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REAWAKEN THAT TALENT- REDISCOVER MAKING MUSIC

June 8, 2014Trinity - St. Paul’s Centre

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Resa’s Pieces Strings would like to thank our Founding SponsorGeorge Heinl & Co.Limited.

Your generosity has helped make this special dream come true.

Thank you to Kathy Johnstone Trade Show & Conventions Manager at

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A Piece From... Our President Welcome to the Strings 4th Gala concert!

Resa’s Pieces Strings, conducted by Ric Giorgi and along with its 37 members, can't wait to share tonight’s performance with you! Resa’s Pieces Concert Band, conducted by Resa Kochberg, will be holding its 15th Gala performance on June 10, 2014 with over 55 "Pieces" on stage. Resa’s Pieces Singers, led by Robert Graham, conductor of over 50 voices, will be performing its 1st Gala on June 17, 2014. Thank you to our esteemed and talented conduc-tors for your dedication and devotion to our ensembles.

I would like to thank my executive and fellow board members for their continued dedication and contributions to the continued success of Resa’s Pieces. As well, a thank you is extended to our new Executive Director (although by no means new to Resa's Pieces) for her ongoing dedication and devotion to our organization.

Resa's Pieces would like to thank the Ontario Trillium Foundation, an agency of the Govern-ment of Ontario, for their continued �nancial support over the past 3 years which has allowed our organization to grow. I would also like to thank all our sponsors and loyal patrons for your ongoing support and generosity.

Tonight’s performance promises to be both entertaining and enjoyable.

Sincerely,

Ed Noy President

A Piece From ... Our Executive Director It’s been a fabulous year for Resa's Pieces!

been a privilege planning it alongside all of you.

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, �ight to the imagination and life to everything,” said Plato. And on this 450th anniversary year of William Shakespeare's birth, his timeless quote says it all: "If music be the food of love, play on."

Best regards - enjoy the concert.

Ruthie FishmanPlease join the Concert Band for an enjoyable summer concertMel Lastman Square- July 8, 2014 at 7:30 pm

As we end the Concert Band's 15th year, the Strings’ 4th year and the Singers’ 1st year, I want to take this opportunity to wish Resa, Ric and Robert, our esteemed conductors, Resa's Pieces Board, and all the "Pieces" a big congratulations on a most successful season. It has truly

Resa’s Pieces continued its growth this year with the addition of Resa’s Pieces Singers helping our organization to achieve another landmark year.

An agency of the Government of Ontario.Relève du gouvernement de l’Ontario.

Proudly supported by

Resa's Pieces BoardEd Noy PresidentFrancine Frankel Vice PresidentJanice Chesney SecretaryKen Lebow TreasurerJe�rey FreelanSarah HellerRuth LevensteinDebra Waisglass OmbudsmanBonnie Wasser

Executive DirectorRuthie Fishman

Music DirectorResa Kochberg

Committee MembersRandi Glass, Lori KatzLisa Sinclair, Vicky Wylson-Sher

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About Our ConductorRicardo (Ric) Giorgi is a busy Toronto jazz bassist, pianist, singer and the conductor of Resa's Pieces Strings. After taking early retirement from the Toronto District School Board, where he was an Itinerant Strings Specialist for almost 20 years, he joined the Resa's Pieces organiza-tion to be the �rst conductor of its string orchestra in 2010.

His earliest musical training was in a choir run by nuns in a refugee camp in Northern Italy. In Canada, he started playing �ute in high school and soon added the string bass and piano. He joined the Erindale Strings and worked his way through the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Music playing with the best musicians in London, Ontario. After graduation he spent �ve years as Manager of Youth and Children's Activities at the Canadian National Exhibition producing many music and theatre events.

