Fred Reinagel
266 Elmwood Avenue
#218, Buffalo, New
York
14222
E-mail:
FreinagelR@netscape.net
Fred tells us that in many ways, his
life has been quite predictable. He graduated from
RPI with honors, married his
wife, Marcia (Wolf), three years later, lived in the suburbs while
starting their family of three daughters; Monica, Pamela, and
Cheryl, and worked as an aerospace electronics engineer his whole
career. He says, “In
other ways, perhaps it has been a bit off the beaten path – jumping
on a ship to begin a six month self-guided solo bicycle trip through
Europe between undergrad and grad school, buying a gracious older
home in the heart of Buffalo on Lafayette Avenue, instead of
up-sizing to a newer house in a more distant suburb, and after
retiring in 2000, taking a four month around-the- world cruise with
Semester-at-Sea, and then moving on to a full time live-aboard
sailboat, Troubadour, instead of a condo in Florida.” Since that time, they have
cruised from New England to the Keys, as well
as Bermuda and the
Bahamas
and have accumulated three grandchildren; Erika, Blake, and
Max. And to cap it off,
he is writing this note from
Munich where he is
rounding out a nine month foreign living experience. Details and photos of these
adventures are chronicled on the website
thetroubadours.tripod.com.
This website also contains links to the websites of his
daughters.
His daughter, Monica (40), who
lives in Baltimore,
graduated from the Peabody Institute and is now a concert soloist
and opera singer. To
supplement her music career, she also became a free-lance marketing
consultant and author.
Pamela (38) got her PhD from Harvard, is now a professor of
neurobiology at UCSD and lives with her husband and two children in
Del Mar, CA. Cheryl (35) is a speech
pathologist and lives with her husband and son, Max, near
Columbus,
OH.
Avocationally, Fred’s main passion
has always been music, playing his ‘cello in community orchestras
and home-style chamber music gatherings and singing in and directing
choruses and church choirs.
About twenty years ago, a major change in direction occurred
when he became smitten with Early Music (before Bach). He started singing in
madrigal and motet ensembles and gave up the ‘cello in favor of the
viola da gamba. He now
owns three (different sized) gambas and plays with other aficionados
throughout the world.
As a sidebar to this development, Fred became a world
authority on the subject of historical scale tuning and
temperaments, and has developed and marketed an electronic tuner for
the Early Music community (www.violab.com)
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