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Spring symbolizes new beginnings. Nature reveals its beauty through budding trees and flowers, and the fresh temperate air invites us to spend more time outdoors. New life awakens joy in the beauty of our world and the desire to explore it. This month, read about notable adventures such as birding with Delta Wind Birds just south of Memphis, post-lockdown wanderlust in popular travel destinations, and opportunities for growth and education at home such as Memphis’ new, state-of-the-art Scheidt Family Music Center. There are a multitude of diverse spots around town to discover as the temperatures rise, whether it is a new restaurant with a great patio to enjoy with friends and family, a hiking trail to take in the River City's natural scenery or our annual Spring Plant Sale at the Memphis Botanic Garden, which starts on April 21—explore innumerable springtime excursions for everyone in and around Memphis. Our April issue includes options for exploration both locally and globally. We hope the destinations featured this month generate ideas for you and your family to share a springtime 2022 full of adventure, peace and sunshine.

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“The foundations of all of the arts buildings are on the same grade, so students can look across Central and see other students, highlighting how theater, music and art are all working together.”

The Scheidt Family Music Center connects visually across Central Ave. to the other arts buildings, creating a comprehensive arts community.

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If you have driven down Central Avenue lately near the University of Memphis you have surely noticed the amazing new Scheidt Family Music Center. This 82,000-squarefoot, state-of-the-art facility is not only enabling the U of M to create a comprehensive arts community, it is expanding access to the arts across Memphis. The Scheidt building houses the largest recording room in Memphis, allowing movies to be scored and songs for video games to be produced, as well as a 900-seat concert hall. A “masterclass” rehearsal room is wired for distance learning and streaming broadcasting. Like a gigantic Zoom set-up, an instructor in Spain can be teaching students about playing the viola through the use of microphones, cameras and projectors. The building was designed in a collaborative effort between Fleming Architects and archimania, and is being built by Montgomery Martin Contractors. Matt

Seltzer, lead archimaniac (real title) on the project, explains that Fleming has a lot of experience with the U of M and archimania has a lot of experience working with the arts, so the team combined to bring the absolute best to the university community. All technical aspects of the building and stage are being managed to meet the exact needs of the opera, symphony, musical theater and even rock concerts. Matt mentions that other large cities, such as Dallas, have a separate opera house, theater and concert hall. He says, “the Scheidt building is bringing the broadest array of music options to the school and to our city, all while making it sound just as good as it does in those great spaces.” How is this happening? By extreme attention to detail at every turn, starting with acoustics. The whole building is actually two buildings seamlessly fused together to ensure that no sound from practice rooms, studios, music labs or

classrooms enters the stage and viceversa. The height of the stage is dictated by the amount of echo necessary for the music to travel after the last note is played, making sure that the reverb mimics the very best concert halls in the world. Even though every architectural decision has been made to ensure perfection, Matt says, “The goal is for patrons to be enraptured by the magic that is happening on stage, blissfully unaware of all the details that went into its creation.” The intent is to attract a wide variety of audiences, including the dedicated music student as well as the engineering student who has never been to a concert but wants to know what is happening in this cool, new building. In addition to grooming patrons, this building is a game changer in terms of attracting and retaining students and faculty. The building raises the visibility of the University of Memphis as a whole,

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according to Kevin Sanders, director of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music. “This building is going to enable us to amplify all of the millions of success stories regarding students and faculty. It’s going to be a hub for every performing arts operation in town and will enable us to host national and international conferences, something we have been wanting to do for decades.” “The exterior of the new building is a hybrid blend—taking what’s awesome about the U of M and adding layers of materials unique to the music center,” Matt says. Specifically, the foundation of the building is red brick at its base, which mirrors the familiar university buildings across the street. The next layer is composed of modern, lightweight metal panels, which serve to visually engage students and reflect the activity going on inside. Large glass windows throughout show light and movement, creating something similar to a store front, beckoning arts lovers and the curious passersby to explore. Much of the interior is multi-use. Several open areas with living room-style furniture allow patrons to relax before or after a performance or students to gather between classes. Students will be able to sit along the bleacher-style stairs connecting the two floors and study or mix music on laptops using individual power sources. A terrace on the west side acts like a front porch, a community living room, and a visual tie-in to the rest of the arts buildings across the street. Matt explains how the placement of the new building is crucial to creating a seamless, comprehensive arts campus. “The foundations of all of the arts buildings are on the same grade, so students can look across Central and see other students, highlighting how theater, music and art are all working together.”

