The Genius of Chopin | 
San Diego Union Tribune
By Jim Chute
May 10, 2009
Garrick Ohlsson still recalls the conversation he and presenter Christopher Beach had after Ohlsson performed the entire piano works of Frederick Chopin at SUNY Purchase in 1995-96:
“I remember him saying, 'I don't know where I will be, but if I'm alive in 2010 (for the 200th anniversary of Chopin's birth), I want you to do this again.' He felt very proud of it all around, as I did. It sold out, people loved it, and it was artistically full of merit.”
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| Celebrating the Life of Ellen Revelle | 
San Diego Union Tribune
By Blanca Gonzalez Union-Tribune Staff Writer
May 7, 2009
Ellen Revelle was a descendant of the prominent Scripps family and wife of a legendary scientist and educator, but she forged her own legacy as a leader in philanthropy and devoted supporter of arts and education in San Diego.
Whether she was helping stuff envelopes for a nonprofit or donating a landmark cottage to the La Jolla Historical Society, Mrs. Revelle believed in the family tradition of public service exemplified by her great-aunt and namesake, Ellen Browning Scripps.
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