WSL Executive Board

2012-2013

President

Amy Cole

President—Elect

Cindy Kidwell

Administrative Assistant

Joyce Hudnall

Advisor

& Endowment

Joyce Hudnall

Nominating

Treacey Smith

Recording Secretary

Elizabeth Anderson

Treasurer

Susan Bracken

Symphony Ball Chairs

Kristi C. Roberts

Jennifer Hathaway-Dixon

VP of Administration

Kara Camp

VP of Education

Sherrill Echols

VP of JSL

Donna Johnson

VP-Elect of JSL

Lisa White

VP of Membership

Betty McMahan

VP of Social Activit ies

Mary Ann Cozby

ETSO Executive Director

Nancy Wrenn

M A R C H , A P R I L A N D M A Y , 2 0 1 3

WSL Notes

Honoring the

Junior Symphony League

Class of 2013

Friday Evening

March 1, 2013

Harvey Convention Center

6:30 pm

Please join us on March 1 for the Grand Ball, where an evening of candlelight, white cherry blossoms and simple elegance awaits our guests. Come dance, dine and play in our casino as we present and honor the Junior Symphony League Class of 2013. These 71 exceptional young men and women have volunteered over 3,500 hours of service to the WSL and the East Texas Symphony Orchestra.

Be sure and purchase one of the Ramsey Fritz Jewels treasure boxes filled with merchandise and gift certificates available for $75. One box holds a gentlemen’s Philip Stein watch valued at $2,200. Buy a ticket for our benefit drawing for a chance to win a $5,000 shopping spree from Murphey the Jeweler on South Broadway! Shop our dazzling array of silent auction items including a “Napa Wine Country VIP Insider’s Tour” for 2, including airfare, to Caldwell Vineyard in beautiful Napa Valley, California; a week for 2 in the Cayman Islands; an insulated fiberglass 6 shooter deer stand from Texas Deer Stands and a “One Year Free Membership” package from Hollytree Country Club. In10City, will bring their one of a kind sound to provide the evening’s entertainment. FRESH by Brookshire's will cater a sumptuous meal for our guests.

The Grand Ball tickets are now available for $175 person. Contact Dana Cargile at 903.525.9557. Tables and premiere seating are available through underwriting and sponsorship. For more information, contact Lou Ann Berman at 903.521.4807 or visit www.wsltyler.org/wsl_ball.htm.

A Silent Auction Sample: Napa Wine

Country VIP Insider’s Tour including

airfare. A trip to remember!

Paul Diaz, ,Wine Educator

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Dear WSL Members,

We are moving into Spring, and we have many opportunities ahead in the calendar. The Grand Ball is Friday, March 1, and it will certainly be a night of elegance. We have 71 JSL Seniors who will be presented on this evening of recognition and fundraising for the ETSO. Our March Madness Spring Fundraiser Chairs, Leigh Ann Bugg and Claudia Carroll, have a fun night planned on Tuesday evening, March 19. This event will be $40 per person and will begin at 5 pm at Rick's On the Square. At 7 pm, we will walk down to the Liberty to watch and sing-a-long to the musical, GREASE. Friends and spouses are welcome. I hope to see you all there. Several of our WSL Members will be attending the upcoming TASO Conference on April 4-7, in College Station. Our organization is always well represented at the state level, and several of our WSL members are leaders in the state association. Our WSL scrapbook will go digital this year, and we are planning to reveal our use of digital technology in the area of historical

preservation at our league's table at the TASO Conference in April. WSL Photographer, Jan Barton, is preparing an exceptional digital scrapbook for display at the TASO conference. Our heartfelt thanks go out to Jan for all of her dedication and hard work. On April 23, we have the last General Meeting for the year scheduled at 7 pm at Liberty Hall. Plans are being made to include a "New Member Welcome" at 6 pm prior to the meeting. The dynamic choral group, Harmony and Understanding, from Tyler Junior College, will perform for us at the General Meeting. We look forward to seeing their performance on the Liberty stage. The Joint Board Meeting for WSL will be held at the home of Kendall Barclay. We thank Kendall for opening her home for this last Board Meeting of the WSL year.

See you at the movie!

Amy Cole WSL President 2012-2013

Michael Brooks, Susan Brooks, Vicki Conway-Teacher UT Tyler, Alexandra Brooks Seated.

Alexandra Brooks was selected to compete in the 2013 Juanita Miller Concerto Competition, piano division, held at SMU on January 12, 2013. She performed the Saint-Saens Deuxieme Concerto, opus 22. She also performed two solo’s, Chopin's Fantaisie-Impromptu Opus 66 and the third movement of A.E. Ginastera's Danzas Argentinas titled Danza del Gaucho Matrero, during the WSL February General meeting held at Christ Episcopal Church.

