Our Travelogue Continues!

Are we lucky or what? Our 2018-2019 season started with a Grand Tour of Europe in songs and vignettes led by soprano Sherrie Kahn; after a short stop home with Scott Hender-son’s revue, we are going to Hollywood this month with one of its star musicians! Flute master, Sheridon Stokes, has taught at UCLA for 45 years in addition to being a fa-vorite of recording studios and being heard in countless movies and TV programs. I thank Janey Bennett for inviting him to be part of our season, and The Willows, this concert sponsor, for their generous support!

In December, we continue our “BMC is go-ing places!” series by celebrating Leonard Bernstein’s centenary. We bring you the glamorous Bergmann Duo from White Rock, B.C., for two recitals that will feature the ex-quisite Suite from West Side Story for piano four-hands.

Please note that our Wednesday, December 5, morning program will take place at First Congregational Church, just across the street from here, on Cornwall.

‘sweets and savories’ for the post-concert Holiday Reception? Let us know; we have a sign up sheet in the lobby.

Full-length Night Beat is on Thursday, Dec. 6 at 7:30pm also at First Congregational Church. This program will include more “American Classical Classic.” Don’t miss it!!! Tickets are $20 general; $15 seniors, on sale today in the lobby, at Village Books and on

Whether you are an armchair traveler or a jet-setter, you must admit that hopping around in music, stories, comedy and imagery is lots of fun! Our monthly programs make us dream or smile, bring back memories, and connect us through shared interests and experiences.

I am grateful for our community of music friends, and hope you also have reasons to be thankful later this month! Wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving until our next adventure!

Isabelle Cormier BMC Program Chair

The Newsletter of the Bellingham Music Club

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Board Notes

The BMC welcomes new members Elaine Casperson, Fred & Barbara Grote, Ford Hill, Ed Mashburn, Chris & Emily Sasnett, and Jan & Lindsey Vereen. and thanks our generous donors (see roster at right).

See us in the lobby and pick up your new handbook if you don’t have one already. It has all your important dates for the 2018-2019 season! Not a member yet? A mere $25 gets you in. Join the 200+ music enthusiasts who support BMC programs and awards!

Student award coordinators, Evelyn Ames, Lizanne Shader, Joan Rae and Mark Schlichting, are busy preparing for this year’s auditions. Guidelines and application forms for high school competitions are posted on our web-site. Let the young musicians in your life know!

Upcoming Events

Bayshore Symphony begins season fifteen on Saturday, November 10, 7:30pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 415 S. 18th St., Mount Vernon, and on Sunday, November 11, 3:00pm at Central Lutheran Church, 925 N. For-est St., Bellingham. Artistic director Chip Bergeron conducts Brahms’ Hun-garian Dances # 3, 4, 5, & 6, Grieg’s Holberg Suite, and Saint-Saëns’ Sym-phony #3 (Organ Symphony). Pat Nelson also stars in François Devienne’s Bassoon Concerto #4. $15 suggested donation at the door. Free for children 12 & under. More on bayshoremusicproject.com.

Comp Tickets — Did you fill an entry?

Artistic Director, Frederick Bayani Mabalot, leads Bellingham Chamber Cho-rale singers in Radiance, featuring luminous music by William Byrd in his simple yet sublime Mass for Four Voices and Morten Lauridsen’s rich and powerfully moving Lux Aeterna for choir and chamber orchestra. Saturday, Nov 10, 7:30pm, and Sunday, Nov 11, 4:00pm at Assumption Church, 2116 Cornwall Ave., in Bellingham. $20 general; $10 student; free for chil-dren six and under. More on bellinghamchamberchorale.org.

Whatcom Symphony Orchestra brings you the next installment of the Har-mony from Discord series on Sunday, November 18 at 3pm. WSO shines a light on powerful music that originated from and flourished in spite of the Holocaust. Cellist Clive Greensmith joins WSO for the U.S. premiere of composer and cellist Pál Hermann’s Cello Concerto (realized by Fabio Con-ti). The program includes Mahler’s iconic Totenfeier (Funeral Rites) and Viktor Ullmann’s Variations and Fugue on a Hebrew Theme. This concert is sure to be a testament to the incredible fortitude of the human spirit! For tick-ets, call MBT Box Office at 360-734-6080 or visit whatcomsymphony.com.

Regal Barkley Cinemas presents an encore performance of The Magic Flute, on Satur-day, December 1 at 1:00pm. Julie Taymor’s dazzling production was the Met’s first-ever Live in HD transmission twelve years ago. The winning ensemble includes Matthew Polenzani, Nathan Gunn, and René Pape in an abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s classic fable. The ideal gift for the young and young at heart! $25/$23/$18.

Comments about the newsletter? Contact us at bellinghammusicclub@gmail.com

Bellingham Music Club, P. O. Box 193, Bellingham, WA 98227

The Bellingham Music Club is a 501(c)(3) registered non-profit which sup-ports music in the community and enhances cultural life in the Northwest. It plays a vital role in Whatcom County by making music accessible to everyone with its free Wednesday morning concert series, and occupies a unique niche by encouraging high school and WWU music students with monetary awards.

YOU can support BMC endeavors with donations or annual dues ($25). For more information about the BMC, pick up our brochure, see us in the lobby, visit bellinghammusicclub.org or call 360-815-1867.

