Pat Krol Fund

All of us at Emmanuel Music are deeply grateful to Pat for her fifteen years of devoted service. Formerly director of volunteer services for the Boston Symphony, Pat became the second executive director in our fifty-year history when she took over the administrative leadership role from Lenny Matczynski on September 1, 2006. This fall, we are marking Pat's retirement, and we invite you to join us in appreciating her contributions to Emmanuel Music in several ways.

Please indicate "Pat Krol Fund" in the online donation form, or the Notes line of your check

For those of us who have had the privilege to share her journey, we know how much Pat cares about our music-making, our musicians, our audience members, and our community. Over fifteen years, Pat's love for Emmanuel Music has been expressed through every detail of her responsibilities as Executive Director. Pat's daily work, often far away from the limelight, was incredibly diverse: from advance planning and strategizing leading to our invitation to perform at BachFest Leipzig; to the hiring, training, and managing of administrative staff; to regular trips to Santander Bank; to hand-delivering homemade brownies to solidify a lasting relationship with a key supporter.

Do you need further examples of her daily work? Managing our volunteers and interns, strengthening our relationship with Emmanuel Church, driving a rental van full of Bach Institute participants to retirement community performances, securing Paycheck Protection Program funds from the federal government, ensuring that every person who walked through the church doors was made to feel welcome, feeding staff morale through Pizza Fridays and holiday luncheons at Maggiano's, supporting Community Connections activities at the Perkins School for the Blind, Boston Latin Academy, and Boston Academy for the Arts, brewing daily coffee, hiring security (or acting as security!), delivering Dunkin munchkins to appreciative musicians at Saturday morning cantata rehearsals, and even constructing a Covid-proof Plexiglass oboe enclosure.

While Pat is retiring, the daily work of caring for Emmanuel Music continues. We hope that you will consider a contribution to help us establish the Pat Krol Fund in honor of her extraordinary dedication to making Emmaneul Music what it is today. This special fund will support those activities that, while they may take place behind the scenes with little fanfare, are essential to making our organization successful.

Thank you, Pat, for everything you have done for Emmanuel Music.