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In this issue:
• Learn about our special benefit concert
• Get all the details about our 2017 Spring
Concert Series
• All the different ways to “Be a Friend” of CBFW
Contents:
Benefit Concert 2
Spring Concert Series 3
CBFW Friends 4
Be a Friend of CBFW 5
Become a Music Maker 6
How Music in Movies Speaks to Me . . .
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V OLUM E 17, I SSU E 2
SP RING/SUMM ER 2017
Friend to Friend Dedicated to musical excellence through
artistic handbell performance
Carol Lynn Mizell, Denton
Valerie Martin*, Grapevine
Brenda Swindle, Addison
Lynn Tedford, N. Richland Hills
Karen Thompson*, N. Richland Hills
YangSun (Sunny) Yu, Fort Worth
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*Executive Committee Member
Pam Adams*, Grand Prairie
Ashley Blaha, Dallas/Houston
Nicole Culp, Fort Worth
Kari Daelke*, Mesquite
Elizabeth Garvin, Lewisville
Shari Gibson, Fort Worth
Cindy Karm, Dallas
Alys Lindholm, Carrollton
Conductor and Artistic Director, Stephanie Rhoades, Dallas
Ringers
Concert Bells 2016-2017 (all, left to right):
Front Row (big bass bells): Alys Lindholm, Valerie Martin, Pam
Adams
2nd Row: YangSun Yu (Sunny), Nicole Culp, Karen Thompson, Cindy
Karm
3rd Row: Shari Gibson, Elizabeth Garvin, Stephanie Rhoades,
Carol Lynn Mizell, Lynn Tedford
Back Row: Brenda Swindle, Ashley Blaha, Kari Daelke
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Benefit Concert
When Karla Campbell, the handbell
director at St. Stephen, contacted me and
asked me to suggest about 20 handbell
titles that she could purchase to replace
the destroyed music, I had a better idea:
Why don’t we (Concert Bells of Fort
Worth) perform a benefit concert to raise
the funds to help replace the music and
other music supplies that were lost? I
suggested the plan to Karla and she and
the church leaders loved it! I hope you will
join us as we perform a concert to benefit
St. Stephen Presbyterian Church on April
28 at 7:30 pm.
On Sunday, January 8, 2017, St. Stephen
Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth, located
blocks from the TCU campus, canceled its
morning services after someone vandalized
the building and tried to start a fire in the
kitchen. Most of the damage was to the
education building where classrooms and
offices are located. Almost every window
was shattered or smashed, furniture was
broken, and all of the music in the handbell
library was sprayed with what appears to
have been a fire extinguisher. The damage
was estimated at $500,000 and a man was
arrested a few days later for the crime.
Stephanie Rhoades, Conductor & Artistic Director
Movies & Music
Our concerts this season feature
music from movies. I love movie
music! Just say the words “Pink
Panther” and I immediately conjure up
the image of the inept Inspector
Clouseau and hear that iconic theme
song. Love me some Mancini and
Peter Sellers!
My first public music performance was
at my mom’s Ladies Club singing “Somewhere Over
the Rainbow” with my sister, accompanied by Mom
on the piano. I was six. Ah, the memories…
And speaking of being a kid, let’s talk about Disney.
My childhood was filled with Disney movies and LP
soundtracks. Same for my kids, except it was VHS
tapes and CDs instead of LPs.
One of my all-time favorite movies is The Sound of
Music. Mom had the LP soundtrack, but not the
movie one; she had the Broadway soundtrack with
Mary Martin. It was exquisite. I remember seeing
the movie on the big screen as a young child. The
curtains swooshed back, and bam! “The hills are
alive with the sound of music.” That sweeping
scene of Julie Andrews singing atop the mountain
with her arms outstretched coupled with the
majestic score was breathtaking. Still is.
If you love movie music, you will love our spring
concert. We will perform “The Pink Panther” and
other Henry Mancini pieces, a medley from The
Wizard of Oz, Disney’s “Hakuna Matata,” and a
number from my favorite, The Sound of Music.
