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Celebrating 35 Years Maggie McSoley of Stuart turned 18 years old just

Performing For The in time to win $10,000 from Peter’s Water Treatment &
Irrigation/EcoWater Systems.
Treasure Coast A Martin County High School senior, she turned 18
years old on Feb. 23 and that’s the day that Peter Wernick
Our Mission called to inform her that she had won the prize money in
To Promote Musical Education And a random drawing. The rules require the winner to be 18
Experience For Volunteer Musicians Of to accept the check.
She filled out an entry form at last year’s Home and
All Ages; For The Enrichment Of Our Garden Show in Stuart and had forgotten about it. Peter Wernick, owner of Peter’s Water Treatment &
Musicians And Our Community “When I got the call, I thought it was fake. I didn’t Irrigation/EcoWater Systems; winner Maggie McSoley;
Hello, so glad you are back! take it seriously at all at first,” said McSoley. and Joe Catrambone, president of the Stuart/Martin County
Let’s do a brief recap from the February and March McSoley is one of seven children and currently holds Chamber of Commerce
papers. two part-time jobs: one as a nanny and another
The Treasure Coast Symphony Orchestra (TCSO) is at a local restaurant. She plans to donate 10
the oldest volunteer orchestra in the Treasure Coast area. percent of her winnings to Elev8te Hope and
Our premier performance was Saturday, Nov. 30, 1984. the rest will go into savings account to be
We were the orchestra-in-residence at the Indian River used toward college. Elev8te Hope provides
Community College (IRCC) from November 1988 until support and hope to struggling families with
December 2005 before they became the Indian River children.
State College. “My parents have been involved with
During the last 35 years, the TCSO has had the Elev8te Hope and I’ve seen the organization
privilege of being under the baton of 19 conductors. change a lot of lives,” she said. “My parents
This anniversary season, the Board of Directors, decided are really happy for me because I’m a really
to spotlight three Treasure Coast music educators with hardworking kid.”
stellar backgrounds to be our guest conductors for the Peter Wernick, owner of Peter’s Water
TCSO. Joann Kinder was our Dec. 8, 2019 Holiday Treatment & Irrigation/EcoWater Systems,
Concert and Food Drive conductor, Maestro Robert presented McSoley with her $10,000 check
Navarro was our March 1 Pops Concert conductor and at the Stuart/Martin County Chamber of
Matthew Karram was to be our April 19 conductor Commerce’s annual Home and Garden Show
performing our 35th Anniversary Classical Concert at the fairgrounds in Stuart. Jaclyn Uhl of Elev8te Hope, family friend Summer Reese, and the McSoley
featuring our Young Artist Scholarship Award Winners. Entries for Peter’s Water Treatment & family: Brian, Abby, Maggie, Tom, Tina and Claire
Our first place winner is violinist Ava Gunter and our Irrigation 2020 $10,000 Giveaway will be
second place winner is clarinetist Sophia Bracken. accepted at the Treasure Coast Mall and various events irrigation, well drilling and clean water to families in
Unfortunately, I must tell you, after deep thought, throughout the area for the remainder of the year. the community. Wernick also owns and operates Peter’s
research and consideration, about COVID-19, the TCSO Peter’s Water Treatment & Irrigation/Ecowater Hardware and Peter’s Paint Center in Palm City. For
Board of Directors decided it was in the best interest Systems, part of Crystal Water Systems, has been in more information, call (772) 692-1037 or visit www.
of our musicians and audience to cancel the April 19 business on the Treasure Coast since 1981, providing peterswatertreatment.com.
concert. It is our hope that we will be able to perform a
concert in May or June for all of you, therefore, please
visit our website to read about our amazing guest
conductors, our incredible 2020 scholarship award
winners and concert updates.
Before concluding, I would like to tell you about the
people who are devoted to creating music for all of you
to enjoy, our musicians.
The Treasure Coast Symphony Orchestra musicians
come together in September for their first rehearsal of
the new season and continue to April. Our volunteer
musicians rehearse every Monday in that eight-month
period from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the St. Andrews Episcopal
Church in Fort Pierce. Our musicians are retired music
teachers, retired professional musicians, doctors, nurses,
lawyers, engineers, scientists, pharmacists, computer
experts, small business owners, baristas and students.
They are full-time local residents and also snowbirds.
The farthest they come from is Germany. Whatever
they do by day, by Monday evening at 7 p.m. when our
concertmaster Cindy Baker tunes the orchestra for our
conductor, they then transform into TCSO musicians!
Our musicians are dedicated to creating music for you,
their audience.
At times, the pieces selected by our conductor/
conductors for the season are very challenging, but with
perseverance and teamwork they achieve a sound that
when you close your eyes and listen, you would think
you were at a professional orchestra performance. There
is nothing more satisfying to our musicians, than on
concert day, when they are onstage looking out to all
of you in the audience right before the conductor walks
out and his baton comes down for the first beat and the
music begins.
I would like to thank all of you who have come out
to hear and support the TCSO, and for all of you who
are one day soon going to hear us for the first time. It is
the pleasure of the Board of Directors, our conductors
and musicians, that we, as a community orchestra, are
here for your enjoyment.
While health officials manage the impact of
COVID-19 in our country and our communities, I wish
you and yours the very best. Take care of one another!
See you soon,
Kelly G. Levenstein, President
For more information on the Treasure Coast
Symphony, visit our website at treasurecoastsymphony.
org.