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Ringgold Band News, Fall, 2018

2018 Fall DinnerConcertBy Chuck Ebersole, Musical Director

What do Scottish folk melodies,Frank Sinatra, and The Phantom

of the Opera have in common? If weinclude a fabulous meal and guestsoloist, the answer is that they’re all partof the annual Ringgold Band DinnerConcert at Stokesay Castle! The date isSunday, November 4, and our soloist isBerks County’s own, Erich Cawalla,who will sing and play the saxophone fortunes from The Great AmericanSongbook. We’ll begin the evening’sperformance with two 15 to 20 minuteconcerts featuring music from Porgy andBess, Phantom of the Opera, JacquesOffenbach’s famous Overture toOrpheus in the Underworld, and ofcourse, some of your favorite marches.Tyler Rutt and Alexandra Booth willprovide the vocals.

During desert, we present our mainconcert of the evening, featuring Mr.Cawalla. This set begins with aCeltic flavor, the main piece beingMalcolm Arnold’s raucous yet beautiful,Four Scottish Dances. Some may recallthat Arnold was also a film composer,who wrote the music for the Oscarwinning film of 1957: The Bridge on theRiver Kwai. Mr. Cawalla takes the stageafter the opening selections, andaccompanied by the Ringgold Band, willperform a variety of popular and jazzstandards. Erich is a great entertainer andmusician, so we eagerly anticipate hisperformance! Music from JohnWilliams’ legendary score from Star

Wars – thePhantomMenace andJohn PhilipSousa’s Starsand StripesForever bringthe evening to arousingconclusion.

In other news,we’d like to thank everyone for yoursupport during our summerperformances. Although the weather waschallenging at times, we had a successfulseries of concerts and look forward tothe fall, winter, and spring seasons.

We are also pleased to announce that theRinggold Band has been honored with arequest to play at the Association ofConcert Bands “Big Apple” Conventionin Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey. We’rescheduled to perform for the conventionaudience on Thursday, April 25, 2019 at9 p.m. in the Woodcliff Lake Hilton.This is a great honor and we are proud torepresent Berks County! Three dayslater, we’ll be presenting some of thesame music for our 16 7th AnniversaryConcert at the Scottish Rite on April 28,2019.

Please join us at Stokesay Castle onNovember 4th ! Ticket order forms areon the Ringgold website.

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The Ringgold Band of Reading, PA

Ringgold Band NewsFall, 2018

ContentsPage 2● President’s Corner

Page 4● Guest Soloist: ErichCawalla

Page 5● Heard Around the BandHall● Ringgold Band PodcastSeries

Page 6● Member Profile● Heard Around the BandHall, con’d.

Page 8● Celebrating 100 Years ofLeonard Bernstein

Page 12● Dinner Concert OrderForm

Chuck Ebersole

RinggoldBand

Fall DinnerConcert

Sunday,November 4, 2018

5:00 p.m.Stokesay Castle

Reading, PA$37 per person

Questions regarding the dinnerportion of the concert should be

directed to Cindy Rutt 610-775-5808between the hours of 7:00-9:00 pm. If

you wish to be seated with otherparties please designate on form.

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President’s Corner:Cynthia Miller-Aungst, Ringgold Band President

In 2016, the Executive board determined that the band hall needed some upgrades for the safety andcomfort of those using our facility. We are fortunately unique among community bands in the fact thatwe own our own rehearsal space. The planning process was quite involved as we narrowed down whatwe needed and what was feasible. After two years, the project is complete and I am still amazed andgratified at how the committee, the board and the members cooperated and worked together to make thispossible.

After the planning, completion of permits (no small feat), and selection of acontractor, the real work was about to begin. Our plan was to add an emergency exitand turn three small offices into one office and a handicapped accessible restroom.The offices that we were using were FILLED with desks, cabinets and anaccumulation of band history that hadn’t been moved in at least 25 years. DarlingtonConstruction was selected and notified us that they had an open window almostimmediately. We had a little over a week to get ready. Decisions had to be madequickly on where to go with the contents of the offices. Jim, Chuck and the librarians

had to be consulted because we were goingto lose the use of the music library for theduration of construction while the librarywas being used to store lots of officeequipment. We had to make space in thetruck, the attic and the rehearsal hall for thecontents of the offices and the huge musicshelf used to house our folders.

