Now, THIS one is from my sister the BCM alum.
Liz
>From: "Margaret F. Dikel" <mfriley@e...>
> >This was sent around the Horn List. Someone mentioned it's been >making the rounds for years, but it's the first I've seen it. > > > >> 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 1988, Ms. Spelke 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 also was a 1983 silver >>medallist 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 >>bent-page corner methods. She is world-class 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 occupies the coveted Alfred >>Hitchcock Chair at the Fairfield Page Turning Institute. >> Ms. Spelke is married and has a nice house on a lake. >> >>Stephen F. Pearce >>Foley, Alabama >>spearce@g... >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>hornlist mailing list >>hornlist@e... >>http://www.elmhurst.edu/mailman/listinfo/hornlist > >Margaret Dikel, MSLIS >11218 Ashley Dr. The Riley Guide >Rockville, MD 20852 www.rileyguide.com >301-984-4229 www.dbm.com/jobguide >301-984-6390 FAX mfriley@e... > >
Elizabeth Finkler http://home.earthlink.net/~mightymezzo/ mightymezzo@h...
I think gasoline should cost 49 cents a gallon. No, darn it, make that 29 cents a gallon! Also the gas-station attendants should pump it for you. And when you get home, you should be able to watch Milton Berle on your Philco TV. --Dave Barry
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