MEETING SCHEDULE

Meeting theme for this year: Better Than Ever

SEPTEMBER: EVERY ONE PARTICIPATES

Saturday, September 7, 11 am
Location: Home of Ashley Bouras
Host: Ashley Bouras
Potluck lunch – Please RSVP to Ashley
Please bring a dish to share.

Program:
Chris Unzicker, guitar

OCTOBER: COMBINING GREAT SOUNDS!

Monday, October 7 – 7 pm
Location: Home of Pat Suitt
Host: Pat Suitt
Co-hosts: Mary Ann Taylor, Kathie Johnson

Program: Claudia Jameson, soprano; Susan Poelchau, piano and Lisa Beyer, cello - Elegie by Massenet

Pat Suitt and Margaret Mulvaney-Claibourne, duo-piano

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NOVEMBER: CHOOSING THE SUBLIME

Monday, November 11 – 7 pm
Location: Home of Claudia Jameson
Host: Claudia Jameson
Co-host: Tena Hehn

Program: Leslie Spotz, piano
Ashley Bouras and Lisa Beyer
AOSA - Mindful Meditation
Founders' Day Ceremony

NO DECEMBER MEETING

JANUARY: EARLY MUSIC FUN

Monday, January 13, 7 pm
Location: Home of Susan Poelchau
Host: Susan Poelchau
Co-hosts: Mary Alice Rich

Program:
Early music
- Early Music selections - Claudia Jameson, soprano; Harald and Susan Poelchau, recorders and viola da gamba -
Demonstration of “Landini cadence”, (heard in Mariam Matrem but not Ecco la Primavera !)
Mariam Matrem, from the Libre Vermell (early 15th cen Spain)
Ecco la Primavera, Francesco Landini (14th cen Italy)

- Claudia Jameson and Susan Poelchau – River by Julie Schmitt and Beth Williams Aaron

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FEBRUARY: CONNECTING WITH SAIs

Monday, February 24, 7 pm
CHANGE OF DATE
Location: Presbyterian Village North
8600 Skyline Dr, Dallas 75234
Auditorium
Host: SAIs

Program:

- Amy Canchola, soprano; Haley Moore, treble viol, Marilyn Browne and Susan Poelchau, tenor viols, Allen Garvin, bass viol

Songs and Dances by William Byrd (1540-1623):

O Lord how vain are all our frail delights

Gailliard in A

Though Amaryllis dance in green

- Lindsay Gillis, piano

American Symphony, from Mr. Holland's Opus, by Michael Kamen (1948-2003)

Promenade in October, by Lindsay Gillis (b. 1983)

- Jackie Akin and Vicky Suarez, flutes

Sonata No 1 in A minor, by Jean Baptisite Loeillet (1688-1720)

Adagio

Allegro

- Noe Garcia Jacinto, guitar

Rojo y Negro, by Maximo Diego Pujol (b. 1957)

- Amy Canchola, soprano and Noe Garcia, guitar

Besame Mucho, by Consuelo Velásquez (1916-2005)

- Jane Samford and Brent Samford, violin; Jane Aten, viola; and Sara Howell, cello

The Ash Grove, Welsh Folk Song trans. by Metcalf

La Rejouissance (from Music for the Royal Fireworks), George Frederic Handel (1686-1759)

MARCH: WE LOVE PIANOS

Monday, (second Tuesday) March 11, 7 pm
CHANGE OF DATE
Location: Home of Katy Freiberger
Host: Katy Freiberger
Co-hosts: Pat Suitt

Program:
Susan Poelchau shared rememberances of her Mu Phi piano teacher/mentors Frances Stuart and Lee Thompson. She played:
- Entrance, from Forest Scenes, by Robert Schumann
- Moment Musical Opus 16 #5, by Rachmaninoff

Tena Hehn celebrated Katy Freiberger’s musical career with highlights from her life. She and Nancy Laine performed four fun and challenging piano duets which Katy wrote for TMTA students many years ago.
- The Rickety Rocking Horse
- Teasing Game
- The Train to Topolobampo
- The Wallaby Waltz

APRIL: OUR COLLEGIATES ROCK!

Saturday, April 12, 11 am
Location: Home of Nancy Laine
Host: Nancy Laine
Co-hosts: All members

Program: Collegiate recital, awarding Scholarship
Pot luck luncheon: Please bring enough food for guests. RSVP what you are bringing to Nancy - intreble@swbell.net

Optional Theater trip: to Hadestown at 2 pm
Church Street Auditorium, 306 N. Church St., McKinney TX