Tuesday
Cello teacher, prodigy
to perform Tuesday
Have you wondered what it takes to become part of the next generation of master musicians? Start early, perhaps by age 7 (check); connect with a master teacher, perhaps by sixth grade (check); show genuine talent (check); show a great love for music (check); participate in youth orchestras, (check); do well in selected competitions (check).
Lucas Buterbaugh has done all this and more. He will perform, along with his teacher, Mary Beth Tyndall, assistant principal cello for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, in a concert starting at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Arizona Senior Academy.
Buterbaugh is a junior at Catalina Foothills High School and a member of the Tucson Junior Strings and the Tucson Philharmonia Youth Orchestra.
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Last year he was selected for the Arizona All-State Orchestra, where he was principal cellist. He won first place in the Civic Orchestra of Tucson Young Artists Competition in 2011 and has ranked highly in other competitions.
Since he was 10 years old, Buterbaugh has attended music summer camps, including Rocky Ridge Music Center and Interlochen Arts Camp, where last year he was a member of the World Youth Symphony and served as principal cellist for the final concert. He will return this summer on a full scholarship.
Tyndall will accompany Buterbaugh on the piano in a sonata by Sammartini and short works by Faure, Debussy and Popper. The two will play cello duets by Barriere, Minsky and others.
Tyndall, who will be making a repeat visit to the Arizona Senior Academy, has been with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra since 1980 and is a member of the Southwest String Quartet. She is an active cello instructor with students ranging from kindergarten on up.
Wayne Magee
Wednesday
‘Simple way to stretch water’
Even here in Arizona, water seems readily available. Open the tap. Import Colorado River water. Dig more wells. Irrigate trees and plants with drinking water.
But in reality water in our desert Southwest is scarce, with rains coming only twice a year and rivers and streams drying up. Hot, arid climates loom, and global climate change threatens water availability.
The second Water Sustainability Seminar at the Arizona Senior Academy will feature a talk titled “Water Harvesting: A Simple Way to Stretch Water” presented by Lincoln Perino, founder of Ethos Rainwater Harvesting and speaker at workshops of Pima County’s Cooperative Extension.
The seminar will be presented from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Water harvesting is a simple, proven technique for making water go further. One approach uses swales and depressions in the landscape to collect rainwater and keep it on-site, rather than letting it run off-site down roads and streets. The collected water irrigates nearby plants and those inside the water structures.
Another uses barrels and tanks to contain rainwater.
A third uses gray water from household washing.
Perino earned a bachelor’s degree in sustainable land and water studies from the University of Arizona and has been involved in rainwater harvesting projects since 2006. He has guest lectured for UA rainwater harvesting classes and is an instructor for the Pima County Cooperative Extension’s WaterSmart program and the Tucson Water Incentive course.
He will offer examples of successful water harvesting at the seminar, and will emphasize how to get started. A follow-up workshop will be arranged for those who wish to learn more and get started on projects.
Ted Hullar
April 3
Talk to focus on quirks
of southeast Tucson’s history
How did Wrong Mountain get its name? Who were the original European settlers of the Rincon Valley? Where did the stagecoach go that stopped near Colossal Cave?
These and other questions about the history of the settlement of southeast Tucson will be answered by Don Maggert in a talk, “History: A Work in Progress,” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday at Academy Village.
As part of his volunteer duties, Maggert staffs the desk each Friday afternoon at Saguaro National Park East. He greets visitors, distributes trail maps and highlights parts of exhibits, answering questions for visitors who come from all parts of the world.
He also leads school age children on discovery hikes along the Freeman Homestead Trail.
When asked about his motivation for volunteering, he told of one such trip when he was facing the 100-step climb near the end of the hike and thinking perhaps he was getting too old for this. At that moment one third-grader said to her friend, “This is incredible.”
That was when he put fatigue behind him and remembered why he had gotten out of bed that morning. “I get more out of this than I give,” he said.
Maggert worked for IBM in Iowa until a reorganization of the company resulted in his transfer to Tucson in 1985.
“I was always interested in history and was curious about the people who came before me,” he said.
One of his first purchases after moving here was a four-wheel-drive vehicle that enabled him to travel the back roads. He started collecting books, photos, maps and other materials relating to 19th century Arizona. One map showed the Rincon and Tanque Verde areas listing family names — ranchers, politicians and businessmen who were here in 1885.
Maggert has spent many hours tracing the origins of things such as an old schoolhouse, a stagecoach stop and the road over Redington Pass. He has been researching and photographing the mountains, valleys, ranches and trails that surround Saguaro National Park East. Join him as he recounts with photos and stories the lives of those who came here in the 19th century.
Beverley Robertson
