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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000035.txt from 2004/05
From: "Miriam Williams" <mwquacker@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Amazing Career!
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 08:37:17 -0400
Hilarious!!!
Thanks, Jennifer.
Now that the season is winding down, maybe we could come up with something
clever about the Bombard, say in limerick form??
Miriam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer I.Paull" <info@-----.com>
To: "DR-L" <Doublereed@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 5:52 AM
Subject: [DR-L] Amazing Career!
> >
>
> 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.
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> Amoris International
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