Klarinet Archive - Posting 000086.txt from 2004/11

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Program Biographies
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 13:53:03 -0500


One of the essential paraticipants in any recital program is the page
turner, yet they seldom get credit in the program. Well, the time has
come, and none too soon. Here's a suggested format (from the IDRS
board):

Tonight's page turner, Paige Turner, studied under Ivan Schmertnick at
the Boris Nitsky School of Page Turning in Omaha. She has been turning
pages here and abroad for many years for some of the world's leading
pianists. In 1988, Ms. Turner 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 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. Turner excelled in "grace, swiftness, and
especially poise." For techniques, Ms. Turner performs both the
finger-lick and the bent-page-corner methods. She works from a standard
left bench position and is the originator of the dipped-elbow 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.
Ms. Turner is married and has a nice house on a lake.

Ken Shaw

Ken,

I bet she's expensive....outsource her. (she shouldn't be living in a nice
house on a lake) I'm sure she can be replaced for a mean fraction of what
she asks for.

Forest

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