EXTENSIONS of REMARKS 22129 EXTENSIONS of REMARKS NATALIE HINDERAS, INTERNA Cided That the Piano Was to Be Her Focus
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August 3, 1987 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 22129 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS NATALIE HINDERAS, INTERNA cided that the piano was to be her focus. posers made April 12 at Ramapo College of TIONALLY ACCLAIMED PIANIST Miss Hinderas made her first recital appear New Jersey and a concert May 3 at Temple ance at 8 and began teaching other young Keneseth Israel in Elkins Park. sters by the time she was 10. In 1960, she married Lionel J. Monagas, HON. LOUIS STOKES She entered Oberlin Conservatory and ap then an executive at WHYY-TV <Channel OF OHIO peared as soloist with the Cleveland 12) when she was producing programs titled, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Women's Symphony at age 12. She graduat WHYY's Young Artist Series and Robin ed at 18 and went on to study in New York Hood Dell Previews. They have a daughter, Monday, August 3, 1987 with Olga Samaroff and at the Philadelphia Michele, who lives in New York. Mr. STOKES. Mr. Speaker, on July 22, Conservatory with Eduard Steuermann. In addition to her husband and daughter, 1987, America lost a great artist, humanitari Miss Hinderas was chosen to make two she is survived by her mother. tours of Europe in the early 1950s under the an, teacher, and international star. Natalie aegis of the State Department, and in 1954 Hinderas, a renowned black classical pianist she was signed to a contract for regular IN MEMORY OF A SAILOR passed away at her home in Philadelphia. radio recitals on the NBC television net SERVING PEACE Over the years, Ms. Hinderas' contributions work. to music have been internationally acclaimed. The Leventritt Foundation sponsored a Ms. Hinderas has provided inspiration to series of her appearances with major Ameri HON. JAMES J. FLORIO young artists the world over. She has promot can orchestras, and in the late 1950s she OF NEW JERSEY ed the careers of aspiring black artists and made a four-month world tour for the State IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Department. In 1961, she played to open the encouraged performance of the music of cultural center in Lagos, Nigeria, as a repre Monday, August 3, 1987 black composers. sentative of the American Society for Afri Mr. FLORIO. Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, Her mother Leota Palmer, a pianist, com can Culture. July 30, the Nation and the State of New poser, and teacher at the Cleveland Institute Her heritage was black, American Indian, Jersey were stunned by the tragic loss of one of Music, was her first music teacher. Ms. Hin Italian and Latin American, and she early of our citizens, a young man serving our coun deras began studying music at age 3. By age made her music an aspect of a larger con try abroad in the Persian Gulf. 5 she had appeared as a pianist and singer in cern for humanitarian understanding. She U.S. Navy Lt. G.g.) James F. Lazevnick of many variety shows. She made her first recital once declared. "I am an integrationist. Good heavens. I've always been proud of my Paulsboro, NJ, was a serviceman in the true appearance at age 8 and began teaching race." sense of the word. He loved his country and other youngsters by the time she was 10. Even as her career blossomed in the 1960s followed his country wherever it led him. Ms. Hinderas deserves to be recognized and 1970s, she undertook teaching pro On Thursday, his patriotism led him to the and honored. She gave generously of her time grams, including one at the Settlement most noble sacrifice, giving his life in the and musical talent to help generations of the Music School, that stressed interracial par course of his duty. students whose lives she touched. ticipation. Miss Hinderas also organized In the performance of his duty as a helicop I would like to enter into the CoNGRESSION tours of black colleges to provide her listen ter copilot, he was killed in a crash while AL RECORD an article published in the Phila ers with programs and lectures on the black musical heritage of the United States. trying to land on the deck of the U.S.S. La delphia Inquirer, July 23, 1987, which high She made it a point to talk to her audi Salle, escorting Kuwaiti tankers in the Persian lights Ms. Hinderas' career. ences about her music after her perform Gulf. Mr. Speaker, I ask that my colleagues join ances. As her career continued, she also re Along with the other Navy personnel who me in extending our sympathy to Ms. Hin searched lesser-known composers. She died and those who were injured in the crash, deras' family and her many friends. began to turn up more and more significant Lieutenant Lazevnick's exceptional sacrifice