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Let's all get ready for our big summer pic-nic, Sunday - June 8th, from 11:00 to 4:00
PM. The picnic will be at the pristine and tanta-lizing Lindo Lake park in Lakeside. This event has become a yearly favorite ALSI event. Please do not forget the great food and great mu-sic. See you there. All music friends are invited to attend. RSVPs are welcome.
Best regards,
Gordon —
by Gordon Kohl
Hello ALSI friends and guests.
The ALSI May meet-ing was fun and enjoya-ble. The solo accordion-ist all played beautiful-ly. The expression, use of fills, and blending of reed voices, dynamics, and digitally instrument sounds were suburb.
Our visiting accordi-onist Mr. Heniz Trilck added humor to his mu-sic selections and sound-ed very much like Pete "Barbutti and Corky Bennett in Las Vega. A fantastic afternoon was
what we all surely en-joyed.
L in da H i b b e r t played some great ar-rangements adding digi-tal voices and flair to a c c o r d i o n f a v o r -ites. Thank you Linda and Heinz and everyone who played. Ron Griffin is mixing acoustic and electronic sounds in-to his accordion reper-toire. He is adding drum samples and or-chestral instrument voices to many accordi-on standards. Way to go!
Jerry Odling is devel-oping his Scandinavian and French music styles. Thanks Jerry.
It is nice to hear personalities develop through the use of mu-sic. Music is truly a w o n de r f u l o u t l e t for musicians to be ex-pressive with their tal-ent.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
JUNE 2014
June 2014Volume 21 Issue 6
NEWSLETTER
Inside this issue:
President’s Message
1
General Info. 2
Happiness at ALSI
3
Coming this month
5
Music Theory 6
Silent Reed 7
Accordion News 8
Calendar 9
Playing Around 9
Showcase Review 4&7
Harold J. Estok FounderALSI and REED BLOCK
President:Gordon Kohl619-395-0454
Presidents Emeriti:(Founder) Harold Estok
Ron GriffinKjell HolmesGloria Ensign
Vice President:Mary Lou Erwin
619-448-9588
Meeting Coordinator:Bill Barr
619-337-1111
Editor/Secretary:Helen Estok Schoell
619-584-4970
Treasurer &Ensemble Director:
Vicki Eriqat619-563-5586
Recording Secretary:Sharon Marotte
619-286-3948
Newsletter/Webmaster: Bob Page
760--815-4783
GENERAL INFORMATION
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MEMBERSHIPS: New membership and renewal for year 2014 are; the fee is $100 Gold, $25 U.S.A., $26 Canada, $27 for International delivery. For new members; partial year memberships can be purchased. Make check or mon-ey order payable to ALSI and send to: Helen Estok Schoell, at P.O. Box 151357 San Diego, CA 92175. The REED BLOCK is published once each month. Your input to the REED BLOCK is invited and should be submitted to Helen Estok Schoell or email to Bob Page at [email protected] or email to Mary Lou Erwin at: [email protected]: Unless otherwise indicated, all articles were written by the Editor. Unless so stated, no article is to be construed as an endorsement and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor or ALSI. CUT-OFF DATE: All contributors to The REED BLOCK please note: For next month all material is due two weeks before the next meeting, accordingly the due date for the July 2014 issue is: June 30th. This includes all items such as articles, upcoming events, playing around, accordion workshops, advertisements and ensemble schedules. Please submit your input to Helen Estok Schoell (at above ALSI address) or email to Bob Page at [email protected] or Mary Lou Erwin at [email protected]. Thank you for your cooperation. ADVERTISEMENTS: Members may place one small ad per year at no charge, business cards are $6/per issue or $60/per year, quarter-page is $15/per issue, half -page is $25/per issue, full -page is $50/per issue, one -page event flyer is $25/per issue. Cost is doubled for non -members. (All ads must be accordion related).MEETINGS: The club normally meets at 1:00 - 4:00 P.M. on the second Sunday of each month at the Mt Miguel Cov-enant Village, 325 Kempton Ave, Spring Valley, CA. Next Meeting will be on Sunday, June 8th from 11:00 to 4:00 pm for a picnic at Lindo Lake Park in Lakeside.. (Driving directions on page five).STEERING COMMITTEE; Next meeting is on Wednesday, June 11th, 10:00—11:30 am in the Denny’s Restau-rant at 4280 Clairemont Mesa Blvd. in Clairemont Square .
ALSI MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM
(All accordion players and accordion lovers are invited to join us!)
