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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0ajd1m3kv...01pe8LiKa?dl=0 (September 2021 edition) You can download it.
This link takes you to a powerpoint presentation that's been turned into a PDF. Updated as I'm working on a fifth book--it will be all about Rudy. It will actually be an E-Book, my first one. That should make Rudy much more accessible around the world. I'll tell his story using the images from this preliminary power point slide show.
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So sorry we won't meet at CMSA San Diego, but I hope we can connect in our virtual workshops. I will be including Rudy's Aguela Negro as a mandocello solo; I know it has a piano accompaniment, but it stands on its own nicely, and even with the piano part, it IS a mandocello solo.
Thank you for all the wonderful work you are doing. OMO has a concert this Sunday; after that I'm going to talk to the leadership about the piece Rudy wrote for the Portland group.
jim
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I've created a 6 minute glimpse into Rudy's life. All the (47) images derive from my compilation of photographs I've accumulated and finally were able to credit and describe at length. This video contains no music bed and no voice-over narration. Just slides and each one is about 8 seconds duration. Enough time to follow along and enjoy the life of Rudy Cipolla, from the time he was a child in a rural village in Southern Italy all the way to San Francisco. (Attached descriptions and credits for each slide)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aau7...311EeG&index=5
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That was totally wonderful, Sher! Thanks so much for putting that together and sharing.
So many fun photos from the '30s tangophilia. Great hats, cool duds.
Loved seeing Matteo with that F4, btw. Take that Gibson haters.....
Some more insight into what a mandolin town SF has been.
The premier mandotown in American. (Sorry, Nashville.)
What a tribute to Rudy "The Owl" Cipolla. (Or should I say "The Onion"....)
Mick
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If you're in the Bay Area in July 2022, I'd like to invite all mandolin family musicians to join us for a Rudy rehearsal. Sunday, July 10 from 11A to 2P. Please PM as to what instrument you play so I can send playlist and directions. Thanks, Sheri
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We rehearse from 11A to 2P Sunday, July 10th. Please send a PM for exact location in Alameda (East Bay). I will email you PDFs of the titles we rehearse. We'd love to have some players: mandolin 1 & 2, mandola, octave mando, mandocello, guitar. The principal instrumentation. Thanks, Sheri
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The Alameda Mandolin Ensemble at Matt's house last summer. We're all back for summer rehearsals. several mandolins & octave mandolin, 2 mandola, 2 mandocelli, guitar, and I'm on accordion and conducting. We will be integrating other mandolin composers such as Lawrence Andrini. This has been a labor of love and lots of fun! Join us if you can.
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Allow me to say that this labor of love is worth every minute. I have taken notice of Rudy Cipolla (Zwiebel in German of all vegetables) many moons back because of David Grismanīs involvement in his music. I find it noticable that a person never ceased to follow his passion despite not pursuing it as a main course of income. There is a lot to think about a man like Rudy Cipolla and there is a lot to learn about and from his music.
My hat is off to you and to your effort to preserve a noticable musical legacy.
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Rudy used to say that he was born under a lucky star because of his friends. During the Depression, for more than a decade, he was fairly well compensated in his full-time job as mandocellist with the "Argentine Trio." He was employed as a house composer and arranger, too. If his guitarist hadn't been arrested and jailed (my monograph on Rudy goes into the wild details of that one), the group would have stayed together and who knows how far they might have gone. Still, to be NBC staff and sent on West Coast musical circuits meant that he didn't have to worry about too much as a bachelor. Once WW2 concluded, his brother Gino and he were able to buy the "Book Nook" on Judah and he lived upstairs from the bookstore/lending library. A man of few needs, he lived almost like a monk but got through the second half of his life with the income from the store and once he started to get known, he cultivated enough musicians who were willing and able to perform from his transcriptions. Grisman really helped him get financial assistance from a musicians' assistance organization (its exact name escapes me as I type); and Grisman produced an LP on Rounder Records and then on Grisman's Acoustic Label. Mike Marshall, Dix Bruce, Liz Lamson, and Radim Zenkl were terrific friends and the list would take all day to type up here.
Post #53 contains a PDF with a narration that goes with the video in the subsequent post. You'll learn alot more by downloading the PDF and watching the videos on my YouTube Channel, too.
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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0gdel2cmf...DIbTtvx1a?dl=0
Rudy Cipolla's sheet music is now available in PDFs. You have permission to visit the folder at my Dropbox and to download everything. Please do this so that you can experiment with your fellow musicians. I haven't created an up-to-date index of the titles but everything is alphabetized and you can easily distinguish all the parts available for performance purposes. I look forward to hearing Rudy Cipolla's music heard throughout the world. That's my hope.
Rudy Cipolla's ensemble meets this Sunday, Oct. 16 in Alameda, California. If you think you're in the area, let me know via PM and I'll give you the details. We'd love new musicians. Thanks again, Sheri
p.s. this is not in any way a complete list--just what has been converted into readable scores.
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It is with a sad heart that I announce that Elizabeth Lamson has passed away. Her guiding efforts as a mandola player & leader of the Berkeley Mandolin Ensemble brought Rudy Cipolla's music to light. The BME traveled to Germany and provided Bay Area mandolin fans with the best in classical music for mandolin arrangements. She was adored by Rudy and a good friend to all of us who were fortunate enough to be a part of her Ensemble. A neighborhood memorial was held last night but there will be another one--TBA.
1988-1989- Photograph of BME by Liz's husband, John Pearson. Liz is front center next to me (flute). Far left, front row, Vina Cera (Mandocello); Radim Zenkl (mandolin) between Liz and Vina. Owen Hartford, (front row, far left)
2021- Photograph of Liz (center) with friends Matt Vuksinich (R), Mark Rubenstein (far L)