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Peggy Ellen Reynolds, Violin/Viola 110 Gifford Ave, Jersey City, NJ 07304 201 435 5447 peggyreynolds110@gmail.com Status 2021: still making music! NJSO #Orchestra You 2020 ![]() Quartet in Quarantine photo/video: Charles Sachs
Photo credit Al Klase "Co-video"
Al & Peg birthdays 2020 Serve in the following community orchestras: New Jersey Reading Orchestra, selected Sundays in 2020-21 (rotating player, assist organizing, web host) Stay tuned! The Metropolitan Orchestra of NJ, 2020-21season Madison High School (viola) Stay tuned! Society of Musical Arts, 2020-21season (violin/viola, treasurer, admin) Stay tuned! The August Symphony, 2020 season cancelled (violin/viola stay tuned!) Essex County Summer Players, 2020 season cancelled (violin/viola) STAY TUNED! Radiance Chamber Ensemble Gigs in 2020 (viola, web host, admin) RCE Videos Link to CV photo albums click here Ensembles and Tunes: "MONJ-5" - Brahms Piano Quintet 4/30/17: Horne, Stratechuck, Reynolds, Celestino, Yolleck Beethoven Op. 18 No. 4 - Allegro ma non troppo 10/22/17: Horne, Schneider, Reynolds, Shapiro Granados Pf Quintet en sol menor "Latin-6" Middletown Library, Oct. 22, 2017 Klezmer Medley, Middletown Library Apr. 12, 2018 TV 35 Cranford, NJ July 13, 2017 Radiance Chamber Ensemble, Cranford Library "Turk 3" "Jesu" "Silent Night" "Low How a Rose" "Ashokan Farewell" "Amazing Grace" "Bach Sheep" "AlexRTBand" "Carol of Bells" "Chicken Reel" "Angels We Have Heard" "O Little Town" Happy Birthday string quartet (PR on all instruments) Quartet Samples Ibert - with Laura and Chick 2018 (1) Ibert - with Laura and Chick 2018 (2) Schubert Op. 29 Allegro ma non troppo partial 8/3/19: Horne, Horne, Reynolds, Constant Horne family recital 8/3/19 Klase family "Elfs itself!" Christmas 2017 Bergen Philharmonic (past) violin, manager, libarian, grants & related duties Back-up Orchestra for Bucky Pizzarelli, Dizzy Gillespie, Isola Jones, Anna Moffo Rehearsal Club of Montclair (perform, host) Free-lance: Dena Martin, Three Tenors and Frank Sinatra Musicales at Count Basie Theater, Red Bank, NJ (2012 -- 2017) Into the Woods (Ramsey HS performing arts group, 2014) The Three Irish Tenors (Count Basie Theater, Red Bank NJ, 2012) Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan (2014) viola Wizard of Oz (2008) – The Roche Players, Nutley HS, doubled second violin, viola Guys & Dolls (2007) – Manalapan HS, principal violin West Side Story (2005) – Center Players of Bayonne, principal violin Peter & the Wolf (2003) – Lukas Foss at the Bridgehampton Festival, viola Collegium Westchester (2003) – First Presbyterian Church, Ossining, violin Brigadoon (2002) – New Milford HS, principal violin 1979-91: Coordinated and performed chamber music at religious centers and assisted living venues in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California Coaches: Jeff Holm, Mary Babiarz, Gerall Heiser, Yuri Vodovoz, Ashley Horne Sketch by Innes Borstel 1-22-17 Max Bruch trios, Holocaust program 4/12/18, Middletown NJ Library Yours truly, viola; Joan Baldwin, Piano; Tom Richardson, Clarinet My other life: The “nine-to-five” career: 1967 – 1998 – Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (retired) Worked in progressively responsible administrative functions over 31 years, mostly at the World Trade Center: secretarial, computer support, accounts payable, public services administration, lease account management. Principal violinist in 1982 employee-produced musical spoof on the Port Authority. (Read article in 2018 PA retirees' newsletter.) Medal awards and bonuses in 1983, 1991 and 1993. Major accomplishments included asbestos abatement relocation and replication of officespace for over 50 WTC tenants (8-year project). Formerly licensed Real Estate Broker in New York State. The home front: 1979-2001 – domestic partner to the late Herbert V. Schultz, Food Technologist, Violinist, and violin teacher. BS Analytical Chemistry, Columbia University. Army 1958-62. Studied violin with Sam Applebaum, Micha Michakoff. Laboratory and food science expertise for Colgate, Swift & Co., Frutarom-Meer Corp. and AEP Colloids. President of Water Soluble Gums Association of America and INGAR (International Gum Arabic Research organization). Concert Master of Family Opera of North Bergen. Ass’t Concert Master and Manager of Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Died 12/14/01. Peg & Herb video 1993. Married Alan R. Klase 12/30/07, electrical engineer, guru of antique radios, personal computers, semiconductors. Field Applications Engineer for Toshiba, Oki Semiconductors. Currently guiding the development, construction and management of InfoAge, a science
Military Service 1968-71: US Army Signal Corps. Education: Drexelmuseum built out of the former Marconi radio transmission site in Wall Twp, NJ. IEEE educational video of radio history, 2017. Lectured at Columbia University on FM radio development and the role of Howard Armstrong & others, 2015 - present. Institute of Technology PDF Bio: http://skywaves.ar88.net/Professional/RES04-8.pdf Al is a founder of the Military Radio Collectors' Association (MRCA), celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2020. Check it out! Al's take on hearing loss and auditory neuroscience (huh?). Includes on-line hearing tests. Peggy's Real Estate Interests: Former owner of an 1892 Victorian townhouse on upscale street in prestigious turn-of-the-century Jersey City neighborhood. Purchased nearby colonial converted to ranch in 2011. 1987 – 2004 – inherited and managed a two-family dwelling in Kearny, NJ for sale: Violin Bow John Nowood Lee Another silly cat video (Max making biscuits) Formal education: BBA, Pace University, 1978 Diploma, Drake College of Business, 1967
Honors Graduate, Kearny High School, 1965Violin lessons 1958-65, Llewellyn Curtis, Kearny Public Schools Memory Lane Annie 1991 Ann, Peg & Herb 1993 A colleague's wedding: Pachelbel Canon 1991 Eyeglass Duet (Beethoven) and more 1993 Erik & Peter Schultz, Ca, 1991 Erik & Peter Schultz, Ca, 1993 Recipes: Tabouli Liver Pate Shrimp Dip/Mold Olive Relish ![]() photo: Debby Shapiro updated 3/14/21 |