Karen Thompson, President
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Contributor’s CircleAnonymous (4)
Charles & Sally AdamsI
Charles & Phyllis Beck
Marc & Michelle Corazao
Kari Daelke
Edwin & Jane Darling
David & Elise Dixon
Mark & Elizabeth Elliott
Susan S. Fisk
Karen L. Flint
Lesa Guerrero
Daniel Kern-Ekins
Eric & Nancy Kincaid
Karen Kuck
Jessica Larson
Alys Lindholm
Gene & Becky Lormor
Kathy Lowrie
Larry & Leigh Lyon
Michael & Claire Morris
Terry & Jennifer Mount
Linda M. Noblin
Lynn Peterson
Judith Reemtsma
Marcia S. Rober
Liz Roberts
Loretta E. Robinson
Edwin S. Secor
Frank Shroyer
Brenda Smith
LauraMay Sorkin
Linda Strem
Peggy Sward
Jan Sweeny
Robert Taylor
YangSun Yu
If you are a Friend and your name has been omitted or your
listing is inaccurate, please let us know so we can correct our
records.
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Friends of Concert Bells of Fort Worth
Lifetime Member Beth Judd
Ring of Honor David & Mary Bell
Scot Latta
George & Nesha Morey
Director’s Circle Dan & Elizabeth Garvin
Jean Harden
Rich & Janeen Karm
President’s Circle Anonymous (4)
Jean Ann Karm
Bob & Sherry Meeks
Bob & Carol Lynn Mizell
Patricia M. Morey
Lynn Tedford
Rick & Karen Thompson
Premiere Circle Anonymous (4)
Kay Champagne
Theodore & Janet Daelke
Kelli Ettelbrick
Dennis & Kathi Feduke
Bill & Pat Gordon
Donna Hagerty
Lynette Hendricks & Stephanie Rhoades
Richard Sperry
Brenda Swindle
Grand CircleMark & Nicole Culp
Matt & Shari Gibson
Nancy Gillis
Lori Haaland
Andrew & Maurine LeCocq
Jon & Stefani Lee
Joan Muser
David & Carol Rowley
James & Barbara Thompson
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Be a part of Concert Bells’ circle of Friends!
$25 Gives• 1 Mallet• Bell polish & cloths• Parts for bell
repair
$90 Gives• 1 Year HMA membership• 17 Copies of music• Postcards
for concert series
$250 Gives• Postage for 1 postcard mailing• Instrumentalists for
a concert• Programs for 2 large concerts
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Advance Notice of Our Concerts
Your Donation Helps • Buy music, maintain and buy new equipment•
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Your support helps us bring handbell music to our community and
brings you a few bonuses too!
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Director’s Circle: $360 - $599
President’s Circle: $240 - $359
Premier Circle: $120 - $239
Grand Circle: $60 - $119
Contributor: up to $59
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True in life as it is with CBFW, nothing
sustains us like our Friends! In the last
newsletter, we announced some updates
to our Friends structure that we hope
will make it easier to donate and know
where your donations help our
organization. We continuously have
record years of Friends contributions;
CBFW has so much to be thankful for!
Part of the reason I am passionate about CBFW is that my
mother and grandmother instilled in me a great love for
music and a desire to make sure that it touches people’s
hearts, and the level of musicality CBFW delivers really
fits that passion of mine. When I play certain songs, I
think about them. When I make contributions to CBFW,
I think about them. I’d urge you, next time you donate to
CBFW, to become not just a Friend, but a Music
Maker. Music Makers are simply Friends that donate in
memory or in honor of someone, and those funds
specifically go to the purchase of sheet music, or a special
bell or chime purchase in that person’s name. In our
hearts, so much of what we do as ringers is dedicated to
our audience, to specific friends or family, and to God –
I invite and urge you to do the same with your Friends
donation! Become a Music Maker today! And as
always, thank you so much for your support of our
organization!
