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Concerts are free, there is ample parking, and the public is welcome at:
Cardinal Stritch University
Joan Steele Stein Center for Communication Studies/Fine Arts Building
Northwestern Mutual Art Gallery
6801 North Yates Road
Milwaukee, WI
September 14, 1 p.m. - Dr. Timothy Noonan will be the guest speaker at the Fall Luncheon and 99th Annual Meeting of the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee at Cardinal Stritch University. His talk will focus on the works of Edward Alexander MacDowell (1860-1908), the first American composer to receive international recognition. The luncheon will be held in the glass-lined lobby of the Nancy Kendall Theater located in the Joan Steele Stein Center for Communication Studies/Fine Arts, 6801 N. Yates Rd., Fox Point. Reservations are $25, due Friday, September 5th, by check made payable to the MacDowell Club and sent c/o Mariann Landa, 5928 W. Michigan St., Wauwatosa, WI 53213-4248. A Milwaukee native, Dr. Noonan has held the post of lecturer in Music History and Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1996. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UWM and his Ph.D. in Musicology at UW-Madison with a dissertation on structural aspects of the symphonies of Luigi Boccherini. While he teaches courses that cover the gamut of Western music history, his specialization is in instrumental music of the Classical period - Haydn, Boccherini, and Beethoven. The topic of his lecture is appropriately, “The European Origins of Edward MacDowell’s American Style”.
September 18, 5 p.m. - Festival City Symphony will perform MacDowell's Symphony Poem 'Lamia' Op. 29 and Second Suite for Orchestra 'Indian' Opus 48.
October 5, 2:30 p.m. - MUSIC CLUB OPENS 99TH SEASON WITH FREE CONCERT - The first of eight concerts being presented free of charge by the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee throughout the 2008-2009 season. The opening concert will be held at Cardinal Stritch University, 6801 North Yates Road, Fox Point, in the Northwestern Mutual Art Gallery located in the Joan Steele Stein Center for Communication Studies/Fine Arts. Easily accessed via the northern-most road of the campus, there is ample free parking in Lots 5 and 8 adjacent to the building entrance. As with all of its concerts this year, in celebration of its coming Centennial, there will be a work by the Club’s namesake, Edward A. MacDowell, (1860- 1908), the first internationally-recognized American classical composer: Hildegarde Fischer of Colgate WI will perform his Piano Sonata #4, Op.59 – “The Keltic.” “Songs of an American Peddlar” by his close friend George Templeton Strong will be sung by soprano Kay Belich, with Milton Peckarsky at the piano. MacDowell’s teacher, the renowned German composer and pedegogue Joachim Raff (1822-1882), will also be represented with his ‘Cavatina’ for violin and piano played by Joan Rooney and Adam Baus, respectively. Opening the program will be works of MacDowell’s contemporaries, Horatio Parker (1863-1919) and Amy Beach (1876-1944), plus the Midwest premieres of two choral works by former Milwaukee musician, Donald St. Pierre, currently teaching at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. These will be performed by Milwaukee’s Ad Hoc Ensemble under the direction of Kathleen Matts, a faculty member of the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Another feature of each of these concerts will be works by local composers, in this case “Impromptu II” by James Crowley of Fox Point and a member of the music faculty at UW-Parkside. It will be performed by his wife, Eun-Joo Kwak, internationally acclaimed concert artist and Associate Professor of Piano at Cardinal Stritch University. Rounding out the program will be a group of songs by Aaron Copland sung by soprano Enid-Ann Bootzin Berkovits assisted by Carol Meves, flute, Gail Hodkiewicz, clarinet, and Joyce Altman, piano. The Club’s Centennial Concerts will continue monthly through May 2009 with occasional informal Tea Concerts presented in private homes for its members and their guests. For information about the rest of the series or auditions for Performing Membership, contact Suzanne Pajunen, President, or 414-771-5832. (Please do not call Cardinal Stritch University.) Associate Membership is available at any time by sending $25 dues, payable to the MacDowell Club of Milwaukee, to Barbara Bunge, Treasurer, 5860 Fulham Ct., Greendale, WI 53129.
October 26 - Informal Concert.
November 9, 2:30 p.m. - Free Performance at Cardinal Stritch University.
Dercember 14, 2:30 p.m. - Free Performance at Cardinal Stritch University.
January 25, 2009, 2:30 p.m. - Free Performance at Cardinal Stritch University.
March 8, 2009, 2:30 p.m. - Free Performance at Cardinal Stritch University.
February 1, 2009 - Concert at St. Matthew's Church, 165 Wauwatosa Av., Wauwatosa.
April 19, 2009 - Free concert at St. Joseph Center Auditorium,, 1501 S. Layton Blvd., Milwaukee.
May 19, 2009 - Free concert at Womnan's Club of Wisconsin Athenaeum, 813 E. Kilbourne Av., Milwauke
In addition, occasional informal tea recitals are held in private homes exclusively for MacDowell Club members and their guests. Info Sally Lane Schwarz, Programs Chairman.
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