"Flute Treasures" Table

Donate your old music, CD's, flute accessories or knick-knacks to a worthy cause. Bring your items to the Exhibit Hall at the Nov. 13 Flute Fair. We will have a "RAFA Treasures" table where items will be made available to anyone in return for a donation to RAFA.

Helen will share stories and photos from her recent trip to Honduras to teach performance confidence at the Fifth Latinoamerica Festival for the Flute at the National Music School in Tegucigalpa. Helen says, "I will talk about the wonderful heart-opening connections I made with the people I met and worked with, as well as the tragedy that occurred during the festival, when one of the faculty members at the school was killed on his way to the school, a daily occurrence with which these young students of an exceptionally warm, kind, and generous people must cope on a daily basis."

Review & Contest Results

  The Second Winds 

The Second Winds met as planned on Sunday, October 10th, with a group that was small in number but significant in enthusiasm. We played our flutes as a group, and several of us played solos -- great preparation for the RAFA Review!

Come one and all to the next meeting of Second Winds on Sunday, December 5th, at St. Philip Lutheran Church, 2:00 p.m. We will have fun playing Christmas music as a group. Maybe some attendees will wish to play solos, duets, or trios -- music can have a Christmas theme or not!

 Triangle Philharmonic Flutists

Congratulations to the following flutists who auditioned successully for positions in the student orchestras sponsored by the Triangle Philharmonic Association.

 Triangle Youth Orchestra         Jenna Holladay
                                                Sena Park
                                                Polly Payne
                                                Laasya Renganathan

 Triangle Youth Symphony        Katherine Gora Combs
                                                Heewon Kim
                                                Katerina Koloustribus
                                                Mary Rose Nieman

 Triangle Youth Philharmonic     Jake Beeral
                                                Paige Breen
                                                Ayla Goktan
                                                Taylor James

Come on out and hear these outstanding young musicians in their November concerts, held in Meymandi Concert Hall in the Progress Energy Center for Performing Arts, Raleigh.  Tickets (at door) are $10 adults or $5 children/seniors. 

Triangle Youth Philharmonic 
Sunday, November 21, 3:00 pm 
         Haydn: Symphony No. 103, "Drumroll"
         Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

Triangle Youth Orchestra 
Tuesday, November 23, 7:00 pm 
         Mozart: Symphony No. 25

Triangle Youth Symphony 
Tuesday, November 23, 8:00 pm 
         Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
         Vaughan-Williams: English Folk Song Suite

  "Flute Talk" Magazine

RAFA group rate is only $7 per year!

RAFA has a group subscription to Flute Talk, an informative magazine for flutists of all ages.  Current subscribers and new subscribers are asked to contact Rosene Rohrer (919-781-3225 or drohrer123@pobox.com) with your name and address by November 15 to be included in the incredibly low group rate of $7 (for 10 issues).  

RAFA's group subscription coincides with the calendar year, with the new subscription beginning with the January 2011 issue.  Each issue will be mailed directly to you, and you will be billed directly as well.