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900-seat Concert Hall will be home to the opera, symphony, musical theater, and even rock concerts

Please consider making a gift to Strike a Chord: Scheidt School of Music Drive for Excellence. The primary focus of the drive is to provide student musicians with instruments for rehearsals and performances, to give students who can’t afford instruments the ability to borrow one and to enhance the Scheidt Family Music Center with world-class technology and recording equipment. To learn more visit memphis.edu/musiccenter or contact Laura Hall at laura.m.hall@memphis.edu. AP R I L 2 0 2 2 | C I TYL I FE STYL E . C OM / R I V E R C I T Y

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THE SCHEIDT FAMILY To most Memphians, the name Rudi Scheidt is synonymous with music, philanthropy and the University of Memphis. However, his daughters, Susan Scheidt Arney and Helen Scheidt Gronauer, say it is so much more than that. They emphasize that their father, or more accurately their parents, prioritized family, faith and community above all else, while acknowledging a particular affinity for all things artistic. To contextualize Rudi Scheidt’s involvement in the (now under construction) Scheidt Family Music Center on the University of Memphis campus, perhaps it would be best to review the circuitous route he traveled in making this monumental endeavor a reality. In 1936, Rudi left Nazi Germany at the age of 6 with his parents and traveled to San Francisco, where they joined relatives, the prominent Heller family, who in addition to their vast civic involvement were patrons of the arts. Rudi’s exposure to that era’s leading figures in opera, symphony and the visual arts was the genesis of his lifelong love and support of the arts community. Rudi graduated from the University of California Berkeley at age 18, prior to pursuing a job with Shell Oil in New York City as a

chemical engineer. That is where he met his extraordinary wife, Honey, his lifelong companion and confidant, prior to moving to Memphis where he later became president of Hohenberg Cotton. The Scheidts traveled extensively with their four children, always including opportunities for cultural and artistic enrichment. In addition to their sponsorship of the Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music at University of Memphis, Rudi served on the board of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and for years was responsible for bringing that world-renowned institution’s performances to Memphis. Both he and Honey served on the board of the Memphis Brooks Museum, and Honey was the motivating force behind the widely acclaimed Wonders cultural exhibits. The Scheidts were never content to simply provide financial support and play a passive role but rather were intimately involved in the lives and efforts of University students, personally attending recitals, auditions and concerts. The Scheidts and their children had long desired a proper and more expansive venue for the performing arts at the University of Memphis. This concept germinated 17 years ago when the Scheidts gave the lead gift CONTINUED >

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Chef Dave Krog and his wife Amanda Krog, veterans of the River City restaurant industry, recently opened the first and only tasting menu restaurant in Memphis. Restaurant Dory just celebrated its first anniversary in March. A great addition to the vibrant dining scene on Brookhaven Circle, Dory was voted the fourth best new restaurant in the country by USA TODAY in 2021. While Amanda’s background is in fast casual dining, Chef Dave attended Memphis Culinary School and trained under Memphis restaurant royalty, including Lynn Kennedy of La Tourelle and Erling Jensen of his namesake restaurant. Prior to opening Dory, Dave was executive chef of Interim. “My vision of what I wanted to do as a chef was a tasting menu that was farm-to-table and intentionally sourced,” Dave says. “It was always Dory.” After the original opening in April 2020 was delayed due to the pandemic, plans were rushed as Covid-19 restrictions began to lift. “We could only have a handful of people in the restaurant, so a tasting menu made sense,” Amanda says. They used their many skills learned at their pop-up restaurant, Gallery, to pull it off. Dory offers a glorious celebration of food, but don’t expect an actual menu. Patrons are treated, delighted and educated with the freshest and most creative, intentional dishes. It’s a totally immersive dining experience which includes six courses and an optional pairing of seven wines. “We keep the menu as local as possible,” Dave says. “Sometimes the dish literally starts with the plate,” he adds with a nod to the local potters from whom he collects dishes. Each tasting menu, which changes monthly, is inspired by fresh, seasonal products from the local farmers and purveyors they work with throughout the year. Every course is prepared with loving precision, using techniques as varied as smoking and pickling and curing and the occasional tweezer. Dave approaches food as more of a craftsman than a chef. “We want to do plates that are conceptualized, composed with what we have available,” Dave says. “And nothing goes to waste,” Amanda adds. Even onion scraps are saved and repurposed into fermented onion powder.

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Dave says that every individual who makes a reservation receives a phone call regarding food allergies as the team aspires to “honor all dietary restrictions.” This kind of personalization has generated a vegetarian following. The team will offer a plant-based menu once a month from June through September this year. Dave says he enjoys the challenge of a customized meal. “We take it very seriously,” he adds. The wine pairings are also done with care, selected by Sommelier Rusty Prudhon. Rusty is inspired by the food first. “Chef likes clean and refined dishes,” Rusty says. “I try to match that with the wines.” He likes surprises on the menu, including unusual varieties from all over the world such as an Albarino from Spain or a Pinot Noir from Slovenia. There is always the element of a surprise without a menu. Rusty and the wait staff introduce each course and wine pairing to every diner at the restaurant. The story telling is the perfect foil to the performance art in the open kitchen that glows in the center of the dining room. The atmosphere is joyful with a warm congeniality among the team. “We want it to feel like our home,” Amanda says and adds, “Special things are special.” And Dory is special.

