October 2, 2000 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS 20371 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS HONORING MARK PEARSON young students just beginning their academic However, it is not simply the wonderful di- careers. A fourth grade teacher at Lansdown rection that makes the Cleveland Orchestra so HON. SCOTT McINNIS Elementary School, Ms. Newton demonstrates amazing. The true power and inspiration of the OF COLORADO all the qualities of an exceptional educator. Orchestra stems from its outstanding and mar- Ms. Newton has recently been named Ele- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES velously talented collection of musicians. From mentary School Teacher of the Year for Fay- the violins to the flutes to the horns to the Monday, October 2, 2000 ette County. Carrie Newton has worked hard trombones, each section has its own magical Mr. MCINNIS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to to ensure that elementary school students de- sound but still blends modestly with the whole take this moment to honor the considerable velop a first-rate academic foundation that will of the Orchestra. achievements of Mark Pearson. Mark recently lead them to realize their full potential in their A discussion of the grandeur of the Cleve- received recognition at Wilderness 2000, a future endeavors. land Orchestra is hardly complete without conference on wilderness issues, honoring I join our community in recognizing an out- mention of its magnificent home, Severance him for his dedicated work in the wilderness standing teacher who has contributed years of Hall. The beautiful, ornate concert hall has just field. dedicated teaching at Lansdown Elementary. undergone a two-year, $36 million renovation Mark began the work that he is now well Ms. Newton is the kind of teacher that every and expansion. The goal of the project was to known for when he attended the University of parent and child wishes for—an educator who preserve Severance Hall’s grace and architec- Colorado at Boulder, where he was an active knows how to engage her students and moti- tural integrity. Thus, the original detailing of member of the CU Wilderness Study Group. vate them to learn. It is a pleasure to recog- the Hall has been restored, and its legendary This group studied public lands issues in Colo- nize Ms. Newton on the House floor today for acoustics have been retained and enhanced. rado, examining particularly important areas her superior work in education which has Mr. Speaker, I ask my fellow colleagues to and then forming copious data into field re- earned her the Teacher of the Year Award. join me in recognizing the extraordinary ports. The reports that were done under f achievements of the Cleveland Orchestra. I Mark’s supervision were so thorough and so TRIBUTE TO THE CLEVELAND hope that the Orchestra continues bringing joy well done that they soon became a guide of ORCHESTRA to the city of Cleveland and the rest of the sorts for wilderness enthusiasts. Upon grad- world for many years to come, and I submit uating from CU, Mark went on to attend Colo- the aforementioned article into the RECORD. rado State University where he graduated with HON. DENNIS J. KUCINICH OF OHIO IN CLEVELAND, MUSIC FOR CONNOISSEURS a masters degree in Public Land Manage- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WHILE ITS ARTISTIC PREEMINENCE IS UNQUES- ment. His undergraduate and masters work TIONED, THIS ORCHESTRA MAY FALL SHY OF enabled him to become the well-respected wil- Monday, October 2, 2000 FAME’S PEAK derness expert that he is today. Mr. KUCINICH. Mr. Speaker, I wish to rec- By Greg Sandow Before working with the Colorado Wilder- ognize the remarkable Cleveland Orchestra When Ellen dePasquale joined the Cleve- ness Network, Mark worked with a number of that was recently featured in the Wall Street land Orchestra two years ago, she’d had just different environmental groups. He has been Journal article titled ‘‘In Cleveland, Music for two years of professional violin experience. an active member of the Colorado Environ- Connoisseurs.’’ And yet here she was, a member of the most mental Coalition, the Sierra Club, as well as The Cleveland Orchestra was founded in disciplined orchestra in America, and pos- working for the Wilderness Land Trust. His ex- 1918 under the outstanding direction of Rus- sibly the world. Scarier still, she was leading sian-American conductor Nikolai Sokoloff. The it. She’d been hired as associate concert- pertise in Forestry and public land manage- master, which made her second in command ment soon landed him a job with Senator BEN renowned Sokoloff initiated an extensive do- of the musicians. But the week she began, NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL as a public lands staff- mestic touring schedule, educational concerts, the main concertmaster, William Preucil, er. His knowledge of and leadership on wilder- commercial recordings and radio broadcasts. was playing in front of the orchestra as a so- ness issues is now being utilized by San Juan This rich tradition continued under the distin- loist, leaving Ms. dePasquale in charge. I was Citizens Alliance, where he is currently em- guished Artur Rodzinski, who served as music overwhelmed,’’ she told me. ployed. director from 1933–43. His claim to fame was ‘‘We tortured her!’’ Mr. Preucil laughed, chatting with her and me and two other Mark has been a leading member of the wil- the presentation of 15 fully-staged operas at Severance Hall. After a short reign by Erich Cleveland Orchestra musicians. ‘‘We broke derness community for over two decades. Mr. her fingers,’’ deadpanned Robert Vernon, the Speaker, on behalf of the State of Colorado Leinsdorf, the orchestra went through a period principal violist. But these were jokes. The and the U.S. Congress, I would like to con- of revolutionary change and growth under the surprising reality, as Ralph Curry, a member gratulate Mark on his well-deserved award. incredible leadership of George Szell begin- of the cello section, explained it, was utterly f ning in 1946. Both the number of Orchestra simple: ‘‘She sat down and people followed members and the length of the season in- her.’’ Leading an orchestra, Ms. dePasquale HONORING CARRIE NEWTON AS creased, and the Orchestra started touring said, suddenly was ‘‘easier than it ever had THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outside the United States. The famous Cleve- been.’’ TEACHER OF THE YEAR FOR land Orchestra Chorus was also established This is one way to start a special story, FAYETTE COUNTY about the culture of the Cleveland Orchestra, during this time. When Szell passed away in whose musical preeminence is taken for 1970, he was temporarily replaced by Pierre granted by professionals. That’s been true HON. ERNIE FLETCHER Boulez and later by Lorin Maazel during the ever since the ’50s, when George Szell was OF KENTUCKY 1972–73 season. Maazel not only lived up to music director and conducted—as we can IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the standards set by his predecessors, but he hear on his recordings, still available from also left his own mark on the Orchestra by ex- Sony Classical—with clarity, forceful intel- Monday, October 2, 2000 panding their repertoire to include more 20th lect and decisive grace. Mr. FLETCHER. Mr. Speaker, it is my honor century compositions. Christoph von Dohnanyi He set a standard that’s still in force. I’ve heard three Cleveland recordings of Bee- to recognize an outstanding educator in the succeeded Maazel as music director in 1982, thoven’s Ninth, one with Szell conducting, Central Kentucky educational community. For and he continues to hold the position today. another with Loren Maazel, music director twenty-nine years, Carrie Newton has been a During von Dohnanyi’s tenure, the Cleveland from 1972 to 1982, and the third with Cleve- tireless advocate for learning, especially in the Orchestra has soared to rank among the best land’s current music director, Christoph von area of literacy, who has inspired countless of the world’s symphonic ensembles. Dohnanyi. Szell’s performance is both the ● 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. VerDate jul 14 2003 11:22 Dec 21, 2004 Jkt 079102 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 0689 Sfmt 0634 E:\BR00\E02OC0.000 E02OC0 20372 EXTENSIONS OF REMARKS October 2, 2000 strongest and the subtlest, Mr. Maazel’s the things that people do.’’ One of Mr. Von impeccable tradition almost guarantees that most blatant and Mr. von Dohnanyi’s the Dohnanyi’s sons just graduated from Case the orchestra can’t be wildly popular. It may simplest, despite its force, and the most un- Western Reserve University here, and many not want to be; it’s surely aiming higher. derstated. But in all three, no matter what people mentioned the city itself as one rea- But still it’s true that other orchestras re- approach the conductor takes (and Mr. son for the orchestra’s success. Philanthropi- main more famous—the Vienna Phil- Maazel’s case, maybe in spite of it), the mu- cally, Mr. Ong told me, Cleveland is ‘‘ex- harmonic, for example, whose very name sicians play every note with radiant care. traordinarily generous.’’ seems synonymous with classical music. Robert Vernon and Ralph Curry both played To learn more, I called Ohio Sen. George Cleveland might be a better orchestra, but under Szell; both say they were taught the Voinovich, who’d earlier been Cleveland’s because it’s not flashy, the final peaks of tradition when they arrived and that they mayor, and John Grabowski, assistant pro- fame may so far have eluded it.