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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000047.txt from 2004/05

From: arri bachrach <abachrach@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Amazing Career!
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 13:35:14 -0400

we should all aspire to reach the musical heights similar to that of Ms
Spelke .

AB

>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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