Professor’s Kind Words Inspire Alumna To Share Musical Gifts
When Jane Oddo '75 was getting ready for a recital in 1990, she received a note from Thurston Dox, her former Hartwick music professor.
“I hope something special can come up and you could come back to Hartwick,” Dox wrote. “You’re achieving so much with your music.”
Decades later, Oddo, a retired librarian and symphony flutist, fulfilled her mentor’s wish, sponsoring Hartwick’s Flute Day.
The event featured a masterclass with music assistant professor/artist in residence Ana Gonzalez and guest artist Alison Brown Sincoff, a professor at Ohio University. It also included a warm-up workshop and a public recital featuring Sincoff and the Hartwick flute ensemble, Flute Salad.
“Back in 2019, I got to meet Jane when she visited the Music Department. We had a nice talk about flute and Hartwick when she was a student, which strengthened my idea that there was a legacy of flutists at Hartwick that the College needed to foster.”
Ana Laura González
Assistant Professor of Music/Artist in Residence