Alexandra said “I had a fantastic time at the JMCC competition in Dallas and I really enjoyed the experience! Thanks also for including me on the program of the February WSL meeting. It was and honor to have this opportunity to play for the Women’s Symphony League.”

Alexandra is also a WSL Scholarship recipient and JSL Senior. Watch and cheer for her presentation at The Grand Ball.

Spotlight: JSL Senior Alexandra Brooks

MARCH 1, 2013

DEALINE TO PROPOSE YOUR

JSL CANDIDATES!

See Form in Handbook-page 9 and Online at

www.wsltyler.org—FORMS

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“ONE & DONE” to be

launched for 2013-14

Exciting news! ONE & DONE is the new buzz

phrase for 2013-14! WSL is offering a pilot

project—ONE & DONE—as a committee

replacement. Members who normally would

be assigned to a committee for the entire year

may now complete their committee

requirements through one service event that

best meets their time constraints at any

particular time a need arises during the year.

Here is how it will work. The first 40 women

who complete and mail in their membership

packet and choose to participate in ONE &

DONE will be assigned to this placement.

A ONE & DONE chairman will gather all the

cell phone numbers of these 40 women and

place them in a group text. Throughout the

year, as the need arises for an additional

volunteer (perhaps at a fundraiser, educational

event, or family concert), the ONE & DONE

chairman will immediately shoot out a group

text requesting assistance. (We expect to

notify our ONE & DONE volunteers

approximately one week in advance.) The first

members who respond back via text, filling the

requested volunteer spots, will be assigned to

that particular event.

The beauty of this placement is that our

members are not confined to one day of work

on a committee that may or may not meet their

schedule when the time comes to mail

yearbooks, stuff Ball invitations, etc. Instead,

with ONE & DONE, they may check their

schedule when we text for assistance and

respond when it is convenient for them!

This committee assignment is perfect for our

members who work or who have heavy

commitments during one particular year and

need flexibility in their schedule. Watch for the

ONE & DONE opportunity in your membership

packet! For more information, please contact

Cindy Kidwell, President-Elect, 903-521-

7568.

Smiles and Full Shopping Bags were plentiful aboard the Holiday

Express Shopping trip to Dallas!

November 27, 2012

DATE FINALIZED FOR

SPRING SCHOOL CONCERT

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

The date for the East Texas Symphony School Concert

has been finalized for Wednesday, May 22nd! There was

concern that the previously scheduled day, May 14th which

is the official STARR fifth grade math re-test, would create

too many conflicts. May 22nd appears to be the best

available date at Caldwell Auditorium. There will be two

concerts on May 22nd with the first scheduled for 10 a.m.

and the second at 11:20 a.m. for fourth and fifth grade

students.

The Carnegie Hall Weill Music Institute school

curriculum, “Link Up: The Orchestra Sings,” has been

distributed to all of the TISD elementary school campuses

as well as other area schools in preparation for the concert.

Educators are being contacted about the confirmed date of

May 22nd. Efforts are being directed toward filling remaining

seats with students and their teachers. At this time,

approximately 3,000 of the 3,400 available seats have been

reserved. There is every reason to believe that Caldwell

Auditorium will have a full house for both performances!

ENDOWMENT CORNER

WSL Endowment Fund Memorials and Gifts

MEMBERSHIP NEWS Membership Roster Additions: Renewing Member: Kandi Owens (Robert) Associate 2801 Wexford Dr. #102 Tyler, TX 75709 903-520-5521(h) 903-534-1111(w) rowens@tyler.net

Reminder to all members: To remain an active member of WSL, all requirements must be fulfilled by the end of May. Please be sure you are meeting your responsibilities, or you will become an associate member, and JSL status (if applicable) will be affected. Membership renewal packets will go out in April. MEMBERSHIP VP Betty McMahan

betbaird@aol.com 903-534-0885

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THE WSL ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION is a resource which will be used to support community music education and our EAST TEXAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. We deeply appreciate your encouragement in that effort. Make checks payable to WSL Endowment. Include your name and address along with that of those remembered or honored, if applicable and send to : JOYCE HUDNALL, ENDOWMENT Chair 3407 Heines Drive, Tyler, TX 75701 For any questions, you may contact Joyce at 903-592-5243 or jfhud@suddenlink.net

Send us your spare change - the cost of a cup of coffee, or lots more, and together we’ll turn our change

into another music scholarship. WSL

Treasurer P.O. Box 6823 Tyler, TX 75711

“Sips for Scholarships”

WSL Spare Change

Scholarship Fund

Donate - verb - To give in common with others

Mary G. Williams (Sherrill Echols’ Mother)

Connie Seale

Elizabeth Peacock Marsh (WSL Charter Member and

Mother of Betsy Ellis) Nancy Wrenn Joyce Hudnall

Dolphine Murphy (Greg Murphy’s Father)

Joyce Hudnall

Join the learning, the exchange of

ideas, the fun, and the fellowship!

