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2011 Noland Fellow Presents Concert
“The Noland Fellowship is special,” remarked this year’s recipient, Wilson Kuhnel '12, during his assembly presentation on November 14, 2011, “because it lets you choose where you want to go and what you want to study.”
Wilson, a Roanoke native who had studied German for four years before coming to Woodberry, wrote a proposal to spend the summer in Dusseldorf, Germany, studying German at the Goethe-Institut and learning to play a Brahms concerto from a master pianist in the composer's hometown. For Wilson, choosing a destination and focus was easy: “Anyone who knows me knows I love languages, and I love music.”
Students apply for the Noland Summer Fellowship, which is funded by Lloyd “Bud” Noland III '62, who established it with members of his family through the Noland Memorial Foundation in honor of his father. The program provides financial support to students who wish to pursue projects that, in Bud Noland's words, “offer truly life-changing experiences to the very best Woodberry students.”
At the Monday evening assembly, Wilson gave a brief slide presentation about his summer's work. Then he and his project adviser, music department chair Wallace Hornady, sat down at a pair of pianos to perform an arrangement of the adagio movement of the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1. “I'm no Mozart,” quipped Wilson before he began to play, “but I just wanted to let everyone know I learned something this summer.”
Woodberry Forest School is an exceptional private school community for high school boys in grades nine through twelve. It is one of the top boarding schools in the United States and one of the only all-boys, all-boarding schools in the country.
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