,” adds Jane. “We love pianos, so we restore them. We love to write songs, so we compose. We love to sing, so we per- form. We love children, so we take care of them — our own and others. Every piano, every song, every performance, every child is different and unique. Life’s not boring.” "13*-t&/$03& 49 Photo: Rick Sass A sunrise from the sandy shore of Holbox, just north of the Yucatan Peninsula. >ebXenc_]^j X[WiYbei[jeWd Whale sharks are numerous during the summer months in the waters [dY^Wdj[Z_ibWdZ near Holbox. With close supervision by Mexican Photo: Rick Sass guides, hearty adventurers, young and old, can swim with these giant, docile creatures. Wioekm_bb[l[h][j" [if[Y_Wbbom^[dj^[ m^Wb[i^WhaiWff[Wh_d J^h_bbI[[a[hi _jimWhc"Yb[WhmWj[hi$ >[WZje>ebXen 8oF[ddo8h_iYe[ F SEEKING THE unique in the out- While options exist for accommo- caught lobster and fi sh prepared on the of-doors is what you crave in your dations, including camping within the beach over an open fi re and served with travels, then the island of Holbox protection of anti-mosquito nets in your guacamole and lemon on palm leaves, at the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula could own tent or hammock, Villas Delfi nes, with no utensils — the best you’ll ever be for you. The bird and whale-shark an eco-friendly resort, deserves con- eat anywhere. The bar features swings in watchers’ paradise provides an adventure sideration for its efforts. It features Na place of bar stools and some of the most off the beaten path that leaves memories Hi Xix composting toilets that, amaz- delicious island drinks served in the to ponder for years to come. ingly, don’t have an odor; each thatch- Caribbean. Featuring local fresh fruits Even getting to this remote island roofed structure has a ceiling fan for and other ingredients, each is made with unspoiled by mass tourism can be an air conditioning, mosquito netting over the slow, methodical, loving care of a adventure. While accessible by small air- the comfortable beds, and showers with proud restaurateur who recognizes that craft at limited times, part of the Holbox conch-shell heads that produce plenty quality “will bring them back.” At night, experience is the road trip by van, which of warm water collected in cisterns and as live music transforms the beach, the travels over paved but sometimes rough heated by the sun. While you might fi nd sand surrounding this popular gathering surfaces through remote villages and a few chameleons and other wildlife place becomes a dance fl oor. jungle to arrive at the ferry in Chiquila. inside, like a scorpion or two, overall it The village is worth a shopping trip Running several times a day, the 45- is comfortable, especially the hammock or two, and don’t be surprised if you no- minute trip to and from the island can be on the front porch — if you are covered tice a few topless sunbathers while head- a bit nerve wracking, especially when it with insect repellent and like it hot. ing there, although they are somewhat features a stormy, rough sea and an over Excellent food can be had on this discreet and, while observable, within capacity of passengers packed into the island of about 1,600 residents, including the confi nes of their resort’s sunbathing stifl ingly warm cabin area with many delicious, gourmet-prepared fare at the areas. It seems Europeans have dis- unopenable windows and exit doorways screened-in Villas Delfi nes dining hall. covered this island paradise in greater blocked by a mountain of luggage. But the best meal to be had comes from numbers than have Americans. But the locals are friendly — and the tiny, open-air island bar and res- In fact, in July and August, guides once safely on the island, carefree golf- taurant at the water’s edge between the on the boats that head out to the open cart transportation is the norm instead village and the Villas Delfi nes resort. waters in search of whale sharks are of cars, and a traveler knows that good Don’t be turned off by appearances. often from Europe. And it is these whale- times are straight down the white, sandy It’s rustic — but very clean. The owners, shark tours that seem to monopolize the beach. fi shermen themselves, feature fresh- minds of everyone during those months, 50 &/$03&t"13*- Hotel Villas Delfi nes is an environmentally friendly, rustic and unique alternative to more typical accommodations closer to the village. Photo: Penny Briscoe required by Mexican law, it’s easy to be overcome with wonder. The animal is massive, and if you are lucky and swim fast, you can stay at its front Photo: Penny Briscoe Penny Photo: end long enough to make eye contact and enjoy an impressive look at its teeth, gills, and fi ns when the goliaths before you lose ground and then become This beach bar have migrated to the warm preoccupied with avoiding its powerful, is a "don't miss" option for afternoon and evening dining waters an hour or so off shore. potentially dangerous tail. However, the and entertainment. Also fi shermen, the Herein lies the true adventure for law disallows touching or hassling the owners serve deliciously prepared fi sh and lobster that has been caught the same day. the hearty — a trip to the open ocean animal, which is indifferent to humans, water and out of sight of the island to and it is free to swim away or submerge seek out this largest of sharks. These faster and deeper than any human can swimmers must be outfi tted with either a prehistoric-looking, dark-grey fi sh accomplish, despite its rather clumsy life jacket or a full wet suit for buoyancy. reach up to 46 feet and can weigh 15 appearance. It is, truly, an amazing Mask, snorkel and fi ns are a must. tons when mature. Bedecked in light- experience to