By Steven Slosberg in The Sun (Westerly, Rhode Island), March 10, 2019:

A fellow who started out with us [in the Oberlin Class of 1969], but left after a year, was a familiar name in this region. He, too, is gone. He was Peter Sacco. He came from New York, where as a violinist he had studied and performed at Juilliard, and left the Oberlin Conservatory for the University of Texas, following a favored teacher. He graduated from Texas and then the Yale School of Music in 1974, and, settling here, co-founded with his wife, Cynde Iverson, the annual Summer Music concert series at Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford. He also conducted several orchestras and taught at Connecticut College, Wesleyan University and the University of Connecticut. He died from an aneurysm, at age 59 in 2006, just after completing the 100-mile bicycle ride known as “The Flattest Century in the East,” in Tiverton, R.I.