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NEWSLETTER OF THE
February 2016 SVAS NEXT MEETING
March 6, 2016 at Harry’s Hofbrau
VISIT OUR WEBSITE at SVASociety.org and visit us on Facebook Watch our Videos on: youtube
This unique group plays the romantic music you would hear in the famous Grinzing quarter of Vienna - the music capital of the world - with its many Gasthauses and Cafes adorned with the music of accordion and vio-lin playing in an intimate setting the music of Vienna … the music of Johann Schrammel, the gypsy music of Hungary, as well as other European and world classics, while local patrons and tourists sample the latest har-vest in this wine-making region of Vienna. With musicians dressed in formal attire and a repertoire including classical music from Europe, this chamber-like group is an excellent choice to provide the music for elegant public or private events, such as the cocktail hour preceding the dinner at your wedding or anniversary celebra-tion, or a gala ballroom filled with dancers to a Strauss Waltz. This ensemble can be embellished with the su-perb vocals of Liana Braunova for a wider repertoire representative of all of Europe, or with percussion for venues where dancing is a part of the event. L-R Joe Domitrowich, Liana Braunova, Dave Dally.
Café Vienna
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Did you miss a meeting performance? You can view some of it on youtube. To View Pam’s Videos from past meetings: Go to youtube.com, type in accordionpam in the search field
(next to the magnifying glass on top) for videos from the club .
Ken Caple President
Bill Tapogna Master of Ceremonies
Sue Douglas SVAS Reporter of the month.
Our Super Bowl Sunday turned out to be a Super Music day for the attendants of the SVAS meeting. We still had about 50 folks show up to hear good music in spite of the big game. In the future it was suggested that we move the meeting off the calendar that the Super Bowl will occupy. We will take this up next year so everyone can hear the tunes of the greatest in instrumentals of our club. Garland & I started off jamming about 12:30. We didn’t have an audience to start with but had a good time. We had a great performance from the Tangonero Band. They sounded very practiced, play-ing the Tango oriented music. It is amazing how popular a German instrument would be- come to a continent a world away. Thank you all for the support you are giving to our club. -Ken
President, Ken Caple and Garland Cheatham were making it so enjoyable for us to come in early, as they played jazz, country and western, classic and sing-along music. One of my fa-vorites is Sentimental Journey. It was my pleasure to play for a while, and Ken Caple played Beyond the Reef, Cool Water, The Cuckoo Waltz, Patricia and Perfidia.
Bill Tapogna introduced us to Dan Judd, who is setting up the new microphones and other helpful devices. Thank you, Dan we need a good sound man.
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Bill Tapogna announced that Carmella, Francis, Mary Savant, Norma Zonay Parsons, Al and Bernie were each another year older. Happy Birthday!
Edward Massolo entertained us with some Italian pieces called Carni-val of Venice, Come Back to Sorrento and Chitarra Romana. After Le Gamin De Paris, he Romanticized us again with Non Dimenticar. With that piece and with Flight of the Angels, Edward displayed phe-nomenal fingering! His finale was Spanish Eyes. Then Edward and Bill Tapogna played El Rio Drive Polka and Francis and Stan danced to that one.
Don Savant, our jazz player, did Moonglow, These Too Foolish Things, Serenade in Blue, Misty, Chewing the Rag, Muskrat Ramble and Beautiful Days. Tah Dah! Raffle time; John won the Hofbrau Meal Ticket and an orchid, Rosemary won the statue, Dennis won the candy, Rick won the candy, Kathleen won an orchid, Karol won the CD and Ray won the chardonnay.
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Please invite your friends to join our
SVAS Musical Event The more the Merrier
We all love music,
Our featured players, TANGONERO, made us all want to tango. Alex Roitman, the bandoneon player, started out with the first tango. Then Amy Zanrosso, on the keyboard, Michel Walther, on the violin, and Jacob Johnson, on the bass guitar, joined Alex, and they played very danceable music! The key-board gives much emphasis to the music. The bass guitar gives definite clarity to the bass notes, and the violin gives sweet high notes and detail to the melody. TANGO!