Membership/Newsletter Subscription for 2014 (please print)
Date__________________ New___ Renewal___ Address Change___
Name___________________________________________________________________________________________First Last Spouse First
Address__________________________________________________________________________________________City State Zip Code
Telephone ( _____ ) -_______________ email address___________________________________________
Make Check or Money Order payable to ALSI (Yearly membership fees: $25-USA, $26-Canada, $27-International, $100-Gold)
Mail to: ALSI/REED BLOCK c/o Helen Estok Schoell P.O. Box 151357 San Diego, CA 92175
Call 619-584-4970 for questions
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HAPPINESS AT ALSI
Happiness at ALSIBy Marian Sowell
May 4, 2014 – Our group enjoyed a beautiful warm, sunny day on the patio for our break time. Gordon Kohlcontributed a delicious chocolate cake and Diane Polinski strolled with her accordion playing toe taping, lively mu-sic. Kari Andrews & Jane Fordserved the refreshments & worked in the kitchen. The players around the village were: Steve Halpern, in the cafeteria & Vicki Eriqat, at Brandel.
Ron Griffin was our mystery play-er with his Midi-Electronics. Ron played beautifully from memory and brings back memories. Ron is very tal-ented. Good job, Ron!! His songs were: Misty, Spanish Eyes, Amore, Sku-zami, Nideloin, La Paloma & Sabor a Mi.
� Claudia Wrona from Highlands, played her accordion & accompa-nied her friend, Harold, singing with her. Their songs were Moulin Rouge, a Hungarian Czardus & Somewhere My Love. It is always good to see these two at ALSI.
� Jerry Odling played Autumn Leaves followed by Moulin Rouge and a French tune, Au Bistrot Du Port, a beautiful waltz. Thank you, Jerry, for your lovely music.
A.L.S.I. is on the WEBat
www.accordion-club-sandiego.org
Accordion Instructors and Resources
are found there.
� Joe Colombo entertained us with Maria Elena, Spanish Eyes & Love Me With All Your Heart. Very nice, Joe!! Love to see you more often.
� The ALSI Ensemble, directed by Vicki Eriqat, played several songs: Silk Umbrella, De Colores, Just Be-cause, King of the Road & Beer Bar-rel Polka. The players were: Jerry Odling, Steve Halpern, Ted Hill, Kari Andrews, Lois Lahoud, Kjell Holmes, Bob Page, Gordon Kohl, Ron Griffin, Jane Ford & Marian Sowell.
Special thanks to Marian Sowell for writing up Happiness this month. Jack & Sharon Marotte were on vacation. Good Job, Marian!!!
songs: ‘I CAN’T GIVE YOU ANYTHING BUT LOVE, BABY”, “OVER THE WAVES”, “SWEET GEORGIA BROWN”, “HAPPY DAYS ARE HERE AGAIN”, “DISCO TICO”, “TANGO BO-LERO”, “PENNSYLVANIA 6-500”, “SH-BOOM SH-BOOM”, “QUANDO”, “EL CUMBAN-CERO” and “GLORY”. All in all, he played 24 songs, almost non-stop and much to the delight of the audience. He has a comfortable command of his instrument and plays with an easy going energy. It was our pleasure to have him enter-tain us this afternoon. We hope he can find time in his busy schedule to play for us again.
After the afternoon break, Linda Hibbert took the stage with her Concerto digital elec-tronic accordion. This instrument combines a full
set of reeds with a digital synthesizer and con-trols that permits the player to layer in addition-al orchestral instrument sounds on either or both hands. In essence you have an acoustic ac-cordion playing with an ensemble of other in-struments. Linda programs her instrument well
(continued on page seven)
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SHOWCASE REVIEW by Bob Warner
HEINZ TRILCK and LINDA HIBBERT SHOWCASEMay 4, 2014
Occasionally we have two accordionists present programs for us on the same after-noon. In this case we had Heinz Trilck, a pro-fessional musician of long standing and our own Linda Hibbert, a truly fine accordionist who is a supporting member of the ALSI POLKA DOTS and the ALSI ACCORDION ENSEMBLE.
To say that Heinz’s repertoire is expansive may not be a strong enough term. He has a personable, stand up style of playing to the au-
dience while entertaining them with anecdotes about his musical career. It is fun time with Heinz when he is on the stage. Everyone is smiling during his presentation. He launches into his numbers with an easy, fluid technique while playing everything from memory and rarely looking at the keyboard. His playing is clean and expressive and well served by his non-amplified acoustic accordion. This was acoustic accordion at its best.
