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Bridge & BowFall 2002
Officers:PRESIDENT
Charlene Wilson503.691.1196
VICE-PRESIDENTDorien de Leò[email protected]
SECRETARYPhil Hansen
503.296.8545
TREASURERBruce McIntosh503.585.4298
PROGRAM COORDINATORDavid Keyes503.297.2322
NEWSLETTER EDITORGeorgienne Young
NEWSLETTER & WWWWayne Nutsch503.371.3002
Note: The short code above your name shows the status of your membership. If your code is not PD02, PD03, ST02 or ST03,please take a moment to return this form with a check for your 2003 dues. This will guarantee that you receive your newsletterregularly.
President’s Letter
Board MembersNancy Day
Heather Blackburn503.293.9148
Nancy Ives360.690.1872
India [email protected]
503.524.0789
Steven Pologe541.346.3785
Kathie Reed503.639.3795
Helloooo, cellists!
What a summer! I hope it was loaded with music, festivals, chamber musicand lots of re-creation time for all of you. The OCS board members and othervolunteers are working very hard on the plans for the Cello Orchestra Concerton October 26, 2002. We are delighted to announce that Huw Edwards willconduct this concert, and we certainly look forward to the pleasure of workingwith him. David Keyes and Nancy Day have pinned down Cleveland HighSchool for the dress rehearsal at 1:30 and concert at 8:00. The first reading,at the OCS Annual Meeting on October 6 at 1:30 in the afternoon, will be in St.Anne¹s Chapel at Marylhurst, as will the rehearsals at 12:00 noon on October13, and 7:00 p.m. on October 25. Again, we promise we will have material forall abilities to enjoy. A number of professionals have signed up, and they willbe playing in small ensembles as well as in the orchestra. The small groupswill play Jim Day¹s composition, Pastoral Romance, and other works by Villa-Lobos and Fauré and also a group of Argentinian Tangos. The full orchestraprogram includes Innerfolk by Phil Hansen and works by Telemann, Albinoni,Schubert, Bach and Strauss...and will end with the wonderful Sardana byCasals. We hope to play Casals Song of the Birds as an encore. Dorien deLeón is organizing and copying all the music, and Kathie Reed and I will betrying to sort out who plays what, with (we hope) the input of other members.At the Annual Meeting you will also have an opportunity to hear the 2002Audition scholarship winners. Their short recital will take place at the start ofthe meeting. Items of business will be election of three board members, dis-cussion about raising membership dues and announcement of plans for therest of the year, including a possible reception. Be sure to bring your ideas.Music folders will be distributed and we will read through the music for theCello Orchestra Concert. If you haven¹t checked out our web-site, which wasdesigned and is capably watched over by Wayne Nutsch, go to oregoncello.org.You will find the most recent copies of Bridge & Bow, cellos for sale, links toperforming groups and to our sponsors and a link to the Internet Cello Society(cello.org). Then, if you go to ICS, you will find hundreds of things of interest tocellists...but I think the items you will find most valuable are hidden in the “OldICS Website.” In those archives you will not only find over four years’ worth ofarticles, interviews, chat rooms, etc., but lists of amateur, professional andhistorical cellists...all with fascinating material, individual websites, more ar-ticles and more interviews. What a resource! See you on October 6!!
Charlene Wilson
President, Oregon Cello Society
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OCS Internet Access
The Oregon Cello Society now has a pres-ence on the World Wide Web. The addressis www.oregoncello.org. Wayne Nutsch isthe Webmaster. Although it is still under con-struction, please visit the site and bookmarkit in your browser for expedited visits. Mailmay be sent to [email protected].
Stars & Strings Forever
by Lorely Zgonc
I have found an excellent new cello method for begin-ners. It is “Stars & Strings Forever”, by Lorely Zgonc,the concertmaster of the Portland Opera and Oregon Bal-let Theatre orchestras.
But… what is a violinist doing writing a cello method?That’s a good question. For 12 years Lorely has beenteaching strings at Troutdale and Sweet Briar gradeschools, and at Walt Morey Middle School. In the pro-cess she has found out what works and what doesn’t. Shehas created this method with versions for violin, viola,cello and bass. She has been so successful that for the last10 years her middle school string orchestra has placed inthe top 3 out of 30 orchestras at the annual Mt. HoodOrchestra Festival.
