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TGS 2007-08

Dear TGS Members,

We have a great year planned for you. Our five events include our three public concerts and two events for members and their guests (our extremely successful holiday party at Bill Hampton’s Estate in Durham in early December and a new event: TGS’s Member’s Salon Recital in April also at a member’s house).   Please see the accompanying article.

Dennis and I want to thank everyone who came out to our last recital, last June.

We are starting to look at new material for our upcoming Spring recital.  I am excited about working on the special three movement suite: Prelude, Fugue and Allegro by J. S. Bach and maybe I’ll finally get around to finishing the Five Bagatelles by William Walton.  Now it’s in print so have to learn them.  Dennis is learning some Lute Fantasias as well and maybe I’ll perform the Seven Spanish Folk Songs by Manuel de Falla with Ariel.  Any way, we have ‘till June to decide so I’m looking forward to it.

It turns out that the Carborro Quilting Club has taken all the Saturday nights at the Carborro Century Center for ’07 and ’08 so we had to look for a new venue.  And it may also turn out that we have lucked into our best venue yet with St Michael’s Episcopal Church off of Wade Ave. in Raleigh.  The TGS board feels that putting our series in Raleigh in the largest city in the Triangle should help our attendance.  St Michael’s is a beautiful church that is a lovely space (a large wooden a-frame, that has great acoustics) in one of Raleigh’s nicest suburban areas just 7/10 of a mile off Wade, less then 1 mile from the Whole Foods on Wade Ave.

I should not close before thanking Sarah Stallings for two years of great newsletters for TGS.  We are thrilled that after getting excepted into Five of the best guitar programs in the country, she has chosen Florida State University in Tallahassee.  We wish Sarah all the best and hope that she will share her music with us soon. 

We are doubly blessed to have Sarah’s younger sister Emily to fill in and continue to do the layout and design for our newsletters. Thank you Emily!  Also Tim Wooldridge, our new General Editor, will be writing articles for us and we are very lucky to have such a special talent in our midst.

I also want to give a heartfelt thanks to all the other board members who have signed on for another year of service.  

So folks, please check your TGS label on the front of this newsletter and see your renewal date and send in your dues to keep us afloat.  We have a great year coming up and I am glad you will be sharing it with us,

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