Renee Anthony Dee:
CLASS OF 1973
Valley Forge High SchoolClass of 1973
Parma heights, OH
Baldwin Wallace CollegeClass of 1977
Berea, OH
Renee Anthony's Story
Renee Anthony is from Parma Heights, Ohio. She is married. Her schools include Valley Forge High School. She later attended BaldwinâWallace College. She works(ed) at SUNY Fredonia School of Music, Cleveland Pops, Canton Symphony.
Music Renee Anthony likes includes Lyne Fortin, SUNY Fredonia Bassoon Studio, Kelly Spicer. Books she likes include New Weissenborn Method for Bassoon. Movies she likes include Gandhi, The Buddha, PORGY & ME. TV shows she likes include Modern Family, Mad Men, Law & Order.
One of Renee Anthony's favorite quotes is:""Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need.' It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that momentânot discouragementâyou will find the strength is there."
~ Joseph Campbell
"Why do we teach music?
Not because we expect you to major in music.
Not we because we expect you to play all your life.
Not so you can relax.
Not so you can have fun.
... ... But: so you will be human
so you will recognize beauty
so you will be sensitive
so you will be closer to an infinite beyond this world
so you will have something to cling to
so you will have more love, more compassion, more gentleness,
more good----in short, more life"
- Unknown
â"Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." â Isaac Asimov
"I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity." - Glenn Gould
"Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with." - Mark Twain
"It is easy in the world to live after the worldâs opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.â - Leonard Bernstein
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut." -Albert Einstein
"We cannot do great things, only small things with great love." -Mother Teresa
"The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off."
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"What if it is entirely your fault that the composer's language is clear to the initiated but not to you?"
-ETA Hoffman's challenge to his reader to take music seriously as a mode of artistic expression (as quoted by Alex Ross in the New Yorker, 8/24/09)
"Someone is either a smoker or a nonsmoker. There's no in-between. The trick is to find out which one you are, and be that. If you're a nonsmoker, you'll know."
-Cozy Carlisle (Robin Williams); Dead Again (1991)
âWhatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do itâ
-Mahatma Gandhi
"Organizations grow when they persuade a tiny cadre to be passionate, not when they touch millions with a mediocre message.
-Seth Godin
"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."
-Hunter S. Thompson
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it- not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense"
-The Buddha
"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball . . . I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon."
-Frank Zappa
"There is no good, there is no bad, there's just what happens. Dance with it."
-Seth Godin
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."
-Mark Twain
"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
-D.H. Lawrence
"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're led to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
- Ken Burns
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."
- Washington Irving
Renee is the calmthest, I know.
and surely it's not jest for show.
'Cause when she gets going,
Regardless what's showing,
Her inside is still going slow.
- David McGuire
"Reclaiming the sacred space in my life. Slowing down, speaking more with my ears, listening more with my eyes, permitting myself to feel that which connects all of us in that moment of quiet between each breath." - Thom Zantow".
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