AHJ, Vol. 4 No. 3, Spring 1974

its Fifth Overseas Concert Tour from September to
December in Greece, Israel, Switzerland, West Germany,
Holland, and Belgium, giving 46 concerts in 44
cities. This year, activities of the Nippon Harp Promotion
Society include the Mimura Harp Seminar Solo
Festival this March in Tokyo; the Mimura Harp Seminar
Summer Camp in Hakone this August; Harp
Ensemble Festival in October; and the publication of a
two-volume, five part Harp Method in English by Tsutomu
Mimura, conductor of the Mimura Harp Ensemble.
Suzanne Balderston performed the Ravel Introduction
and Allegro in faculty recital at Cal State Northridge
Lo Angeles, alifomia.
Having recently returned from Las Vegas where she
appeared with the Carpenters Sonny and Cher, and
Frank Forshin, Nancy Le,'in i now heard weekends at
the Victor Hugo Restaurant in Laguna Beach, California.
Julia Gray was chosen as winner of the Santa Barbara
Symphony Young Artists Audition and will play the
Ravel Introduction and Allegro with the Orchestra on
April 3. She recently performed the Mozart Flute and
Harp Concerto with the Ventura, California Symphony
and the Ralph Vaughn William Hodie with Lhe Santa
Barbara horal Society. Ms. Gray and Kirst.en Rydman
will be presented by the Santa Barbara Chapter of AHS
in a recital of harp solos in behalf of their scholarship
fund.
Karen Kirk has been chosen as a winner for Concerto
Night at the University of California Santa Barbara.
She will perform the Ravel Introduction and Allegro.
Stella Nase and Dorothy Knauss gave a harp, piano,
and voice performance in a series of benefit concerts for
the Allentown, Pennsylvania, Symphony Orchestra.
At the opening of the Tate Art Gallery in Tallahassee,
Florida in October, Karen Hays Jackson presented
a program of Renaissance and Baroque music contemporary
to the paintings on display.
Amy Finnell accompanied the Leon County High
School Choir in their performance of the Dale Wood
Three Christmas Carols in December.
Amy Finnell, Libby Gruender, and Sondra Gordon
played solos for the Tallahassee Music Guild's Valentine
Day Tea held at the home of Florida's Secretary of
State, Richard Stone.
On February 24 Mary Brigid Roman performed the
Gustav Holst Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda for
women's chorus and harp with the Women's Chorus at
Florida State University.
Kathy Mitchell was special soloist in the Christmas
music program of the Salem Methodist Church in
Havana, Florida, in December.
In November, the Nederburg Harp Trio, Kathleen
Alister, harp, Lucien Grujon, flute, and Walter Mony,
violin/viola, gave chamber concerts including works by
Goossens, Vellones, Bendon, Rawsthorne, and Genzmer
in the Concert-Gebouw in Amsterdam and in the
Wigmore Hall in London. In London the United Kingdom
Harpists Association gave a reception for the Trio
with Maria Korchinska as hostess. The Trio also recorded
works by Goossens, Rawsthorne, Poston, and
Ma'ayani for the BBC in London. In March, the Trio
gave a concert at Pretoria, South Africa.
PEARL CHERTOK
NYC Studio-Lincoln Towers--Radio Registry Judson 2-8800
Westchester Studio-Radio Registry Judson 2-8800
Faculty: Manhattanville College, Purchase, N.Y.
Artist Affiliate Faculty SUNY, Purchase, N.Y.
Students at Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, Stony Brook and New
York University
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