Please put these dates and times on your calendar now. Check the
website
and/or newsletters through the year for any changes or updates:
www.muphiepsilondallas.org –
Meetings
Our meeting theme this year is
Just Listen to the Music.
January: Music Brings Joy
January 9 – 7 pm
Location: Home of Susan Poelchau
Host: Susan Poelchau
Co-host: Mary Williams
Note: Anyone who is uncomfortable coming up or down the steps in
front of the house with no railing (NW corner Lanett Circle and
Mediterranean Drive), should feel free to park in the Poelchau driveway
on Mediterranean Drive (go past second street of Lanett Circle) or park
on the street, then enter through the back gate.
Please RSVP to Susan if
you are coming, as her space is limited.
If you need a ride to a meeting, please let one of us near you
pick you up.
If you need to join us on Zoom, Debbie Brooks will host us on
Zoom, signing on about 7:10 pm. Link will be sent to members at a later date.
Program
Fran Pearson, voice, accompanied by Sylvia Taylor. Fran will sing
a selection from Dvorak
Biblical Songs, Opus 99
Melanie Rich-Wittrig, autoharp & voice:
Harp On It: a short club
routine with Mel Rich, autoharp & voice.
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February:
"If Music Be the Food of Life, Play On"
CHANGE: Monday February 6 - 7 pm - Joint meeting with SAI
Location: Arapaho United Methodist Church
1400 W. Arapaho Rd
Richardson TX 75080 (NE corner Coit and Arapaho)
Program:
MPE performers:
Music from Shakespeare’s time: Susan Poelchau, piano; Mary Alice Rich
and Louise Rossi-Sklar, violins, Gretchen Nichols, cello; Claudia
Jameson, vocals/some narration.
SAI performers: TBD
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November:
Celebrate the Harmony!
Thanks to host Pat Suitt, assisted by Susan Poelchau and Kathie
Johnson.
Pat Suitt and Susan Poelchau played the
Sonata in D Major for
Two Pianos, Movements 2 and 3 by Mozart.
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Minutes to previous meetings are sent separately to members along
with the newsletter. If you want financial information about the
chapter, please open and read these minutes as that is not in our
newsletter or website. The minutes will no longer be read at
meetings. Most of the other information in the minutes is in these
newsletters - sometimes verbatim! thanks to Susan Poelchau.
The Fall 2022 edition of the Triangle featured our Dallas
members and projects in several places.
The following articles:
- Aram the Witch and Beatrice the Beautiful - by Claudia
Jameson (included Susan Poelchau, Mary Alice
Rich and Walteria Caldwell)
- Mexican Art Song - by Amy Canchola
The following mentions:
- Duo Atesorado - Amy Canchola and Noe Garcia
- Barbara Hill Moore, 2022 Faculty Career Achievement Award from the
Meadows School of Arts at SMU.
Dr. Moore is a world renowned opera
singer and voice teacher who began teaching at SMU in 1974.
She was teacher of Kurt-Alexander Zeller, our current International
President.
The following Alumni Award Winners:
- International Alumni Chapter of the Year:
Ist Place: Palos Verdes/South Bay
2nd Place: Minneapolis/St. Paul
3rd Place: Dallas
- Katherine Doepke Creative Programming Award:
Winner: Minneapolis/St. Paul
Honorable Mentions: Dallas, Denver, Lincoln, Paolo Verdes/South Bay (See?
it pays to be creative!)
- Outstanding Yearbook:
Dallas
- Province Award Winners:
South Central: Dallas
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Convention
Biggest news for our chapter is that we are hosts for the
International Convention this summer. See more about this topic in
its own section farther down this newsletter. We will need
everyone’s help and will have some discussion about our role at our
January meeting.
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Helen Haupt Grant
Claudia Jameson announced that the opera project in connection with
Diversità Opera Arts Company, who produced the children’s opera
Anam the Witch and Beatrice the Beautiful with their singers,
has been completed with the recording of a video to present at Lone
Star Academy.
Walteria Caldwell sends this message:
“This recording from yesterday solidifies the end of Diversità’s
requirements for the run with the MPE grant according to board
guidelines for 2022. On behalf of Diversità, we would like to thank
each and every one of you for your hard work and dedication. A
special thanks to Mary Alice and Claudia for writing an amazing
opera!
