
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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