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BLUE NOTES FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2007
This evening, please welcome David Crane and David Edelfelt, two applicants
for the position of Music Director of the North Shore Choral Society. Here
are some vital statistics about these two men:
David Crane
David earned an MM degree in conducting and trumpet performance from
Northwestern University and a BM degree in trumpet from the New England
Conservatory. He had undergraduate studies in conducting from Mozarteum
in Austria and graduate studies in conducting/trumpet from the University
of Houston. Most recently, he received teacher certification from North
Park University. He currently is choir director at Fair Oaks Presbyterian
Church in Oak Park, music director of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra
in Palos Heights and the Viennese Symphony of Chicago. His past positions
include choir director at First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, music
director of the Metropolitan Arts Orchestra in Chicago, music director
at the First United Methodist Church of Palatine, director of the Austrian
Mixed Chorus of Chicago, and founder and director of the National Institutes
of Health Chamber Orchestra.
David H. Edelfelt
David earned an MM degree in vocal performance from Northwestern University
and a BM in music education from Crane School of Music in Potsdam,
New York. He is currently director of the Chancel Choir (70 members)
and Motet Choir (12 members, SSAA) at First Presbyterian Church, Libertyville,
where his duties include leading choir and orchestra in major choral
works. Previously he served Bethel UCC in Elmhurst, where he directed
the adult choir and festival choirs. He was assistant conductor of
the Crane [School of Music] Concert Choir (75 members) and Chorus (300
members), and has sung under Robert Shaw, Erich Leinsdorf, Franz Allers,
Stanley Chapple, Fritz Mahler, Brock McElheran, Eve Queler, and Julius
Rudel. A previous student of voice, piano, organ, clarinet, trumpet,
cello and percussion, David teaches voice privately at his Chicago
studio.
Please take a few moments to complete the evaluation form and return
it to a member of the Search Committee. Next week, our final
two candidates will be here to rehearse with us.
AND REMEMBER: WE DO NOT REHEARSE ON DECEMBER 18, TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY. OUR
NEXT REGULAR REHEARSAL WILL BE ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 8.
Because of Anthony Green’s absence this evening, Len Barker
will be handling sales of CDs for the November 11 concert. Anyone
who has requested a copy may pick it up for $15.00 (by check
to Bill Stribling or in cash with the exact amount, please). Anyone
wishing to order a copy may do so tonight and pick it up next Tuesday.
End-of-the-year donations are still being accepted—indeed, welcomed..
They can be sent to our Evanston post office box (#103) or given to
Len.
For something in next Tuesday’s Blue Notes: lenpbarker@comcast.net
or 847/272-2351.
Check out the Messiah notes in the narthex: twenty musical
correspondences for only ten dollars—half of which is a donation
to NSCS. If you haven’t seen them before, take a
look this evening. They make classy and inexpensive gifts.
Enchanted Remembrances is the biography of Inge Kistler’s
great-grandaunt, who took piano lessons from Brahms and was a member
of his women’s chorus. This work has been translated from the
German by Inge, who says, “It is the perfect gift for the
person ‘who has everything,’ especially a music lover.” Inge
is offering copies of her book in exchange for a $5.00 donation to
NSCS. Several copies are available this evening; anyone who is unable
to “purchase” one this evening should call Inge this next
week (847/328-5158).
Why not put a donation to the North Shore Choral Society on your gift
list? It saves the giver the agony of wondering “what to
give?” (and gives him/her a tax deduction as well), and it saves
the receiver the awkward responsibility of having to thank someone
for a gift that was neither needed nor wanted. (NSCS, P.O. Box
103, Evanston 60204, is the place to go.)
Again this year, First Bank of Highland Park is offering to donate
$100.00 to a non-profit organization (that’s us) to anyone who
opens a new account with a minimum of $10,000—to “enjoy
some of he best interest rates in our area.” Last year, five
members took advantage of this offer—and we were $500.00 richer. If
this opportunity fits your financial plans, call either 847/432-7800
or 847/272-1300
From the program of a recent piano recital:
Tonight's page turner, Ruth Spelke, studied under Ivan Schmertnick
at the Boris Nitsky School of Page Turning in Philadelphia. She has
been turning pages here and abroad for many years for some of the
world's leading pianists.
In 1988, Ms. Spelke won the Wilson Page Turning Scholarship, which
sent her to Israel to study page turning from left to right. She
is winner of the 1984 Rimsky Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee Prestissimo
Medal, having turned 47 pages in an unprecedented 32 seconds.
She is also a 1983 silver medalist at the Klutz Musical Page Pickup
Competition: contestants retrieve and rearrange a musical score dropped
from a Yamaha. Ms. Spelke excelled in grace, swiftness, and especially
poise.
For techniques, Ms. Spelke performs both the finger-licking and
the bent-page corner methods. She works from a standard left bench
position and is the originator of the dipped-elbow page snatch, a
style used to avoid obscuring the pianist's view of the music. She
is page turner in residence in Fairfield, Iowa, where she occupies
the coveted Alfred Hitchcock Chair at the Fairfield Page Turning
Institute.
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