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Randy Haviland & Joan Poole

Mary Ellen Clark and Mike Castoro Honor Randy Haviland and Joan Poole Randy and Mary Ellen met in the Fall of 1973, when Mary Ellen took her first bassoon lesson as a freshman music education major at Douglass College, Rutgers University. Randy was an excellent...

Journeys Through Memory

Journeys Through Memory Photographs from “Journeys Through Memory” a benefit for Stories Love Music on September 14th 2023 at Ocean City Arts Center. Stories Love Music would like to thank all our sponsors and supporters for making our benefit...

Arts, Engagement and the Caregiver

  Arts engagement and caring for the caregiver. Being able to connect these two ideas took some time but ended up being the key to the evolution of my work with Stories Love Music.  In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in New York, where I was living and working as a...

Bernadette Gietka

Jerry Gietka Honors Bernadette Gietka My sister Bernadette passed away in 2014 at 66 years old. Her proudest accomplishment was attending the Peabody Institute for piano lessons. Music meant a great deal to her. At one point she volunteered to teach a music class at a...