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Northwest Accordion News NORTHWEST ACCORDION NEWS Wine Festival The Great Accordion Myth Uncovered Improvising Duets: Comping for All Seasons Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration! News about Cory Pesaturo, Alicia Baker and Stas Venglevski! VOL. 21 NO. 3 Northwest Accordion Society Fall Quarter 2011 Northwest Accordion News Northwest Accordion News Staff Doris Osgood............................................(503) 357-0417 NWAS PUBLICATION PRIORITIES [email protected] Advertising Judith Ames .............................................(360) 254-5245 Original Compositions [email protected] News from Our Members Colleen Halverson (Advertising) ..............(503) 484-5064 Instructive/Technical Articles [email protected] Summaries from Regional Socials and NW Accordion Society Offi cers Events Bonnie Birch, President/Treasurer ................................. (206) 622-4786 Coming Events Doris Osgood, Vice President/Communications ............. (503) 357-0417 Articles will be printed if received prior to the Judith Ames, Secretary/Technology ............................... (360) 254-5245 publishing deadline. Should space be an issue, Advisory Board articles will be printed in the order in which they are Rick Hatley, ..................................................................... (253) 288-0442 submitted. All decisions regarding publication will be Shirlee Holmes .............................................................. (206) 282-4934 made by the editors of the NWAS News. Dick Myking .................................................................... (253) 537-0136 To submit articles for publication, mail them to Birgit Teuwen .................................................................. (206) 368-9720 Cooksie (Kaserzon) Kramer ........................................... (425) 828-9104 the Vancouver, WA address listed. It is preferred Brenda Bard ................................................................... (425) 822-4404 that articles be submitted via e-mail as attached Jim Tobler ....................................................................... (425) 745-4872 WORD documents or on a disc. Typed, paper copy needs to be dark and clear to allow scanning and to Membership: Doris Osgood.................................................................. (503) 357-0417 minimize errors. [email protected] Photographs sent for publication will be returned Judith Ames ...................................................................(360) 254-5245 if they are accompanied with a SASE of correct size [email protected] and adequate postage. Photographs may be sent electronically or on disc. To reprint articles or photographs from Mail letters & articles to: magazines and newspapers, written permission Northwest Accordion Society from the publisher is required. Please submit the 5102 NE 121st Ave. #12, necessary “permission to print” with material sent. Vancouver, WA 98682 Views in the articles and information printed are Or e-mail to: [email protected] those of the contributors and not necessarily those of the Northwest Accordion Society or its advertisers. ADVERTISING Full page $110.00 Half page $55.00 Quarter $30.00 Business card $10.00 NWAS News Deadlines Prices are PER ISSUE. US Funds February 1, May 1, August 1, November 1 Photo-ready Advertising (with accompanying check) for this publication may be sent to: Northwest Accordion Society Inquiries, questions, suggestions, etc. 6453 SE Nathan Ct., Hillsboro, OR 97123 Contact Doris Osgood, 3224 B St., or e-mail [email protected] Forest Grove, OR 97116. (503) 357-0417. E-mail: [email protected] NORTHWEST ACCORDION SOCIETY Is your membership renewal due? The Northwest Accordion News is a quarterly Check your mailing label. A membership newsletter published by the Northwest Accordion application/renewal form is included on Society for and by its members. The purpose of the last page. Send your renewals or the NWAS News is to unite the membership by change of address to: providing news of its members, and articles that Northwest Accordion Society instruct, encourage, and promote the playing of 5102 NE 121st Ave. #12 the accordion. Vancouver, WA 98682 fall Quarter 2011 1 Northwest Accordion News Table of Contents 2 Letter from the Editors Quarterly Update 2 Quarterly Update 3 Letters to the Editor Dear Members, 3 Remembering Dieter Nachmann I feel a bit guilty sitting here in Forest Grove with 4 Wine Festival temperatures between 70 – 80 degrees. It’s been 7 Congratulations, Cory Pesaturo beautiful! My relatives in Nebraska, Oklahoma, and 7 Stas Venglevski Featured Arkansas are stewing in their own juice as I write. 9 17th Leavenworth International Summer’s slipping away; school resumes soon and Accordion Celebration with that comes the Oktoberfest season. 