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Amanda’s 1920s English tudor home is the backdrop for her husband’s office and command central for their busy family and pets, while also serving as a combination museum and art gallery. In her dining room, a study by Carroll Cloar hangs over a Brunschwig and Fils wallpaper, chosen specifically by Amanda to best accentuate this beloved piece. A three-dimensional sculpture by Isabelle Coppinger anchors the wall behind the baby grand piano in the living room. And her favorite piece by Walter Anderson is a sweet surprise for powder room guests. Amanda is passionate about art and equally passionate about helping clients collect pieces that they love. “There are no rules about what makes a piece speak to you,” Amanda says. “I try to help my clients focus on what truly interests them rather than what they think they are supposed to like.”

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“There are no rules about what makes a piece speak to you. I try to help my clients focus on what truly interests them rather than what they think they are supposed to like.”

And preferences change. Amanda discusses how her tastes have evolved over the years, including a love of more primal pieces by artists such as John McKie and Lecrue Eyebrows. “Life is always changing, and so it makes sense that your art preferences should change along with it,” Amanda says. One of the greatest benefits that Amanda offers is her vast inventory of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper. Clients are able to physically take the art and try it in their homes, versus just viewing it on a website. Amanda loves helping clients diversify their collections through different artists, mediums, and regions. One of her clients is constantly changing the art in her home. Amanda is able to consign the pieces that no longer speak to her client, using the funds to facilitate the purchase of new pieces. Amanda provides lots of options for the newly bare walls, given that she represents a breadth of artists locally, nationally, and internationally. In turn, Amanda enjoys developing longterm relationships with her clients as she

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helps them curate their collections. “I’m happy to say most of my clients are return customers, which allows me to learn their tastes and collection goals and grow with them. This enables me to keep a keen eye out for them as I come across new pieces and artists.” Amanda’s love of art was nurtured in her home beginning at an early age. Her mother was a docent at the Brooks Museum and regularly exposed Amanda to art as a child. Her mother put images of paintings and drawings low on the refrigerator, at little Amanda’s eye-level, to look at every day. Amanda even met Carroll Cloar when her mother put his work on the cover of the Junior League magazine in the early 1980s, and she still remembers the stories he told about his paintings and the people in them. Today, Amanda’s successful business is enabling her to fulfill her goal: “To help establish a new generation of art collectors who will share their favorite pieces with children and grandchildren.” Amanda loves nothing more than uniting people with art that brings them joy!

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“The restlessness of shorebirds, their kinship with the distance and swift seasons, the wistful signal of their voices down the long coastlines of the world make them, for me, the most affecting of wild creatures. I think of them as birds of the wind, as ‘wind birds.’” — Peter Matthiessen, 1967 Delta Wind Birds is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to protecting and creating wetlands, fostering ecotourism, and raising awareness of migratory birds and their habitats. Projects often

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The Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, or Delta, lies along the eastern edge of the Mississippi Flyway and was historically a vast matrix of complex wetlands. Agricultural development of the region has dramatically reduced wetland habitat, but much of the modern agricultural landscape can easily provide attractive stopover habitat for migratory shorebirds, often within the framework of normal agricultural production practices. In working with landowners, the group is able to create these habitats on working landscapes in the Mississippi Delta. CONTINUED >

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LOCAL TRAVEL ADVISORS HELP CLIENTS MAKE SMART VACATION INVESTMENTS

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Exploration for many has been limited to changing a Zoom background to an exotic island or binging a Netflix show about a foreign country. Let’s face it — travel has been difficult, if non-existent, these past two years. But local travel agents say that is all changing! According to Marion McDonald, an independent travel advisor with Brownell Travel, “After suffering from severe vacation deprivation, our clients have developed a huge case of wanderlust and are ready to bust out and explore the world. They are no longer content to just check boxes and prefer to dive more deeply into a destination for a more enriching experience.” She says that clients feel a sense of urgency to enjoy new experiences, “from fly fishing in Patagonia to kayaking the frigid waters of Greenland, my clients are challenging themselves like never before.” After being cooped up in a home-office or on Zoom calls, clients have a renewed appreciation of the outdoors. Marion says, “Many clients are trading overcrowded museums and shops for adventures on e-bikes and hiking excursions.” U.S. National Parks have been a top destination during this time.

Christy Brown, owner of Little Luxuries Travel agency, says, “Families are taking more bucket-list trips than ever before, after spending the past couple of years dreaming of trips rather than taking them.” Some of the recent trips she’s planned include European river cruises, Alaskan tours by land and sea, and luxury villa rentals in the Caribbean. Some travelers do still feel overwhelmed and confused about Covid-related travel requirements, according to Wendi Mihalko, owner of Trifecta Travels. That is why working with a travel advisor has never been more important. The travel industry has worked hard to pivot and provide as much information as possible to travelers, and help them cut through the clutter and relax. Christy says that one of her travel associates recently organized a trip to Turks and Caicos for a group of 17, working with local authorities to speed up the travel authorization process, all while coordinating wonderful meals and activities with their butler. There are many reasons to use a travel advisor, even when we are not in a pandemic. “Ultimately, travel advisors do what no CONTINUED > AP R I L 2 0 2 2 | C I TYL I FE STYL E . C OM / R I V E R C I T Y

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