N o v e m b e r 2 0 1 7

Kitty Kitty Reid, President CSOL®

L e t t e r f r o m t h e P r e s i d e n t

I hope your plans for Saturday, November 4th include

the Island House Tour at Kiawah, John’s and

Seabrook Islands, whether visiting or working or

both. Our committee, headed by Becky Hilstad, has

applied hours and imagination to produce one of the

CSOL®’s major fundraising projects. Seven homes

will be open from 10 am to 4 pm, followed by a FREE

concert by the CSO at the East Beach Conference

Center. This concert is underwritten by the Town of

Kiawah Arts & Cultural Events Fund and we can’t say

enough to acknowledge their generosity. The car for

the Car Sponsorship Project is being introduced at

the House Tour. Can’t tell you the make and model at

this time, but it’s a very prestigious one (needless to

say). Come out to Kiawah and purchase your $100

sponsorship tickets. It’s one more way you can

support the League, the CSO and our scholarship

programs. (And maybe win a car).

Our next Coffee Hour with Maestro Ken Lam will be

at 10 am on November 17th. Please come and hear

about the Masterworks to be performed on Friday and

Saturday nights and to socialize with fellow members

and (we hope) your guests. Attending a coffee with a

friend who isn’t a CSOL® member is a great way to

provide friends with a fun morning as well as expose

them to all that the League accomplishes.

The Southeastern Volunteer Orchestra Association

(SOVA) meetings held in Charleston in early October

were hosted by the CSOL®. The sessions were a

huge success thanks to the planning and organization

of Carol Lou Yaeger, assisted by Sue Ingram. Several

CSOL® members made presentations to attendees

who came from Augusta, Charlotte, Columbia,

Greensboro, Greenville, Hilton Head, Myrtle Beach

and Salisbury. Everyone came away with new ideas

for making us all even more productive. Forgive me if

I brag a little: We are the oldest of the organizations

and make the most money of them all. The line that I

came away with and I treasure most is: “Volunteerism

Is Not A Spectator Sport.” Be proud of the CSOL® and

your participation.

Seven gorgeous homes are being shown on our Symphony

Tour of Homes on Saturday, November 4 on Kiawah,

Seabrook, and Johns Islands. It’s our biggest tour yet!

Do you have your tickets? It’s not too late to get them. Go

online to www.csolinc.org to purchase and print out tickets.

Stop by Indigo Books at Freshfields Village or the new

Kiawah Town Hall on Betsy Kerrison to buy tickets up until

5:00 p.m. on November 3. Come to Freshfields Village

Green on the morning of the tour and purchase them.

As in the past, there will be music by our scholarship

winners, CSO and local musicians in the houses,

refreshments by a lovely pool at one of the homes, and lots

of knowledgeable docents as guides. Observe the

architectural array of homes, designed and built by some of

the area’s finest architects and builders, complimented by

gorgeous views of the ocean, the Kiawah River where it

meets the sea, vast river marsh, sun-lit dappled woods,

Bohicket Creek, and one of Kiawah’s finest golf courses.

And, as if that weren’t enough to make for an ideal fall day,

at 5:00 pm the CSO will play a masterworks-style concert,

free to all, with a marimba soloist and Ken Lam conducting at

the East Beach Conference Center on Kiawah. The concert

is graciously sponsored by the Town of Kiawah Arts and

Cultural Events Fund. Plan to stay for the concert and then

treat yourself to a fine dinner afterwards at one of the many

nearby restaurants. Bring friends and family and support a

very important CSOL® fundraiser.

2 0 t h A n n u a l

S y m p h o n y

To u r o f H o m e s

V

olunteers are a special breed – not everyone wants to donate their tim

e, for even a great cause. Round of A

pplause is acknowledgem

ent

by President K

itty Reid to honor C

SO

L® volunteers.

The CSOL®’s newest honorary member is J.

Sidney Boone, Esq. The Board appointed Sid to

this membership status in recognition of his faithful

service as pro bono lawyer to the CSOL®. We’re

indebted to Sid and so appreciative of his work.

When you next see Sid, please welcome him as

an official member of our League.

