George Yefchak, Editor

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• E-mail: yefchak@hpl.hp.com

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January 8, 1997

Today Listen to Harrison 7:00 - 7:30, Harrison 7:30 - 8:30, Schubert 8:45 - 10:00

Jan. 15 Strings only

Jan. 22 Schubert 7:00 - 8:00,
Harrison 8:15 - 10:00

Friday, Jan. 24 (Band room) Schubert 7:00 - 8:15,
Harrison 8:30 - 10:00

Jan. 29 Rossini 7:00 - 7:30, Schubert 7:30 - 8:30,
Harrison 8:45 - 10:00

Feb. 5 Rossini 7:00 - 7:30, Schubert 7:30 - 8:30,
Harrison 8:45 - 10:00

Saturday Feb. 8
Dress Rehearsal
Rossini 10:00 - 10:30, Harrison 10:30 - 11:45,
Schubert 12:00 - 1:30

Sunday Feb. 9
Concert 3:00 p.m., 2:30 p.m. Call

Fodor -- The Sequel

--Claudia Herzog

We have another Fodor event coming up in June. I would like to request that we get organized and motivated for the event early this year. Due to the tremendous efforts last year of Catherine Habiger, Victor Lee, Dave Silon and many others, we have laid the foundation for publicity/gifts in kind, hall management, and the master class. Therefore, this year's planning should work more smoothly, especially if we start early.

Here are the specific activities that I would like to get jump-started soon:

• Music Teacher contacts--we need to let music teachers (String Teachers please) in the area know about Eugene's return. The music teachers can recommend students who will prepare a piece for the Master Class, and who will be interested in receiving feedback from Mr. Fodor. The date for the Master Class is likely to be Saturday June 7th at 3:00 P.M. (after our dress rehearsal for the concert).
• Corporate Outreach--we need people who are interested in assisting Deborah Birckhead, RWS's new Corporate Outreach Manager, to contact local businesses (like Oracle, HP, IBM, law firms, Xerox PARC, etc.) to see if we can get Eugene to play for employees at a noon-time concert forum. This is a great publicity opportunity to ensure that the concert piques the interest of our colleagues in the Valley.
• Reception Planning--we need people interested in contacting local businesses for a post-concert reception. We have the list of contributing businesses from last year so this role will be mainly to determine the venue and the menu for the reception. I think we can have a great post-concert bash for Maestro Fodor. Any ideas for a venue?
• School Outreach--Eugene would like to play at some of the schools in the area for an assembly. He would like to play to 4-500 kids at a time, demonstrating music basics and performance techniques. He has been wildly successful garnering interest in Hawaii for his program. We will need help identifying school districts that would be interested in such an educational assembly and getting the ok to reserve the dates and times for his visit (most likely the week of June 2nd, if school is still in session, otherwise the week before).
• Public Relations--we need people who will contact local papers regarding public interest stories surrounding Fodor's visit. If we are successful in getting Fodor into the local schools and also performing at the corporations we have targeted, we have some great Feature Story opportunities. We have the list of publications from last year.

Please send me an e-mail (cherzog@dsp.net) if you are interested in any of these roles. Or you can come up to speak with me at break time. I am very interested in helping to create fulfilling and manageable volunteer roles for orchestra members and people who are just interested in being involved with RWS.

More work is being done to increase our core volunteer corps and increase our connection to the community at large (our audience members, local corporations, music teachers, etc.). Please take a moment to consider how you would like to be involved in improving how RWS operates. Then also consider who within your circle would be interested in joining us.

Hope to hear from you!

Program Deadlines

--George Yefchak

Cañada College has reduced their staff in Central Duplicating, so they have asked us to provide the concert program two weeks in advance. I'm going to add to this already stressful deadline advancement by asking that all contributed items (e.g. program notes, lists of donations and supporters, etc.) arrive in time for a draft the program to be proofread by Eric (or Peter, etc.).

In the past, things have always come at the last moment, and I usually demonstrate the traditional inability of an editor to find errors in one's own work. (Note this gem from the Kodàly notes in our previous concert program: Bartók wrote, "If I were to name the composer whose works are the most perfect embodiment of the Hungarian spirit, I would answer, Bartók.) In order to avoid this sort of thing this time, please observe the following deadlines.

Upcoming Deadlines

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