What sets this method apart from others is that it consistsof a book and 2 CDs. Each lesson is in 3 sections. Thefirst section is a work sheet, on which the student learnsto write the notes that are introduced in that lesson. Thesecond is practiced with CD 1, and, in the cello method,involves listening to our own Nancy Ives (principal cel-list of the Oregon Symphony) play one measure at a time,after which the student copies her. The third section goeswith CD 2, and consists of Nancy playing simple tuneswith very clever piano accompaniments, written by Lorelyand played by Ayaka Isono. The student plays along withthem. The last one in each lesson is a true chamber musicpiece with piano, cello, bass and violin.
The first 2 lessons are open string pizzicato, after whichthe student spends 4 lessons learning to bow the openstrings in different rhythms. Lessons 7-11 introduce theD Major tetrachord, and Lessons 12-15 introduce the AMajor tetrachord. By the end of Book 1 the student canread and play a D Major scale on the D and A strings,play many tunes, 16th notes, double stops on open strings,slurs and ties, harmonics, and some fiddling tunes.
The genius of this method is that the student learns toplay with a good tone (from copying Nancy’s beautifulsound every day), and good rhythm from playing with therecording. It starts at such a basic level that even a smallchild can play the first lesson the first day. I started a little9 year-old boy on this 2 months ago, and it was fun to seehow thrilled he was to be able to read music and play real
tunes with chamber music at his very first lesson.
Paradoxically, my adult beginners also love this method.None of them have found it too simple, and they alllike to play the chamber music in the privacy of theirhomes.( I have 6 middle-aged women beginners, andwe have a support group called the “YoYo MaMas”.)
As much as I like the Suzuki method, I have not foundmany parents who have time to come to their kids’ les-sons and to practice with them every day. So many fami-lies have two working parents, and there is seldom timeat the end of the day for practicing. Stars & StringsForever gets around this problem by using the CDs, sothe student can do it on his or her own. At the end ofBook 1, my students are ready to go into Suzuki Book1 with no difficulty. Nevertheless, I am eagerly await-ing the publication of Stars & Strings Forever, Book 2.
Stars & Strings Forever can be bought at Portland SheetMusic Service, or directly from Lorely Zgonc at 21230NE Interlachen Lane, Fairview, OR 97024. Her emailaddress is [email protected], and theweb site is www.starsandstringsforever.com.
Income for the year-to-dateMemberships Adult (2001) $ 30.00
Adult $ 660.00Student $ 215.00Donations $ 45.00Subtotal $ 950.00
Scholarships $ 290.00Total $ 1,240.00
Expenses for the year-to-dateScholarship Auditions 2002 Accompanists $ 75.00
Judges $ 100.00Scholarships $ 150.00Subtotal $ 325.00
Reception $ 300.00Total $ 625.00
Income less expenses $ 615.00Bank Balance as of March 31, 2002 $ 6,604.27Cash on hand as of September 14, 2002 $ 90.00
Outstanding checks $ (200.00)
Bank Balance as of September 14, 2002 $ 5,934.91
Treasurers Reportby Bruce McIntosh
Have an article you would like published?Items for the next newsletter may be e-mailed toGeorgienne Young, Editor, at [email protected],or sent by snail mail to 1560 High St. SE, Salem,OR 97302. This may include articles, notices or cal-endar information. The next newsletter deadline isDec 1st, 2002.
CLASSIFIEDS
FOR SALE: Cello, case, and bow—$13,000. Ap-praisal documentation available.
Cello made by “Gustave August Ficker, Mittenwald,anno 1954, Copy of JosephGuarnerius”
“William Lewis and Son” pernambuco bow. Frog isebony with Parisian eyes and silver mounts. Silverbutton. Jaeger case.
