Notes from Lenny
January 5th, 2012 by Apple Hill
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Photo Gallery: Summer 2011
December 21st, 2011 by Apple Hill
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Summer Magic
December 21st, 2011 by Amelia
At a recent holiday gathering, Apple Hill board member Chip Woodbury pulled out his guitar and sang for us. The song, an original based on a poem, was called “Magic.” As I listened, I thought about Apple Hill and what this organization means to the people in the AH community. We had a very successful summer. There are plenty of statistics to prove it, but Chip’s song was making me think of a different measure of success.
Remember the WGBH program about Apple Hill? A reporter came to Nelson one sunny August day and, after collecting recordings of AH performances, he sat on the patio with a group of devoted Apple Hillers and asked: “What is so special about Apple Hill?" He listened to answers about music, friendship, and learning, and finally he selected one clip: “This place,” the student said, “is magic.”
When you spend time at the AH campus, you can see signs of success – new buildings, overflowing concerts – but if you look closer, you can see the Apple Hill magic at work:
Musicians from Palestine and Texas, Israel and Ireland, Syria and Mexico, Egypt and New Hampshire form enduring friendships when they discover that what they have in common far surpasses their differences. Adults who left their instruments decades earlier to pursue career and family return to music and discover the wonderful world of chamber music open to them. Faculty coaches, after a full day guiding their groups to musical breakthroughs, inspire with a beautiful concert. Every year, someone discovers and falls in love with a new piece, whether it be a chamber music classic or a young composer’s world premier. Late into the next winter, parents email to say they have never seen their child practice so much before. And musicians of all ages find in themselves a musical voice they had never before dreamed of.
Of course, not everyone believes in magic. But we can all believe in Apple Hill’s great teaching, great music, and genuine commitment to nurturing the voice of every musician. When you visit Apple Hill next summer, ask someone what they love about this place. Maybe, in their words and their eyes, you’ll see the Apple Hill magic.
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Sarah’s Tour Journal: Jordan 2011
December 2nd, 2011 by Sarah
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After seeing the sunrise on Sunday morning in the desert in Jordan and
walking the streets of Paris Monday at dawn on a layover, I woke up in America Tuesday morning having absolutely no idea where I was! While I am so happy to be with family for Thanksgiving, we had an amazing week in
Jordan, and I do miss the sights and sounds of being there. Aside from all the music, it seems like a lot of what makes our trips so great is a
combination of being excited to see good friends from the summer on their
home turf, discovering new places, meeting and hearing new people, and being back in places we've loved visiting. Jordan was a perfect mix of all these things, and I'm reminded of a question asked by the WGBH reporter during the summer about what it's like going on Apple Hill tours - my immediate thought was that on these trips it just feels like a real privilege to be able to do what we do.
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I'm not sure if it was because I felt we had maybe one of our best periods of rehearsing and preparing our program during the first month or so of this fall season, but by the time we got to the end of the Mendelssohn quartet at our last concert in Jordan, I felt all five of us had been through quite a journey with this program, and I was pretty sad to be at the end of it all. We were talking once during the trip about quartet playing and in a way, how strange to be doing what we do in this modern age - playing instruments and working for hours at a time polishing pieces of classical music written in some cases hundreds of years ago. Lenny said what we do is a craft, and I was pleased to think of the woodworker we saw in Turkish Nicosia, with all his tools lined up on a big table, carving and shaping his beautiful frames. A teacher at the King's Academy told me that the day after the concert, he used our quartet as a rare example of taking time to do something worthwhile and not taking shortcuts.
