THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Monday, July 31, 1995 TAG: 9507280014
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A6 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 37 lines
I was so pleased to read Guy Friddell's column about Janet Kriner on July 21. I would like this letter to serve as an ``exclamation point'' to Mr. Friddell's article and to bring one other viewpoint to this story.
Janet Kriner is the Virginia Symphony's principal cellist and has played with the symphony for the past 30 years. Mrs. Kriner and her husband, Bob, understand the symphony's importance in the community and have watched it steadily grow in scale, quality and promise each year.
This year the Kriners decided that they would donate Mrs. Kriner's entire year's salary of $25,000 to the symphony. They gave their gift to the symphony not solely because the symphony needed it but because they wanted to show their dedication and commitment to the symphony. They wanted to feed their passion for music and the symphony, to give back to the symphony a little bit of themselves and to show appreciation for all the symphony has given them for the past 30 years.
The symphony plays more than 150 concerts during its 41-week annual schedule. It plays for every Hampton Roads resident. It plays for the betterment of our lives and communities. It plays for the love of music. And when it plays, it plays with passion.
Thanks to the Kriners' help and that of every other donor, large and small, present and future, the symphony will continue to play for each of us.
Bravo Mr. and Mrs. Kriner! (And Bravo Mr. Friddell!)
DAVID J. BENJACK, member
Board of Directors, Virginia Symphony
Norfolk, July 21, 1995 by CNB