He conducted or co-conducted the Scarborough Schools Symphony Orchestra, the Concert Orchestra, various levels of ensembles for Toronto Music Camps (as well as being a bass specialist), the University of Tennessee Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Zlin Czech Republic, the University of South Carolina Orchestra, the Brampton Symphony Orchestra, the Timothy Eaton Memorial Orchestra, the Main Street United Church Festival Orchestra and orchestras assembled for corporate functions in and around Toronto and Bu�alo, New York. He led the very successful Rainbow Gardens Jazz Orchestra from "basement band" status to internation-al acclaim.

Ric has composed music for �lm and television and contributed to various CBC and CTV productions, including one episode from the program "The Earth" that won a Peabody Award for Science Education. He was commissioned to write the UNICEF Canada campaign song.

Ric says, "Conducting Resa's Pieces Strings is the most fun, rewarding and humbling thing I've ever done. Each week I get to stand before 30 plus adults who put aside work, family and other cares to join together to make beautiful music out of thin air. What could be more awesome than this? - Nothing, period."


A Few Words From Our ConductorCongratulations Resa's Pieces Strings!

Each year I am amazed by the challenges you meet and exceed in the music I program for you. And each year the result is a series of wonderful moments in time for the audiences we perform for. Each year I try to escalate the level at which we perform and this year we've had many more of those silent pauses at the end of pieces that say "That was special". This year you have produced an exceptionally high proportion of these and it is entirely to your credit that you've persevered and taken �ight with the repertoire we perform tonight. Congratula-tions and play on!

No conductor anywhere is as lucky or as indebted as I am to you. You have one and all worked on music that is much more di�cult than anything we've ever done, more demanding of your sensitivity and an almost sixth sense awareness of what I ask of you and I hope more rewarding for you in having met this challenge with not just �ying colours but Blazing Colours!

Thank you from the bottom of my being for your good humour, perseverance in the face of what seemed insurmountable playing di�culties, and faith and trust in yourselves and me. No conductor can ask for more than this.

All the best,

Ric Giorgi

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Half Note SponsorsThe Fishman FamilyResa KochbergAutomotive EnvyElementary Teachers of Toronto Kid CommunicationAnonymous

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Thank You To All Our Gala Sponsors


Conductor’s Notes On

Curse of the Rosin Eating Zombies fromOuter Space

“Science Fiction” as a genre of the arts has roots in mythology and written precursors from at least the 2nd century. Motion pictures quickly adapted the genre as a lucrative mainstay and “The Curse of the Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space” is a direct descendant of these.

This music portrays events in a narrative story. But �rst, what is rosin? Put simply, it’s the boiled down and solidi�ed sap of trees, usually pine, formed into small “cakes” that string players must rub on to their bows in order to make their instruments’ strings sound. As anyone who has been to Greece or an LCBO store knows, pine sap resin is indispensable in the making of Retsina, the singular Greek drink. But, it is also indispensable to a group of marauding monsters from Outer Space who must have it or else ...

Tonight, you will have the chance to be both monster and victim/hero as the zombies slowly close in on the earth and scout for - what else - rosin! But string players are not that eager to hand over their precious supply and when they spot the zombies, �rst fear strikes in their hearts and then the chase begins. For a while they think they’ve escaped into the beauty of the universe around them, but NO! ... Everywhere they turn - ZOMBIES!

Sensing the inevitable, they hand over their rosin to save themselves and watch as the zombies enjoy high quality gourmet rosin like they’ve never had before - in fact so good that I encourage you to make sound e�ects not normally associated with a string orchestra performance.

I hope you’ll enjoy screaming, munching and expressing satisfaction supreme in this wonderful piece by Richard Meyer.

Audience Instructions: 1. Scream! 2. “Rawwww ...” (Audience Left) 3. “Zinnn .....” (Audience Right) 4. “Munching” sounds 5. “Aahhhh ....” Burp! 6. Scream!


