Steve Ledbetter
19602006 |
It is amazing to have been found somehow by the reunion (though I shared experiences of 6th, 7th, and 8th grades with some of you before we all got to Catalina, where I was only a student in 9th grade. (I graduated from Rincon.) But it's great to have a chance to touch base with some old friends from 40 and more years ago! After high school, I went to Pomona College (near Los Angeles), planning to become a nuclear physicist, though I was also considering possible majors in history or German. But one of life's greatest and luckiest surprises edged me into music instead. I was active as a choral conductor and singer, and when on after Pomona to get a doctorate in musicology at New York University. I taught, mostly at Dartmouth College (N.H.) for about 10 years, then, in 1979, joined the staff of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as its musicologist and program annotator, where I wrote program notes for all the concerts and gave pre-concert lectures for about 20 years. In the fall of 1998 I resigned that position and set up my own freelance business as a writer and lecturer on classical music. I'm now approaching my 34th anniversary with my cell-biologist (and amateur violinist) wife, Mary Lee Stewart, whom I met at Pomona, and reveling in the activities of our 32-year-old son Bill (formerly a trumpeter, then a professional actor, now working in the advertising office of Foreign Affairs magazine) and our 27-year-old daughter Joanna, who is a teacher of deaf children in the greater Boston area. (Neither is married yet, and no grandchildren so far.) I'd enjoy hearing from any of you who happen to remember me after all these years, despite the fact that I've only made brief family-oriented visits to Tucson in the last 35 years or so!
(Last Updated: 2006) |