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Music festival returns for its 10th year festival Co-director Lauren Ausubel, a Huntington resident. “That first year, we had a flatbed For Oyster Bay residents who truck with amplification, and have missed the annual week- small groups of musicians more long series of “pop-up” classical or less materialized in unusual concerts by young musicians and intimate settings in the hamthat have become a let to perform,” Auspart of the cultural ubel recalled. “We landscape in recent thought it would years, there’s good appeal to people in news: The Oyster Oyster Bay to be Bay Musical Festival able to experience is back. From June classical music with27 through July 6, it out going to the city.” will celebrate its Since then, the 10th anniversary festival has grown with 12 free con- HARRIET into a community certs. GERARD CLARK institution, with The theme? Indisnew local venues pensable Music. The Executive director, requesting to be a Raynham Hall locations? Some of stop on the concert the most beautiful Museum tour each year. settings on the “We’re over the North Shore, includmoon that they’re ing Planting Fields, Chelsea back,” said Harriet Gerard Mansion, Cedarmere Estate, Clark, executive director of Raynham Hall Education Center, Raynham Hall. “They always the Nassau County Museum of have such talented musicians, Art, Congregation L’Dor V’Dor and now we can host them in our and the Western Waterfront. new performance space. In the OBMF started 10 years ago, past they had to perform in our intending to dot the town of Oys- Victorian Room — it was a bit of ter Bay with classical music con- a pinch. We could only fit about certs, often two or three a day, for 20 people in there, and with no just over a week. A/C, it could get quite warm. The first year’s concerts were informal affairs, according to CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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OYSTER BAY SENIORS, including Faith Cammarata, greeted Theodore Roosevelt students as they arrived at school on Tuesday.
Oyster Bay H.S. seniors inspire elementary students BY ANNEMARIE DURKIN adurkin@liherald.com
Students at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary School got a surprise greeting when they arrived at school on Tuesday. Waiting for them as they stepped off their school buses were dozens of Oyster Bay High School g raduating seniors dressed in caps and gowns, who gave the children high-fives and handshakes as they made their way into the building. “And one day,” Theodore Roosevelt Principal Tami McElwee explained to the stu-
dents, referring to the gowns and mortarboards, “it will be your turn to wear them, too.” The visit, an idea brought to district administrators by OBHS Student Council President Lindsey Tiberia in 2018, was intended to inspire youngsters to work hard, be kind and focus on school so that one day, they’ll be decked out in school colors for their own graduation. “It’s so cool they came back to say hi and that they used to go to school here just like me,” said kindergartner Valentina Ruiz de Luca. The visit was intended to
be an annual event, but hasn’t happened since its first year, canceled due to extenuating circumstances in 2019 and by the coronavirus pandemic last year. “This tradition is so special,” McElwee said, “because it honors our seniors in a special way so they can come back to where they began their [journey] and serve as role models for our youngest learners, inspiring them to follow their dreams.” Inside the building, the elementary students lined the the hallways as the seniors CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
e’re over the moon that they’re back.