Candy Feldt 73 passed in Phoenix AZ this year, from kidney failure, surrounded by family. She was born in Nov 1947, to Florence and Max Feldt in Temple Texas. She grew up in Temple and Stamford TX, and went to high school in Denver CO. She won a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music from Stephens College in Columbia MO and a Master's of Flute Performance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Brilliant was how college friends used to describe her flute playing ability.
She time in Germany with her then-husband David Wiebe while he studied violin building, and music remained central to her life. On return to the U.S, she earned another Master's degree in Library Science, at Indiana Uni in Bloomington IN. She was a virtual walking music encyclopaedia. She began her music librarian cataloguing career at the Indiana Uni Lilly Library. After working briefly in the music industry in New York, she moved to Somerville MA to become a music cataloguer at the Tufts University Wessell Library from 1985-2001. In 2001 she became the Head Music Cataloguer at the Harvard University Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, where she remained until retirement.
An early adopter of digital technologies to communicate with friends and colleagues around the world, Candy was a key member of the MIRC channel 30plus since late 1993. And she was proud of having applied digitisation professionally to preserve written and audio music files.
Candy often burst into song with a wonderful laugh while conversing with friends and family. She loved Broadway musicals and knew the words to a vast array of songs. She enjoyed travelling, cuisine, fashion, music festivals, high tea, making fun pottery and anything feline. She supported human rights, women's rights and animal rescue causes. Always learning and spiritual, she became a bat mitzvah when she was in her 50's.
Candy often burst into song with a wonderful laugh while conversing with friends and family. She loved Broadway musicals and knew the words to a vast array of songs. She enjoyed travelling, cuisine, fashion, music festivals, high tea, making fun pottery and anything feline. She supported human rights, women's rights and animal rescue causes. Always learning and spiritual, she became a bat mitzvah when she was in her 50's.
Washington DC reunion of MIRC channel #30plus, July 1994
Candy was in the second back row; Helen was centre of the second front row
There was a Zoom celebration of Candy's life in Aug 2021. She was laid to rest in the Waco TX cemetery where all four of her grandparents are buried. The family will gather there for Candy the next time the bluebonnets are in bloom. It's a Texas thing. Candy would like that. In Candy's honour, donations can still be sent to GLAAD, ASPCA or the Exotic Feline Rescue Centre in Indiana.