Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Response to Disaster in Haiti
One response the Bettina Network, inc. made to the disaster in Haiti was to respond to a request from a bed & breakfast guest and now a friend, to give a one night stay at a Bettina home in Harvard Square for the silent auction being held by the town of Weston, VT.
We were delighted to respond and grateful that we were included and able to do a little more to help those in such shock and pain.
The event was held this past Saturday (January 23, 2010) and was, by all accounts, a very successful undertaking. Kudos to the town of Weston, Vermont for being involved and for moving so quickly to help address such an enormous need! Proceeds from the auction were sent to Partners in Health to further their work in Haiti.
What made it special to us were the number of people who gave a part of their work and talent: one woman gave cookies - to be baked at a time requested by the successful bidder. She had samples of the cookies at the event to encourage bids. Another gave her special carrot cake, also to be baked at a time requested by the successful bidder - and she also had samples. And there were more.
It is wonderful to give money - that is what's needed in the end - but to also involve yourself and give something which takes time out from busy lives is indeed special. It insures that you will think of the Haitians undergoing such trauma, after the fund-raising event and will put your hopes and wishes for them into whatever it is you have made.
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We were delighted to respond and grateful that we were included and able to do a little more to help those in such shock and pain.
The event was held this past Saturday (January 23, 2010) and was, by all accounts, a very successful undertaking. Kudos to the town of Weston, Vermont for being involved and for moving so quickly to help address such an enormous need! Proceeds from the auction were sent to Partners in Health to further their work in Haiti.
What made it special to us were the number of people who gave a part of their work and talent: one woman gave cookies - to be baked at a time requested by the successful bidder. She had samples of the cookies at the event to encourage bids. Another gave her special carrot cake, also to be baked at a time requested by the successful bidder - and she also had samples. And there were more.
It is wonderful to give money - that is what's needed in the end - but to also involve yourself and give something which takes time out from busy lives is indeed special. It insures that you will think of the Haitians undergoing such trauma, after the fund-raising event and will put your hopes and wishes for them into whatever it is you have made.
TO RESPOND TO THIS BLOG email comments to info@bettina-network.com
TO LEARN MORE about the Bettina Network, inc. try www.bettina-network.com
IF YOU ENJOY OUR BLOG, USE OUR SERVICES TO BOOK YOUR ACCOMMODATIONS WHEN YOU
TRAVEL!!! 1-800-347-9166 inside U.S. or 617-497-9166 outside or inside the U.S
Labels: Event Review, Making Connections
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Nuller and VanSlyck in Concert
copyright by Bettina Network 2009 New School of Music
Sunday, March 29, 2009 at 3pm 25 Lowell Street
Cambridge, MA. 02138
617 492 8105
Margarita Nuller, a graduate of St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia and Trudi Van Slyck, co-founder of the New School of Music, played an amazing concert. It was a concert you want to retain in your memory and replay many times.
Some comments from guests on hearing Nuller play "it was like listening to Rachmaninoff", I wonder if others (in the audience) know the incredible virtuoso they are hearing," "it is rare to hear such a performance."
The order of the program was genius. In the middle of the program Trudi Van Slyck played 'Wintertime I and II by Robt. Shumann, following which Van Slyck and Nuller played a two piano piece by Nicholas Van Slyck entitled "Winter-Time" for two pianos (in memoriam, Robt. Shumann). It was an especially powerful moment when you knew that Trudi Van Slyck is the widow of Nicholas Van Slyck, the composer. In addition, it was powerfully played.
Nuller's Beethoven Sonata in Eb Major, Op. 27 #1 is rarely heard at the level at which she played. Her interpretation seemed to come from the fact that she had totally internalized the piece. It was not the loud, overreaching, rushing to the end interpretation that one gets used to, it was played so that you knew and felt why Beethoven is such a giant.
My favorite was the Chopin "Sonata in B minor, Op. 58" - a piece I've loved since childhood. To hear it played with such technical perfection and beauty at the same time was an experience I won't soon forget.
When the audience had eaten and left and only a handful of us remained, the treat of the evening was an encore Ms. Nuller played from Franz Liszt. A piece you won't hear often because it is one of the virtuoso pieces Liszt wrote knowing that only a few would be able to play it. Nuller played it to perfection and note perfect.
All in all a wonderful afternoon and evening of truly exceptional music.
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Labels: Event Review
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