October 29, 2000
Gloria Lenhoff can be seen and heard online in a November
performance at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
The Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. has just
posted its November schedule. For Thursday, November 30, 2000, it lists:
its 6:00 P.M. performance as "The Miracles, a 23-member choir from
Mississippi, performs with featured soloist Gloria Lenhoff." See the
schedule at:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/programs/millennium/schedule.html
For directons to see and hear the program on line either at the time of
the performance or afterwards, go to:
http://www.kennedy-center.org/multimedia/
September 25, 2000
Williams syndrome, music and absolute pitch to be a subject of radio program on National Public Radio during the week of October 2.
Featured on the program will be WS sopranos Jessica Mavro and Gloria Lenhoff, Drs.
Daniel Levitin and Howard Lenhoff of the newly created WSA Music Advisory Board, Dr.
Ursula Bellugi, Dr. Peter Gregerson (researcher on absolute pitch who has attended WSA
national meeting), Nancy Goldberg (Director of the WS Music Camp at Belvoir Terrace), and
others.
The highly acclaimed program is called "The Infinite Mind," and is supported by
the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. To find the public radio
station in your area carrying the program and the time of the broadcast, please check
http://www.lcmedia.com/stations.htm.
Please note: If your city is not listed on that web page, call your local radio station to
ask if they would be interested in running that program dealing with "Absolute Pitch
and Williams Syndrome."
It can also be heard on Real Audio.
August 3, 2000
WS Comprehensive Web Site receives award
Visitors to our web site may have noticed something a little different on the
front page.
We are very pleased to announce that the WS Comprehensive Web Site has been reviewed by
Disability Network and has met their strict standards and criteria for recognition.
We are honored to be presented with DisabilityNetwork.com's OUTSTANDING WEB SITE AWARD for
2000.
We thank you, our visitors, for your continued support of this web site as we endeavor to
bring you the most up to date information available about Williams syndrome.
Gary Rubin, Webmaster
May 16, 2000
Gloria's Performing with full orchestra and in Spain
Gloria Lenhoff continues her heavy concert schedule. On April 17, she performed
and was the hit of the national conference of the Developmental Disability Nurses
Association, which met this year in Burlington, Vermont. On May 7, she performed for a
fundraiser for CHIMES, a special full inclusion school on the California State University
Campus at Northridge. One of the leaders of the program is Delia Smith, wife of WSF Board
member, Patrick Smith.
On June 10, she will give a presentation at a weekend program at Coe College in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. If any Iowa WS families wish to attend, please contact Gloria's father at
hlenhoff@uci.edu.
On July 2nd, Gloria will be feature soloist with a 65 San Diego Community Orchestra and
the 100 person San Diego Master Chorale. She will sing for the first time in public
the complex Samuel Barber's mini-cantata "Knoxville, Summer of 1915." The
concert is sponsored by the St. Madeleine and Sophie's Center in east San Diego. For those
wishing to attend, please write to stmsc@stmsc.org.
At the end of July, she will be the guest of Marina Parra and the WS Association of Soria,
and Tomas Monzo and the WS Association of Valencia. Gloria will sing a Spanish modern and
classical repertoire as well as songs in other languages.
Did Gloria's parents ever think when Gloria was 15 that she would ever be doing this? They
never dreamed it could happen. But it goes to show what a WS talent can do with good
teachers and practice.
