Rotary Magazine 2013 - TownNews.com
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By Mary-Justine Lanyon<br />
STUDENT<br />
MUSICIANS SHINE<br />
AT COMPETITION<br />
The eight judges had their work cut out<br />
for them as 23 students <strong>com</strong>peted in the<br />
annual <strong>Rotary</strong> music <strong>com</strong>petition last year.<br />
This 2012 event, held in the Performing<br />
Arts Center at Rim High School, was judged<br />
by Dr. Hugh Bialecki, Dr. Kathy O’Fallon,<br />
John Leverett, Beth Miller, Rick Miller, Karen<br />
Prisant-Ellis, Barbara Samuels and Karen<br />
Tomlinson.<br />
The eight instrumentalists performed on<br />
tenor saxophone, flute, viola, guitar, violin<br />
and cello. Their pieces ranged from<br />
“Autumn Leaves,” a French song with music<br />
by Joseph Kosma, to classical pieces by<br />
Bach and Mozart.<br />
First place was awarded to cellist Presley<br />
Schlarb, who played Mark Summers’ Julio-<br />
O. Flutist Caitlin Brady, playing Paul Genin’s<br />
“Carnaval de Venise,” won second place.<br />
And cellist Andrew Martin, playing<br />
“Tarantella, Op. 23” by W.H. Squire, took<br />
third place in the instrumentalist category.<br />
Other instrumental <strong>com</strong>petitors were Nick<br />
Maltas (tenor saxophone), Brittany Wright<br />
(flute), Charlotte Papp (viola), Gary Guth (guitar)<br />
and Margaret Macall Potter (violin).<br />
Twelve vocalists followed, singing off-<br />
Broadway, Broadway and popular tunes.<br />
Jeannine Robertson, singing “Your<br />
Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime, was awarded<br />
first place. Second place went to Rosie<br />
McDonald for her performance of “Not for<br />
the Life of Me” from Thoroughly Modern<br />
PHOTO BY JAYSON BURKE/Staff<br />
Presley Schlarb was the first-place instrumentalist. Note how he is<br />
playing some of his music without a bow.<br />
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Millie. And third place went to Emily Jones, who sang “I’m Not Afraid of<br />
Anything” from Songs for a New World.<br />
The other nine vocalist <strong>com</strong>petitors were Ananda Foerch, Summer<br />
Foerch, Rebecca Landrum, Tara Rothwill, Lexi Ulmer, Reanne Lynn Valdez,<br />
Nina Gaw, Jonathan Williams and Nick Orlando.<br />
The final three performers of the evening were the pianists. Jason<br />
Burnell, who had captured first place last year, was once again awarded<br />
first. He performed the third movement of Beethoven’s “Pathetique”<br />
sonata. Second-place winner Karen Bogart played Franz Shubert’s<br />
“Impromptu No. 2 in A flat major.” And Blake Scullin, who won third place,<br />
played Mozart’s “Turkish March.”<br />
The first-place winners in each category were awarded $100; second<br />
place, $75; and third place, $50.<br />
This year’s mountain <strong>com</strong>petition was<br />
the largest Rudy Westervelt, past president<br />
of the Mountain Sunrise <strong>Rotary</strong> Club, can<br />
remember. “We also had the largest crowd<br />
in attendance,” he said, adding “the venue<br />
was perfect.”<br />
Westervelt explained to the audience<br />
all that <strong>Rotary</strong> does for the young people on<br />
the mountain, from sponsoring RYLA (<strong>Rotary</strong><br />
Youth Leadership Awards), a camp for high<br />
school juniors, and PRYDE (Personal <strong>Rotary</strong><br />
Youth Development), a camp for 7thgraders;<br />
literacy programs; student<br />
exchange programs; the Four-Way Test<br />
speech contest; Interact clubs at Rim High<br />
and MPH Intermediate School; and scholarships<br />
to graduating seniors.<br />
As the audience arrived at the PAC,<br />
they were entertained by a strings chamber<br />
ensemble made up of Cassie Donohue,<br />
Ginny Winters and Sydney Aaron on violin<br />
and Gabriella Dionnes on cello. The quartet<br />
also played during the two intermissions.<br />
In addition to thanking the judges,<br />
Westervelt expressed special thanks for<br />
Chuck and Megan Marra, of the Lake<br />
Arrowhead Repertory Theatre Company,<br />
and Rim Drama for handling the sound,<br />
backup music and microphones on stage.<br />
Jeannine Robertson, Rosie McDonald<br />
and Jason Burnell represented the mountain<br />
<strong>Rotary</strong> clubs at the District 5330 <strong>com</strong>petitions.<br />
For information on <strong>2013</strong> music <strong>com</strong>petition,<br />
log on to www.lakearrowhead<br />
rotary.net.