C S O L ® 2 0 1 7 - 2 0 1 8 B o a r d Execut i ve Commit tee

President Kitty Reid

Treasurer Claudia Porter

Recording Secretary Faye Griffin

Corresponding Secretary Peggy Cross

VP Long Range Planning Susan Leggett

VP Projects Mary Davis

VP Membership Lynn Magee

VP Education Gloria Palmer-Long

Past President Becky Hilstad

Parliamentarian Janette Moody

Standing Commit tees

Audience Development Julie Fenimore

Bylaws Karen Kichline Ruef

Communications David Savard

Newsletter Jodie-Beth Galos

Member Events Sue Ingram

Specia l Commit tees

Tonight, Tonight Gala Jane Miller

Island Tour of Homes Becky Hilstad

Revels Kathy Pease

Designer Showhouse Claudia Porter

Patti Tully

Merchandising Beverly Marshall

Pursuit of the Podium Carroll Ahearn

Sponsorship Lorraine Perry

SOVA Liaison Jane Miller

Many of us grew up with musicals like West Side Story, Candide and Porgy and Bess -- the music of Bernstein and

Gershwin is iconic. So, the CSOL® couldn’t resist scheduling our annual fundraising party to follow the

Bernstein/Gershwin CSO Pops concert on Thursday, January 18, 2018. And, the music encouraged us to use New

York City neighborhoods as the Gala theme: “Tonight, Tonight!.” It won’t be just any night!

Spend the evening mingling with CSO musicians and your friends while enjoying an abundant and diverse

selection of foods like: Soho Sliders and Pigs in a Blanket from The Village; Salmon or Corned Beef on Challah

Rolls from Mazel St.; Hunan Shrimp with Spring Rolls from Chinatown; or Tortellini and Cannoli from Little

Italy. Add to your dining pleasure by sponsoring a musician/buying them a Gala ticket (along with your tickets).

Bring Your Friends: After you receive your invitation (mid-November) and when you purchase a table for 10, you

simply list your friends’ names/contact information, and your table is reserved. (You can still specify to be seated

with friends even if you don’t have a table of 10). Come right after work (no formal attire required) and begin the

evening with beer or wine while browsing the Silent Auction items. After the concert, continue the evening with a full

bar, varied and plentiful foods, music on the Steinway Spirio, our Live Auction, and Feed the Need, which helps

fund the CSO education programs. Join us -- and what was just a world, is a star. Tickets are l imited to

400, so buy your t ickets soon … the concert is near ly sold out.

New CSOL® Member Honored

The fall series of Revel events kicked off with a concert by

the CSO String Quartet featuring Yuriy Bekker, Jan-Marie

Joyce, Mican Gangwer, and Norbert Lewandowski at the

home of Mike and Gail Maginnis. The Quartet played:

Haydn String Quartet, op. 76, no. 1; Schubert Rosemunde

Quartet, 1st movement; String quartet arrangement of

Smetana’s Moldau and Grieg Norwegian Dances; and the

Puerto Rican Turtle Dance.

For those who needed more than music to feed the soul, in

addition to an array of refreshments (the chicken salad

sandwich merited a shout out), a special treat was cookies

shaped and artfully decorated as musical instruments.

Sid Boone

CSO String Quartet

Dan LaVista, Marion Usdan, Yuriy

Bekker, Rosemary LaVista, Allen Usdan

Gail Maginnis, David

Savard

Sounds of Nature: Yuriy and Friends

Thanks to Gail Maginnis and Caroline Thibault for hosting this terrific event.

"A long time ago in a galaxy far,

far away …” On October 21,

2017, the CSOL® Instrument

Petting Zoo (IPZ) at the

Calhoun Library featured the

Star Wars theme.

As twenty-five men and women marched into the

gathering of families with children dressed in Star

War costumes, little eyes grew round with awe at the

characters coming alive before their eyes. "Neat"

was one comment. (Older child, of course.)

And then the fun

began: Children and

parents went to IPZ tables

manned by CSO members

and three Youth Orchestra

members. Lydia Pless and

her friend exemplify how

our scholarship winners

help the CSOL® “Inspire

the love of music for

generations to come.”

Want to get in on the IPZ action? Go to the

CSOL® website and log on to SignUp Genius

www.signupgenius.com/go/20f094badaa23abf

f2-20178 and away you go. You can see who

else will be in attendance and SUG sends you

a reminder that you’re scheduled to help.

Lydia Pless and Friend

Seen and heard at the IPZ:

Scholarship winner Anthony Joyce

(son of 2 CSO musicians) teaching a

child to blow into a trumpet; Child:

"Why do you have all those popsicle

sticks in the glass of water?“

(Answer: Clarinet reeds and their

care.)

P e t t i n g Z o o U p d a t e

CSOL® Holiday Party December 8 More info to follow

A LOOK AT THE CSO’S YO UT H O RCHE S T RA

(Read more about Lydia in the article on this

page about the Youth Orchestra.)