Mark this on your

calendar!

TASO 2013

April 4-7, 2013

Hilton College Station Hotel & Conference Center—College Station, Texas

in Honor of ...

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JSL students have been busy with ETSO Concerts, Liberty Hall, and Tyler Youth Orchestra Concerts. The WSL Ball is Friday, March 1, 2013. We hope you have made plans to honor the JSL Senior Class. Feb. 10 was the WSL Ball information meeting for JSL students and parents. Some JSL students are selling WSL Benefit Jewelry Tickets. Alex Fleming Monster Bowl Fundraiser total was up this year to $16,026.18. All of the funds are distributed to the Women’s Symphony League and Tyler Youth Orchestra. Deadline for proposing 10th graders to the Junior Symphony League is March 1, 2013. Forms are on line and in the WSL handbook.

Donna Johnson, VP of JSL djohnson12@embarqmail.com

"A very big Thank You for those who contributed and honored our wonderful Senior JSL members with their

donations to our Senior Gift Project !"

Bonnie Palmer - Senior Gifts Chair

JSL Seniors take Dance Lessons at Sal’s Dance

Studio, December 14, 2012

The Seniors and their presenting parent escort will perform a Waltz the evening

of the Ball.

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The East Texas Symphony Orchestra offers a pair of concerts in March and April as the 2012-2013 subscription series continues. Both concerts feature great classical melodies and outstanding soloists.

On March 9, Richard Lee and the ETSO present “The French Connection,” a program of music from and inspired by France. The orchestra will perform George Gershwin’s popular An American in Paris, and Jacques Offenbach’s Gaîté Parisienne, which features one of the composer’s famous can-cans.

This concert also has a special emphasis on youth. Talented young artist Russell Houston, Grand Prize winner of the 2011 Juanita Miller Competition, joins the orchestra for Camille Saint-Saens’ Cello Concerto No. 1. Also, five local student musicians have been selected by audition to play with the ETSO in a performance of Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, his “Paris” symphony.

The 2012-2013 Season subscription series concludes on April 13 with “Epic Russia.” If you like big,

melodic orchestral music, this is the concert for you. Richard Lee and the orchestra open the concert with Shostakovich’s lively Festive Overture. The full forces of the orchestra are also featured in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, a work well know through it’s transcriptions for band. Joining ETSO for this final concert is Di Wu, finalist in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. She will be soloist in Rachmaninoff’s virtuoso Piano Concerto No. 2.

Subscription concerts start at 7:30 pm at the UT Tyler Cowan Center. Tickets are sold through the Cowan Center Box Office. Call 903-566-7424 or find the link to online ordering at www.ETSO.org.

Along with the subscription series finale, spring also brings a

special program at Caldwell Auditorium as the East Texas Symphony Orchestra Association presents Doc Severinsen and the San Miguel Five. The popular trumpeter and television personality brings his new combo to Caldwell Auditorium on May 4 at 7:30 pm for an evening of jazz and Latin rhythms. Tickets will go on sale first to ETSO subscribers. Sales to the general public open in March. Tickets will range in price from $10 to $50 based on seating. They will be sold through the ETSO office at 903-526-3876, ext. 4# and online through www.ETSO.org. (Note: the ETSO is not performing at this concert.)

March 9, 2013

April 13, 2013

Russell Houston

Di Wu

San Miguel Five

Doc Severinsen May 4, 2013

May 4, 2013

ETSO OFFERS

A TRIO OF CONCERTS

LAO NEWS Page 7 Scholarship Season is Here!

The Deadline is March 22, 2013

The Women’s Symphony League annually offers music scholarships to local students. The Bud to Bloom Scholarships and the Alex Fleming Memorial Scholarships are used for private music instruction. The Music Merit Scholarship is for declared music majors enrolled in a college or university. Information and applications for these scholarships are available online at the WSL website - www.wsltyler.org - at the Scholarships Tab, and at the Women’s Symphony League office.

The Bud to Bloom Scholarship

Bud to Bloom Scholarships are awarded annually and application is limited to beginning music students, currently at the 8th eighth grade level or under, who have had six months or less of private music instruction. The $500.00 Scholarship is to provide instrumental or vocal lessons, and is distributed to recipient’s approved teachers, on a monthly basis, until the sum of $500.00 is depleted.