is [FROM THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, JULY 23, music by black composers, and undertook 1987] her major recording project, the two-record a reminder of the danger that our servicemen album Music by Black Composers. In it she face every day as they defend our Nation. His NATALIE HINDERAS, 60, INTERNATIONAL played works by George Walker, Nathaniel death is a reminder that often, a sailor is PIANIST Dett, William Grant Still, Stephen Cham asked to pay the highest price in the course (By Daniel Webster) ber and John W. Work. of his duty. Natalie Hinderas, 60 a pianist who pro She played her debut with the Philadel The family and citizens in the Borough of moted music by black and other contempo phia Orchestra in 1971, and returned peri Paulsboro are mourning his death. As they rary composers in an international career, odically, usually with contemporary concer died yesterday of cancer at her home in tos or music by Grieg and Rachmaninoff. draw together to remember his courage and Elkins Park. In 1966, she was named lecturer at the devotion that he demonstrated to his She premiered works by a number of com Temple University's College of Music, and Nation, they will remember a young man who posers, including George Walker and Joseph through the years eventually became a full knew that the road from Paulsboro to Persia Castaldo, and performed Alberto Ginas professor. She won the university's Creative was a long and dangerous road. tera's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Phila Achievement Award in 1985. Among her stu His sacrifice is a sacrifice on the behalf of delphia Orchestra and the New York Phil dents have been Leon Bates, Horatio Miller, all citizens, for the soldiers and sailors who harmonic, among other orchestras. Joel Martin and Judith Willoughby Miller. are closest to the peril from which they pro Her playing was marked by unusual re Helen Laird, Temple's music dean, said finement of sound in standard works and a yesterday that "each of us mourns the loss tect us and their families and friends who stay bold articulation in new music. of a great artist who inspired us all with her behind and pray for their speedy and safe Born Natalie Henderson in Oberlin, Ohio, artistry, musical ideas and brilliance at the return. she grew up in a musical family. Her father keyboard and her very positive attitude As the flags of Paulsboro fly at half-staff in was a jazz musician who divorced her toward life." memory of this tragic loss, I wish to extend my mother, Leota Palmer, a pianist, composer The pianist's manager, Joanne Rile, said condolences to the family of Lieutenant La and teacher at the Cleveland Institute of she had met Miss Hinderas as a neighbor in zevnick. Music. Her grandparents also were musi Mount Airy before she knew her as a pian As I join the community in expressing my cians. ist. Rile became her manager in 1968 and Miss Hinderas' mother was her first music they had remained business associates since sorrow for the loss of this soldier, I am includ teacher. She began piano studies at age 3, then. ing an article appearing in the Philadelphia In and was appearing as a pianist and singer in Her final public appearances were at a quirer, honoring this young man and his sacri variety shows at age 5, when her mother de- taped performance of music by black com- fice: e This "bullet" symbol identifies statements or insertions which are not spoken by a Member of the Senate on the floor. Matter set in this typeface indicates words inserted or appended, rather than spoken, by a Member of the House on the floor. 22130 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS August 3, 1987 A NEW JERSEY TOWN MOURNS GULF Veterans' Administration's medical computer PERSONAL EXPLANATION CASUALTY system, known as the Decentralized Hospital <By Kitty Dumas) Computer Program [DHCP] system, has arisen HON. ESTEBAN EDWARD TORRES The Stars and Stripes is flying at half in the Congress. As chairman of the Commit OF CALIFORNIA staff in Paulsboro, N.J.-the home of U.S. tee on Veterans' Affairs, I have scheduled Navy Lt. j.g. James F. Lazevnick, 26-as resi IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. dents of the tightly knit community mourn many oversight hearings on this important the hometown boy was killed Thursday in a medical computer system over the past sever Monday, August 3, 1987 helicopter crash in the Persian Gulf. al years and the reports on its effectiveness Mr. TORRES. Mr. Speaker, I was unavoid Lazevnick, the co-pilot, was killed after his and costs have been uniformly very positive. ably absent on official business during rollcall helicopter, among U.S. forces protecting Since our hearing of April 8, 1987, on this Kuwaiti oil tankers in the gulf, crashed into votes 291 , 292, and 293 on Thursday, July 30.