CONDUCTORRic Giorgi

VIOLINSimon Rucker - Principal 1st Violin Joanne Rosen - Principal 2nd ViolinEliot Abbey-ColborneGisela Argyle Lana Biro Arlene KochbergIvan LavineRuth LevensteinJack MartellJanet MatthewsDulce Mitchell Jeanine MollineauClaire MorrisRisa RotenbergDiane SidenbergRussell SpencerJoyce TanjuakioBonnie WasserRena WinegustTyler Zielinski

VIOLACharles Heller - Co-Principal ViolaDana Prutschi - Co-Principal ViolaClaire HibbertLiz McGroarty

CELLOFern Reinhartz - Principal CelloJohn Bart Niki DiamantiToni FrankfortEdna GibsonSarah HellerAnita LevinMalcolm NobleRigel Noble-KezaEd Segalowitz

BASSDylan Gamble - Principal BassPeter BartramRadek Puky

RESA’S PIECES STRINGS MEMBERS

Lana BiroSarah Heller

Arlene KochbergRuth Levenstein

Jack MartellJanet Matthews

Claire MorrisDana PrutschiSimon Rucker

Diane SidenbergBonnie Wasser

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STRINGS VOLUNTEERS

Resa’s Pieces Strings 2014 Gala Concert

ProgrammeRalph Vaughn Williams, arr. Stephen Bulla Soloist: Gisela Argyle

Alexander Borodin, arr. Jamin Ho�man Soloist: Simon Rucker

arr. Cristina Seaborn

J.S. Bach Soloists: Ruth Levenstein and Janet Matthews

E. de Curtis/Abraham Goldfaden, arr. Charles Heller

Stephen Foster, arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle

Paul Desmond, arr. Ric Giorgi

arr. Peter Breiner Soloists: Simon Rucker and Ruth Levenstein

J.S. Bach (Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring)

Gustav Mahler, arr. Carrie Lane Gruselle Harp performed by Lana Biro

Richard Meyer

J. S. Bach Soloists: Simon Rucker, Joanne Rosen, Dana Prutschi, Fern Reinhartz

Programme Subject to change

1st Movement, English Folk Song Suite "Seventeen Come Sunday"

In The Steppes of Central Asia

Scandinavian Fiddle Suite (traditional)

2nd Movement, Concerto for 2 Violins BWV 1043

Raisins from Sorrento

Three Songs of Stephen Foster

Take Five

Penny Lane - The Beatles

10th Movement, Cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147

Adagietto (from Symphony No. 5)

Curse of the Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space

"Little" Fugue in G Minor BWV 578

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Absolutely no food or drink, with the exception of bottled water, is permitted in the auditorium. Absolutely NO SMOKING is permitted on the premises. The taking of photographs or the use of a recording device is strictly forbidden and may constitute an infringement of Canadian copyright laws. Late comers will be seated at a suitable break in the performance.


Best WishesOn Your

4th Gala Tonight!

From a Friend

Congratulations on a Wonderful Musical Season!I commend each of you for your dedication and hard work!

Looking forward to another fun �lled year! - Resa


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A few weeks later, at a party, I shared my idea with others. Surprisingly, it became the buzz of the evening with those interested wanting to start immediately. “Can’t we start now?” asked Ruthie Fishman, (who eventually became President of Resa’s Pieces and is now our Executive Director).

Shortly afterwards and with the eighteen names gathered, we held our �rst rehearsal. We began with a basic review of the names, values of the notes and all the fundamentals – like how to hold the instrument and making the �rst sound. Everyone left excited and eager to practice. And they did! Resa's Pieces Concert Band, as named by its members, held its �rst concert in June 2000. Knowing eight notes and seven songs, the Band performed to an audience of seventy-�ve people. The concert was 25 minutes long and ended with a rousing standing ovation.

And that’s how Resa’s Pieces was born!

And then along came...

The Birth of Resa’s Pieces Strings

On numerous occasions, string players approached me asking to join the Band. I felt terrible having to say "no" because stringed instruments require a di�erent approach and, other than a double bass, there is simply no place for them in a concert band. With so many requests, I �nally realized I needed to start a string ensemble. The challenge was �nding the right conductor.