A team of volunteers gathered early on aSaturday morning to clear the spaces. Whatan exciting morning that was! The moldingaround the door to one of the offices had tobe removed so that we could get a desk out. The teamwork was amazing! The workwas completed quickly with lots of laughs, discovery of ancient band artifacts andvery hard work.

Then the demolition and constructionbegan. Brad from Darlington Constructionkept true to his time schedule and was inclose contact with Doug Werner, our

building committee chair, throughout the process. Of course, there were unexpectedchallenges along the way but Brad couldn’t have been more accommodating andprofessional. The band members had adjustments to make also, which they didwithout complaint. Our New Horizons band suffered the most inconvenience becausewe had to move their daytime rehearsals to Schwarzwald Lutheran Church. Thankyou to Pastor Scott Staub and Administrative Assistant Diane Hafer for welcoming usand allowing us to use your facility.

Paint colors, carpet, cabinets and tile had to be chosen. (Thank you to Chris Wernerfor your guidance.) Doug Werner built a new and improved music sorting table androunded up a painting crew to save costs. Hours of time were invested during a tightconstruction time table. Our fire suppression system and alarm system had to beupdated. We discovered a leak in a window that needed to be replaced and our waterheater died. During the process we still had programs to rehearse and we hosted theEast Coast Band Conference for the Association of Concert Bands.

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Photo by Ed Treat

Photo by B Coughlin

Cynthia Miller-Aungst


President’s Corner, continued…Finally, the project came to completion! Now, we had to move back into our one office. Plans were made and a new work crewassembled to make our new space workable for us. Magically, it happened. We are still tweaking placement of some items butthings are back to normal and the New Horizons and Ringgold members are especially enjoying our new and improved restroom facilities. No more 15-minute lines at break time.

The most amazing thing of all was that this $50,000 plus project was fundedentirely by grants and donors. Think about that. A 166-year-old communityband that owns its own hall and manages to fund this project through thegenerosity of friends, members and grants. I must mention our grant writerextraordinaire, Patricia Kline. Patty is a full-time music educator, jewelrymaker, member of our French horn section, webmaster and historian with theband. She procured grants fromthe Building Industries Exchangeof Reading and Berks County(Fund of Berks CountyCommunity Foundation) and TheWyomissing FoundationCommunity Grant.

This past week, I was in our newoffice organizing music for NewHorizons and was justoverwhelmed thinking about howthis new functional and beautifulspace was created. How do wethank donors and members fortheir generosity and faith that we

will continue to flourish and follow our mission “topreserve the rich history and repertoire of band musicthrough performance and education in Berks Countyand beyond?” All that I can say is that we willgratefully and humbly continue to strive for excellencein our music making and historical significance.


Erich Cawalla makes a very busy living as a full-timemusician. A versatile vocalist and instrumentalist, his

performing style invokes a classic swinging yetcontemporary R&B sound mixing some of his biggestinfluences including Smokey Robinson, David Sanborn,Chet Baker, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli, and JohnPizzarelli, to name a few.

In 2005, Cawalla started The Uptown Band, becomingextremely popular as a featured act headlining hundreds ofshows and numerous charitable functions in the Northeast.The group's recordings have received critical acclaimthroughout the world with the release of 2 full-lengthalbums including Waiting for Her in 2008 and Heart, Soul,Body, & Mind in 2014. Special Guests on the band's albumshave included Will Lee, legendary bassist for the CBSOrchestra on the former Late Show with David Letterman,trumpetist and founding member of Tower of Power GregAdams, and legendary percussionist Doc Gibbs, formerMusical Director on The Food Network's Emeril LIVE.“Waiting for Her”, the band's 2008 title track written byCawalla, received airplay on Music Choice's Smooth Jazz

Channel on National Cable TV. “SJ3”, written by Cawallaand the band's Producer and The Three Degrees' formerMusical Director Bennie Sims, rose as high as #9 in thecountry on the Groove Jazz Radio Chart. Most recently, theband released a cover of the Maxi Priest hit “Close to You”which peaked at #27 in USA Today's NationalContemporary Jazz Chart. Cawalla and Sims, along withCurtis Harmon (drummer for Contemporary Jazz legendsPieces of a Dream) wrote “BJF25”, a commemorative songcelebrating the 25th Anniversary of Reading's Boscov'sBerks Jazz Fest. The recording features Cawalla, Sims, andHarmon performing alongside Contemporary JazzHeavyweights Rick Braun, Chuck Loeb, and BrianBromberg.