For more information, contact: Cindy Uecker at 503/640-6997 or [email protected]
FOR SALE: Two Cellos - Glasel & Kay, 3/4 size - $325& $225 respectfully. These instruments have been wellmaintained, nearly new strings and bridge. My chil-dren play them frequently and either should serve abeginner well. Wayne Nutsch 503.371.3002 or e-mail:[email protected]. Salem
Personal Profile - Nancy Ives..... an interview, by Tim Scott
October 7 & 8
Emerson String Quartet, 8pm, Lincoln perfor-mance hall, PSU
October 22
Faculty Artist Series, University of OregonSchool of Music at Beall Hall, Eugene; StevePologe, cello with Victor Steinhardt, piano
October 26
Cello Orchestra Concert, 8pm, Cleveland HighSchool
October 25 and 27
Third Angle New Music Ensemble-Hits andMyths (Oct. 25 at 7:30 PM, Oct. 27 at 3:30 pm,both concerts at the Old Church)
October 27
Turtle Island String Quartet, 3pm, Kaul Audito-rium, Reed College
October 27
Oregon Festival of American Music ChamberMusic Concert at 4:00 p.m. in the new ConcertHall at The Shedd in Eugene featuring musicof Thomas Svoboda, including “Duo for Clari-net and Cello” with Sylvie Spengler, cello andMichael Anderson, clarinet
When Nancy Ives became the newest member ofthe Oregon Symphony in October of 2000, we didn’tknow very much about her, even though she had livedand worked in Portland for the past three years. Someof the musicians knew that she had a doctorate fromthe Manhattan School of Music, played with the tour-ing company of Phantom of the Opera for four years,and had most recently been principal cellist for theOregon Ballet Theater and of course possessed afamous and musical last name. We also quicklylearned that she contributed a calm energy and co-operative leadership to the section.
I thought it would be helpful to interview Nancy to fillin the gaps. She shares her name with Charles Ives,famous innovative American Insurance salesmanwho was her great-grandfather’s cousin. Her familyis all musical, with her mother and one sister beinggood amateur violinists, her father singing and judg-ing Barbershop Quartets, one sister a soprano, andanother sister a cellist involved with music educa-tion.
She grew up in many places around Texas and Kan-sas, which is why she had 13 cello teachers, mostlybefore the ninth grade. Nancy has her BM from theUniversity of Kansas, where she studied cello anddid a lot of composing. At the Manhattan School ofMusic, she studied with Marion Feldman and receiveda DMA in performance with a 78-page thesis aboutpizzicato. (Really!) During the ten years Nancy livedin NYC, she performed a lot of chamber music, gravi-tating to more and more contemporary, experimen-tal and even performance art.
During her years touring with Phantom she devel-oped a one-woman comedy cello act which she per-formed in company AIDS benefits. She also met herhusband Tim Jensen while on tour. He has playedflute and saxophone with the Oregon Symphony andalso performs on Arpeggione and Army Field Organ.As the tour went on they learned that they shared asecret ambition to live the Portland area, a wish theysoon fulfilled by buying a house in Vancouver, Wash-ington.
When she moved here she realized that she had
enough of show business and wanted to get backto more “classical” music. Although she playedas an extra musician only once with the OregonSymphony before joining it, she was well knownaround town for her work in the Portland Opera,chamber Music, including guest appearanceswith Third Angle and Fear No Music, summerfestivals, including Cascade and the Compos-ers’ Symposium of the Bloch Festival, and asPrincipal Cellist (and briefly personnel manager)of the Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra. Sheplays a beautiful old English cello by Forster.
When she isn’t playing music Nancy keeps busyreading, gardening, keeping healthy and caringfor her Chihuahua and parrot. Her reading hab-its include about 20 magazines a month, withAtlantic Monthly being one of her favorites alongwith gardening, natural health, and sciencemagazines. She also admits to being an AnthonyTrollope fanatic, as she has read 39 of his 47novels (in the original language). Yoga is part ofher life as is caring for herself with other naturalhealth practices and foods.
When growing up, Nancy particularly admired theplaying of Leonard Rose and the Juilliard StringQuartet. One of the minority of symphony musi-cians who is fond of the music of Elliot Carter,Nancy also likes the music of many mid-centuryAmerican composers such as Copland and Wil-liam Schuman. Other works on her wish list ofmusic she would like to see the orchestra per-form include the Bartok; Music for Strings, Per-cussion and Celeste and the music of Swill com-poser Frank Martin. Being a cellist, she also lovesBrahms, and the later sacred vocal works of CarlStamitz. She says she is really loving the orches-tra and has been thrilled by the warmth of herreception by the orchestra musicians and staff.
She will be appearing as soloist with the OregonSymphony in November, playing the little-knownKabalevsky Cello Concerto No. 2.
