[Menvi-discuss] [BrailleM] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life

[Antonio Quatraro]

dear all,,
just a few lines from Florence Italy to share with all of you my 
condolences.
I met Bettye Krolik only twice, in Zurich in 2004 and in Florence, when she 
and her husband came to visit me.
Bettye is a rich person and her example of engagement, patience, internal 
balance may guide us in our work promoting music and music literacy among 
visually impaired persons.
Antonio Quatraro
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>
> Dear Richard, thank you for letting us all know about Bettye's passing. 
> To
> all of you who knew her personally, I send my own condolences.
>
> I have so many fond memories of her.  Right from our humble beginnings 
> back
> in the early '90's, she never failed to encourage Albert Milani and me in
> the development of our GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator.  As you know, 
> she
> called a spade, a spade.  When we didn't get something right, she let us
> know that too.
>
> If braille music had not worked out for Bettye, she could have done very
> well for herself as an international peace negotiator.  Back in 1997, she
> completed years of work in compiling the very first international manual 
> for
> any braille code.  In doing so, she brought together experts from, I
> believe, 18 countries who all, let us say, had their own definite opinions
> about what certain things should mean in braille music code and when and 
> how
> the code should be used.  Bettye managed to get everyone to at least agree
> on the signs to be used and allowed us all to agree to disagree at times 
> on
> when certain signs were required and in what format.  I remember her 
> telling
> me that she was particularly happy about the compromises on the dots to be
> used for the braille clef signs.
>
> I especially cherish the memory of Bettye's words on the occasion of her
> official retirement at a meeting I attended in September, 2004, in Zurich,
> Switzerland.  The leaders of the subcommittee on braille music of the 
> World
> Blind Union presented Bettye with a gift after lunch.  In her simple and
> direct way, she thanked us all in a very brief speech.  The line that
> impressed me most, which I hope to never forget, was when she told us:
>
> "What I have done, I did because I wanted to do it."
>
> Beautifully simple eloquence.  That line tells you so much about this dear
> lady who I do think of as the fairy godmother of braille music. May she 
> rest
> from her many labors in peace and contentment.
>
>
> Bill McCann
> Founder and President of Dancing Dots since 1992
> www.DancingDots.com
> Tel: [001] 610-783-6692
>
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> Subject: [Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life
>
> Dear MENVI members:
>
> It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of Bettye Krolick 
> last
> evening. She is known to most of us as "The Godmother of Braille Music."
>
> More will follow as soon as it becomes available.
>
> The inspiration for your network, and the enormous advances in music 
> braille
> and its technology, can be greatly attributed to Bettye and to all of 
> those
> whose lives she touched.
>
> As for myself, she was a mentor, and a substantial inspiration for the
> methodology and presentation of my courses. She will be missed beyond 
> words.
>
> Richard Taesch
> SCCM Braille Music Division
> MENVI Headquarters - www.menvi.org
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