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Beverly Andrews, Concertmaster

8/10/2015

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Beverly Andrews, Concertmaster
Beverly comes from a musical family.  Beverly attributes her career as a professional musician to a deathbed request made by her grandmother back in 1930.  Her dying wish was to make sure that her daughter, only 5 years old at the time, received piano lessons.  So, Beverly’s mother grew up playing the piano, and passed along the family trade.  She now attends every WSO concert since moving to town a few years ago.     

When asked why she likes playing in the orchestra, Beverly says, “The sound of all those orchestral instruments is like the swelling of a huge wave in the ocean.  We ride the wave like surfers or like dolphins leaping with musical joy in that wave of sound.  It's exhilarating.  It's satisfying. It fills holes in your soul.”

When Beverly was in 4th grade, the public school system in Midland Michigan gave hearing tests to all the children.  The results said, "Beverly sure can hear!", and she was asked to begin playing a stringed instrument at school, which changed her life.   

At the dress rehearsal for her college senior recital she was playing with such passion that she ended Lalo's “Symphonie Espanole” with such flair that she launched her bow out into the middle of the auditorium. She says of the incident, “Luckily my bow didn't break and since then, I have hung onto it.”



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Harriette (Sweetie) Stewart
1/6/2017 11:11:42 am

Beverly: would love for you to once again play for our 3rd daughter's wedding in Nov. 2017 in Wilmington. You played for our 1st daughter's wedding in Nov 2003 on Bald Head! Please contact me as soon as possible. Thank you!

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CARL JAHRSTORFER
2/19/2017 03:36:20 pm

Beverly, I just went on the WSO to get info for my group to attend an upcoming concert and I come across your Bio, Reading your 2nd paragraph response (above) about what it's like to play in the orchestra was the exact same feeling I had- listening to your playing on Jan. 29th.which I shared in my letter. Even about how your '"bow" is such a personal part of your music it can almost "fly" . I'm blown away, swept along the shore line of how you communicated that same 'exhilarating wave experience' for me in your playing- Never having met or seen this page before! Amazing, or I like to think a Divine Alignment.
Thank you.!

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    In addition to playing orchestra concerts, many of the WSO musicians also provide music for special occasions such as weddings, receptions, anniversaries and birthdays. Many also offer offer private music instruction for both school-age and adult students — please contact each player individually with contact information provided on their biography page.

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    Beverly Andrews,         
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    Diana Daniel
    Lisa Gattuso
    Christine Meyer
    Jane Radack
    Anne Stohl


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    Shirley Lebo
    Alexei Mejouev
    Jane Tierney

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    Brent Trubia

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    Maria Fesz
    Mike Pope

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    Sarah Howard
    Deborah Phillips
    Mary Jo White

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    Jennifer Muehrke
    Rebecka Rose

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    Coleman Burgess
    Brittany Hamlin

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    Jim Boston

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    Kim Adams

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    Casey Black

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    David Goodwin

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    Alex Tomlin

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    Christina Brier



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