The SVAS Picnic is in May
Vic & Barbara Corsiglia will be leading our Jam Band.
We will again have it at Harrys Hofbrau but this year it will be catered in the room. We will not go through the line.
Begin signing up to play next Month.
ACCORDION CLUBS MEETING SCHEDULES IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Accordion Club of the Redwoods (ACR) meets on the third Monday of the month. Herman & Sons Hall, 860 Western Avenue, Petaluma CA 94952. Contact: (707) 795-4060. Golden State Accordion Club (GSAC) has three divisions: 1. The Vacaville Club meets the second Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM, Pietro’s N.2, 679 Merchant St, Vacaville, CA 95687, Starting July 12, 2012 , Except for June and December. 2. The Humboldt Club meets on the third Tuesday, 7:00 PM., Humboldt Swiss Club, 5403 Tompkins Hill Road, Loleta, CA 95551. 3. The Sacramento Club meets on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 6:30 pm at the Old Spaghetti Factory,12401 Folsom Rd..,Rancho Cordova CA ,95742. Contact for all the GSAC: Carole Enneking (707) 864-2359. Good Time Accordion Club (GTAC) meets on the second Wednesday of the month at 7:00 PM, Escalon Community Center, 1055 Escalon Ave., Escalon, CA 95320. Contact Ed Sciarini (209) 545-3603. Northern California Accordion Society (NCAS) meets on the first Wednesday of the month 6:30 PM 6365 Douglas Blvd., Lutheran Church Social Hall, Granite Bay, CA 95746. San Francisco Accordion Club (SFAC) meets on the third Sunday of the month 2:00 PM . Oyster Point Yacht Club, 911 Marina Blvd. South San Francisco, CA 94080. Contact Lynn Ewing 650-453-3391. Silicon Valley Accordion Society (SVAS) meets on the first Sunday of the month, 1:00 PM at Harry’s Hofbrau, 390 Saratoga Avenue,
♫ Who’s Playing??? ♫ William DeMichelis—Music with an accent, 408-375-0001, [email protected]
Reno di Bono—plays the second Friday of each month at Montavalle in Scotts Valley, dancing to the Blue Moon Trio. Joe Domitrowich/Alpiners— see www.alpinersusa.com or www.capricious-accordion.com or call 408-255-1259 Mike Zampiceni - Accordionist 408 569-2579, plays on Sunday nights at Paesano Restaruant AbsolutAccord— Schedule Concerts with Norma Parsons (408) 246-3073, www.absolutaccord.com Sunday 7 — Schedule Concerts with Bob Stanfield (650) 888-3701 Happy Days Band— Schedule Concerts with Ken Caple (408) 892-2760 Due Zighi Baci– Schedule Performances with Sheri Mignano at [email protected] Ernie Beran— Plays at the Tyrolean Inn Restaurant in Ben Lomond, CA every Saturday 6:00-9:00 pm Sunday 7 Band—Plays every first Friday of the month in Los Altos in front of Le Boulanger bakery on the corner of main street and Second street in the down town area.
