We wish our family and friends a very healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. LOLLY, HOWARD, TONY, SAMMY (AND JAKE) Happy and Healthy New Year to AU Our Friends and Family. A Very THE SLAIMS JOHN, CHERYL, ERIC AND JENNIFER To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. GEORGE AND JUDY VINE AND OUR CHILDREN May the New Year Bring To All Our Friends and Family — Health, Joy, Prosperity and Everything Good in Life. SHARON AND RICHARD BROWN LAURIE AND BRAD ANDREA AND JOEL PAM, JEFFREY AND SETH To All Our Relatives and Friends, Our wish for a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. dividuslized, relatively unstruc- tured program. It allows plenty of time to practice between lessons, as well as time for re- laxation and socializing, a rarity in may master class programs. The main focus at Keshet Eilon is on nurturing future soloists. The teachers work not only on technique, but also on stage presence development of an individual style and freedom of expression, body language, and establishment of rapport with the audience—all essential elements for a solo string artist. Every student is given an op- portunity to study face to face with an outstanding violinist, but also to gain "solo hours" on stage, appearing before an audience in small halls and in open-air con- certs in the kibbutz and sur- rounding localities. All told, more than a dozen concerts are held during the 16-day course. Gain- ing experience on stage is not only a matter of dealing with stage fright and developing stage presence; it is, also learning to cope with distractions in the au- dience or unexpected mishaps on stage without going to pieces. Faculty members at Keshet Eilon also conduct an open pan- el discussion each year where the masters candidly share their own intimate experiences with their NICK GONTE - ROBYN - DEBRA - MALLORY - BRADD - KEVIN - MICHAEL - LAURIE PHOTO BY AMNON WEINSTEIN MR. AND MRS. HARRY TUCHKLAPER AND FAMILY GIFTED page R14 A lesson with strings. May the coming year be filled with health and happiness and prosperity for all our family and friends. May the coming year be filled with health and happiness and prosperity for all our family and friends. HENRY AND MALA DORFMAN THE PONE FAMILY SONIA, ERIKA AND ALEXIS students, sharing small tricks of the trade, personal observations and anecdotes that may help young soloists get over hurdles and survive setbacks. hi addition to a series of mas- ter classes with the maestros themselves, Keshet Eilon also holds a rather unorthodox mas- ter class with a master violin- maker and a master bow-maker. Gifted musicians who play vio- lins do not always understand why their instrument responds as it does. At a makeshift work- shop, the two artisans not only make minor repairs, but also ex- plain to students how to protect their instruments from damage. One of the most innovative as- pects of the Keshet Eilon pro- gram involves archery lessons with an Olympic-caliber archer coach. Archery lessons are the outgrowth of a theory support- ed by such outstanding artists as Israeli violinist Shlomo Mintz and Italian virtuoso Andrea Acp- pelletti, that there is a unique in- teraction between playing the violin and shooting arrows that aids in the development of good violinists.