Doublereed Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2004/05

From: Jennifer I.Paull <info@-----.com>
Subj: [DR-L] Amazing Career!
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 06:53:27 -0400

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>

This staggering career should be an inspiration to us
all!

Jennifer

> The following program notes are from an unidentified
> 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 l988 Ms. Spelke won the Wilson Page Turning
> Scholarship which sent her to Israel to study page turning
> from left to right. She is a winner of the l984 Rimsky
> Korsakov 'Flight of the Bumblebee' Prestissimo Medal, having
> turned 47 pages in an unprecendented 12 seconds. She was
> 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 occupied the coveted
> Alfred Hitchcock Chair at the Fairfield Page Turning Institute.
>
> Ms. Spelke is married, and has a nice house on a lake.
>
>
>
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Jennifer I. Paull, Ph.D.
President
Amoris International
http://www.amoris.com
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