Snow Pond Symphony 2016 Season
Snow Pond Center for the Arts and New England Music Camp presents Snow Pond Symphony, the 2016 season of events, the celebration of their 80th season and more!
Snow Pond Center for the Arts and New England Music Camp presents Snow Pond Symphony, the 2016 season of events, the celebration of their 80th season and more!
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Name: Dr. Paul Scimonelli<br />
Years Attended NEMC/<strong>Snow</strong> <strong>Pond</strong>:<br />
1964-1969<br />
Program/Major: String Bass and<br />
composition<br />
Cabins You Lived In: Sault, Burnes, and the great Dorm<br />
in the Bowl<br />
Where are you from: Columbia, MD<br />
What brought you to New England Music Camp or<br />
<strong>Snow</strong> <strong>Pond</strong> originally? How did you find out about<br />
NEMC?<br />
My Father, Dr. Frank Scimonelli, was the trumpet and<br />
Post Horn soloist with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington,<br />
D.C. for 26 years. In his youth, he got to know Dr. Paul<br />
Wiggin, the founder of the camp. Dr. Wiggin invited dad<br />
to come to camp and solo with the symphonic band in<br />
1949, and he continued to do so until the 1990’s. As my<br />
brothers and I got older and progressed musically, we<br />
were also invited to camp. That’s the short story!<br />
What was the biggest lesson you learned at NEMC?<br />
What it took to be a good, professional musician.<br />
What is your fondest memory (crazy, funny,<br />
meaningful) of your time at NEMC?<br />
SO many! Cookouts, banquet, Reid State Park, the<br />
Mud Bowl in ’67, the waterfront, and all the girls I met!<br />
What are you doing now?<br />
I recently retired from my full time position as<br />
Director of Strings at the Landon School in Bethesda,<br />
MD after 16 years. I am playing with several big band jazz<br />
bands, 2 orchestras, and singing with the Thomas Circle<br />
Singers in Washington, DC. Also just finished writing my<br />
first book, a biography of Roy Sievers, former home run<br />
champ of the Washington Senators from 1954 -1959<br />
What are some of the biggest accomplishments<br />
you’ve had the pleasure of experiencing in your<br />
career?<br />
Got to play in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The<br />
Kennedy Center, among many other great venues. Played<br />
for 3 Presidential Galas. Played with Aretha Franklin.<br />
Coolest person you’ve met in your career?<br />
SO many! Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr., Red Skelton,<br />
Peggy Lee, The Fifth Dimension, Ron Carter, Buster<br />
Williams, Billy Eckstein, Lynn Anderson, Minnie Pearl,<br />
many other pop, country, and jazz greats, Condoleezza<br />
Rice, Jimmy Carter and other political dignitaries.<br />
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Paul playing in the 1967 New England Music Camp Jazz Band