(portions reprinted from the Oregon Symphonywinter 2000/2001newsletter)
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November 10
Salute Salem’s Young Musicians (SSYM),3pm, North Salem High School auditorium
December 8
Winter Concert, Salem Youth Symphony, 3pm, North Salem High School
December 19-20
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Centerpresents the complete Brandenburg Concertiat Reed College, Kaul Auditorium (HamiltonHeifetz will perform in these concerts afterdoing the same programs in New York theprevious week)
December 31
Trinity Cathedral special New Year’s EveConcert
February 8, 2003
Winter Enchantment Dessert Concert atMission Mill, Salem Youth Symphony 7 pm.
March 9
Florestan Trio at PSU, 4 pm.
May 4
Spring Concert, Salem Youth Symphony, NorthSalem High School, 3 pm.
CALENDAR
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Two Oregon Cello Society
Board MeetingsMINUTES OF THE SEPTEMBER 15th, 2002 BOARD
MEETING
Present: Nancy Day, India Jobelmann, Dave Keyes, BruceMcIntosh, Steve Pologe, Charlene Wilson
Charlene Wilson, called the meeting to order at 11:15 a.m.
Treasurer's Report: Bruce McIntosh announced that the cur-rent assets ( excluding October income) exceeded expensesand are currently in the neighborhood of $6,ooo.oo.
OLD BUSINESS
Scholarship winners scheduled to play at the Annual Meet-ing have all been notified as to date. The need for accompa-nists is not certain at this time. Bruce will handle.
NEW BUSINESS
The minutes of the last meeting and the current minutes willboth appear in the next issue of the Bridge and Bow.
Bridge and Bow: THE DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS TODAY.Georgienne has the Nancy Ives interview. Treasurer's re-port and current minutes (plus last meeting's minutes) to besent via e mail this evening to Georgienne.
ADVERTISING: Steve Pologe made a motion that teacheradvertising in the Newsletter (Bridge and Bow) be broughtup for a vote at the annual meeting - with certain stipulationsto be determined at a date before the meeting. Secondedand passed.
Advertising costs were discussed...a full page starting at$100.00 was suggested but because of time limitations, con-tinuation of this subject was tabled.
MUSIC COMMITTEE: BRAVO! Music chosen for full or-chestra and small professional ensembles. Scores provided.The full list of composers, players needed, and time allottedwill be provided in part with these minutes.
Charlene Willson and Kathie Reed will assign the parts,based on the applications, and arrange the seating some-time after September 18th.
Bruce will conduct the first rehearsal at St. Anne's Chapel,Marylhurst University, October 6th at 1:30.
The dress rehearsal and concert (both to be held on Satur-day, October 26th, will be conducted by Huw Edwards atCleveland High School. The conductor (s) for those rehears-als inbetween to be announced as we receive the sched-ules. The rehearsal times were announced in the applica-tion.
They are: October 6...1:30 p.m....St. Anne's Chapel,Marylhurst (17600 Hwy. 43, 1 mile south of Lake Oswego)October 13...12:00 noon...St. Anne's Chapel; October25...7:00 p.m....St. Anne's Chapel; October 26...1:30p.m....Cleveland High School Auditorium (Dress Rehearsal);October 26...8:00 p.m.....Cleveland High School Auditorium(Concert).
NEW BOARD MEMBERS:Honorary members: NaomiBlumberg and India Jobelmann were nominated to be Hon-orary Board members. India accepted and said she wouldbe honored to hold that position. Naomi will be contacted assoon as possible by Charlene.
Possible candidates for Board membership to fill three open-ings: Walter Hogsett, Dieter Ratzlaf, Lynn Roe, GeorgeStruble, Wayne Nutsch, Russ Evans, Raise in MembershipDues?
Some of the reasons to think about are as follows: Additionalscholarship monies to help students pay for their lessons.Cost of judges who are hired to pick scholarship winners. Costof accompanists, advertising, special events (receptions,master classes, etc.), Postage and printing. We are very lowin dues compared to other cello societies. Dave suggestedthe following proposal: Students: $15.00; Others: $25.00;Teachers who wish to be listed alphabetically (and separately):$30.00.
At approximately 12:20, both Steve and India had to leave forother commitments.
CELLO ORCHESTRA
Costs for presenting the Cello Extravaganza in 1997 werebrought up by Dave and a possible budget for the 2002 con-cert discussed. It was our hope to bring it in for less than1997 but that will be uncertain until we receive estimates fromprinters and artists for posters and programs and any otherform of advertising we decide upon.
