![[Notepad Logo goes here.]](notepad.gif)
George Yefchak, Editor
Please submit all material at least one day prior to distribution date.
This concert will be taped for community access cable.
We sold 328 tickets to our Gala Anniversary Concert. After paying for the caterers, the soloist, and the other various expenses, we still managed to make some money too!
The Master Class wasn't exactly a financial success, since only about 15 people attended, but it was certainly worthwhile for the participants. See Master Class for more info.
The participants and their prepared pieces were:
Eugene Fodor listened to each of these violinists, whose skill level ranged from intermediate to fantastic-. After each student played, Fodor offered suggestions, ranging from stylistic to mechanical. In general, all the students needed some help with bowing technique. Most of Fodor's comments resulted in immediate and discernible improvements in the students' playing.
At the end of the allotted time, Eugene consented to play a
Bach selection for the audience, which was of course quite a
treat. But Fodor had made a special connection with Hegun Song (a
teenage student who has recently arrived from Korea, who was
playing on "an ancient and venerable violin," according
to Peter Stahl), and so he continued to work with her. Fodor and
Song exchanged violins and continued to play until the Ca·ada
College facilities workers eventually had to throw everybody out.
One of the best outcomes of the Gala concert has been the increased teamwork and organization of our volunteers. A newly-formed Orchestra Council met several times at Claudia Herzog's house to plan for the Gala and for the season in general. Now that the daunting tasks required for the Gala have been accomplished successfully, the council is moving onward to coordinate activities for our remaining concerts. Thanks go to Eric Kujawsky for sharing his experiences on how he has run the orchestra so far. Griff Derryberry and Claudia Herzog have begun- to prepare written descriptions of the various tasks that must be accomplished and volunteer positions that must be filled for each concert. With this new level of planning, we hope future concerts will be even more successful.
One of the never-ending jobs essential to our organization is Publicity. Claudia has now prepared a binder containing all our press releases, the phone numbers of all press contacts, etc., so that anyone who might take on this task in the future will have easy access to all the required information. We hope to have all our other tasks defined in a similar manner soon.
In order to meet our goals for continued audience development, we would like to encourage each member to attempt- to sell ten tickets for each concert. Tickets for friends of orchestra members are available in advance for $5--a pretty good deal compared to the $25 Gala-Concert price! (Regular will-call tickets are $8, and tickets at the door are $10.) We would also like to encourage each member to sell two Season Subscriptions, which include four concerts for $30.
We are willing to provide a limited number of free tickets to first-time attendees as a way of introducing them to RWS.
This is a Web version of text from the newsletter "Redwood Symphony Notepad" which is distributed to members of the Redwood Symphony at rehearsals. The newsletter and this online version are edited by George Yefchak.
Return to the Notepad Index