In Monday’s (8/22) Baltimore Sun, Jessica Anderson reports, “Darthea Redding Kerr, a soprano vocalist who worked as executive assistant to the National Symphony Orchestra and personnel manager of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, died Aug. 16 of cancer at her home in Essex. She was 61. … Mrs. Kerr started singing as a young girl at school, where the choir teacher encouraged her to pursue singing, her sister said. ‘Music was a very important part of our life. Someone would play the piano and she would sing,’ said Katherine Snyder, of West Chester, Pa. … [Kerr] earned a degree from Stratford Business College and a bachelor of arts degree in voice and music from Towson University. … Mrs. Kerr had worked as a personnel manager for [the law firm] Piper, Marbury, which later became Piper Rudnick; as an assistant personnel manager of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; and was executive assistant to Leonard Slatkin, former music director of the National Symphony Orchestra. After Mr. Slatkin joined the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Mrs. Kerr became a personal assistant to Afsaneh M. Beschloss, president and chief executive of the Rock Creek Group LLC, a Washington-based hedge fund.”
Posted August 23, 2011
