Vienna Boys Choir booked for Marylhurst concerts

By Cliff Newell

The Lake Oswego Review, Nov 28, 2009, Updated Dec 1, 2009

CLIFF NEWELL / lake oswego review

Good teamwork made it possible to bring the Vienna Boys Choir to Lake Oswego. From the left, David Dickson of Marylhurst University and Juanita Struble and Jeff Pentecost of Music For The Heart.

Everyone knows that music is good for the heart.

Especially when it comes from Music For The Heart.

People of this area can find out for themselves when the world-famous Vienna Boys Choir performs at Marylhurst University on March 3 and 4.

Attracting such a renowned and historic choir to Lake Oswego is a remarkable achievement, but Jeff Pentecost has made remarkable achievements commonplace since he started Music For The Heart five years ago.

“We’re having our fifth anniversary, and each year we’re getting bigger and bigger,” Pentecost said. “Having the Vienna Boys Choir here is an event that has tremendous synergy with Marylhurst University.

“From my point of view it’s magic.”

Pentecost does heart research as a profession and loves music as his avocation. As federal funding for heart research began dwindling a decade ago, he came up with a new idea of how to raise public awareness of heart disease.

The result was Music For the Heart, which brings in outstanding musical performers for benefit concerts to raise money for heart research.

“I thought it was a good time for it,” Pentecost said.

It was. The venture was a success from the start, raising $10,000 in its first concert. But after partnering with OHSU for two years, Pentecost decided to start his own foundation.

He then made a very wise move by calling Juanita Struble. She enthusiastically offered financial support with the Struble Foundation, and the wheels of success started spinning.

As it turned out, Struble had a interest in music and a great interest in heart research. Her late husband, Glenn, had severe heart problems, suffering four aneurisms over 13 years.

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