| Steve Ledbetter |
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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!
Steve recently gave a lecture a in Boston. The lecture, titled
"Recovering a musical tradition") was videotaped by WGBH
and has been placed online on its website. For additional
information about the topic and a link to see and/or hear the
lecture click HERE!
(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!
Steve recently gave a lecture a in Boston. The lecture, titled
"Recovering a musical tradition") was videotaped by WGBH
and has been placed online on its website. For additional
information about the topic and a link to see and/or hear the
lecture click HERE!
| Steve 2006 |
Last Updated: February 2007