What's great about quartet playing is that along with all of that time to craft and polish, it feels like we get to invite the people we perform for and the places we perform in to join in on our craft by listening and being a part of the performance. For example, when we played our outreach program for over 200
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schoolgirls in Karak, a town in southern Jordan, I kept thinking about the last time we did that program, which was at the Alice Smith school thousands of miles away in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Maybe next time, I'll think of the lovely girl who played the violin for the first time with us in Karak and when the time for questions came, said something like, "Thank you for coming and playing your music for us. We loved it...is Apple Hill on Facebook?" Or maybe I'll think of the charismatic young teacher in the town of Salt who also played on a violin for the first time with us at an outreach concert there. It was also memorable to play our concert at the Zara Expo in Amman when we had already traveled to perform an outreach concert earlier that morning, rehearsed in the afternoon, and gave a master class at the National Conservatory. We might not have been the most charged to be performing that evening, but by the Mendelssohn we ended up really enjoying playing for the full audience there. So by the time we got to that last performance at the King's Academy, not only were we so excited to be playing for workshop participants (including some amazing AH summer participants like Reem Abu Rahmeh, Nouran Meho, Dima Hourani, Ghyas Zeidieh, and Rania Ejeilat), we were carrying withus so many more people, places, and experiences than when we first started working on these pieces.
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I spoke with a guest at our performance at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Amman who had been in Jordan for many years and had known of Apple Hill since the group first started traveling there. Not only has he enjoyed the music, the word that always came to his mind with Apple Hill is generosity, especially evidenced by the number of Jordanian musicians who have been awarded scholarships over the years. I loved that he said that, and I hope that's a word always associated with Apple Hill, not just with Playing for Peace scholarships, but also in the sharing of our craft, whether performing, teaching, giving workshops, or inviting people to join us in the summer.
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Sarah’s Tour Journal: Cyprus 2011
November 14th, 2011 by Sarah
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Having experienced a big snowstorm only 2 weeks ago, stepping out into the warm Mediterranean air in Cyprus felt like we had been magically transported to a different world. I can't tell you how much the five of us are enjoying being back in Cyprus this week. We received a hearty George Georgiou welcome at the swanky new Larnaca airport and headed off to Nicosia, the divided capital city of Cyprus. Apple Hill has been traveling to Cyprus for over ten years now, and since it had been a couple years since we've been back, it's been interesting to see what's changed and what has stayed the same. It's also been an amazing time of seeing older participants again, discovering new places, re-connecting with participants from recent summers, and hearing talented younger musicians.
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Our first rehearsal was at the Arte center, a music school and lovely performance space that we have performed in almost every time I have been in Cyprus. We then headed on foot over to one of the main crossing areas between Greek Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus for a bi-communal master class hosted by the American Embassy. The class was held at the Fulbright Center which is located inside the UN buffer zone, and we noticed some interesting changes. For example, there were several new cafes near the buffer zone, including one in the place of an old clothing shop that had been abandoned in the events of 1974 and eerily still had t-shirts hanging in the window from that time.The very next day we gave a short performance and master class on the Turkish side of Nicosia for the Nicosia Municipality Orchestra. We were amazed to see so many former Apple Hill participants, including two violinists who were the very first Turkish Cypriot P4P scholarship recipients. I've heard moving stories of that first group of Cypriots who played a Dvorak string quartet coached by Lenny. At that time, the only place Greek and Turkish Cypriots could meet was in the UN buffer zone, so this quartet actually met to rehearse in the Fulbright Center, where we had just given a class the day before.
Later on that day, we gave a class at a music school in Turkish Nicosia which was recently started by another former AH participant. Having heard that the university we usually visit in northern Cyprus had closed its music performance department due to a lack of students, it was really encouraging to see a former participant starting such a good school for young musicians. We were able to do some sightseeing that day in the Turkish part of Nicosia and discovered a new part of northern Cyprus we hadn't seen before. We just loved walking around the old part of the city, which included seeing the beautiful 'Buyuk Han', the remains of an inn built in the mid-1500s. During this trip, I've been struck once again imagining what it must be like living in a divided country, where checkpoints divide land that only one generation ago was united. We frequently walk on a busy promenade on the Greek side of Nicosia called Lledra Street and were surprised to discover ourselves walking on the continuation of that street on the Turkish side while sightseeing.
Our concert at the Arte center last Thursday evening was well attended, and it was really wonderful to be able to perform with George Georgiou, our master of ceremonies in Cyprus, and Kyriakos Kyriakou, a pianist who was a Playing for Peace participant two summers ago.