ABOUT THE BMC:

(Donors added since last month are bolded)

$1-$99: Evelyn Ames, Nie Bomstein, Kay & Dick Carr, Jim & Addis Chap-man, Ellie Chamberlain, Earl Cilley, Roger Clark, Jollefern Cole, Lee Cole, June Crinkley, Kory Diemert, Julie Gorrell, Fred & Barbara Grote, Denis Hayner, Ford Hill, Clyde Hiss, Pame-la Hooper, Susan Jay, Vonnie Jenkins Jytte Johansen, Susan Johnson, Robin Kagan, Karen Kaufmann, Andrine Knapp, Martha Lazich, Mary Jo Lewis, Eleanor Mischaikow, Margaret Palmi-eri, Mary Passmore, Bob & Hope Rendleman, Ed & Carla Rutschman, Phyllis Self, Celeste Shipp, Beth Sizer, Carole Slesnick, Orphalee Smith, Su-san Trimingham, Kristian Ungern. $100-$499: Deborah and Mike Ander-son, Catherine Collier & Les Kisska, Constance Collier, Joe & Judy Coons, Isabelle Cormier, Charli Daniels, Vernon Greenstreet, Ruth Heft, Sarah Ludwigson, Bill & Thea Mancha, Chris and Emily Sasnett, Mark Schlichting, Charlie Way & Patricia Clarke, Kathryn Whitmer, Margaret & John Woll. $500 and above: Janey Bennett, Bob & Wilma Bryant, Margaret DeMaine, Jack & Ginny Frymire, estate of Shirley P. Hawkins (Patricia Hiss & Judith Johnson), Garland Richmond and Richard Stattelman, Mary Jane & Richard Vetter.

Thank You!

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Program

Janey Bennett presents

Sheridon Stokes, flute with Wade Dingman, piano

BMC Night Beat: Sheridon Stokes and Wade Dingman play an expanded program

featuring music by Olivier Messiaen, Sheridon Stokes, Maurice Jarre and Hummie Mann in

addition to today’s works on Thursday, November 8 at 7:30pm at First Congregational

Church, 2401 Cornwall Ave. in Bellingham.

Tickets for Night Beat are available in the lobby today, at Village Books, online and at the

door. $20 general; $15 seniors. Get the next five Night Beats for $60. Take-a-teen-for-free!

Syrinx (1913) Claude Debussy Solo flute

Syntax (1980) Harry Bulow

Solo flute

The Fox (1967) Lalo Schifrin

Flute and piano

Out of Africa (1985)

Mission Impossible (1966)

Titanic “My Heart Will Go On” (1997)

John Barry

Lalo Schifrin

James Horner

Arr. Peter Senshuk (2016) Flute and piano

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Performer

BMC thanks its November programs sponsor:

SHERIDON STOKES, born in Los Angeles, was hired as a piccolo

player in the Denver Symphony when he was 16 years old and was

the youngest contract musician in Hollywood at age 20, with the 20th

Century Fox Orchestra under Alfred Newman. He studied at the Uni-

versity of Denver and was a scholarship student at USC majoring in

composition. His primary flute teachers were Haaken Bergh and Ar-

thur Gleghorn. He studied composition with Dr. Ernest Kanitz, Russell

Gracia, Haaken Bergh and Walter Kelsey (Schillinger system).

He appears frequently as soloist, masterclass technician, and lectur-

er. His publications are distributed world-wide, and include the

“Illustrated Method for Flute” (endorsed by Jean-Pierre Rampal) with

two five-star reviews from Amazon.com, and “Special Effects for

Flute.” Mr. Stokes has premiered solo works by former Boston Pops

conductor John Williams, and contemporary composers Henri

Lazarof, Paul Chihara, and Russell Steinberg. He has been featured

in many television and film scores, including the television series

“Mission Impossible,” “Roots,” and “Kung Fu,” as well as the films

“Jaws,” “E.T.,” “Ghost,” “Glory,” “Patriot Games,” “Sneakers,” “Scent

of a Woman,” “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle,” and more recently, “Mission Impossible,”

“Waterworld,” “Jumanji,” “Independence Day,” “Spitfire Grill,” “Rush Hour II”, and “Bringing Down The

House”. He was solo flute at the Academy Awards in 1997 and 1998 and played the famous penny

whistle solo from the Titanic song “My Heart Will Go On” with Celine Dion and was solo flute again for

the Academy Awards in 2008. In 2006, he performed with the Bill Mays Trio at Martha’s Vineyard and

in 2007 he was soloist in La Mancha, Spain, with the Murcia Chamber Orchestra.

Mr. Stokes received the MVP award in flute from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sci-

ences in 1980, 1981, and 1982, and in 1983 received the Emeritus Award. He has taught and per-

formed at music festivals, including Curso Musical International de Invierno in Benidorm, Spain (1989-

90), the Bud Shank Jazz Workshop in Port Townsend, Washington (1986-1988), and the Mozart Festi-

val in Monterey, California. His compact disc releases include “Chamber Music” by Henri Lazarof

(Laurel Records), “Quintet for Flute and Strings” by Leon Levitch (Bay Cities Records), “Willow, Willow”

for bass flute and percussion by Paul Chihara (CRI Records), “Six Sonatas” for flute and harpsichord

by Luigi Boccherini (Naxas/Orion Records), and “Torbellino — 10 Tangos for Flute and Guitar” by

Christopher Caliendo (Efficaci Records). He is also featured on recordings with Jascha Heifetz, Frank

Sinatra, and the Carpenters.

Some of his compositions are “Bon Voyage” for alto flute and string bass (1996), “Robin Hood Fanta-

sy” for solo bass flute (premiered with Ballet California, 1993), “Soulscapes” for flute and marimba

(premiered at the National Flute Association Convention, 1997), and “Laissez-le voler” for flute quartet

(premiered at UCLA, 1997). His work, Irish In The Lowlands for contra bass flute, bass flutes, and Irish

flutes was premiered at UCLA in 2008 and has been released on CD. He won the National Flute Asso-

ciation’s International Lifetime Achievement Award, which was presented to him at their annual con-

vention in San Diego, in August, 2005.