Current Music Makers are:
Alys Lindholm
Her gift: B2 handbell
Dale & Valerie Martin
Their gift: Lower 6th octave chimes
Rick Thompson Family (Rick, Karen, Alice & Helen)
Their gift: D8 handbell
Dedicated in memory of Cora Latta
Herb & Roberta Seem; their gift: sheet music
In honor of Quinda Hatfield
Michael & Ginger Bodino; their gift: sheet music
In honor of Lori Haaland & Paula Miller
Mary Lou Smith; her gift: sheet music
In memory of Elnora Fetterolf
Become a Music Maker
Pam Adams, Treasurer
How Music in Movies Speaks to Me Brenda Swindle—For me, music in
movies is what I remember the most. When I was in high school,
the
senior movie was The Bridge on the River Kwai. This meant that
the senior class got out of classes for the dura-
tion of the movie, yay! The “Colonel Bogey March” made such an
impression on me that I can still whistle it
to this day. Needless to say, that was “several” years ago. This
movie was somewhat historic in that it was
based on a true story and depicted WWII. A must-see!
Pam Adams—Movie scores and themes are one of my absolute
favorite genres of music. The first film
score I fell in love with was Out Of Africa (John Barry), but my
favorite of all time is a tie between Braveheart
(James Horner) and The Da Vinci Code (Hans Zimmer). No words
could ever detail emotion or circumstance
better than music can describe! Soundtracks are equally as
important – who doesn’t think of The Breakfast
Club and picture Judd Nelson with his fist in the air when they
hear “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by
Simple Minds?
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Sunny Yu—“Gabriel’s Oboe” is one of my favorite tunes from the
movie The Mission. This
tune played by the Father Gabriel in the opening scene leads the
Guaraní to open their
hearts to Gabriel and be converted to Christianity. It might be
the most strongly impressive
of the tunes throughout the movie, and it was arranged for
various instruments and vocals.
When I listen to the tune, it still reminds me of how I see it
as a symbol of “peace,”
“sacrifice,” and “love.”
Lynn Tedford—My favorite soundtrack from this season’s music has
to be The Magnificent
Seven. I know when the movie came out in the 1960s, this young
girl’s love of anything horse-
or “old west”-related went into overdrive. Who could ever resist
the high drama created by
its theme song? You can literally close your eyes and picture
the horses pounding through
the Mexican deserts and hillsides in search of bandits and
desperadoes. Whenever I hear this
song, it takes forever to remove it from playing over and over
in my head.
Valerie Martin—I love “Aquarius” because it is the first “rock
and roll” song that I remem-
ber being able to sing all of the lyrics to. As a young
teenager, it just sounded so “groovy.” I
played it a few times while in high school band, and now I have
been able to make the full cir-
cle by playing it on bells as a mature woman. And I can still
remember most of the words!!
Ashley Blaha—The movie soundtrack that’s the dearest to me of
them all is Singing in the
Rain. I have many fond memories of the movie, and the best one
is from when I went out in
the rain imitating Gene Kelly’s famous scene in the front yard
of my childhood home.
Elizabeth Garvin—Words cannot really describe Hans Zimmer and
Lisa Gerrard’s “Now
We are Free” from the movie Gladiator: it's more about feeling
and emotion. When I listen to
this song, Hans’ music and Lisa's voice transform my innermost
troubled thoughts to peaceful
ones. As Lisa sings, though you cannot understand the words
themselves, you understand
their meaning because of the passion with which she sings and
the emotion of the beautiful
orchestral music that supports her voice.
Alys Lindholm—I’m one of those people that never really “got”
listening to movie sound-
tracks. In fact, when I first started working at Borders Books
and Music in my early 20s, I had
to ask other employees why people bought movie soundtracks
instead of just... watching the
movie again. The only one I listened to as a teen was Forrest
Gump: The Soundtrack, which I
liked because it was full of classic rock. And lo and behold,
we’re playing one of those songs
in this concert! “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” may have started
with Hair, but I know it from
that Forrest Gump tape a friend gave me.
Nicole Culp—Ahhhh, musicals and movie soundtracks! I love them
all!! Some of my favor-
ites are Oliver!, West Side Story, and Jesus Christ Superstar.
My sisters and I could sing (and
dance) every word of The Sound of Music when it would come on TV
every year! We loved
Annie, too!! Yep!! My brain is flooded with happy memories right
now!
How Music in Movies Speaks to Me (continued). . .
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