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On our last day in Nicosia, we gave a class at the Nicosia music school and heard some wonderful violinists. That evening, our workshop at the Limassol music school (a high school for the arts) began. We worked with six different groups that were a mixture of winds, strings, piano, and guitar from Friday evening until Sunday, culminating in a wonderful participant concert at the school on Sunday afternoon. On Saturday evening, we gave a concert including works by Mozart, Stravinsky, and Mendelssohn at a hall recently renovated from an old factory.
The head of one of the music schools we visited spoke briefly about the situation in Cyprus, and one thing he said caught my attention; he said bi-communal activities are ok, but the thing that is really needed is for people in Cyprus, Greek and Turkish, to be able to live together. I've been struck in recent months at how intimate chamber music is, and I feel that my colleagues know me in a way that very few others do. It struck me on this trip that the beauty of Apple Hill is that, in a capsule of time during the summer, people from all over, with all the things that might separate us normally, get to live together and share in this intimate experience of making music together.
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On the Town
October 24th, 2011 by Elise
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December 15th, 2010 by Sarah
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Every now and then I’ll meet someone who has only known Apple Hill as a summer program, and they’ll ask, “So, what do you do during the year?” Sometimes it’s hard to describe all that happens at Apple Hill during the months when there are only 8 of us around, and this year is different in that our bigger overseas trip will be in February. Usually at this time, kjøpe Viagra på nett, köpa Viagra online, Order Viagra no prescription, we are recovering from all the overeating…I mean, wonderful experiences we would have just had in the Middle East, buy Viagra without prescription. Fast shipping Viagra, While we were looking forward to enjoying such lofty things as finally being here for fall daylight savings and seeing trick-or-treaters walk the streets of Keene, I did wonder earlier in the year how our fall events would compare to say, buy generic Viagra, Order Viagra online c.o.d, workshops in Jordan or Cyprus. In the end, where can i order Viagra without prescription, Online buying Viagra hcl, I have found that this fall has been full of rich experiences, and I’ve come to appreciate the community we are in all the more after staying closer to home, canada, mexico, india. Where can i find Viagra online, Some highlights include two events centering on Keene’s annual remembrance of Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 that marked the Nazi government’s first large-scale attack against the Jewish people, rx free Viagra. The 2010 Kristallnacht remembrance in Keene focused on ‘encountering the Holocaust through the arts’, and we performed Viktor Ullmann’s Third String Quartet, a wonderful, dark piece of music written while Ullmann was a prisoner in the Thereseinstadt concentration camp, BUY Viagra ONLINE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION. Ordering Viagra online, The evening before, we performed for Professor Paul Vincent’s class at the Holocaust Center at Keene State College, real brand Viagra online, Viagra trusted pharmacy reviews, and hearing the gut reactions of students after listening to the piece provoked my own appreciation of the ability of music to transport and convey insight. Hearing the music, purchase Viagra, Purchase Viagra online, especially the devastating fugue in the middle of this quartet, is almost like being able to hear the thoughts and feel the emotions of Ullmann’s own experience at Tereseinstadt, japan, craiglist, ebay, overseas, paypal. Buy Viagra ONLINE WITHOUT prescription, The Remembrance itself, held at the Colonial Theatre in Keene, order Viagra from United States pharmacy, Buy Viagra from canada, was a special evening that brought together so many in the community to ‘remember, create, buy cheap Viagra no rx, Buy Viagra from mexico, live.’
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Deborah: To be honest, I was not too thrilled when I learned that my mom would be coming to Apple Hill with me. BUY Coreg ONLINE WITHOUT PRESCRIPTION, I was even less amused when I found out that we had been placed in a group together, a circumstance, I later learned, she herself had orchestrated.
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Molly: Apple Hill has been a great experience, and it has been wonderful to share this fun with my mom. Though we were never in the same groups, we could spend time with each other in our free time and discuss how things are going. We exchanged the laughs, smiles, good times that come with Apple Hill together and we could always count on each other to be there.
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