SEPTEMBER 2012 from the Editor Here’S What’S Welcome to the September 2012 Edition of the AAA Newsletter
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AMERICAN ACCORDIONISTS’ ASSOCIATION Newsletter A bi-monthly publication of the American Accordionists’ Association SEPTEMBER 2012 From the Editor Here’s What’s Welcome to the September 2012 edition of the AAA Newsletter. This year has seen an eclectic array of accordion activities showcasing a tremendous variety of musical genres. Recently we have seen the accordion featured in such di- Happening at verse settings as Accordion Wrestling at the Lincoln Center in New York City, to ap- pearing as part of a new Apple Ipad application. We can truly say, there is something AAA in 2013 for everyone! My sincere thanks to you all for your kind support with the AAA Newsletter, and a special thanks MARCH 17, 2013 to both Rita Davidson for her assistance in providing News items, and Linda Reed, our AAA President 2:00 pm for the final production of the Newsletter itself. Open Meeting In our last edition, we launched a new section called “Coast to Coast” profiling some of the diverse Hanover Marriott accordion activities being held across the country. In this edition, we are pleased to continue sharing 1401 Route 10 East some of these exciting events with you. Whippany, NJ As we rapidly approach the busy holiday season, I hope you have time to share your accordion events with your fellow readers for the upcoming November edition. Items for the November Newslet- APRIL 21, 2013 ter can be sent to me at [email protected] or to [email protected]. Please include ‘AAA Carmen Carrozza Newsletter’ in the subject box, so that we don’t miss any items that come in. Text should be sent within the e-mail or as a Microsoft Word (.doc) attachment. Pictures should be sent as a high quality Scholarship Fund .jpg file, and the larger the file size the better. We can always reduce/crop the picture if necessary, Dinner & Dancing however we are unable to increase the quality from smaller pictures. The deadline for the November Villa Barone Hilltop Manor news will be the 15th of October. Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you all. 466 U.S. 6 Sincerely, Kevin Mahopac, NY Kevin Friedrich – AAA Newsletter Editor JULY 26-28, 2013 65th Coupe Mondiale in Spoleto, Italy Master Class and Concert AAA Governing Board members Mary House complete a sloping raked stage, made for Series - The Seminars Tokarski and Kevin Friedrich and AAA mem- an absolutely stunning setting for the 2012 Coupe The Accordion in 3D ber Joan Cochran Sommers were an integral Mondiale. part of the 65th Coupe Mondiale World Accor- The 2012 Coupe Mondiale was won by Chinese Tenri Cultural Institute dion Championships held in Spoleto, Italy 43A W13th Street, NYC contestant Xiaonan Xu, with two Russian contest- from Aug. 21-25, 2012. ants and a Serbian narrowly taking 2nd, 3rd and Moderator/Curator The beautiful medieval town of Spoleto, located 4th place. Amazingly, after three rounds of de- William Schimmel, midway between Rome and Ancona, complete manding international competition spread over a with castles, extremely narrow and steep tiny week, judged by a panel of nine international ad- AUGUST 14-18 2013 winding cobblestone streets, pathways linking the judicators, the final results saw less than one mark AAA 75th Anniversary various squares and alleyways, the stunning between the top four winners, ranging from 23.06 The New Yorker Hotel venue of the Teatro Nuovo "Giancarlo Menotti" for 4th Place to 23.45 for 1st place! The results and the 17 September Hall at the Spoleto Opera from all categories are: 8th Ave. at 34th Street continued on page 2 New York, NY See revervation information on page 4 Thank you to all who submitted online Evaluataion Forms from the Baltimore Festival. For those who were unable to access the form online, a hard copy is enclosed with this newsletter. All comments are World Accordion Orchestra Spoleto, Italy confidential. Joan Sommers, Conductor A bi-monthly publication of the American Accordionists’ Association - page 2 SEPTEMBER 2012 Coupe Mondiale, continued from page 1 AAA Archival Collection by Helmi Harrington 65th Coupe Mondiale Ensemble Music Competition Joan Grauman, governing Elsie Bennett directly as well 1st. Xiaonan Xu - China 1st. Esse-Quintet - Russia board member and historian as through her estate-supervi- 2nd. Vitaly Kondratenko - K. Evseev & K. Evseeva for the American Accordion- sor son, Ken Bennett. Our Russia (Accordion), M. Krylov ists’ Association, and Helmi Charles Magnante estate col- 3rd. Alexander Veretennikov - & D. Chernykh (Bal- Harrington, curator of A World lection is housed here, as re- Russia alayka), D. Gogolev of Accordions Museum, are ceived from his son, Dr. Peter Junior Coupe Mondiale (Domra) actively compiling information Magnante, as is the complete 1st. Djordje Davidovic - 2nd. Perfect Storm - China about the history of the associ- collection of