The Alex Fleming Memorial Scholarship

Alex Fleming Memorial Scholarships are awarded annually and application is limited to current 9th - 12th grade students who are enrolled in a high school level music program, private or public. The $500.00 Scholarship is to provide instrumental or vocal lessons, and is distributed to recipient’s approved teachers, on a monthly basis, until the sum of $500.00 is depleted.

The Music Merit Scholarship

The Music Merit Scholarship is a $1,500.00 Scholarship that is awarded to declared music majors who are well-rounded, full-time students enrolled in a college or university. The students may be academically classified as an undergraduate, graduate, or doctoral student. This $1,500.00 Scholarship is distributed, in total, directly to the recipient(s).

Women’s Symphony League of Tyler Address: ETSO Office, 107 East Irwin Street,

Tyler, TX 75702 Website: www.wsltyler.org

Questions? Laura Anderson -

laura.anderson@suddenlink.net or 903-343-4660

League of American Orchestras Volunteer Council

The Volunteer Council of the League of American Orchestras is actively planning an informative and productive program for the volunteers at the National Conference in St. Louis, June 18-June 20. Begin making plans now to attend and learn first-hand from the best of the best! You also won’t want to miss the Pre-Conference Volunteer Sessions which begin on Tuesday, June 17 with a panel, an interactive session, and finished with a special Dine-Around treat that evening. (Also, you might want to attend a Texas Ranger Baseball game while you are there. The stadium is not far from the hotel.)

Volunteers play a key role in supporting their orchestras as they strive for success. With this in mind, our volunteer track for the 2013 Conference will highlight community linkages, governance, and sustainability by expanding our award-winning presentations to include Question & Answer sessions, a League-selected speaker at our networking luncheon, and having a panel on four very successful and diverse orchestra and volunteer programs.

Attending conference is a great way to connect with orchestra volunteers from across the country and learn about best practices other organizations are using to achieve their goals. I hope to see you in St. Louis for the June 2013 League of American Orchestras National Conference.

Conference registration and program details will be available online in April at www.americanorchestras.org.

Or, you may contact Laura Hyde, 2013 Volunteer Council President-elect 903-539-9796 laurahyde@suddenlink.net

Winners of 17th Annual Juanita Miller Concerto Competition 1st Place Piano, J.T. Hassell, Amarillo; 1st Place Strings and Grand Prize-Christine Wu, Plano; 1st Place Winds/Brass-Steven Tsai, Plano.

TASO NEWS

MARCH 2013

March 1—Friday THE GRAND BALL, 6:30 pm Harvey Convention Center

March 1—Friday Deadline to Propose JSL Candidates

March 2—Saturday JSL Dance, 8:00 pm—11:30 pm Harvey Convention Center

March 9—Saturday ETSO MASTERWORKS SERIES CONCERT, 7:30 pm

The French Connection Cowan Center, UTTyler

March 19—Tuesday WSL SPRING FUNDRAISER &

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING, 5:00 pm

March Madness Ricks on the Square and Liberty Hall

APRIL 2013

April 4—7 TASO Conference College Station, TX

April 9—Tuesday EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING, 9 am American State Bank Conference Room 5202 Old Jacksonville Highway

April 13—Saturday ETSO MASTERWORKS SERIES CONCERT, 7:30 PM Epic Russia Cowan Center, UTTyler

April 23—Tuesday GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING & NEW MEMBER WELCOME, 7:00 pm Liberty Hall—103 E. Erwin

MAY 2013

May 4—Saturday ETSO PRESENTS: Doc Severinsen

and the San Miquel Five, 7:30 pm Caldwell Auditorium

May 5—Sunday TYO Concert, 4:00 pm TJC Wise Auditorium

May 9—Thursday Joint Board Meeting, 10:00 am

Home of Kendall Barclay 1411 Covewood Drive, Tyler, TX 75703

May 22—Wednesday SPRING SCHOOL CONCERT, 10:00 am / 11:20 am Caldwell Auditorium

ATTENTION

WSL MEMBERS

Should you have any questions about your WSL

membership status or placement, please contact

the following:

Contact the Membership VP, Betty McMahan at 903-534-

0885, 903-216-0188 or betbaird@aol.com, if

necessary.

Contact the Placement Chair, Bonnie Palmer at 903-592-

0804, 903-520-0907 or SBPalmer@suddenlink.net, if

necessary.

Women’s Symphony League Of Tyler

P.O. Box 6823 Tyler, TX 75711 www.wsltyler.org

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