Del Webb Stone Creek Arts Group Buys Baby Grand Piano for Reunion Center, Hosts Two Concerts

OCALA, Fla. – A group of Del Webb Stone Creek residents who call themselves the Culture Vultures raised enough money to buy a digital baby grand piano for the Reunion Center at Del Webb Stone Creek and hosted a pair of weekend concerts that featured Cantor Kim Komrad, a classically trained soprano from Baltimore, and New York pianist David Leighton.

The Saturday concert at the Reunion Center was by invitation only.

Another concert, on Sunday, which featured music by George Gerswin, Irving Berlin and Ernest Gold, who wrote the music for the 1960 film “Exodus” — was held at Ocala’s Temple Beth Shalom and was free and open to the public.

Both concerts included a melody of songs written many years ago by Jacksonville’s Celestine Akins the 86 year old mother of Del Webb Stone Creek resident Allen Akins.

Culture Vultures president Rita Lewison Singer said it took several fundraisers and individual donations, including $1,000 from the Leisure Arts League — along with support from Del Webb management — to buy the piano, which the group has donated to the Reunion Center.

The star performers have roots at Del Webb Stone Creek. Komrad is Singer’s daughter. Leighton is the brother of Culture Vultures co-chair Beth Mueller.

“It was a family affair for the whole community and everyone associated felt a part of the family,” said Sean Strickler, Vice President of Sales at Del Webb North Florida.

Since 2010 the Del Webb Stone Creek Culture Vultures have financially supported the Ocala Symphony Orchestra, the Ocala Civic Theater, Save the Marion Theater, the Kingdom of the Sun Band and local high school arts programs.

“Our goal is to promote the arts and culture in the Marion County area,” Singer said.

Del Webb Stone Creek features an 18-hole championship golf course on 187 acres with stately live oak trees on a rolling countryside and water features strategically placed on 14 of the holes. Stone Creek’s Reflection Bay and Elan Spa clubhouses consist of over 44,000 square feet situated on more than 29 acres including a grand ballroom, state-of-the-art fitness center, indoor spa, steam and sauna room, indoor and outdoor pools, tennis courts, horseshoe pits, pickelball courts and bocce ball courts, event pavilion, over 25 acres of walking and biking trails

For more information, visit delwebb.com/stonecreek or call 877-333-5932.

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