Erich teamed with Sims again and released his first soloContemporary Jazz release "222 South" in 2017. The song,written about his hometown highway in Shillington PA,peaked at #41 on the nationally-syndicated Smooth JazzNetwork. He is currently working on his first full-lengthdebut solo album performing original arrangements by DaveDepalma of songs in the Great American Songbook,including a 17-piece Big Band with strings that featuresErich on lead vocals and saxophone and a duet with thelegendary Bobby Caldwell.

Erich is a BMI-affiliated songwriter and a Grammy VotingMember of the National Recording Academy. Liveperformance credits include performing in the bands ofMarie Osmond, The Skyliners, Bill Haley's Comets, TheCoasters, Marty Haggard, and Larry Chance & The Earls, aswell as opening for Jeff Dunham, Martha and the Vandellas,Gene Chandler, Sonny Turner's Platters, The Happenings,and Harold Melvin's Blue Notes. He has also been afeatured soloist with the Reading POPS Orchestra on threeoccasions, the Shippensburg Festival Chamber Orchestra,and the Hershey Big Band. Some of his more notableperformances include performing at Florida State Universityfor the Florida Inaugural Gala (2000), 13 straight yearsannually at the Berks Jazz Festival, All Night with JoeyReynolds on NBC New York (2 occasions), Charlotte'sIndependence Arena in front of 10,000 people, the MGMGrand in Las Vegas, the Nugget in Reno, Walt DisneyWorld, and Carnegie Hall as a senior in high school. Erichwas also a finalist in 98.1 WOGL Radio's Philly IdolsContest.

Erich's other interests include managing his talent bookingagency Anjoli Productions as well as teachingprivate saxophone lessons in his home. Healso holds a BSBA in Accounting fromShippensburg University.

Meet Special Guest Soloist: Erich Cawalla

Photo by Dewey Wahl


Sustaining an American Musical TraditionRinggold Band Podcast Series by Cindy Miller-Aungst

Did you know that the Ringgold Band has a podcast series? So – what is a podcast?

Podcast – a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically availableas a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically.

Simply put, a podcast is an interview or story that can be listened to on a computer,tablet, or phone. My daughter, Katelyn, first introduced me to podcasts such as “StuffYou Should Know”, “This American Life”, and “Serial” when I was taking her back andforth to college. Unlike the podcasts mentioned, our podcasts are only 10 to 15 minuteslong. We became involved in this process through Toni Reece at The People Chronicles.Toni explained the process to Jim and I, hosted our first two podcasts, and then declaredus ready to host ourselves. It was a bit nerve wracking in the beginning, but now is verycomfortable and rewarding. Basically our series is a series of conversations withmembers of Ringgold, Ringgold New Horizons, and friends of the band.

Heard Around the Band Hall…

Jill Haley, oboist with the RinggoldBand, recently returned to Glacier

National Park in Montana to share musicwith the local audience that she wroteabout the Park in October of 2016. "TheWaters of Glacier," was released as a CDand as a download on iTunes and AppleMusic, in the spring of 2018. In lateAugust, even though fires were impactingthe Park, she was able to return to Glacierand present the concert of new music withvideo of the images that inspired thecompositions. The audience enjoyedhearing about the WATERS of Glacierwhen they were in the midst of fightingsome strong wildfires!Her next invitation is to stay at AztecRuins National Monument in New Mexicoin September, 2019 as an Artist inResidence for one month.She has a few upcoming concerts locally of the Glaciermusic.

Trinity Lutheran Church Noontime Recital SeriesWashington Street, ReadingOctober 24, 12 noon.

Shillington Immanuel ChurchWaverly Street, ShillingtonSaturday, November 3 7:30

Trinity Lutheran ChurchPerkasie, PASunday, March 10 4 pm

All of Jills National Park Recordings are available onAmazon.com

Please visit her web page for more information -www.jillhaley.com

www.jillhaley.com


Al and Heidi Rochlin are the husband and wife trumpet playingteam of the Ringgold Band. You can find them in the back row ofthe band, side by side, firmly planted in the 3rd trumpet section.They live in Mount Penn with their 5 children. Al and Heidi areboth graduates of Temple University's Esther Boyer College ofMusic where they earned degrees in Music Education and TrumpetPerformance, respectively. Al started his career, while still incollege, as a member of the house band at the Valley Forge MusicFair and the Merriam Theatre, playing for acts such as JohnnyMathis, Natalie Cole, Bob Hope, the Four Tops, and theTemptations. Along with his career as a performer, Al also taughtfor the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for 16 years. During this time,Al led several competition level jazz and concert bands for variousschools. Al also completed graduate studies at the University of theArts in Philadelphia, PA.

