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Solo flute performance with photos, video, & nature sounds of Antarctica,
featuring flutist/photographer Brooks de Wetter-Smith.
"The Dancer" |
Wednesday, April 21, 6:00 p.m. FedEx Global Education Center
301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill
"No admission charge; reception to follow"
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Raleigh Flute Choir - 2010 Spring Concerts
Join the Raleigh Flute Choir for their spring concert:
A wide range of musical styles will be featured through these selections: Pop, Pasquinade, Dance of the Night, Petite Caprice, Sylvan Suite, and Divertimento-Jazz. This unique ensemble achieves its varied performance blend with concert C-flutes augmented by two piccolos, alto and bass flutes, and the granddaddy contrabass flute!
April 22
Thursday, 7pm
April 30th
Friday, 7:30pm
Oxford Baptist Church, Sanctuary
147 Main St., Oxford 27565(about 45 miles north of Raleigh: route 50, route 15)
Donations - half of proceeds to benefit Oxford Baptist Church Relay for Life team |
* * RAFA members welcome -- no charge! * *
What you say to yourself and how you say it has a strong impact on your ability to achieve your goals. Learn how and why positive thinking is such a powerful tool for making changes or creating concentration and relaxation. Understand a clear process for creating specific positive thoughts, called affirmations, that have meaning for you and your needs, and learn when and how to use them for maximum effectiveness to attain focus, persist in practice, work more smoothly with colleagues, or enhance performance in high pressure situations. The class will be taught by Helen Spielman, performance anxiety coach and RAFA member.
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 Flute Choir Festival
Thanks to Mary Croghan, member of Silver Winds and Silver Pipes, for the following review of the April 11 RAFA event with guest John Bailey, who coached RAFA flute choirs and ensembles (pictured below with him).
The Sunday afternoon spent with John Bailey offered an experience to the RAFA flute choirs that included good information and advice, refinement of many sections in the pieces played, and much fun.
John's sense of humor and ability to improve the playing both of individuals and groups came through in his instruction. He managed to critique and teach at the same time that he offered praise for the work that Sonja and the choirs have already accomplished.
Probably it's true to say that John's overriding piece of advice was to relax and have fun along with working on intonation, intonation, intonation! Many thanks to John Bailey for a valuable and fun time! |
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Silver Fantasy Flute Choir
Top row: Vicki High, Sue Sager, Donna Fetterolf, (John Bailey)
Bottom row: Sonja Noykos, Seema Ravishankar, Allie Bruce, Kelly Padilla, Mary Croghan
Silver Pipes Flute Choir
Top row: Mary Croghan, Becky Millard, John Dolan, Lauren Elderkin, (John Bailey)
Bottom row: Sonja Noykos, Kaitlyn Speer, Mansi Shah
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Silver Winds Flute Choir
Top row: (John Bailey), Krista Dunlap, Aria Bodden, Annette Rogers
Middle row: Morgan Malone, Charlotte McGill, Sonja Noykos
Bottom row: Catherine Bernstein, Kilar Meyers, Neha Batra, Becky Millard
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Left to Right: Rosemary Caudle, Becky Millard, (John Bailey), Judy Auld, Mary Croghan
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SOLO & ENSEMBLE FEST
L to R: Jake Beerel, Taylor James and Anand Kannan
proudly display their trophies for their superior performance of Kuhlau's Trio in E Minor at RAFA's Solo and Ensemble Fest on March 20. More than 70 RAFA flutists participated in the event by working hard to prepare solos, etudes, scales and/or ensembles from a repertoire list.
Congratulations to all for setting goals and meeting the challenge!
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Flutist Kate Steinbeck & guitarist Amy Brucksch
Enchanting tunes from Brazil, Finland, Macedonia,
America, & J.S. Bach, with percussionist River Guerguerian and cellist Franklin Keel
To order, please send a check for $17
(includes postage & handling) to:
Kate Steinbeck
PO Box 18342
Asheville, NC 28814 |
Second Winds
Here is an important message for Adult Amateur Flutists: Do you avoid situations in which you might have to play the flute in front of an audience? Would you like to be able to play for people without having anxiety? The Second Winds is a perfect group with whom you can practice performing. We are a small, welcoming, compassionate, informal group of people who get together every other month and play for each other. Do you HAVE to play? No! But bring your flute so that you can do some playing with the group as we warm up. NEXT MEETING: Sunday, May 23, at 2:00. Our meeting place is St. Philip Lutheran Church at 7304 Falls of the Neuse Road, just across from the Ravenscroft soccer fields.
Come join the fun! For more information, call or e-mail Mary Croghan:
919-835-4378 croghanm@gmail.com
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Click on the following ads to view more information about our 2009-2010 RAFA sponsors.
Visit our sponsor page for a complete listing of RAFA corporate and individual sponsors.
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Submit Information for Tune In
RAFA members are invited to submit
flute news, concert announcements,
etc. for publication in
Deadline for next issue is April 25.
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Positive Self Talk - How to Really do it!
