[Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life

[Marda]

Bettye Krolick is responsible for turning my music career around.  I had studied under Edward and Stella Jenkins (you know, the guy who wrote the Primer) but I had no patience for or use for Braille music since I could learn it all by ear.  In college, my teacher insisted that I learn my music using Braille music.  Neither of us knew what to do about it though.  I had hated that primer and didn't think it would work.  But somehow, through inquiry of NLS I think, he was put in touch with Bettye Krolick.  We both talked to her on the phone and she walked us through the first chapter of How to Read Braille Music, the old first edition.  She then sent us a print and a Braille copy of the dictionary of Braille music signs.  I have those books to this day and truly, it was through her encouragement and the quiet insistence of my college teacher, that I grew from resistant skeptic to total convert.  It's not that I never use my aural skills.  I do.  But when I want to learn everything I can about a piece I go to Braille music whenever I can.  I am glad Bettye is no longer suffering.  But there is no doubt of her widespread influence on the Braille music field and on the lives of so many and she will be missed.
Marda
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jared Rimer menvi webmaster 
  To: This is for discussing music and braille literacy 
  Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2011 10:16 PM
  Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life


  Deborah,
      So did I, in fact, I still have a copy of it on the bottom shelf of my closet of all places.  Should brush it off and reread it so i can get back in to at least reading.  All your messages are being archived in our MENVI staff dropbox and maybe we'll do something for the journal, I'll be talking to Richard about this.  Keep the great words coming.  
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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Debra Baxley 
    To: 'This is for discussing music and braille literacy' 
    Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 2:37 PM
    Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life


    I read her book, How to read Braille Music.

     

    Debra

     


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    Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2011 4:00 PM
    To: menvi-discuss at menvi.org
    Subject: Re: [Menvi-discuss] Bettye Krolick - Celebrating Her Life

     

    Awwwwww.   So sorry to hear that.  Is her husband still alive?  I was at Illinois when they were there in the '60s.  He taught string bass, I think.  She tried to get me into music braille at that time, but when she said it had to be perfect with no errors, it scared me out, plus I was doing lots of literary at the time and didn't think I could handle it.  I didn't start the music exercises until the '90s.

    Syl

     

    In a message dated 8/6/2011 3:42:25 P.M. US Eastern Standard Time, richardtaesch at menvi.org writes:

      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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