To give you some idea of the extent of his repertoire here is a partial list of some of his
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COMING THIS MONTH
ALSI 21st Annual ALSI 21st Annual ALSI 21st Annual Summer PicnicSummer PicnicSummer PicnicSunday, June 8, 201211:00 am— 4:00 pmat Lindo Lake Park
Bring your own chairs, blankets, beverage preference and a dessert dish (cookie or cake type preferred) to share.
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
BBQ Beef or Ham or Chicken Sandwich, Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Baked Beans, & Lemonade with ice cream bars will be provided
with meal at 1:00 to 2:00 pm______________________________________________________________________________________________
There will be money raffles._______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
We will enjoy a variety of music from our famous ALSI ensemble directed by Vicki Eriqat, and
there will be an opportunity for everyone to play.Invite your friends and family to join us for this picnic outing!
RSVP and checks are due by June 2, 2014. $10 for members and guests in advance, $12 at the event.
Make check payable to ALSI and send to: Helen Estok Schoell, P.O. Box 151357 San Diego, CA 92175
ALSI 21st Annual Summer PicnicALSI 21st Annual Summer PicnicALSI 21st Annual Summer Picnic
Number of people attending _______ $___________ total enclosed.
Indicate total number of sandwich preferences:
______Beef or ______Ham or _____Chicken,
Names of people attending:________________________________________
Directions to Lindo Lake Park in Lakeside:From Hwy 67, in Lakeside, take the Winter Gardens turnoff south and turn left on WoodsideAve. At Vine St. intersection continue through as the road curves to the right into Lindo Lane.
Turn left on Park St. where you will see a large VFW building on the corner. Picnic area is a shortdistance on the right near a large gazebo. —
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MUSIC THEORY — Seventh Chords in C Major Scale
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SHOWCASE REVIEW— cont.
to provide a variety of acoustic and electronic instrument sounds. She began her program with “EL RELICARIO”, a majestic, paso doble of considerable technical difficulty. There was good balance between the acoustic side and orchestral background and a solid, rhythmic bass. Her “LINA MAZURKA” was replete with triplets and runs at a fast ¾ time pace. Piano was layered in with the reeds. Next, “RHYTHM OF THE RAIN”, played in a swing arrangement had a guitar soloing for an unusu-al effect, perhaps like falling rain drops. A Pa-risian waltz followed again with guitar very prominent on the left hand and supported by the acoustic sound. The beautiful song, “SPEAK SOFTLY, MY LOVE”, from the “GODFATHER” movie”, followed.
Linda carried on her fine program with “LA CUMPARSITA”, a classical “TURKISH RONDO” by Mozart, “DOMINO”, a French musette, and a special number called ‘SUKI YAKI”. Linda programmed in a xylophone ef-fect which helped enhance the oriental nature of this piece. Next came “FUNICULI, FUNIC-ULA” which had a very dramatic intro and great arrangement, “GLO WORM”, an old time novelty that sounded well with xylo-phone layered in, a beautiful “AUTUMN LEAVES” and to finish, “ACCORDION BOO-GIE”. Linda played a very exciting arrangement of this great accordion piece. Throughout all of this, Linda took full advantage of the pro-gramming features of her instrument to pro-duce various combinations of instruments which enhanced the nature of the type of piece being played. Her playing is crisp and clean and the arrangements used were chal-lenging throughout. She has command of her instrument. Linda has played for us before and we hope to hear her soon again. —
SILENT REED
Russell CampWe are sad to report the passing of ALSI
member, Russell Camp. He passed away on May 17th while waging a brave battle against cancer. He was survived by his wife Pat.
Russell was a resident of the Mt. Miguel Covenant Retirement Village and was the liai-son between ALSI and the Village for many years. This was a great help to the club and proved to be a great benefit to the residents of this retirement facility, one being the monthly concerts that were given by ALSI members in the Cafeteria, Brandell Hall, and
the Crider Halls.Russell spent many years in Christian minis-try with missions in Latin America, primarily in Ecua-dor for the Evan-gelical Covenant Church. During his retirement, he made yearly visits to Guate-
mala where he brought accordions to the young people in the villages. He gave them music lessons from their church song books. Members of ALSI donated accordions to Rus-sell and these efforts have been chronicled in earlier issues of this newsletter.
He loved to share his gospel songs in our ALSI meetings and he always played them with great feeling. He was a very good performer. His kindness and engaging smile will be re-membered by all and he will be greatly missed.
