the Crowden Letter
A Lasting Impact Our most loyal supporters tell us that Crowden’s Sundays @ Four is more than just a concert series. It’s a community. Our chamber music series brings audiences back year after year, to hear great music—and also to see longtime Crowden friends. A growing number of these dedicated patrons are choosing to make an even deeper commitment to help sustain our music community by becoming members of the Anne Crowden
Legacy Society. More than 35 years ago, Anne Crowden
a Sundays @ Four concert. New and old alike, more and more audience members have com-
began to build upon her dream of creating a
mitted to helping ensure the future of the orga-
supportive educational environment for musi-
nization by including Crowden in their estate
cal children, and she didn’t do it alone. Our
planning. The result is an outstanding group
charismatic founder began by building a com-
of mission-driven supporters called the Anne
munity of like-minded people with a variety of
Crowden Legacy Society, and their impact
skills, resources, and backgrounds. What they
continues to help fortify Anne’s passion-project
shared was a belief in the power of music to
in amazing ways.
transform lives, and the importance of giving
When Richard Carll began attending
that gift to young people during the formative
concerts here at Crowden, more than ten years
years of their education.
ago, he did not know the role Crowden would
Nearly four decades later, a surprising
end up having in his life, and he certainly
number of the original dreamers continue to
didn’t know how much he would eventually
hold Anne Crowden’s mission close to their
impact our organization. Known for his quiet
hearts. New people have joined along the way,
demeanor, Mr. Carll never missed a concert
often first discovering Crowden by attending
in Crowden’s Sundays @ Four chamber music
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