Heidi started her career as a music/math educator in variousdistricts, but now has moved into administration in the Spring-FordArea School District as the Supervisor of Math, Science and Music.Heidi holds master's degrees from Drexel and Cabrini Universities,and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in EducationalLeadership at Drexel University. Heidi and Al can be heard aroundtown playing with various performing ensembles such as the BerksSinfonietta, the Reading Pops, Swing Fever, Let's Dance and theGenesius Theatre Pit Orchestra. They also continue to freelancethroughout the Tri-State area. As recent transplants to Berks County,Heidi and Al have fallen in love with the Mount Penn borough andsurrounding area. When they're not chasing little Rochlins around,they enjoy taking in the Reading night life and sampling all of thedining options available. They are thrilled to be a part of theRinggold band and always look forward to Monday nights filledwith good friends and challenging music!

Al and Heidi Rochlin

Adult Music Camp is Not About the Musicby Dennis Roule

I was part of a small contingent of RNHBmembers who spent the last week of August at

the New England Adult Music Camp in Sidney,Maine. Ron Bukowski, Dave White and I wereable to enjoy a week of musical experiences thatincluded participating in large and smallensembles; attending seminars and lectures; andenjoying performances by the camp faculty and ourpeers. If you were so inclined, you could have aday filled with music-related activities.

The amenities of this camp on Lake Messalonskeewere rustic and the food was tasty and plentiful. Ifyou wanted to walk in the woods, swim in the lakeor play tennis the opportunities were there. Inmany ways the setting and the services exceededexpectations for a camping experience.

The real treasure to be found in the Maine woodswere the campers. Folks from all sorts ofbackgrounds with various skill levels andknowledge intent upon making and enjoyingmusic. This assembly of music lovers created aculture and community that was inspiring andaffirming. Music speaks to our humanity andexplains our need to share a common experience.This week at camp addressed that need and was ajoy.

Heard Around the BandHall continued…

Member Profile:Al and Heidi Rochlin

Photo by Dave Myers


This year has brought us many new experiences and travels: by Cynthia Miller-Aungst

NYCMy sister, Amy, and I treated my mother to a trip to see the amazingmusical Hamilton.

San FranciscoKatelyn, our daughter and formerRinggold “Andrews Sister”, performedfour concerts of the Monteverdi Vesperswith the American Bach Soloists in theSan Francisco area. My husband, Ed, andI enjoyed seeing the sights and listeningto beautiful early music performancesfeaturing Katelyn.

ScandinaviaAlong with friends Ed and I traveled toStockholm, Helsinki, St. Petersburg,Tallinn, Gdansk, Berlin, Copenhagen,Aalborg, Stavenger, and Bergen on aViking ocean cruise. Incredible sights,good weather, and sunlight until 10PM made it a great vacation.

Northport, NYNext was a trip to Long Island to see a

former student perform the lead in Singin’ in the Rain. DannyGardner has his own cheering section in several of his formerteachers from Southern Middle School in Reading. It doesn’t get

much better than seeing former students excel andDanny certainly does that.

Surfside Beach and Myrtle BeachWe couldn’t have ended the summer any better thanwith a family vacation with our kids in Surfside Beachand then on to Myrtle Beach with our dear friends andgracious hosts, Jim and Wendy Seidel.

It’s been a good year!

Heard Around the Band Hall continued…


Celebrating 100 Years of Leonard Bernstein:An Educational link to the Ringgold Band

By Patricia Kline, Ringgold Historian

A large part of the mission of the Ringgold Band is its education outreach programs. We perform concerts and master classesfor the nation’s youth in an effort to create musical understanding and pass along our passion of music in hopes to foster new

audiences and musicians in the next generation. We receive grant funding from the Reading Musical Foundation to implementthese very vital and important programs. These programs include the Banding Together Concert, Side-by-Side Concerts, RinggoldNew Horizons Band, and the Ringgold Band Young Artist Award.

