Community Newsletter of Ovation!
Ovation President’s Message
In This Issue •
President’s Message
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Uncorked 2019
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Chairman of the Board’s Message
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Meet Your Ovation Board
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Meet Your Orchestra
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Ovation Renewals
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Meet Your Symphony Staff
Summer 2019
As we come to the end of the 2018-2019 Symphony season, I look back and reflect on the wonderful and busy year it’s been! Ovation’s most recent highlight was our ‘Uncorked” fundraising event at Friedman’s Home Experience on April 28. It was a delightful evening, complete with food, drinks, games, prizes, and camaraderie – PLUS, raising more than $12,000 for the Symphony! Ovation directed those funds to help sponsor the amazing Camerata Singers at the June 8 Classical concert. Bravo to Bobbie Cusato and Victoria Chenevey and their committee for a fabulous job! Other Ovation highlights of the year include: · Volunteer participation at the Toyota Youth Concerts in January · Volunteer participation at the Family Concert in February (in the rain!) · Volunteer participation with the Instrument Petting Zoo at libraries, schools, and special events through the year · Hosting refreshments for the orchestra at concert rehearsals through the season · Volunteering at the Symphony office, including staffing the front desk during staff meetings · An Ovation Valentine luncheon at the Reef Restaurant in February · This week, an Ovation “Meet and Greet” party at the home of Judy and Don Boland These are just some of the highlights of our busy year! Countless hours were given in a myriad of activities to help support the Symphony and its mission. You are always welcome and encouraged to join us in any way you can. I have enjoyed being your Ovation President for the past two years, and I thank you for your support during my term. Victoria Chenevey will take the reins as Ovation President at the end of June, and I’m sure you join me in wishing her great success as our new leader! Musically yours, Ethel Sanford Ovation President
Ovation! Volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony Uncorked! 2019 What a Fabulous Event!
Chairman of the Board’s Message Dear Ethel and Ovation Members: We, the members of the Long Beach Symphony Board of Directors, wish to extend our THANKS and appreciation to Ovation, the volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony, for your “Uncorked” fundraiser on April 28, 2019. While we are very grateful for the financial success of the $12,000.00 you raised, we are also pleased to have so many new people attend and get to know about you and your role with the Symphony.
Thank you to Friedmans Home Experience for providing an amazing venue and to our sponsors, donors, and guests for making this year’s Uncorked! one of the very best! Our event crew put together a fun afternoon with fabulous tastings, food, auction, raffle, music, and games, all in support of the youth music and education programs of the Long Beach Symphony. We look forward to doing it again next year! Ethel Sanford, Ovation President
The number of volunteer hours it takes to plan and produce a fabulous event such as this must number into the thousands. We hope Ovation will continue to promote the Long Beach Symphony with future fundraisers that bring members of the community together at unique venues. Sincerely, Paulette Matson Chairman of the Board Long Beach Symphony
Meet Your Ovation Board: Sally Boyne by Renee B. Simon Talk about putting down roots! Or having Long Beach in your DNA. Sally Boyne, our Ovation Toyota Youth Concerts co-chair, was not only born at Seaside Hospital (precursor to today’s Memorial Hospital) but her family from grandparents on, have lived in and around Long Beach since 1898. That was the year Long Beach incorporated as a city. Sally has been a resident for the past 44 years. Organizing the Youth Concerts is no easy task. Just the logistics of escorting thousands of 4th and 5thgraders to their seats and out again might sprout a few grey hairs but getting 50 or more volunteers trained and on tap at the theater is definitely impressive. Sally comes to the task, however, not altogether unprepared considering her 34 years in education. She was a secondary teacher of physical education, an Instructional Media Specialist, and district Coordinator of the district-wide Library Media programs in the Orange Unified School District. “I joined the Ovation board sort of by accident,” Sally says, having been a volunteer helping Cathryn Smyth with our then telephone tree. The telephone tree became obsolete but definitely not Sally who was recruited instead for the Education committee and as a board member. In addition to the Youth Concerts, she has enjoyed providing rehearsal refreshments for our orchestra and as a Petting Zoo volunteer. When not tending to Ovation, Sally loves to travel, cook, visit museums, and of course attend both the POPS! and the Classical concerts.