Members of the Charleston Symphony Youth Orchestra fully

understand the concept of Pay It Forward. As mentioned in the

other article on this page, three members of the Youth

Orchestra dedicated a Saturday morning to help CSOL®

Education Committee members hold a Petting Zoo,

demonstrating how to play string, woodwind and percussive

instruments. And while we’re all busy, consider the generosity

of hardworking students willing to give time on a weekend --

when Sunday afternoons mean three-hour rehearsals at the

Charleston County School of the Arts.

Lydia Pless, a sophomore at the Charleston County Academic

Magnet, who has studied cello for seven years, has started

her third year performing with the CSYO and won a

scholarship from the CSOL® this year. She joined the orchestra

as an eighth grader, the same year as her brother, who is 2

years her senior. Karl plays violin and will be co-concert

master for the upcoming concert on November 19th.

Hayley Cash, a junior at the Academic Magnet, has started

her second year in the CSYO. She has studied violin privately

for a dozen years. Hayley finds the CSYO a terrific way to

spend time with a great community of people, welcoming the

opportunity to build her repertoire.

Mion Smith, a seventh grader at Rollings School of the Arts in

Dorchester County, has begun her first year with the CSYO as

a violinist. Before she first auditioned for the CSYO as a sixth

grader, she had auditioned for Regionals and All-State, the

first year that she could do so. Mion made both last year,

which gave her an experience playing with an orchestra. Last

month she again made Regionals and will try for All-State this

winter. Mion appreciated the new orchestra retreat as a team-

building experience which allowed her to make new friends

before her first rehearsal as well as to meet the conductor for

the first time. Last year Mion played at the CSOL® Designer

House with her mother, CSO violinist Mayumi Smith. Her

father is the orchestra’s Executive Director.

The CSOL® invests in these students’ lives – and we are

amply repaid. Come and enjoy hearing all the talented

members of the Charleston Symphony Youth

Orchestra on Sunday November 19th at 3:30 pm in the

Lightsey Chapel of Charleston Southern University.

CSYO at the

Camp Saint

Christopher

Retreat 2017

Date Event Location Time

11/4/17 Island Tour of Homes; Free CSO Concert Kiawah, John’s and

Seabrook Islands

10:00 am - 4:00 pm

CSO Concert 5:00 pm

11/17/17 Coffee Hour with Maestro Ken Lam CCL Calhoun Street 10:00 am

12/3/17 Revels: Celebrate the Joy of the Chanukah West Ashley 12:00 pm

12/8/17 CSOL® Holiday Celebration TBD TBD

1/6/18 Petting Zoo; CSO String Quintet Aquarium

9:15 am - 12:30 pm

1/13/18 Revels: Classes with Ken – Music Appreciation Downtown 10:00 am

1/18/18 Tonight, Tonight Gala Gaillard 5:30 pm

2/10/18 Petting Zoo; CSO Percussion CCL John’s Island

Maybank Hwy

12:45 - 2:30 pm

2/16/18 Revels: Transformed Trolley Barn American College of the

Building Arts

6:00 pm

2/24/18 Petting Zoo; CSO Woodwind Quintet Aquarium 9:15 am - 12:30 pm

3/3/18 Revels: Classes with Ken – Music Appreciation Downtown 10:00 am

3/18/18 Revels: Gospel Brunch Charleston Yacht Club 11:30 am

4/7/18 Revels: Reeds and Chef LaVia (Italian Repast) James Island 4:00 pm

4/20/18 Revels: The Citadel -- Honor. Duty. Respect. The Citadel 2:00 pm

5/5/18 Revels: Betting Encouraged – Kentucky Derby Wadmalaw Island 5:30 pm

5/6/18 CSOL® Scholarship Recital Bishop Gadsden Chapel 3:00 pm

5/16/18 Annual CSOL® Spring Luncheon Country Club of

Charleston

11:30 am

5/17/18 Revels: A Brothel? A BROTHEL! Mt Pleasant 5:00 pm

Ken Lam speaking about Beethoven

Ken Lam Wows At First Lecture In Series The CSO sounds wonderful because Maestro Ken Lam is at the helm. But did you

know he’s a brilliant teacher as well? If you’ve attended the pre-concert lectures at

some of the Masterworks concerts or the CSOL® Coffees with the Maestro, you’ve

caught a glimmer. But for twenty-two fortunate people who attended the first

Classes with Ken on October 14 as part of Revels, he was a true beacon.

Attendees commented that Ken’s insights into the score and the sound of

Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony were completely illuminating. Don’t miss the

Classes with Ken on January 13 and March 3 – sign up now!