10 Photos from LIAC 2011 Thank you for your concern for my husband and 13 Leavenworth International Accordion me. I injured my back in the late spring and have been Celebration Sponsors dealing with the diagnosis and treatment all summer. 14 Seattle Accordion Social I feel much more comfortable and must be careful not 16 NWAS Welcomes New Members: to reinjure myself. Gary has improved considerably. 17 Leavenworth International Accordion We appreciate your thoughtfulness. Celebration Competition Awards 2011 Judith and I will do the “paste up” for the Autumn 18 Pietka Scholarship Recipient issue of the NWAS News next week. I am especially 18 Keeping Up With Alicia Baker pleased that Jim O’Brien, Ph. D Professor Emeritus 20 Kimberley International Oldtime Accordion from the University of Arizona, has written his notes Championships complete with examples from his workshop on play- 22 Tacoma Accordion Social ing duets. We are thrilled with his gracious gift to the 23 Something Special in Sequim publication. You may be acquainted with his arrange- 27 Remembering Mike Belitz ments from the internet. Dr. O’Brien has the authority 28 Peter Soave to Premiere New and expertise to provide some valuable instruction. Accordion Concerto by Max Simoncic Occasionally articles appear in newspapers or 31 Improvising Duets: Comping for All Seasons magazines that are of interest to our membership. 35 Castelfi daro Changes With The Times I’ve had reasonably good experiences with requesting 36 The Great Accordion Myth Uncovered permission to reprint. After waiting for several weeks, 38 Accordian Lesson Memories I received word that there would be a very large fee to 39 By the Way – reprint an article; I was disappointed! 40 Accordion Events Calendar This issue also includes an original composi- 42 Entertainers in the Northwest tion by Wally Lazar. Wally is an NWAS member from Canada and has generously shared several composi- tions with us. Wine Festival seems to fi t the season; Letter from the Editors we are grateful to Wally Lazar for allowing the NWAS News to print his music. Greetings! I’ve mentioned it before, but I must confess that Summer was slow to arrive here in the Pacifi c writing “remembrance” articles about friends in the ac- Northwest. We are fi nally getting some dry weather in cordion community is one task that I really don’t enjoy. the 80’s. The articles are important to communicate the infor- Leavenworth International Accordion Celebration mation but also to give honor to the friend that we’ve was a great success! Did you attend it or one or more lost. Mike Belitz was a fi ne accordionist and a lovely of the other Accordion Celebrations, Competitions person. We hope that many aspiring accordionists will or Camps? We love to hear from you! You may follow in his footsteps and build upon the music he send us your articles and photos by email (judith@ provided. Mike was respected and loved; he will be ameshomepalce.com) or through the mail (our mailing missed. address is on the back). The Northwest Accordion Society thanks all of You may now receive your NWAS electronically - you who volunteered and worked to make the Interna- please let us know if you’d like to have the PDF version tional Accordion Celebration at success. Bonnie Birch (you get it sooner and often pictures are in COLOR!) planned for many months to pull the event together. Once again, we have a PACKED issue! Enjoy! Work has begun for next year’s music festival. Mark Judith ([email protected]) your calendars today; LIAC will be June 14 – 17, 2 fall Quarter 2011 Northwest Accordion News Remembering Dieter Nachmann 2012. Dieter Peter Nachmann, whose charm and This issue has important information and adver- sense of humor marked a kaleidoscopic life with tising to note. We are grateful to our faithful adver- legions of loving friends, died of cancer on Friday, tisers and encourage you to take advantage of the July 22, 2011, in Portland, Ore. He was a bartender, goods and services they provide. Be sure to let them herb salesman, wine distributor, marketing consul- know that you saw their advertisement in the NWAS tant, father, gastronome, punster, and musician. News. Special thanks to our new advertising editor, Born in Traunstein, Germany, on June 9, 1946, Colleen Halverson. We appreciate all that she’s done Dieter was the only child of Bernhard Nachmann to ensure that our publication is in the black. and Paula Rohofsky. The family moved to Cleve- Finally, enjoy the Oktoberfest season. The accor- land, Ohio, in early 1948 and then to Denver Colo., dion is visible in the autumn. Support and encourage where Dieter attended St. John's grade school and the accordionists when you encounter them. This is
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