Dear Fenno,I'm sure you know that you have deeply touched thousands of people's lives with your music and your humanity, but I want you also to know that you that it's not just singers who have been affected by you. I learned so much about the art of conducting from you, especially about how to inspire singers and touch their hearts. Your gifts and talents were vast, and yet you made it all look so easy and natural, and you never forgot that it's all about communicating with people. You are permanently a part of who I am, and a part of so very many others as well. So now, dear and beloved man, thank you and goodbye. Rest easy and know that you have made the world a better place. "Come unto Him, all ye that labour, and He will give you rest."
Rodney Wynkoop, '73
Duke University
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A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD ON SAT. MARCH 28TH, 2009 AT BATTELL CHAPEL, Yale University, at 3:00pm. All were cordially invited. Over 800 in attendance! DVD available through the Yale Glee Club office.
Service details: Tom Murray, University Organist, started the prelude 20 minutes before the 3 p.m. service began. There were performances by The Yale Glee Club, The Yale Alumni Chorus, The Whiffenpoofs of 2009, The SLOT's, and The University Glee Club of New Haven. A magnificent, and humbling, tribute.
Contributions in memory of Fenno may be sent to the
North Congregational Church P.O. Box 307 New Hartford CT 06057.
Condolences may be sent directly to the family (Carol, Sarah, Lucy, Peggy, Terry) at pogilvy@comcast.net
Looking pretty snappy
We Love You
Life's been good
Hold that note!
" Next "
Hello Mr. Heath ....Gulp.....sir
Who's In? Who's Out?
Let's get down to business
Back to business
I'm looking pretty good if I do say so myself
Nice hat
Wish I knew which Fenno-Ism he was saying in this one...
Ooo, thats beginning to sound rich
A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD ON Sat. MARCH 28TH, 2009, AT BATTELL CHAPEL, Yale University, at 3:00pm.
A MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS HELD ON SAT. MARCH 28TH, 2009 AT BATTELL CHAPEL, Yale University, at 3:00pm. All were cordially invited. Over 800 in attendance! DVD available through the Yale Glee Club office.
Service details: Tom Murray, University Organist, started the prelude 20 minutes before the 3 p.m. service began. There were performances by The Yale Glee Club, The Yale Alumni Chorus, The Whiffenpoofs of 2009, The SLOT's, and The University Glee Club of New Haven. A magnificent, and humbling, tribute.
Contributions in memory of Fenno may be sent to the
North Congregational Church P.O. Box 307 New Hartford CT 06057.
Condolences may be sent directly to the family (Carol, Sarah, Lucy, Peggy, Terry) at pogilvy@comcast.net
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Fenno's Compositions
Studio Shot
Looking pretty snappy
Other note worthy music
Fenno Follansbee Heath, Jr.
We Love You
Family Guy
Life's been good
Family Man
Carol and Fenno at "Fern Hill', their summer place
Fenno, Jr. and Fenno III, Terry, in Rome, Italy on a Yale Glee Club Tour- 1983
Georgia and Fenno
Restaurant in NH. Fenno strikes a pose for daughter, Peggy.
Barty and Fenno
Hold that note!
Fenno's Office / Audition Room
" Next "
The Terror of Auditioning
Hello Mr. Heath ....Gulp.....sir
Final Cut
Who's In? Who's Out?
Dad in action
Let's get down to business
Dad still in Action
Back to business
Dapper Dan
I'm looking pretty good if I do say so myself
Winter Tour '83
Nice hat
Constructive Criticism
Wish I knew which Fenno-Ism he was saying in this one...
Fenno-ism's (Please send more Fenno-ism's)
- "Do you think you could possibly sing SOME of the notes that I wrote, and count???"
- " Who wrote this, anyway? What were they thinking? " (About his own compositions)
- “ Give them better than they deserve! ”
- " Try not to sound like the Loomis Glee Club ! "
- “ I have the most wonderful upbeat in the world. ”
- “ You sound like the East Cupcake Jr. High Marching Band ! ”
- " Strangest music I’ve ever heard. ”
- “ That crescendo was almost loud. ”
- “ I didn’t come here to insult you. ”
- “ You’re all naked there. Let’s add the altos, just for fun. ”
- “ Legato, luscious…I never said that before in my life. ”
- “ Don’t be a bass, be a singer ! ”
- " Choke, sneeze and have general disarray. "
- " Make it crunch. ”
- “ G-ddamn sewing circle and bridge club ! ”
- " Don't go flat! "
- "Make them wonder, 'how do they do it?'"
- " This is what the composer really meant to do "
- " Break your face "
- " God meant it to be a mixed chorus. "
- "Don't sing like tenors....Sing like MEN!"
- " Well that's an interesting interpretation. "
- " Someone's singing the wrong note -- you should stop doing that. "
- " No, no, no, sing it right, that's not too much to ask is it?"
- "You're about as nimble as hippopotamuses in the mud."
- "I love you. Shut up."
- " That was rancid ! "
- "Basses, pretend you're more important than you ought to be."
- "There's too much talking in this world and not enough singing.", Marshall Bartholomew always said."
- "Basses sometimes have to sing notes like that. And die in the process. But who cares?" (addressing a high passage for the basses)
- "Look at me. Don't look down in your lap. There's nothing there worth looking at." (to the tenors)
- "You sound like jelly on waxed paper."
- "We sound like oxen pulling weights. HEAVY weights."
- "Soloists, sing your heads off."
After Constructive Scathing
Ooo, thats beginning to sound rich
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