April 9, 2003

The Schedule

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Redwood's 2003-2004 Season

CONCERT 1: Saturday, 9/20/03, 7 P.M.
Los Altos United Methodist Church

Beth Anderson: Minnesota Swale (George Yefchak, conductor)
Varese: Density 21.5 (Michelle Davis, flute)
Other chamber works (Ravel or Debussy work for Impressionism)
Zappa: G-Spot Tornado
Schickele: Bach Portrait (Kristin Link conductor, Eric Kujawsky, narrator)
Mozart: Symphony No. 40

CONCERT 2: Saturday, 11/15/03, 8 P.M.
San Mateo Performing Arts Center

Jason Klein, guest conductor
Harrison: Parade
Concerto TBA
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

CONCERT 3: Sunday, 2/22/04, 3 P.M.
Notre Dame de Namur University Theatre

Berlioz: March from Les Troyennes (Kristin Link, conductor)
H.K. Gruber: Frankenstein!
NDNU competition winner
Brahms: Symphony No. 2

CONCERT 4: Sunday, 4/18/04, 3 P.M.
Cañada College Main Theatre

Adams: Lollapalooza
Messiaen: Un Sourire
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Julia Greer, piano)
Stravinsky: Petrushka

CONCERT 5: Sunday, 6/13/04, 3 P.M.
San Mateo Performing Arts Center

Ives: Country Band (Kristin Link, conductor)
Corigliano: The Red Violin (Karen Bentley, violin)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 (Schola Cantorum)

FAMILY CONCERT: Sunday, 11/23/03, 4:30 P.M.
Messiah Lutheran Church, Redwood City

POPS CONCERT: Saturday, 7/24/04, 8 P.M.
Canada College Main Theatre

Davies: Mavis in Las Vegas
Daugherty: Tombeau de Liberace
Ellington: Three Black Kings

There is no chamber concert; chamber works are incorporated into the first set.
One rehearsal off between all sets, except between Concert 2 and the Family Concert just before Thanksgiving.
Guest conductor for Concert 2, a first for us.
Salutes to Lou Harrison, Berlioz (200th B-day), and Ives (50th year since death).
Five venues, including two churches.
Three Saturday night concerts.
Extra encores to be decided later.
Still no place confirmed for rehearsal space.

Lynda's Cookie Recipe

1½ cubes (6 oz) sweet butter
½ tbsp vanilla (1½ tsp)
½ cup white sugar
½ cup light brown sugar (packed)
½ cup dark brown sugar (packed)
1 egg
1 tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
2 cups flour (fluff, dip, level off)
approx. 3 oz (¾ cup ?) toasted pecans, chopped (see note about preheating oven)
9 oz chopped chocolate ( can use 1½ cups chocolate chips or whatever) *

Mix ingredients in order given. Preheat oven to 375˚F. Can toast pecans while oven preheating for about 6-8 minutes. Line baking sheets with aluminum foil. Drop large spoonfuls of cookie dough on ungreased foil. (I use a size 40 ice cream scoop.) Bake at 375˚F for 11½ minutes.(3rd rack from bottom of oven) Smaller cookies will take less time and larger slightly more. They will not look done and be fairly soft. Slide foil off baking sheet for cookies to compose themselves (will take about 10 minutes). To get chewier cookies, make sure butter is fairly soft and rap baking sheet half way through cooking. Turning sheet around halfway through the baking time will accomplish the same thing. This apparently stops the leavening action of the baking soda.

*This recipe is almost identical to the one Cook's Magazine came up with for their perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe. I think theirs has a tad more flour. I've used 6 oz white Lindt chocolate and 3 oz bittersweet Lindt but usually reverse those amounts and use more dark. The best price is three bars for $4.89 or so at MilkPail on California & San Antonio in Mountain View, across from Safeway (which charges $2+/bar). Next best price is Cost Plus if you want to use Lindt.

Party after the Concert

Eric has reserved the party room at Chevy's on Sunday from 5:30 to 8 P.M. We hope to see many of you there. Chevy's is on the east side of El Camino in Redwood City, about a mile south of Woodside Road, at 2907 El Camino.

Take 280 south to the next exit, which is Woodside Road. Turn left at Woodside and go a long way (five miles?) to El Camino. Turn right (south) on El Camino and look for the Chevy's sign on your left.

Paid Gig

Needed: 3 violins, 2 violas and 1 cello to perform Haydn's Little Organ Mass with First Congregational Church of San Jose. Rehearsals are Saturday morning, April 26th, Monday night, May 5th. Performance is Thursday night, May 8th.

Please call Kristin Link (violin) at 264-4671 or e-mail brlink@pacbell.net if you're interested.

Dress Rehearsal Photos

Barb Heninger, our photographer and season brochure co-designer, will be at Saturday's dress rehearsal to take photos, some of which will end up in next season's publicity materials. Eric will be wearing concert dress. While some casual photos may be used, the preference is for shots in our peculiar "look." So please consider dressing in black for the dress rehearsal (especially if you want your likeness in our PR). You don't need to wear your exact concert outfit, just something black.

Program Deadlines

For program notes, donor lists, soloist bios, advertisements, etc.

Materials to George (oboe) by Wednesday, April 9
To Press on Friday, April 11

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.

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