Pagani Publica- Serbia Xiaonan Xu (Accordion) ation and its events. Estab- tions and the works of Frank 2nd. Tian Jianan - China and Zujian Shang (Erhu) lished as the public face for the Gaviani, received from his 3rd. Vladimir Stupnikov - 3rd. Concertino - Moldova organization, AWAM is proud son, Frank Gaviani, Jr. Russia E. Negruta, M. Grosu, C. to offer this update about our Through previously published Virtuoso Entertainment Music Hioara & V. Leca evolving displays where visi- lists of AAA membership, we 1st. Zhao Liu - China (Accordion/percussion) tors are welcome and promo- conclude that people of ac- 2nd. Raffaele Crusco - Italy & A. Hohotov (Bass) tion of the organization is complishment as well as mas- 3rd. Sergey Lobkov - Russia Digital Accordion Competition continuous. The goals are to sive numbers of aficionados Junior Virtuoso Entertainment 1st. Petar Maric - Serbia permanently house records choose this organization and Music 2nd. Stanislav Malyshev - documenting activities, to are supported by it. 1st. Matteo Petronio - Italy Russia focus public awareness on In photos A 2nd. José Dias - Portugal 3rd. Guillaume Clerget - noteworthy members, and to and B you will 3rd. Jean-Baptiste Baudin - France make visible AAA’s societal see: posters France significance. In fact, it is pri- from AAA Masters Coupe Mondiale marily because of the planning board member 1st. Dmitrii Kiselev - Russia for this room that emphasis Mary 2nd. Dino Suljkovic - Serbia has been placed on compiling Tokarski; a 3rd. Klavdiya Tarabrina - AAA history now. This has Russia proven to be a more difficult project than expected. History Mary Tokarski served as the festival ever since. Joan also evaporates in a generation or framed USA-AAA Delegate at the served as a jury member for the two, and reliance on printed and 128th General Assembly of Junior Coupe Mondiale. Both documents becomes critical. matted Delegates at the CIA Congress, Mary Tokarski and Kevin Therefore, materials that may collec- as well as a member of the In- Friedrich performed in the seem insignificant in mem- tion of ternational Jury panel for the World Accordion Orchestra VI bers’ memorabilia boxes may photos new Masters Coupe Mondiale in the highly acclaimed per- be of first-line importance to with Al category, the most heavily con- formances of the Paragon us. We ask all readers of this Monte, tested event at the Coupe Mon- March by Anthony Galla-Rini newsletter to look for and to long- diale festival. Mary was also on (directed by Torsten Petzold donate photos, newspaper clip- time AAA member; AAA the jury for the International from Germany) and Joan’s pings, concert programs, Competition and Festival jour- Competition for Ensemble blockbuster arrangement of E.T. newsletters, trophies, and other nals from 1950 to the present; Music and the International by John Williams, which she pieces related to AAA history. and two filers housing docu- Competition for Digital Accor- conducted. Although the area’s official ments that need more sorting dion. Kevin Friedrich served as For a full report on the festi- opening celebrations still lie and evaluating. the CIA Ambassador as well as val including all contestants ahead, this room already has Shown in Photos C and D: webmaster for all the Coupe pictures and programs, a com- been viewed by many museum from Mondiale related websites in- plete set of results in .pdf in- visitors. To reflect the interna- Aldo cluding the reports that have cluding all adjudicators marks, tional importance of the sub- DeRossi been published online high- free video downloads of the top stantial array of AAA Archive and his lighting the weeklong activities. three winners in each category material currently housed at, cousin, AAA member Joan Cochran and pictures from throughout and promised to the museum, Donna Sommers, a Vice President of the festival, such as those of the plans to upgrade the AAA dis- Maria the CIA, was also the delegate magnificent World Accordion play facilities with profes- Regis we for the ATG at the Congress Orchestra, please visit sional furnishing and attractive have a meetings and she coordinated www.coupemondiale.org and display cases remains a top four-fold and directed the 70 member follow the links through to the priority. As always, readers are upright World Accordion Orchestra VI Italy Coupe Mondiale. invited to support this en- photo- which performed at the presti- Next year’s event will be held deavor. graphs gious Spoleto Opera House. immediately following the Contents of the AAA display Joan founded the World Accor- AAA 75th Anniversary Cele- Archival Collection include and CDs of his complete musi- dion Orchestra at the jointly brations in New York City when items already housed in the cal output; from the estate of hosted AAA/ATG Coupe Mon- the Coupe Mondiale is staged in museum as well as those sent Elsie Bennett we have bound diale in Alexandria, VA in 2007, Victoria, British Columbia, to us through Joan.