SSC ballet students perform with SSC Youth Orchestra Center Stage Summer 2019 From the President SSC Community Voices celebrates ommunities are th stronger when 10 anniversary in song: May 19 C organizations work together. Through a variety en years ago, Director of Creative community with limited access to of partnerships, SSC achieves Arts Therapies Eve Montague community ensemble singing. SSC ambitious visions, grows founded SSC Community Voices, the Community Voices started with 12 singers audiences, and makes an T impact. The importance of non-auditioned chorus for individuals in one chorus, and has grown over the last this collective strength has been at the front of with developmental delays, to provide decade to include over 80 singers in two my mind this spring, as SSC plants the seeds arts opportunities for those who had choruses! It is a powerful example of what for important new collaborations. graduated from their educational can happen when access and opportunity entitlement and/or were living in a are created. continued on page 7 In January, SSC joined forces with the South Shore YMCA Emilson Branch to offer a dynamic range of programs and events at Laura’s Center for the Arts. To date, we’ve offered the South Learning empathy, love and Shore’s first Parkinson’s Chorus, a large-scale community Ukulele Festival, and on May 19, a SSC Community Voices and SSC Community vulnerability through music Voices Too! concert in celebration of their By Eric Laprade, Summer Music Festival Music Director tenth anniversary. And it’s only the beginning of the endless positive outcomes that are ast summer, Summer Music Festival (SMF) students had the privilege of presenting possible when two strong organizations access the Massachusetts premiere of Into the Silent Land, a powerful musical composition their collective creativity. Lby composer Steve Danyew, that reflected upon the Sandy Hook massacre. Danyew attended grades three through five at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and was At our Hingham and Duxbury campuses, Summer Spotlight and Duxbury Music Festival commissioned by a group of schools, including South Shore Conservatory, to compose unite audiences and performers to celebrate the piece. continued on page 7 the magic of live music this summer. Our studios will be brimming with excited students and faculty members, working collectively, through private lessons, classes and camps, to create expression through the arts. It’s an exciting time to remember that SSC’s work of “making music, changing lives” happens not only on our campuses, but outside of our walls; in concert halls, classrooms, schools, and community centers across the South Shore. I hope you join us this summer, and be a part of the community! Kathy O. Czerny, President South Shore Conservatory Business Sponsor Profile: A.W. Perry Office of the President President SC is grateful for A.W. Perry’s shore. The Conservatory is so much more Kathy O. Czerny continued partnership. A.W. Perry than music – it’s helping to spread the Education and Programs has been a devoted patron and power of music and the arts to touch so Core Programs S neighbor for more than 20 years, helping many members of our communities in Chief Operating Officer / James Keenan Director of Education / Su D'Ambrosio SSC establish the Duxbury campus. In so many special ways. It has been eye- Operations Manager / Jessica Wilcox recent years, they have directed their opening for us to learn about the diversity Early Childhood Program Coordinator / Jana Kahn Student Engagement Coordinator / Sarah Troxler giving to our SSC’s outreach programs, of SSC’s programs, and we are thrilled to Preschool/PreK/K Director / Rachel White Creative Arts Therapy, ImagineARTS, SSC’s help spread the message,” says Richard. Hingham Campus arts and literacy program in the Brockton Hingham Campus Manager / Sharon Bohan Public School System, and our scholarship We are thrilled to have grown our Student Experience Coordinator / Meredith Gosselin program, which serves one third of our partnership with A.W. Perry over the Student Experience Assistant / Brooke McLaughlin music students. last 20 years. SSC would not be able to Duxbury Campus sustain our mission without their ongoing Duxbury Campus Manager / Nancy Meredith A relationship-driven real estate support. Community Engagement investment and services firm, A.W. Perry Senior Director of Community Engagement prides itself on its strong involvement JOIN US! SSC welcomes the opportunity Anne Smith Director of Creative Arts Therapies in the community through active to discuss tailored benefits to meet the Eve Montague participation as well as philanthropic unique needs and goals of our Business Community Engagement Manager and Board Liaison Eileen Puzo contributions. Partners. To discover what SSC can do to amplify your company’s commitment to Facilities Its president, Richard Beal, shares our making a difference in our community, Facilities Manager / Bill Green Duxbury Plant Manager / Rick Assmus belief that the arts are essential to human contact Caitlin Dockendorff, SSC’s Hingham Custodians / Bob Sorenson, David Scott, development. “A.W. Perry is honored to Sponsorship Manager at c.dockendorff@ John Vanderpool help support SSC’s mission on the south sscmusic.org or 781-421-6162, ext. 214. Institutional Advancement Development Senior Development Director Amy Schomp Development Operations Manager Liz Tolini Director, Capital Campaign & Major Gifts Summer Spotlight 2019 Laura H. Hay Annual Fund and Sponsorship Manager oin SSC for a fabulous summer Caitlin Dockendorff Special Events Manager / DMF Manager of performances in our Jane Donna Ryan JCarr amphitheater! With Evenings Under the Stars and Wacky Marketing, Communications and Performance Wednesdays family concerts, there Senior Director of External Relations is something for everyone. Whether Michael A. Busack Communications Director / Elaine Sorrentino you want to listen to ragtime, jive Creative Services Manager / Paul Hoffman to big band, or dance along to Director of Performance / Beth MacLeod Largent childhood favorites, SSC is your Finance home for summer entertainment! Chief Financial Officer /Bill Arvanites Controller / Kate Newth Bookkeeper / Victoria Hall Evenings Under the Stars Saturdays, 7 pm media sponsor: South Shore Home, Life & Style Duxbury Ellison Center for the Arts 64 St. George Street, Duxbury, MA 02331-1523 July 13 EUS Festival Orchestra presents Winter, Summer and Ragtime! 781-934-2731 July 20 Sugar Ray and the Bluetones Hanover July 27 Radio Days Classics: Music of the Big Band Era! 135 Webster Street, Hanover, MA 02339-1200 781-421-6162 sponsored by Jane Carr and Family Hingham One Conservatory Drive, Hingham, MA 02043-2647 781-749-7565 Wacky Wednesdays family concerts Wednesdays, 10 am sscmusic.org sponsored by The Harold and Avis Goldstein Trust July 10 Vanessa Trien and the Jumping Monkeys July 17 Karen K & the Jitterbugs July 24 SSC’s ImagineARTS Band July 31 Matt Heaton and the Outside Toys 2 sscmusic.org Duxbury Music Festival 2019 ’m excited to announce the 14th season of SSC’s Duxbury On April 28, we kicked off the season with the DMF Preview Music Festival (DMF). From July 14 - 26, DMF will present a Concert at the home of Lynne Devnew, with co-hosts Irange of music including chamber music, blues, jazz, and Olga and Dick Rothschild. Concertgoers were treated to more at a variety of Duxbury venues. a lyrical repertoire by composers including: Barber, Elgar, Mendelssohn, Myers, Sondheim, Waldman, and Wilson. Lynne Beethoven’s brilliant music will echo throughout the festival. opened her home again for the DMF Volunteer Meeting on Highlights for this upcoming season include the Festival April 29. For more information about getting involved and Overture Concert, with a pre-concert reception at SSC’s Ellison volunteering, please contact DMF Manager Donna Ryan at Center for the Arts, on Sunday, July 14; The Waves performing 781-421-6162 x 207 or [email protected]. on the Town Green on Friday, July 19; Family Fest on July 20 for young families to enjoy and explore music; the Winners For a full performance schedule and details, please visit Concert, which celebrates the future of great, young musicians, sscmusic.org/dmf. Follow us on Facebook! See you at the is paired with wine tasting on Wednesday, July 24; and All that Festival! Jazz with Farewell Reception this year on Friday, July 26. New this season, DMF faculty and students perform together in All Stephen Deitz That Jazz! Artistic Director, Duxbury Music Festival Please support the 14th season of Duxbury Music Festival! Visit https://sscmusic.org/dmf-donations to learn about our sponsorship program and benefits, and how you can become a DMF Sponsor! Photos by Susan Thanas by Photos SSC Trustee Barbara Clifford, Kathy and Bill Dixon, DMF students from all around the globe at the 2018 Andy and Kim Weimeyer, Drew and Cristi Strawbridge, and Jeanne Fawcett at the Farewell Reception after Welcome Dinner. and Marc and Regan Petermen enjoying a festive the 2018 Winners Concert. evening at the 2018 Rhythm & Blues on the Green. Sunday in the Park in Memory of Longtime Friend This procuring special silent auction items. And When considering a special, meaningful summer, they are two of Duxbury Music Festival's way to honor Barbara, Morgan and their TSSC honors (DMF) founding volunteers. son Greg thought of sponsoring Sunday in longtime friend the Park. “Barbara loved everything about Barbara Lamarche Barbara had many passions and interests the Music Festival,” Morgan recalled, “The with Duxbury including music, antiques, and landscape music, the people at SSC who organized Music Festival’s design. She was a committed volunteer. In and ran it, the world-class musicians who annual Sunday in particular, Barbara was an early advocate performed, the students and volunteers. the Park concert. of Sunday in the Park, which opens Sunday in the Park was a favorite of Duxbury’s town green to the community Barbara’s, and it’s fitting that this concert Barbara and her husband Morgan for a glorious summer afternoon of honors her.” have been true supporters of SSC for magnificent chamber music, free of many years, giving their time, talent, charge.