After three years of searching, I �nally met Ric Giorgi. Ric immediately “got” what Resa’s Pieces was all about and was eager to join in our mission. In September 2010, Resa’s Pieces Strings met for the �rst time. Coincidently, they also began with eighteen members. As with the band members, the same joy and appreciation of returning to music permeated throughout the new string ensemble.


The Birth of Resa’s Pieces Singers

I wondered and thought, so what about all those people who’ve never played an instrument but who love to sing? Is it fair that they should be left out of the FUN? No! I simply knew a vocal group had to come next!

And so it was that in April 2013, (after another long search for the right conductor) Resa’s Pieces Singers held a six week inaugural session under the direction of Robert Graham. The Singers, as with Band and String members, now share in the fun of returning to making music.

Who knows what musical �eld Resa’s Pieces will explore next? I believe with my whole heart that everyone should have the opportunity to have music in their lives. It’s one of my greatest joys every week to share my love of music with all of the dedicated players in the Resa’s Pieces Concert Band knowing that in the rooms down the hall Resa's Pieces Strings and Resa's Pieces Singers are having an equal experience with Ric and Robert. Between the three ensembles, we now have a total of 144 enthusiastic people – who every week are experiencing the joy of having music back in their lives, doing their best, and having FUN!

This is my dream come true!!!


Resa’s DreamResa’s Pieces �rst came together in the year 2000. But the creation of what has evolved into a very special group was a dream born out of my own life experiences and was many years in the making.

As a little girl, I watched my eldest brother wave his arms around as if he was a virtuoso conduc-tor. I could feel the music radiate and come alive visually through his passionate motions. I began to play the piano at a young age. In grade seven, I discovered the �ute and fell totally in love. After grade thirteen, it was inconceivable that I would study anything else but music.

I loved every day at the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Music. I learned how to play almost every instrument - well enough to teach beginners anyway. I studied because I loved it. While I looked on, many of my classmates competed for the privilege of playing the �rst chair in their section, spending hours and hours in the practice rooms - and I hated it. Oh, I practiced, but being the best was not what drove me. I just wanted to enjoy my love for music without the added pressure. I wanted to be the best I could be – FOR ME! As Bela Bartok once said, “Compe-tition is for horses, not artists.”

After graduating with my Bachelor of Music (Education) I became an itinerant music teacher. It was the perfect job for me - and I LOVED it! I loved the fun we had in class, and I really loved watching the children’s faces beam with their accomplishments.

In 1972, I married the love of my life, Marshall. We started a family and I became a stay-at-home mom. My �ute lay dormant for 23 years!

As much as I treasured those years spending time at home with my children, I so missed music in my life. I missed the camaraderie and the excitement of playing music with other people, and the joy of musical expression. So in 1998, and after a 23 year hiatus, I took my �ute out of its case and joined the North York Concert Band. Although quite rusty, I loved putting my daily routine behind me, concentrating on the music, and being surrounded by like-minded people. I loved the challenge and the sense of accomplishment as I continued to improve with practice and the support from my new music friends.


The Birth of Resa’s Pieces Concert Band

During those years I realized there were many people who like me loved music. But, just like me and due to life circumstances, they had also abandoned their instruments. I realized there was a real need for adults to come together and return to making music as I did. I began to dream... I imagined a fun, social atmosphere of a high school concert band – but for adults! I hoped that if I created such an environment it would provide such individuals with the same joy and pleasure I had found. I also wanted to provide an opportunity for people to learn, to grow as musicians, and to share their accomplishments. My ultimate goal was to have members of this new group learn repertoire, perform for audiences, and share their expression of music within the community.

On a “magical” day in late 1998, I was talking to the Music Director at the Ko�er Centre of the Arts. When I told her my idea her immediate reply, which I will never forget was, “Resa, I don’t like your idea – I LOVE IT!” And right then and there I knew it would happen. I wondered, how many people would join? I was hoping for eighteen as it’s a symbolic number for LIFE, and music is so much part of everyone’s life.


Bravo to Resa’s Pieces Stringson Your 4 Gala Tonight

&Wishes for Continued Success!

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