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PRESIDENT’S
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PRESIDENT’S
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In his famous address
to the Irish Accordion Club, Edmund Burke stated: “All that is necessary for
your Accordion Club to fail is for your members to do nothing.” Ouch! Did it hurt
for our club president to step down after ten years? Yes, I’ve been a member
who came faithfully to meetings to listen to others perform while failing to
prepare a piece myself. So, in my first “Message from the Prez”
I want to get the ball rolling by challenging each of you to come to each meeting
with something to perform. As Jim said, he will write music for your level of
your level of proficiency. After each club meeting, I leave inspired to go home
and practice more consistently. I
am still learning about playing. Recently I learned the difference between
playing the notes and playing the music. Although I understand what I just
said. I have not yet learned how to play the music, and my pieces still sound
like notes instead of like music. So, I must work on expressing, pressing the
buttons, AND reading the dynamics. |
At
each meeting, we need a program that is so entertaining that our guests
depart thanking us for the entertainment of the afternoon. The program
Saturday was one of the best we have ever had. I love how the accordion is part
of so many genres of music. When Alla and Naum played their duet, it was like one accordion was
answering the other accordion. And, the orchestra is really coming into its
own. The guest performers Jim brings in each year are exceptional. I tell
people about hearing Friedrich Lips in such an intimate setting that I’m
sitting on the third row and talking with him. Da!
(That’s the extent of my Russian.) Where can you hear a world class musician for
$15.00? The
next guest performance is on Feb. 4; the next club meeting where a member can
perform is in April
2012. Make
a commitment to perform a piece! Craig Funderburg President |
