Forest Hill Garden Club
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2 0 0 8 NEWSLETTER PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE: The May General meeting on May 19th ended the Garden Club’s 2007-2008 year with a kool meltdown, which was hot! Many thanks to Anna Cristoforo for her fabulous frozen dessert of strawberries, cake and ice cream that had been artfully put together to tempt anyone’s taste bud. A special thanks goes to her committee consisting of Dottie McHugh, Yen Bachmeier, Sally Kipper, Kathe Farrell, and Darlene Hartman. Our past president, Clorinda Aldrich, officiated at the installation of our new board for 2008-2009. Keeping to a victorian tradition, she handed all of us a red rose, meaning in flower talk, that she wants our year to be filled with love and achievement! Several gardens in Forest Hill provided the flowers for our meeting. Thank you to Nancy Hagosian and Anna Bolechowski for making the arrangement. Have a wonderful summer! Donna Monday, June 2, 2008 – Board Meeting at the Clubhouse 09:30 AM Refreshments/Social 10:00 AM Meeting and Planning for coming year Bring your calendars and ideas for another active year of social, cultural and gardening fun. NOTES • MILESTONE: John Hagosian, husband of Nancy Hagosian passed away in May. • OPERA AT THE CLUBHOUSE: Mark your calendar for June 12th . You are invited to attend a dress rehearsal of Pocket Opera Summer production, Donizetti: Roberto Devereux in the Clubhouse on Thursday, June 12th . Not only will you get to enjoy a terrific evening of music and theater, you will also be able to see Donald Pippin shaping and perfecting the production on its last night before beginning paid, public performance in the Florence Gould Theater at the San Francisco Legion of Honor. Donizetti: Roberto Devereux High drama in the court of Queen Elizabeth the First. Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, has returned after a military triumph in Ireland, but not to the hero's welcome that one might expect. He faces charges of treason, unproven charges that may have been concocted by his many envious political rivals. Despite a pretense of argument and debate, it is obvious that the Council of Peers is out to get him. Yet his fate ultimately rests in the hands of one person alone, the Queen, who must choose whether he is to live or die. She is suffering agonies of indecision. Though unconvinced by the evidence brought against him, she fears him guilty of a crime even greater than treason, a betrayal that the world knows nothing of, a change of heart that she cannot forgive. An affront to Elizabeth the Queen is one thing; an affront to Elizabeth the woman quite another. However painful, it is becoming increasingly undeniable that her own passion is no longer reciprocated. Is there another woman? She is obsessed with a corrosive curiosity to find out. The gripping story of thwarted romance, passion and jealousy, friendship and betrayal gloriously unfolds in one of the crown jewels of bel canto, Donizetti at his finest. Directed by Andrew Morgan, with Brian Thorsett as Devereux, Marcelle Dronkers as Queen Elizabeth, Rachel Michelberg as Sara, the secret beloved, and John Burton as Nottingham, her vengeful husband.  | ||||
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