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You are cordially invited
to attend the Grand Opening Celebration
of the JOSEPH HUR GALLERY
Saturday, November Sixteenth, 1985
at 7:30 p.m.
In Honor of this occasion,
nationally acclaimed artist
DOM MINGOLLA
will be present to introduce
his exhibition of watercolors
and acrylics titled
"COLOR IN MOTION"
Complimentary Hors D'oeuvres and Champagne
will be served
JOSEPH HUR GALLERY
6333 Orchard Lake Rd.
(in the Orchard Mall)
West Bloomfield, MI 48033
(313) 855-0633
Gallery Hours
Monday-Saturday
10 am-8 pm
Rochelle and Sylvia Barr.
began studying piano, also with
Zuidema.
"I was not going to have her
start at the bottom — she was
going to start at the top," em-
phasizes Sylvia.
Although she studied piano
seriously for several years,
Rochelle's interest in music was
sidelined after graduation from
Detroit's Mumford High School.
She was graduated from Wayne
State University with a degree
in art education and sub-
sequently taught art at Oak
Park and Birmingham junior
high schools for three years.
After that, Rochelle, who is
divorced, played only for Sunday
school classes at Temple Israel,
while her three children were
growing up. Then, in 1973, a
close friend, who is a vocalist,
needed an accompanist. Rochelle
agreed to help and, since then,
has been working as a profes-
sional musician.
She says she persuaded her
mother to return to performing
in 1978 because she felt her
mother's remarkable music
skills were being wasted.
"She hadn't been teaching,
hadn't done anything with her
music," says Rochelle, who often
performs solo in the metropoli-
tan area and also is an accom-
panist for music classes in
Southfield-Lathrup High School.
The duo who, like the Ros-
ners, play mostly classical music
in their concerts, admit to hav-
ing some differences in their ap-
proach to performing.
"She plays much louder than I
do," says Rochelle. "I always
have to make sure when we per-
form, that I get a brighter-
voiced piano."
"I'm the technician," explains
Sylvia. "I'm very pedantic, for
instance, about counting. You
have to be when you're playing
a duet."
"You could say that I'm the
performer — the entertainer,"
says Rochelle. "If you had to
choose just one basic difference
between us as musicians, that's
it."
Their most persistent problem
concerning performances always
has to do, they say, with the
pianos they are expected to play
on.
"People and the organizations
we play for — they don't always
understand the problem," says
Rochelle.
"The fact that a grand piano
is there doesn't mean at all that
it even works," explains
Rochelle. "We go over be-
forehand, try the piano out. But,
if it's not right, we don't hesi-
tate to say 'we're not playing on
it.' They either get another
piano or we don't perform."
Rochelle adds that calling a
tuner also doesn't necessarily
mean that the piano will be
suitable for a performance.
Neither does a "name brand"
piano guarantee that the piano
would meet the women's high
standards.
"Just because I went some-
where to perform and there as a
Yamaha, for instance, that
doesn't mean it would necessar-
ily 'work'," says Rochelle, who
has both a Yamaha and a
Baldwin grand in her home. "It
just depends — it's different
from piano to piano."
Rochelle admits to being a lit-
tle superstitious when it comes
to planning future concerts.
"If our last program has gone
extremely well, I don't want to