Raleigh Area Flute Association April Newsletter

Newsletter of the Raleigh Area Flute Association

Tune In

April 2008

Body Mapping Seminar & Concert

with Lea Pearson

Saturday, April 19 ● 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Westminster Presbyterian Church
301 E. Whitaker Mill Road, Raleigh (near Five Points)
Cost: Seminar & Concert free for RAFA members ($10 non-members)
Lunch will be provided ($5 donation suggested)

Lea Pearson's book Body Mapping for Flutists: What Every Flute Teacher Needs to Know About the Body will be available for $26.95 at the April 19 event. If you cannot attend the event and would still like to purchase a book, contact Rosene Rohrer BEFORE April 19 so a book can be set aside for you. (919) 781-3225 or drohrer123@pobox.com

Lea Pearson is available for private or small group consultations ($50/hour) Saturday evening (April 19) or Sunday morning (April 20). The sessions will be held in Helen Spielman's flute studio in Chapel Hill. Contact Lauren Robbins-Pollack (919) 557-2272 or density21.5@earthlink.net to schedule a consultation.

Schedule Registration Workshop Topics About Lea Pearson

Concert (1:00 - 2:00 pm)

Lea Pearson (flute) and Barbara Lister-Sink (piano)

Featuring the music by Black women composers

This concert is open to public, even if you cannot attend the seminar.

Concert fee: free for RAFA members; $10 for non-members

Still undecided about Body Mapping?

Then be sure to check out this RAFA member's reaction to Lea's class

Reuter-Pivetta

Flutist *Debra Reuter-Pivetta

With jazz vocalist Nnenna Frelon & other Mallarme artists

"All That Jazz: Telling our Stories"

Sunday, April 13, 3:00 pm
Page Auditorium, Duke University
Tickets through Duke Box Office (919) 684-4444
Adults $20, students $5.

Contact Duke Performances

Program:

Irwin Schulhoff, Concertino for flute, viola and doublebass
Schulhoff was a concentration camp composer and one of the earliest jazz aficionados in Europe.

Robert Ward, Serenade for Mallarme

for flute, viola, cello and piano
This award-winning NC composer, who is celebrating his 90^th birthday, will be in attendance at the concert.

The concert will also feature jazz vocalist Nnenna Frelon and pianist Brandon McCune with works that the two of them set to poetry by the renowned African American Mari Evans, who will also be attend the concert.

*Learn more about RAFA member Debra Reuter-Pivetta

Open Dress rehearsal on Saturday, April 26. 3:00 (no other music for this rehearsal)
NC Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh, NC
Time: 2:30 brief pre-concert talk about the Antarctic project.with

flutist/photographer Brooks de Wetter-Smith and composer Allen Anderson

Cost: $5.00

More Details of both performances

2008-2009 RAFA Officers' Slate

The Nominating Committee has submitted this preliminary slate of officers. Additional names can be added to the slate until April 25. If you are interested in serving on RAFA's board of directors, contact Tammy Schmidt (919) 326-9329 or schmidtt@gcs.k12.nc.us. The final slate will be published in next month's Tune In and voted upon at the RAFA Members' Recital on May 18.

Officers

President.....Rosene Rohrer
Vice-President.....Tammy Schmidt
Treasurer.....Kimberly Allemang
Corresponding Secretary.....Lauren Robbins-Pollack
Recording Secretary.....Nancy Schneeloch-Bingham
Members-at-Large
Ami Allgeier ('06-'09)
Joanna Sisk-Purvis ('07-'10)
Mary Croghan ('08-'11)

Appointed Positions

Membership Chairperson.....Rosene Rohrer
Student Representative.....Sindhu Ravishankar
Second Winds.....Ami Allgeier
Review & Contest
Coordinator.....Lauren Robbins-Pollack
Assistant.....Heidi Sue Iseminger
Solo Fest.....Anne Dyke
Fundraising.....Ann Pearce
Flute Choirs
Silver Fantasy.....Emily Orr
Silver Winds & Silver Pipes.....Twila Kelly
Tune In & Website.....Twila Kelly

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Raleigh Flute Choir Returns to Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival

RFC

The Raleigh Flute Choir has been invited to appear at the Piccolo Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston (SC) on May 25! They will present the same concert in Raleigh on Friday, May 16, 7:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church. See the RFC website for more details.

Flute Recital

RAFA flutist Michelle Dunn

pianist Rebekah Taylor

Monday, May 5, 7:00 pm

Carswell Auditorium, Meredith College

Program:

Beethoven

Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 10, No. 2

Delibes

"Flower Duet" from Lackme

(with RAFA member Tunisia Bullock)

Ibert

Concerto

Learn more about Michelle

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	Raleigh Area Flute Association is supported by United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County, who in turn receives support from the North Carolina Arts Council with funding from the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.