Proud Papa

It was quite the weekend for proud father entrepreneur and venture investor Robert Fell.

Robert, a former Santa Barbara Polo Club patron who lives on his 18-acre estate, Tuscany Oaks Farm in Summerland, just a short gallop from the lush fields of the Carpinteria club, was in New York when his son, Alexander, a senior at San Marcos High School, was one of 700 singers to be selected from more than 18,000 nominations for the High School Honors Concert Choir performance at the legendary 2,804 seat Carnegie Hall.

Under conductor André Thomas, Alexander, a member of his school’s madrigals choir, sang in works by Handel, Elberdin, Tate, Luboff, Wilberg, and Thomas, after spending five days studying in the Big Apple with world renowned conductors.

The same night, Robert’s eldest son, Adam, who is president and CEO of Quincy Jones Productions, was 2,451 miles away on the Left Coast picking up his first Grammy Award in Los Angeles.

He was executive producer of the 124-minute documentary Quincy, co-directed by the 88-year-old film and record producer’s daughter, Rashida Jones, which is currently showing on Netflix.

“It was just too bad I couldn’t be in both L.A. and New York at the same time” bemoans Robert. “But all in all it was a very special evening for Dad!”

Without a doubt…