However, truthfully, we weren’t the first music ensemble to do educational outreach programs. Symphonic orchestras from aroundthe nation performed youth concerts since the mid 1960’s. The first and most famous person to implement this idea wasLeonard Bernstein. His televised “Young People’s Concerts” single-handedly inspired generations of people to appreciate music.His evident passion of music and talent share his knowledge inspired the mass audience to appreciate and understand music.

It is safe to say Leonard Bernstein was one of the most influential composers, conductors, and musical educators of all time. Thisyear marks a world-wide celebration of his iconic 100 year anniversary. Around the world there are museum exhibits and concertperformances to remember the influence Leonard Bernstein has had on a century of musicians and audiences alike. The RinggoldBand has played his music as crowd favorites a multitude of times over the last century.

His music appeals to the audiences and challenges the performers with is lyrical melodies, and complex syncopated rhythms.Personally, he was one of my strongest influences. I was riveted, challenged, and emotionally moved when I performed liveJeremiah Symphony, Symphonic Dances, Overture to Candide, and West Side Story. I know many of my peers felt the same.Bernstein influenced our nation as a humanitarian, musician,conductor, and celebrity. It is only fitting we honor his legacy on the100th anniversary.

The following partial edited biography is used with permission.

From "A Total Embrace" © The Leonard Bernstein Office, Inc.

LEONARD BERNSTEIN (August 25, 1918- October 14, 1990) Born in Lawrence Massachusetts, Leonard took piano lessons as a boy and attendedthe Garrison and Boston Latin Schools. He attended Harvard University, and theCurtis Institute of Music. His orchestral and choral works include three symphonies(No. 1 "Jeremiah", No. 2 "Age of Anxiety", and No. 3 "Kaddish"), Serenade, Mass,Chichester Psalms, Songfest, Divertimento for Orchestra, Arias and Barcarolles, andConcerto for Orchestra. Bernstein's works for the Broadway stage include On theTown, Wonderful Town, Candide and the immensely popular West Side Story. Inaddition to the West Side Story collaboration, Mr. Bernstein worked withchoreographer Jerome Robbins on three major ballets, Fancy Free,Facsimile and Dybbuk. Mr. Bernstein was the recipient of many honors, includingeleven Emmy Awards, one Tony Award, the Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award,twenty two granny awards, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

Leonard Bernstein is generally recognized as music's most exuberant hero.Composer, conductor, pianist, teacher, humanitarian, thinker, entertainer andadventurous spirit, he forged his many talents with an irresistible personality totransform the way people everywhere hear and appreciate music. He broke rules,shattered precedents and opened doors, insisting that the art of music could andshould play a vital role in the lives of all people.


Bernstein's successes as a composer ranged from the Broadway stage to concert halls all over the world, where hisorchestral and choral works continue to thrive. As conductor he was a dynamic presence on the podiums of the world'sgreat orchestras, leaving a legacy that endures and continues to thrive through an uncommonly rich and diversecatalogue of over 500 recordings and filmed performances.

In Bernstein's life and work, American music came to life, found its energy and its conviction, and began to embrace itspotential. Not only was he the first American to be appointed music director of a major American orchestra, but he alsoblazed the trail in Europe for other Americans to follow. He was the first American to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic,the London Symphony Orchestra , La Scala and the Royal Concertgebouw.

From his earliest days, Bernstein was a true believer in the music of his time.The lasting popularity of the music of Mahler, Shostakovich and many other20th-century masters owes much to his inspired advocacy. Around the worldhe championed American composers such as Aaron Copland, WilliamSchuman, Samuel Barber, Roy Harris and Lukas Foss. The breadth ofBernstein's repertoire, the depth of his convictions, and the charismatic energywith which he articulated them, made him a superstar in the classical world. Heis arguably the most famous conductor who ever lived. No American classicalmusician had ever achieved such universal stature, respect or sheer celebrity.

Leonard Bernstein came of age artistically as television became a part ofeveryday life, and he immediately saw its potential as a means to share andexplore music with the mass audience. Through his imaginative programmingideas and his own engaging presence (most memorably, in the award-winning Young People's Concerts with the New York Philharmonic) he made

even the most rigorous elements of classical music an adventure in which everyone could join. A generation ofAmericans appreciates music because of Bernstein. In 1967, Bernstein wrote, "Life without music is unthinkable, musicwithout life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace."

In the summer of 1940, he began a lifelong association with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's Tanglewood Festival. InTanglewood, he met the orchestra's conductor, Serge Koussevitzky and became Koussevitzky's conducting assistant.