We would very much like to have articles in the Oregonianand Willamette Week. Nancy Ives will be asked if she wouldcontact David Stabler from the Oregonian with that in mind.Nancy Day will check on WW to determine what sort of anarticle they would be able and/or willing to run. We wouldalso like to have Nancy Ives interviewed by John Pitmann atKPBS.
A good deal of discussion ensued with regard to ClevelandHigh School, what they can and will provide in the way ofchairs and stands, lights, etc. Also various costs were dis-cussed and Dave will be following up on that.
There is ample parking space across the street from theschool. There will be a room provided where cellos and cases,etc. may be left and someone will be there to insure theirsafety.
TICKETS
The price for tickets will be: Adult: $15.00, Student, Senior:$10.00.
FASTIX WILL SELL THE TICKETS and there will be no sur-charge for the tickets. Tickets will also be available at thedoor on concert night.
PLEASE NOTE: All cellists planning to play in the Cello Or-chestra are encouraged to pick up as many tickets at rehears-als as they think they can sell. Let's try to FILL THE HALL!!!
Our next Board Meeting will take place at 7 p.m. Fridayevening, September 27th at the home of Charlene Wilson.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Day (Secretary Pro-tem)
MINUTES OF THE July 12th, 2002 BOARD MEETING
Meeting called to order at 10:45 a.m.
Dorien de León, Phil Hansen, Nancy Ives, Bruce McIntosh,Wayne Nutsch, Kathie Reed, Charlene Wilson, andGeorgienne Young in attendance.
Minutes were read and approved as amended.
Treasurer's report: Bruce’s computer had recently crashed,so little to report.
Question was raised about getting dues checks cashedsooner; Bruce will investigate different options to streamlinesystem.
OLD BUSINESS
Letter from Esther Prince saying she received a check withno signature or amount for dues; Bruce did not receive herreturn letter; check would be sent out immediately.
NEW BUSINESS
Deadline for next newsletter is Sept. 6. It will be mailed outOctober 4.
An interview with Nancy Ives will be in an upcoming newslet-ter, with the interview tentatively set to be done by MyrnaElmore.
Nominations for several board positions should be consid-ered as there are several terms expiring.
CELLO ORCHESTRA OCTOBER 26, 2002:
Cello Orchestra repertoire is set for . Pieces will be byTelemann, Klengel, Johann Strauss, Villa-Lobos, Albinoni,Casals, and more. A big thank you to Jane Day, Walt Hogsett,John Hubbard, Oreet Ranon, and Charlene Wilson for pre-viewing the pieces!
Dave Keyes/Charlene Wilson will accept names of cellistssigning up.
Nancy Ives will assist in recruiting professionals.
Nancy Day will help with publicity/public relations.
Rehearsals dates and times:
October 6 after the OCS Annual Meeting at 1:30 p.m.
October 13 at 12:00 p.m. (small ensembles first)
October 25 at 7:00 p.m.
October 26 at 1:30 p.m.(DRESS REHEARSAL ...
ATTENDANCE MANDATORY!)
October 26 at 8:00 p.m. CONCERT!
NEXT BOARD MEETING: at Charlene's - Sunday, Sept. 15,11 a.m.
Meeting adjourned at 12:30 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Phil Hansen, Secretary
Orchestra program as of now is:1 - Telemann Concerto in D - 8 min. - tutti (maybe some tacit)
2 - Schubert Two Marches - 5 min. - tutti
3 - Albinoni Adagio - 4 min. - tutti
4 - Bach Gigue - 3 min. - tutti
5 - Jim Day Pastoral Romance - 3 min. - 5, 10 or 15 celli
6 - Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasilieras #1- 18 min. - 16 celli
7 - Three Argentine Tangos - 8 min. - 8 celli
8 - Fauré Pavanne - 3 min. - 8 or 12 celli (possibly to be doneby a group from Eugene under Steve Pologe)
9 - Phil Hansen Innerfolk - 3 min. - tutti
10 - Strauss Emperor Waltzes - 10 min. - tutti
11 - Casals Sardana - 5 min. - tutti (maybe some tacit)
12 - (encore) Casals Song of the Birds - tutti
Your Ad could go here inthe next issue .. contact
Georgienne [email protected]
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