SVAS BOARD of Directors / Officers
PRESIDENT: KEN CAPLE, 408 892-2760
VICE PRESIDENT: BILL TAPOGNA , 408 984-5290
SECRETARY: SCOTT WILLIAMSON
TREASURER: BOB STANFIELD , 650 888-3701
DIRECTORS: DICK SIUDZINSKI SCOTT BADER PAM KAWASHIMA SUE DOUGLAS ART MAGGIO DENNIS JUDD Norma Parsons (Honorary)
WEBMASTER: PAM KAWASHIMA [email protected]
NEWSLETTER Producer: Ken Caple Editors At Large: Bob S, Pam K, Norma P, Bill T, Georgia S, and monthly Reporter
NL Reporters: SUE DOUGLAS , MARCIA COULLAHAN , MARYBARBARA ZORIO, GEORGIA SUTHERLAND
Coming Events at SVAS: Sunday March 6 , 2016
Meeting : Doors open at 1:00 pm 1:00-1:30 pm 30 mins. Open play
1:30-2:15 pm Happy Days Band 2:20– 3:00 pm Dennis Judd Paul Cain Master of Ceremonies Remarks
3:00-3:30pm Break & Drawing 3:30–4:30pm Café Vienna, Joe Domitrowich - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - April 3- Gary & Jena Breitbard Band
May 1 PICNIC: SVAS PLAYERS Jam Band June 5: Jana Maas
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ACCORDION TEACHERS:
Peter Di Bono: San Francisco (415) 753-1502 Lynn Ewing: San Carlos (650) 453-3391 Sharon Walters Greyhosky: Daly City (650) 731-6010 Lou Jacklich: San Lorenzo (510) 317-9510 Marian Kelly: Cupertino (650) 954-3711 Richard Yaus: San Bruno (650) 832-1740 Mike Zampiceni: Sunnyvale (408) 569-2579 Norma Zonay-Parsons: San Jose (408) 246-3073 Sheri Mignano , Petaluma (707) 765-1657 Ernie Beran: Aptos, [email protected] (831) 238-4961
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The Bandoneon The bandoneon (or bandonion, Spanish: bandoneón) is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina, Uruguay, and Lithuania. It is an essential instrument in most tango ensembles from the traditional orquesta típica of the 1910s onwards, and in folk music ensembles of Lithuania. a. The bandoneon, so named by the German instrument dealer, Heinrich Band (1821–1860), was originally intended as an in-strument for religious and popular music of the day, in contrast to its predecessor, more folk music inclined German concertina (or Konzertina).[1]:16 Around 1870, German and Italian immi-grants and sailors brought the instrument to Argentina, where it was adopted into the nascent genre of tango music, a descendant of the earlier milonga.[2]
By 1910 bandoneons were being produced expressly for the Argentine and Uruguayan markets, with 25,000 shipping to Ar-gentina in 1930 alone. However, declining popularity and the disruption of German manufacturing in World War II led to an end of bandoneon mass-production.[1]:17
Original instruments are displayed in German museums, such as the Bandoneon Museum der Familie Preuss in Lichtenberg and the collection of the family Steinhart in Kirchzarten, Freiburg.
Bandoneons were historically produced primarily in Germany, and were never produced in Argentina itself despite their popu-larity. As a result, by the 2000s, vintage bandoneons had become rare and expensive (US$4,000), limiting prospective bande-onists. Accordingly, in 2014 the National University of Lanus in Buenos Aires announced their development of an affordable Argentine-made bandoneon, which they hope to market for one-third to one-half of the cost of vintage instruments
Play
As with other members of the concertina family, the bandoneon is held between both hands, with pushing and pulling motions forcing air through its bellows, which is routed through reeds by pressing its buttons. As a concertina, the bandoneon's buttons travel parallel with the bellows, ver-sus perpendicular on an accordion.
Unlike a piano accordion, but similar to a melodeon or Anglo concertina, a given bandoneon button produces different notes on the push and the pull (bisonoric). This means that each keyboard actually has two layouts: one for opening notes, and one for closing notes. Since the right and left hand layouts are also different, a musician must learn four different key-board layouts to play the instrument.[1]:18
These keyboard layouts are not structured to facilitate playing scale pas-sages of single-notes, but rather to facilitate playing chords as per its original purpose of supporting singers of religious music in small churches with no organ or harmonium, or for clergy requiring a portable instrument (missionaries, traveling evangelists, army & navy chaplains, etc.) - Wikipedia
Alex Roitman with his Bandoneon at SVAS
Silicon Valley Accordion Society meetings held first Sunday of each month at Harry's Hofbrau, 390 Saratoga Avenue, San Jose, corner of Kiely. Doors open at 1:00, Music
begins at 1:00 pm, Meeting begins at 2:00 p.m. door fee $5, under 16 no charge.
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