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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, November 15, 1985
At right: Rusty is an interested observer
for Sylvia and Rochelle Barr. Below:
Collette Rosner, at the piano, rehearses
- with daughters Kim and Cindy.
NOTE-ABLE
FAMILIES
The Rosners and the Barrs musically
prove that the family that plays
together, stays together."
BY VICTORIA DIAZ
Special to The Jewish News
C
ollette Rosner and daughters,
Kim and Cindi, love to make
beautiful music together, as
do Sylvia Barr and daughter,
Rochelle. The Rosners have
been entertaining audiences with
their piano-flute-clarinet concerts for
almost 20 years. The Barrs have
been performing as dual pianists
since 1978. All say they enjoy work-
ing together so much that they can't
imagine ever "splitting up the act"
and hope it's something they'll be
able to do for years to come.
"We never really stopped, once
we started performing together,"
says Kim Rosner-Doelker of Far-
mington Hills.
Shortly before they entered kin-
dergarten, the Rosner sisters began
their formal music training on the
piano, with their mother, Collette, as
teacher.
"I was able to tell when the girls
were very young that they had mus-
ical talent," says Collette, who
studied piano performance at Wayne
State University, and still teaches
private lessons. "But, as for teaching
them, I tried to treat them as I did
other students. They had a specific
lesson time. I tried not to interfere
with their practice, too — I'd just
make suggestions to them during
their lessons."
During their growing-up years,
the sisters dropped their piano les-
sons and began devoting their time
to other instruments — Kim, the
flute, and Cindi, clarinet. They
studied with several teachers, in-
cluding principal Detroit Symphony
Orchestra flutist, Ervin Monroe, and
clarinetist Doug Cornelson, also with
the DSO.
The first mother-daughters con-
cert took place at West Hills School
in Bloomfield Hills, when the girls
were students there.
Through the years, the group's
biggest problem, they say, has been
finding enough material that is writ-
ten for combined flute, piano and
clarinet concerts. In recent years,
however, they've begun to find a
solution to that problem, when Cindi
Rosner Kelly, who studied music
therapy and education at Michigan
State University, began composing
pieces suitable for the three instru-
ments in concert.
In addition to performing with
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