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Ovation! Volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony Meet Your Orchestra: An Interview with ChloĂŠ Tardif by Victoria Chenevey Are there other musicians in your family? What can you tell us about them? Both of my parents received their Bachelors of Music from Cal State Fullerton, so I was raised listening to a lot of Classical music (especially in the car- thanks KUSC!). My mom is a soprano and taught voice lessons, and my dad plays double bass and got his degree in composition. Since my sister and I both picked violin, our dad wrote a lot of arrangements for double bass and two violins when we were kids.
When did you start to learn to play? With whom have you studied? My sister got a violin at age 6. Although I was dying to copy my big sister, I had to wait a couple of years until I was a 6-year-old (and not about to break the thing in my excitement). My years at the Orange County School of the Arts really fueled my love of performing and collaborating by surrounding myself with artists. I went on to study with William Fitzpatrick at Chapman University and with Paul Kantor for my Masters at Rice University. They are wonderful teachers and their lessons continue to inspire me after graduating. Pets? I have two perfect angels, Kiki and Pippin, who are Maltese sisters. Hobbies? I love to cook! I have always loved eating food, so, naturally, I started paying attention to my mother is a cooking genius at an early age. I am always looking for new recipes! What is best part of life as a professional musician? Meeting passionate musicians and getting to collaborate with them is a lot of fun. I learn so much from my colleagues wherever I go, and I am so happy to have the chance to learn from my new friends in the Long Beach Symphony. Bringing different minds together to create something new is such a rewarding process, and that is true for chamber and orchestral playing in particular. Can you state briefly your feelings about performing/listening to music? Every performance is an opportunity to say something that has never been said, or to take something familiar and with it, express something special. We have played such a range of music this season in the Long Beach Symphony, and I cannot wait to work with my colleagues on next season's programs as well.
Ovation Membership Renewals begin July 1, 2019 Look for your Brochure and sign up for another fantastic year! Please consider including a donation.
Instrument Petting Zoo
Toyota Youth Concerts
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Ovation Occasion
Ovation! Volunteers of the Long Beach Symphony Meet Your Symphony Staff: Mark Saville by Renee B. Simon That guy with the soft British accent, you know, the new guy who is likely to tell you “Anything is possible” if you’re open to alternative strategies, the new Genevieve – let me introduce you to Mark Savillle. And FYI, he comes by the accent honestly when, at age 12, his aerospace-employed father was transferred with family from Cheshire, England to Tucson, AZ. Mark calmly describes his responsibility as Vice-President of Development: to generate all the Symphony’s revenue except that from ticket sales. An awesome task that includes individual, corporate, foundation, and volunteer gifts (like Ovation’s) plus the Symphony’s special events such as the annual Crescendo. Looking at him you may think he’s just too young to know better. But, in fact, in his career he’s already chewed up a variety of such challenges. For the Fort Worth Opera, he launched a successful million-dollar fiscal year end campaign built with the active support not only of the Mayor but with the total business community, and the area’s political leadership. And for the Arizona Opera where they had faced dire financial straits having committed to financing a new building as well as unloading a deep operational debt. Today, Mark reports the stunning administrative building and black box theatre is up and the debt completely retired. With an out-of-the-box approach, Mark really believes anything is possible but perhaps only when you can see things with a fresh set of eyes. For Ovation, Mark wants to offer whatever assistance we may need. “We are all working toward the same goal,” he explains. Among the areas Ovation may want to explore with him might be advice on growing our membership; promoting the camaraderie and enjoyment volunteers derive from support for the Symphony; and ultimately by growing Ovation, we would be increasing the funds we can generate for the Symphony. For sure, we can expect to see Mark at our board meetings. Although his major at the University of Arizona was Middle Eastern Studies, which took him for a year to study in Amman, Jordan, he has found his career niche in the non-profit world. It is where he expects to stay and grow in experience and level of responsibility. He enjoys traveling and in addition to the Middle East, he has visited much of southeast Asia and Europe. Next on his travel agenda is Africa, some time. Mark and his wife are expecting their first child in September -- a baby girl who will probably soon cozy up in an infant sling and enjoy the family favorite activity of backpacking and hiking whenever the opportunity should arise. A little known fact about Mark is that his name is now somewhere on Mars, forever there, engraved on a lander vehicle from his college intern days with a NASA science team. Now that’s a story you should be sure to ask him about.
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