be repeated several times If you are not a single-minded whale colored spots, these animals, with a life for short intervals, returning to the boat shark enthusiast or have a multiple span of 100–150 years, enjoy the warm for rest and to allow another twosome its mission in mind when visiting Holbox, waters in this area because, being fi lter turn. or you visit out of whale-shark season, feeders and not carnivorous, their broad Maybe tourism is the answer to you might enjoy birding to view the vast mouths (up to four-feet wide with 3,000 protecting these beasts from extinction, populations of fl amingos, pelicans, and tiny, useless teeth) can scoop the plenti- as they have now become a commod- other exotic birds, or you can try your ful plankton that abounds during this ity worth saving. These expeditions are hand at fi shing, scuba diving, or kite season. highly regulated by the Mexican govern- surfi ng, or just enjoying the friendly When you are part of a small group ment, and the boats must be captained island village and the sun. However, be of tourists viewing these creatures from by Mexicans with at least one Mexican aware that Holbox is a frequent hurri- the boat, they are reminiscent of giant guide on board to ensure that the regula- cane target, as evidenced by the build- Hoover vacuum cleaners. But as a brave tions related to whale-shark protection ings still standing in great disarray. But and perhaps foolish swimmer plunging are strictly followed. No one can enter no matter when you visit, remember one into the water with only one partner as the water with scuba gear here — and all thing — your bug spray! 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April 19, 7:30 a.m.–11 a.m. igan University’s College of Aviation will prestige in timed, furnace glassblowing Dessert with Discussion — “From Field be receiving the “Spirit of Flight” award. competitions. April 4, 5–10 p.m., April 5, to Wheels: Biofuel Sustainability” will be April 19, 6 p.m. Reserve by April 11. noon–6 p.m. West Michigan Glass Society, the topic of a talk by Dr. Phil Robertson Birds, Bats & Bugs: The Natural Flyers 436 N. Park St., Suite 123. 552-9802. of MSU Department of Crop and Soil Sci- — You can see how birds fly, bats swoop Saniwax Gallery — Members of the West ences. April 22, 7:30 p.m. and bugs buzz on by. There will be lots of Michigan Glass Society will exhibit their activities and live “critters” to captivate glass art. April 4–30. 326 W. Kalamazoo every member of the family. April 26. Ave., Suite 209. 552-9802. Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy 324-1600 Miscellaneous Literary Events Wildflower Workday at Kesling Nature Art Hop — View the works of local artists Preserve in Berrien County — Enjoy a at venues/galleries in downtown Kalama- variety of trilliums as we continue our zoo. April 4, 5 p.m. 342-5059. progress toward eradicating garlic mustard Kalamazoo Public Library from the preserve. Bring sturdy footwear 553-7809: and work gloves and wear long sleeves Nature and pants to protect against poison ivy. To Meet Carroll Spinney — Spinney has register and for carpool information, call been the man inside Big Bird and Oscar the office. April 26, 9 a.m.–noon. the Grouch since the beginning of Sesame Street. He is the author of an inspirational Kalamazoo Nature Center memoir of his experiences. April 16, 4:30- 381-1574 Museums 5:30 p.m. book signing, Central Library. April 16, 7:00 p.m. presentation, Chenery Birds of Prey — Live birds will make an Auditorium, 714 S. Westnedge Ave. appearance during the program to teach us The Very Hungry Caterpillar — The Ka- about their amazing adaptations. Kalamazoo Valley Museum lamazoo Junior Dance Company presents April 9, 3 p.m. 373-7990: a “story-dance” based on this children’s Birds & Blossoms Festival — For the book. April 16, 6:30 p.m., Central Library. Artist to Icon: Early Photographs of duration of the Festival there will be lots Storytime with Mr. Steve and Friends Elvis, Dylan, and The Beatles — Includes of extra programs highlighting the return — For the whole family, complete with 48 rare black-and-white photographs. A of migratory birds to Michigan and the celebrity readers, musical guests, and zany glimpse into their lives before becoming growth of our spring wildflowers. April crafts. April 17, 6:30 p.m., Central Library. rock ‘n’ roll legends. Through May 26. 12–May 18. Registration required; call 553-7804. Birding with the Stars — Join local Raise the Roof — Twenty interactive professional birders for a morning hike components and immersive environments where you will catch glimpses of spring draw visitors into the extraordinary world migrants returning to Michigan. Russ of buildings as they have never experi- Schipper, Audubon Society, April 14; John enced it before. Through June 1. Poetry anyone? How about Brenneman, KNC, April 21; Sarah Reding, Film Movement Series — Award-winning sharing your verse with KNC, April 28. 8–9:30 a.m. independent and foreign films. “Mother Kalamazoo-area readers? Earth Day Celebration — This free of Mine” (Finland/Sweden, 2006), April 3, Please submit a short per- admission day is full of activities includ- 7:30 p.m. “Dreams of Dust” (Burkina-Faso, sonal profile to accompany it. ing a presentation by local author Robert 2006), April 24, 7:30 p.m. M. Weir on the history of Earth Day and Music at the Museum — Eclectic live mu- Encore Magazine sic performed in a fine acoustic listening c/o Poetry Editor representatives from local groups to help 350 S. Burdick St., Suite 316 you “Take Action.” April 19. room. Gardyloo Rogue Bassoons, Kalama- Kalamazoo, MI 49007 zoo’s own bassoon quartet will perform. 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