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KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – Members of Clear Lake Performing Arts, as well as their friends and family, are invited to attend the organization's annual meeting taking place on Sunday, Sept. 19, at the First Presbyterian Church in Kelseyville.
The business session, taking place at 3:30 p.m., will consist mainly of the introduction and confirmation of new officers and board members, and the presentation of a fund-raised check to the president from officers of the CLPA Auxiliary.
Entertainment will be provided by the Lake County Chamber Orchestra in a free concert starting at 4 p.m., followed by a buffet dinner – also free – prepared by volunteer CLPA executive chef Ed Bublitz, and served by members of the CLPA Auxiliary.
Music Director John Parkinson will conduct the orchestra in British baroque composer William Boyce's Symphony No. 5, with trumpet and drums added to back up the orchestra's strings. They will also play Boyce's sonatas No. 1 and 2.
A concertante group made up of violinists Andi Skelton and Eleanor Cook and cellist John Weeks playing solo parts, will perform the popular Concerto Grosso, No. 7 by Arcangelo Corelli backed by the string orchestra.
The concert will conclude with Georg Philipp Telemann's Konzert in E minor for two flutes, violin, strings and basso continuo, featuring Cathy Hall and Patricia Jekel on flutes, Andi Skelton, violin and Weeks again on cello.
The colorful Konocti Fiddle Club will entertain members during dinner with their special blend of down-home music.
RSVPs are necessary and may be directed to Bublitz at 707-277-8172,
It is hoped that those invited to the event may be prospective members of Clear Lake Performing Arts, Lake County's music support organization.
The Kelseyville Presbyterian Church is located at 5340 Third St. in downtown Kelseyville.
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In our busy times, the briefest pause to express a little interest in the natural world is praiseworthy.
Most of us spend our time thinking about other people, and scarcely any time thinking about other creatures.
I recently co-edited an anthology of poems about birds, and we looked through lots of books and magazines, but here is a fine poem we missed, by Tara Bray, who lives in Richmond, Virginia.
Once
I climbed the roll of hay to watch the heron
in the pond. He waded a few steps out,
then back, thrusting his beak under water,
pulling it up empty, but only once.
Later I walked the roads for miles, certain
he’d be there when I returned. How is it for him,
day after day, his brittle legs rising
from warm green scum, his graceful neck curled,
damp in the bright heat? It’s a dull world.
Every day, the same roads, the sky,
the dust, the barn caving into itself,
the tin roof twisted and scattered in the yard.
Again, the bank covered with oxeye daisy
that turns to spiderwort, to chicory,
and at last to goldenrod. Each year, the birds —
thick in the air and darting in wild numbers —
grow quiet, the grasses thin, the light leaves
earlier each day. The heron stood
stone-still on my spot when I returned.
And then, his wings burst open, lifting the steel-
blue rhythm of his body into flight.
I touched the warm hay. Hoping for a trace
of his wild smell, I cupped my hands over
my face: nothing but the heat of fields
and skin. It wasn’t long before the world
began to breathe the beat of ordinary hours,
stretching out again beneath the sky.
Ted Kooser was US Poet Laureate from 2004 to 2006. He is a professor in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He lives on an acreage near the village of Garland, Nebraska, with his wife Kathleen Rutledge, the editor of the Lincoln Journal Star.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org),
publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of
Nebraska, Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2009 by Donal Heffernan, whose most recent book of poetry is
“Duets of Motion,” Lone Oak Press, 2001. Poem reprinted by permission of Donal Heffernan.
Introduction copyright ©2010 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction’s author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.
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