“Thanks to all MPE members who graciously supported the project.
This company was created for projects like these. We pray that these
opportunities continue to come for minorities and other stories that
need to be told.
“There is a balance remaining from the grant. The status
report is due by the end of the year. Further performances are
planned for spring, but will not be presented under DOAC’s
auspices."
Mary Alice Rich sends this message:
"We are pleased to announce our first Public School Online
production for students throughout Texas! Thanks to Mu Phi Epsilon
for providing a grant to share this wonderful production with
schools!"
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Newsletter / Website
Your Newsletter Editor Mary Williams at
txtravel@flash.net appreciates knowing what you are doing or if you have changes to
your information. Your news is our news. Our next Newsletter will be
in March – your deadline for news to me is March 5th.
You can now access an updated Home page on the website but there are
still some links missing to go from some pages to others – in
particular back to the Home page from some of the pages, but not
others. Working on that.
Answers to your questions are on our website:
www.MuPhiEpsilonDallas.org.
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Our
fall concerts were quite successful. If you missed any of these virtual
concerts, you can catch up on our YouTube page:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQQaOHah6TtK39Tyms_3xg
We will be presenting our concerts online in spring as the Library plans to
stay closed on Sunday. Kimla Beasley at kbeasley@kybproductions.com
continues to do a splendid job uploading these performer videos and
introducing each Sunday concert.
We hope you will watch these concerts on Facebook or YouTube at 3 pm
beginning on
Sunday January 22 at 3 pm. This date is an
addition to the schedule in your yearbook.
Keep this link handy:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRQQaOHah6TtK39Tyms_3xg
The link to the concert of the day will also be on our website Concert
Series page.
Performers are just now getting back with their program information for the
spring concerts, so check the
Concert Series
page for the latest information on additional performers (there are always a
few more), or changes and their programs.
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Mu Phi Epsilon 
MARY
ANN'S NOTES
Mu Phi friends!
we
begin a new year, we have a wonderful opportunity to see the result of
many sparks sparkling. The 2023 Mu Phi Epsilon International Convention
will be held July 19-22 in Grapevine, just north of the Dallas and Fort
Worth Airport. The deadline for submissions to be a presenter or
performer has been extended to January 30, 2023, so consider checking
out those possibilities.
Be
sure to read the Fall issue of the Triangle; there is an
article by Claudia Jameson. More surprises in the rest of it as well.
Additional
detail on the September hand-chime ringing meeting: We rang selections from
the Ring Along Hymns/Christmas books compiled by Ardis Freeman.
Thanks to Phyllis Wilson for selection of these pieces.
In
November of 2022 Duo Atesorado (Amy Canchola and Noe Garcia) made a trip to
Mexico City to study with Julio Cesar Oliva. Mexico City. This trip was made
possible in part by the Mabel Henderson Memorial Grant for International
Study from the Mu Phi Epsilon Foundation. 
“After our coaching with Oliva, the Canchola family used the rest of their
days in Mexico to see some of the best historical and cultural highlights of
the city - parks, museums, and beautiful architecture. Some memorable
experiences were watching the Ballet Folklorico at the beautiful Palacio de
Bellas Artes, climbing the pyramids and riding the boats in Xochimilco in a
personalized boat accompanied by mariachi band. We had a great time and
packed a lot of culture and history into just a few days. Thank you, again,
to MPE and everyone who has supported us. Please continue to follow Duo
Atesorado in the coming year.”
www.duoatesorado.com
In November Mary Williams hosted her daughter Julie's family on a short trip
from Raleigh. They visited the Arboretum pumpkins, the Perot Museum and
"Purple Vomit" - a funky place across from Fair Park with lots of weird
options to take photos - over-priced but fun. The rest of the Dallas family
joined in the visit for dinner. >
Judy Dardaganian had a wonderful six weeks with Kristin and David Booth in
Londonderry, New Hampshire. 
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We need items to put into the goodie bags that each attendee will have.
We may be able to
The Foundation will be working on a “Mu Phi story” project and members
will be contacted in January to share a memory or significant moment as
a Mu Phi member. Please respond promptly when you are contacted.