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Apple Hill celebrates anniversary with new and old
by Joan Geary
The Keene Sentinel
March 9, 2008
In 2008, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music has two causes for celebration: a new executive director and the 20th anniversary of its Playing for Peace program.
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“Art and Alterity”: Instruments Play for Peace
The Bates Student
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
By Andrew Wilcoz
Assistant Arts & Living Editor
History makes the case: the arts precede revolutions, catalyze change and inspire progress. As contemporary evidence, one musical act stands out in particular. To employ the arts as instruments of peace is the mission of the Apple Hill Chamber Players. Monday, Feb. 4, they performed at the Bates Chapel as a part of the program “Art and Alterity: beyond the Other as Enemy in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”
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Nelson / Making Way
The Keene Sentinel
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Officials and friends of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in Nelson gather to watch an excavator demolish the remainder of the “Link” building, making way for the construction of the John and Jean Hoffman Community Auditorium and Learning Center at Apple Hill.
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Apple Hill gets new director
By Anika Clark
Sentinel Staff
The Keene Sentinel
Saturday, September 22, 2007
NELSON—Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music has a new executive director, after co-founder and longtime director, Eric Stumacher, stepped down this summer.
Effective Oct. 1, concert violist Leonard G. Matczynski, 59, will take the helm of the local non-profit, which for decades has emphasized the “transformative power” of music.
“Lenny has been one of our most beloved faculty festival artists for many years,” said Stumacher.
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In the name of peace, Apple Hill welcomes two KSC students
The Keene Sentinel
August 8, 2007
By Joan Geary
This weekend, thousands of students are arriving at Keene State College for the start of the new academic year.
Among them are Tania Twal of Jordan and Marina Galstyan of Armenia, surprised recipients of the 2007-08 Playing for Peace scholarships.
The one-year residency program, established four years ago, offers young musicians the opportunity to further their education in a peaceful environment, removed from the conflict of their homelands. It’s a collaboration by the college and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in Nelson, the nonprofit that for more than 35 years has promoted peace through music.
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Israelis visiting the area work for a better future
Peter J. Cleary
Sentinel Staff
Sunday, July 23, 2006
NELSON—With the people of Israel and Lebanon facing violent fighting during the past week and a half, two Israelis—one Jewish, one Arab—have been visiting the Monadnock Region with hopes of building relationships and understanding that will help them move past the long-term Middle East conflict.
Each year since 1988, the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music has invited musicians from conflict-ridden regions to Nelson to play with and get to know people from cultures on the other side of the conflict.
And one of those musicians, Wassim Azzam, a 17-year-od Arab from Nazareth, Israel, was at Apple Hill last week when Hezbollah missiles hit near his family’s home.
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