Klarinet Archive - Posting 000109.txt from 2004/11

From: Robert Wood <instruments@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re: The Lady of the Lake, Dining and Dancing when the Town is in
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 01:31:35 -0500

WOW -= She's Finger Lickin' Good !

Shaw, Kenneth R. wrote:

>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
>
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