The Westerner for October 1, 2012
Posted by David J. Turner
on Oct 1, 2012
Meeting: chair, Duane Evans; music, Jerome; grace, Catharine
Attendance/Guests: 29 including Lucas Waldin, Enbridge Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador for Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Condolences: Charlie Weir passed away, his celebration life of life is October 5 at 2:00 p m at St. Andrews United Church;
past member Pat Gilker fell recently and broke his arm; the brother of Al Sanderson has recently passed away. Condolences to the families of Charlie and Al; good luck in healing to Pat.
COSMOPOLITAN Music Society Remebrance Day Concert: see Jim Spalding for tickets for performance November 4 at 7:30 p m; Winspear Centre; $20
Gift Cards: see Brian to purchase either or all Safeways, Save-On, Sobeys - our club's commission funds our international projects. During the month of September, our members purchased cards with a face value of $2,900.00 and we earned a profit for the Club of $232.00. Thanks to Bob Kimmerley, Mike Ryan, Doug MacDougall, Lorne Proctor, Jerome Martin, Dave Turner and Al Holmes for their purchases. Just think how much we could make if we added several more names to this list! If your name isn't here, then please consider using the cards to make your food purchases - it won't cost you one extra cent, but it will earn us an 8% profit.
50/50: Bill Buckham and Rudy did not match cards; $54 carried over.
Attendance/Guests: 29 including Lucas Waldin, Enbridge Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador for Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
Condolences: Charlie Weir passed away, his celebration life of life is October 5 at 2:00 p m at St. Andrews United Church;
past member Pat Gilker fell recently and broke his arm; the brother of Al Sanderson has recently passed away. Condolences to the families of Charlie and Al; good luck in healing to Pat.
COSMOPOLITAN Music Society Remebrance Day Concert: see Jim Spalding for tickets for performance November 4 at 7:30 p m; Winspear Centre; $20
Gift Cards: see Brian to purchase either or all Safeways, Save-On, Sobeys - our club's commission funds our international projects. During the month of September, our members purchased cards with a face value of $2,900.00 and we earned a profit for the Club of $232.00. Thanks to Bob Kimmerley, Mike Ryan, Doug MacDougall, Lorne Proctor, Jerome Martin, Dave Turner and Al Holmes for their purchases. Just think how much we could make if we added several more names to this list! If your name isn't here, then please consider using the cards to make your food purchases - it won't cost you one extra cent, but it will earn us an 8% profit.
50/50: Bill Buckham and Rudy did not match cards; $54 carried over.
McCauley Rink Project: Challenge Insurance have submitted this project to Aviva Insurance for a chance for the project to share in $1.5 million from Aviva"s community fund. Our members should go on line and vote for this project so it has a better chance of getting funding. Aviva board of directors vote on which projects get funding in mid October. Our members can vote once every day each till then. Here is the link to click on: http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf13413
Finemaster: Sherry exempted everyone who was participating in Reading to Students Week; everyone who had not already voted at Aviva was fined $1.
Guest Speaker: Jerome introduced Enbridge Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) Lucas Waldin. Lucas won a Canada Council Award in 2012. His main focus is to provide music prgraming and education to the community, especially for children. Three years ago Lucas moved from Europe to Edmonton with his girlfriend (married this spring) and joined the ESO as resident conductor. His wife is a member of the Rotary Club that meets on Whyte Avenue at 5:30 pm. Originally from Toronto, Lucas obtained music education in Cleveland and New York City. Prior to getting into conducting Lucas played the flute. In order to gain experience in conducting, he moved to Europe where he met his wife in Paris, and got exposed to various music venues in France and Germany.
A conductor has get responsiblity to get the total orchetra music across to the audience through that orchestra. The individual orchestra members only know their part but it gets coordinated into a beautiful performance by the conductor drawing the best from each player and ensuring that each player plays his/her part at the right time at the right tempo at the right volume.
Lucas has a B. A. in flute playing and a M. A. in conducting (both obtained in Cleveland). Lucas had various auditions for conducting positions in the USA, Quebec and Europe with no luck. Then he got the wonderful position with the wonderful orchestra in Edmonton. He impressed during his 3 year position and the orchestra has created a new position to keep him in Edmonton and make sure the northern Alberta community gains from knowing more about music, especailly good music from the ESO (*not all of it is classical).
Lucas is bringing an aboriginal focus to the ESO. The aboriginal cultures are happy that the ESO work with their youth in part to enhance the cultural knowledge. Metis violin players and Hobbema dancers participate in youth oriented concerts at the Winspear Centre.
Recently the ESO was one of six orchestras that participated in "Spring for Music" at Carnegie Hall. It was an amazing experience, especially for Lucas who had previously spent a lot of time there in the audience area, not on stage. This was incorporated into the 60th anniversary celebrations for the ESO. Keep in mind it is also 15 years for the Winspear Centre.
Lucas was thanked by Bert.
Finemaster: Sherry exempted everyone who was participating in Reading to Students Week; everyone who had not already voted at Aviva was fined $1.
Guest Speaker: Jerome introduced Enbridge Artist in Residence and Community Ambassador for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (ESO) Lucas Waldin. Lucas won a Canada Council Award in 2012. His main focus is to provide music prgraming and education to the community, especially for children. Three years ago Lucas moved from Europe to Edmonton with his girlfriend (married this spring) and joined the ESO as resident conductor. His wife is a member of the Rotary Club that meets on Whyte Avenue at 5:30 pm. Originally from Toronto, Lucas obtained music education in Cleveland and New York City. Prior to getting into conducting Lucas played the flute. In order to gain experience in conducting, he moved to Europe where he met his wife in Paris, and got exposed to various music venues in France and Germany.
A conductor has get responsiblity to get the total orchetra music across to the audience through that orchestra. The individual orchestra members only know their part but it gets coordinated into a beautiful performance by the conductor drawing the best from each player and ensuring that each player plays his/her part at the right time at the right tempo at the right volume.
Lucas has a B. A. in flute playing and a M. A. in conducting (both obtained in Cleveland). Lucas had various auditions for conducting positions in the USA, Quebec and Europe with no luck. Then he got the wonderful position with the wonderful orchestra in Edmonton. He impressed during his 3 year position and the orchestra has created a new position to keep him in Edmonton and make sure the northern Alberta community gains from knowing more about music, especailly good music from the ESO (*not all of it is classical).
Lucas is bringing an aboriginal focus to the ESO. The aboriginal cultures are happy that the ESO work with their youth in part to enhance the cultural knowledge. Metis violin players and Hobbema dancers participate in youth oriented concerts at the Winspear Centre.
Recently the ESO was one of six orchestras that participated in "Spring for Music" at Carnegie Hall. It was an amazing experience, especially for Lucas who had previously spent a lot of time there in the audience area, not on stage. This was incorporated into the 60th anniversary celebrations for the ESO. Keep in mind it is also 15 years for the Winspear Centre.
Lucas was thanked by Bert.