When Bernstein was only 25, he held his first conducting post as Assistant Conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Itwas in this capacity that, on November 14, 1943, he made his historic conducting debut. With only a few hours notice,he substituted for the ailing Bruno Walter at a Carnegie Hall concert. Overnight he became famous. The performancewas broadcast nationwide on CBS radio and the next day made the front-page of the New York Times. This acclaimquickly led to invitations to conduct orchestras all over the world.

At the same time, Bernstein the composer was beginning to make his mark. He completed his Symphony No.1: Jeremiah in 1943 and conducted its world premiere with thePittsburgh Symphony Orchestra the following year. In 1944, Bernsteincollaborated with his friend, the dancer and choreographer JeromeRobbins, on a new ballet entitled Fancy Free. With their friends BettyComden and Adolph Green, they quickly created On the Town (1944)it became their first Broadway hit.

Bernstein's limitless energy and virtuosity were legend in New York.In 1945, Bernstein was named Music Director of the New York CitySymphony Orchestra, a post he held until 1947. In 1951 he marriedthe Chilean actress and pianist Felicia Montealegre.

Bernstein's recording career began in earnest in 1956, as a recording artist with Columbia Masterworks (now SonyClassical) and beginning in the 1970s with Deutsche Grammophone. Bernstein's fame grew quickly in America with hisacclaimed and much-discussed concert-and-lecture appearances beginning in 1954 on the CBS televisionprogram Omnibus. In 1958 through the CBS network he presented the Young People's Concerts that he devised with

Friends Leonard Bernstein and and Aaron Copland


the New York Philharmonic. These programs extended over fourteen seasons. His television work made him themost famous classical musician in America, and he soon became America's cultural emissary. His televisionpresence continued, including many appearances on the PBS series Great Performances. In the course of hiscareer, he won eleven Emmy Awards.

Bernstein became Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1958-1969 .He led more concerts with theorchestra than any previous conductor. He holds the permanent title of Laureate Conductor. More than half ofBernstein's recordings are with the New York Philharmonic. He received an Academy Award nomination for hisscore for the award-winning movie On the Waterfront (1954), and he also composed incidental music for twoBroadway plays, Peter Pan (1950) and The Lark (1955).

Bernstein's contribution to the Broadway musical stage, though limited to only five complete shows, wasprofoundly important. On The Town ,Wonderful Town, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Candide, and the iconic WestSide Story . In 1957 Bernstein finally realized a collaboration with Jerome Robbins, Stephen Sondheim and ArthurLaurents, to compose the music for West Side Story. This landmark musical, transformed the Broadway sceneand was made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1961.

In 1985 the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences honored Mr. Bernstein with the LifetimeAchievement GRAMMY Award.

Many of Bernstein's writings were published in The Joy of Music (1959), Leonard Bernstein's Young People'sConcerts (1961), The Infinite Variety of Music (1966), and Findings (1982). Each has been widely translated.Bernstein also delivered six lectures at Harvard University in 1972-1973 as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor ofPoetry. These lectures were subsequently published and televised as The Unanswered Question, and have beentranslated into five languages.

Bernstein received many honors. In 1981, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, whichawarded him its Gold Medal. The National Fellowship Award in 1985 applauded his lifelong support ofhumanitarian causes. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1980.

Leonard Bernstein's heroic role in contemporary musical life retains its luster and its meaning, even as theappreciation of his music grows and deepens. The work of the Leonard Bernstein Center reaffirms hiscommitment to education and enlightenment for the young; his compositions, recordings, filmed performances andlectures continue to illuminate the canon of classical music; and the example of his thrilling, turbulent andgenerous life seems nothing less than the American dream come true. The "total embrace" of Leonard Bernsteinis firm, warm and enduring.

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The Ringgold Band is a family of musicians who enjoy performing concert band music. We arededicated to continuously advancing the skill of our members while providing high qualityentertainment for audiences throughout the region. We are committed to the education anddevelopment of young musicians in order to preserve our rich history and repertoire of concert bandmusic.

The band is funded by private and corporate donations and The Reading Musical Foundation, ofwhich the Ringgold Band is an affiliate.

The band encourages the cultivation of music among community youth. High school and college-agemusicians are invited to rehearse with the band Monday evenings at 7:30 p.m. For more informationabout the band, visit us online at www.ringgoldband.com, or contact [email protected].

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