Spencer Duncanson Artistic Director One of my fondest childhood memories is of those Saturday mornings spent at Town Hall in New York City where I, along with hundreds of other elementary school aged children, was being taken by family or friends to learn to appreciate the arts. It was a more holistic approach to education, a time when it was understood that the term “educated” meant more than just having prowess in the “three R’s”. To be educated meant having a broad base of knowledge, one that included aesthetics. I grew to look forward to those Saturday mornings. It was there that I saw my first live play, ballet and opera. It was there that I began to develop critical thinking. It was there that I learned of the emotional and intellectual power of aesthetics. One might speculate, it was there that the seeds of my vocational choice were sown.