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Carol Gurofsky accompanies three choirs and travels to and from a lot of practices, but she has a new rule. She never leaves music in her car.
In September, Gurofsky, who accompanies the choir of Temple Israel on Prince of Wales Drive, lost all the music for the two days of Yom Kippur services. Her briefcase was stolen from her van as she rehearsed with the Ottawa Police Chorus just days before Yom Kippur. Her picture was on the front of this newspaper.
And much of her music was handwritten. Even the commercially printed material had the personal notes she had made to help co-ordinate with everyone else in the service.
It could have been a disaster, but wasn’t quite. Luckily, she had scanned most of the music into her computer over the years.
“Very often it (the original material) was hard to read and small, so the first thing I did was scan it into my computer, and crop it and edit it and make it more easily readable for me,” she said in a recent interview. “I had a lot of those files on my computer.”
People in the congregation offered to help. They even suggested a music-copying party.
“But they didn’t have my edited copy,” the veteran accompanist said. “So I spent about four or five days, every day until 4 o’clock in the morning, printing out music. Finding files and printing them out and putting them in order.”
Then Yom Kippur arrived. There were about two hours on Tuesday night (Yom Kippur begins at sundown), “but the next day was the killer. I sat down (at the piano) at about 9:30 in the morning, and played basically for the whole day until 7:30 at night. And I hadn’t touched a piano in five days and hadn’t slept very well for five days.”
Also, there was a new soloist, who brought music that she had to sight-read.
“It was really hard. I was fighting with myself the whole day to stay awake and stay focused. But I got through it.”
After Yom Kippur, it took her a few nights to recover from the stress and lost sleep, though she allowed herself a small prize. She went out for dinner with her husband.
While she never did get her stolen music back, the pianist has rebuilt much of her collection and is moving ahead with the rest.
The thief also took all her Rosh Hashanah music and it needs to be replaced as well.
“The good thing about it is I don’t have to do it in five days,” she said. Rosh Hashanah is next fall, and she plans to reprint her music a little at a time through the winter.
In an age when we rely on the Internet to offer so much, it didn’t offer this music.
“The trouble is, a lot of this music is (originally) hand-written on scraps of paper,” she said. “It was passed on from rabbi to cantor and cantor to cantor. It’s not for sale on the Internet.”
She has only made one printed copy of each file. “There are about 300 pieces of music. That’s a lot of paper and a lot of ink! And I’ve got all the files on my computer, so I can print them out again if I need them.”
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In September, Gurofsky, who accompanies the choir of Temple Israel on Prince of Wales Drive, lost all the music for the two days of Yom Kippur services. Her briefcase was stolen from her van as she rehearsed with the Ottawa Police Chorus just days before Yom Kippur. Her picture was on the front of this newspaper.
And much of her music was handwritten. Even the commercially printed material had the personal notes she had made to help co-ordinate with everyone else in the service.
It could have been a disaster, but wasn’t quite. Luckily, she had scanned most of the music into her computer over the years.
“Very often it (the original material) was hard to read and small, so the first thing I did was scan it into my computer, and crop it and edit it and make it more easily readable for me,” she said in a recent interview. “I had a lot of those files on my computer.”
People in the congregation offered to help. They even suggested a music-copying party.
“But they didn’t have my edited copy,” the veteran accompanist said. “So I spent about four or five days, every day until 4 o’clock in the morning, printing out music. Finding files and printing them out and putting them in order.”
Then Yom Kippur arrived. There were about two hours on Tuesday night (Yom Kippur begins at sundown), “but the next day was the killer. I sat down (at the piano) at about 9:30 in the morning, and played basically for the whole day until 7:30 at night. And I hadn’t touched a piano in five days and hadn’t slept very well for five days.”
Also, there was a new soloist, who brought music that she had to sight-read.
“It was really hard. I was fighting with myself the whole day to stay awake and stay focused. But I got through it.”
After Yom Kippur, it took her a few nights to recover from the stress and lost sleep, though she allowed herself a small prize. She went out for dinner with her husband.
While she never did get her stolen music back, the pianist has rebuilt much of her collection and is moving ahead with the rest.
The thief also took all her Rosh Hashanah music and it needs to be replaced as well.
“The good thing about it is I don’t have to do it in five days,” she said. Rosh Hashanah is next fall, and she plans to reprint her music a little at a time through the winter.
In an age when we rely on the Internet to offer so much, it didn’t offer this music.
“The trouble is, a lot of this music is (originally) hand-written on scraps of paper,” she said. “It was passed on from rabbi to cantor and cantor to cantor. It’s not for sale on the Internet.”
She has only made one printed copy of each file. “There are about 300 pieces of music. That’s a lot of paper and a lot of ink! And I’ve got all the files on my computer, so I can print them out again if I need them.”
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
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