Dear Heath Family:
The thing is frequently I will be walking down the street and suddenly one of Fenno’s songs will take me over – General Booth, for example – and I will start humming the tune, then build to a crescendo – words included -- with all the feeling he conjured up in us choristers. Or sometimes it is not one of his compositions but in my musical memory one of his songs nonetheless, because it is he who brought these songs to life – Swing Lo, or Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child – which I remember singing the solo for at his behest although not as vociferously as he desired (I am not sure that was physically possible). These songs – his songs – and the spirit of his musicality sculpted legions of us and remain a deep part of who I am, we are, when we are at our most feeling and striving most joyfully to share our songs and lives.
What joy he brings.
Anne Stetson
Class of ‘84
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