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Cruiserweight Championship Tournament? pt1?

Brian Pillman vs Jushin Liger
Scotty Flamingo vs Brad Armstrong
Shinjino Otani vs Dean Malenko
Rey Mysterio vs Ultimo Dragon
Syxx(X Pac) vs Y2J
Alex Wright vs Eddie Guerrero
Juventud Guerrera vs Billy Kidman
Psicosis vs Lenny Lane
Disco Inferno vs Evan Karagias
Madusa vs Oklahoma
Artist vs Chris Candido
Crowbar vs Daffney
Lt. Locco vs Lance Storm
Elix Skipper vs Mike Sanders
Chavo Guerrero vs Shane(Gregory)Helms
Tajiri vs Jamie Noble
Matt Hardy vs Jacqueline(Jackie Moore)(Yes I Know she's a girl)
Chavo Classic vs Spike Dudley
Funaki vs Paul London
Nunzio vs Kid Kash vs Hornswoggle

Jushin Liger
Brad Armstrong
Dean Malenko
Rey Mysterio
Y2J
Eddie Guerrero
Billy Kidman
Psicosis
Evan Karagias
Madusa
Candido
Crowbar
Lance Storm
Skipper
Helms
Tajiri
Hardy
Spike Dudley
Paul London
Kid Kash

A Secret But Most Effectual Strategy To Make It Big As A Musician

Have you been hiding in obscurity for too long and are longing to be centre stage?

Here is a sure-fire way to kick-start your classical music career and get you centre stage: become a page turner! Consider the following tributes of two legendary musicians and page turners and remember: you too can make it big as a classical musician! 

The first tribute comes from concerts notes of an unidentified chamber music recital:

Tonight's page turner, Ruth Spike, studied under Ivan Schmertnick at the Boris Nitsky School of Page Turning in Philadelphia. She has been turning pages here and abroad for many years for some of the world's leading pianists.

In 1988, Ms. Spike won the Wilson Page Turning Scholarship, which sent her to Israel to study page turning from left to right. She is the winner of the 1984 Rimsky Korsakov Flight of the Bumblebee Prestissimo Medal, having turned 47 pages in an unprecedented 32 seconds. She was also a 1983 silver medalist at the Klutz Musical Page Pickup Competition: contestants retrieve and rearrange a musical score dropped from a Yamaha. Ms. Spike excelled in "grace, swiftness, and especially poise."

For techniques, Ms. Spike performs both the finger licking and the bent-page corner methods. She works from a standard left bench position, and is the originator of the dipped-elbow page snatch, a style used to avoid obscuring the pianist's view of the music.

She is page-turner in residence in Fairfield Iowa, where she occupies the coveted Alfred Hitchcock Chair at the Fairfield Page Turning Institute.

The second tribute goes to my beloved guitar teacher of many years:

A Guitarist page turner has the challenge of having to remain inconspicuous for the entire performance right next to the performer, centre stage  with no grand piano to hide behind.

Prof Dr. L. Witos, a first class performer and guitarist himself, has worked tirelessly on page turning techniques for guitarists. In the year 1985 he perfected  his revolutionary method of the Dash and Dive act.

He positions himself among the audience – preferable the first row - and at the exact right time dashes towards the music stand with lightening speed, turns the page from right to left  (as he is now in front of the performer) and sits down again. All this he does with such swiftness and finesse that the audience is too bamboozled to take any notice. It needs to be noted that Dr. Witos always works from memory and knows by heart all the music and the particular editions his students play from. To this very day he has never missed a page turn and all his students trust and admire him exceedingly.

 

About the Author

CJ Lucerne is a music teacher, classical guitarist and early music enthusiast. She performs regularly with the Kepler Ensemble and produces play along CD's. For more tips (seriously!) and free music for classical guitar go her website:

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