Our condolences and prayers go out to his wife Pat and family. He was a wonderful per-son to know and gave much of himself to help the ALSI club have a wonderful place to hold their meetings. —
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Rose City ACCORDION CAMP at SILVER FALLS Conference Center on June 8-13, 2014 near Sublimity, Oregon. Great learning and playing experience for all at-tendees. For more information contact Wayne Tiusanen at 503-919-2962 or [email protected] INTERNATIONAL ACCORDION CELEBRATION held in Leavenworth, Washington on June 19-22, 2014. Worthwhile, fun, and educational for everyone in a beautiful small town. (much like Julian or Big Bear). For more information con-tact Bonnie Birch at [email protected] or check website www.accordioncelebration.org.KIMBERLEY OLD TIME ACCORDION COMPETITION No longer being held. 2012 was the last year for this event.AFNA ACCORDION FESTIVALHeld on July 25-26 at Old Mission Inn located in the city of Riverside. Contact Gordon Kohl for latest information at: 619-395-0454.COTATI ACCORDION FESTIVAL will be held on the weekend of August 16th & 17th in the village of Cotati south of Santa Rosa.
The Woodstock flavor of the event will feature World-class International Accordion Elite including Dick Contino, Alicia Baker, Bruce Gassman and the Steve Balich Polka
Happy Birthday to you!
6/5 Miriana Ferino6/7 Penny Page6/14 Juergen Rosenfeld6/30 Bob Page
Band among many others. For more information contact Scott Goree at 707-664-0444.LAS VEGAS INTERNATION ACCORDI-ON CONVENTION Aug. 18th to 21st at the Gold Coast Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada. This an-nual event features lunch and evening concerts, workshops and an international accordion or-chestra that performs on the final concert of the event. Among the performers are; Dick Contino,
Joey Miskulin, Stas Venglevski, Alicia Baker, Bruce Gassman and Michae l Bridge.For more infor-mation contact Paul Pasqualli at 801-485-5840.
ACCORDION NEWS AND EVENTS
COTATI
Paul
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ALSI MEETING CALENDAR
PLAYING AROUND
“Please share date,
time and location
of public appear-
ances. Submit
these, in writing,
complying with the
cut-off date, to
Mary Lou Erwin or
Bob Page.”
Louis Fanucchi
Most Tues-day’s & Fri-day’s at Café Zucchero in Little Italy from 7-10. Most Wednes-
day’s at Romesco’s in Bonita from 7 to 10.Most Sundays from 2-5 pm at Sa-lerno’s Winery in Ramona.. (More info. at 619-948-3774 or online at www.loufanucchi.com) for his calendar.
Gordon Kohl
Plays Casuals, Weddings Dances and Special Events. Gordon’s Combo is noted for their repertoire of eth-
nic music such as Italian, French, Ger-man and Latin, Their speciality is Oc-toberFest music.
For more information and future avail-ability. please call Gordon at:619-395-0454.
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C U S T O M C R A F T E D —
June 8thALSI Annual Picnic at Lindo
Lake Park with catered BBQ.
July 13thMonthly meeting
Patriotic music and Showcase
August 10thMonthly meeting
Broadway & Italian music.
September 14thMonthly meeting.
October 12thMonthly meeting.
November 9thMonthly meeting with
Heritage Day Celebration.
December 14thMonthly meeting with
Concert featuring FrankPetrilli Trio.
Monthly Newsletter
ALSI Statement Of
Purpose:
� ALSI is San Diego’s forum for appreciat-ing and performing accordion music, including the MIDI electronic accordion
� We welcome mem-bers who enjoy lis-tening to or playing accordion music.
� We have an accordi-on ensemble group, monthly meetings, local concerts featur-ing local and interna-tionally famous per-formers, an annual picnic and a monthly newsletter.
JUNE 2014
EDITION
The REED BLOCKc/o Helen Estok Schoell
P.O. Box 151357San Diego, CA 92175
At LindoLake Park
In Lakeside
at theGazebo.
On June 8th
from 11:00 to 4:00 p.m.with meal
at 1:00 p.m..
Come and Join us for good food, music & fun!The 21st Annual Picnic
Accordion Lover’s Society International
ALSI Annual Picnic on June 8thBe sure to make plans to attend our annual get together at Lindo Lake Park from 11—4 pm The catered menu this year will include a choice of Bar-B-Que Beef, Chicken or Pork Sandwiches, Baked Beans, Potato Salad, Cole Slaw, Lemonade & Ice Cream Bars. There will be a raffle and as always, great music from our accordion friends, The cost will be $10 in advance or $12 at the event. We hope to see you there. More information and registration form on page five. —
