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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
May 11, 3 p.m., Spring Fling, selected works by familiar 20th century composers for this free concert welcoming spring as well as one that is sure to delight everyone in the audience celebrating Mothers’ Day. Clarinetist Gail Hodkiewicz of Hales Corners has chosen her favorite pieces by Leonard Bernstein to open the program and Waukesha flutist Linda Hartig will close it with two movements from Poulenc’s Flute Sonata, both accompanied by Wauwatosa pianist, Suzanne Pajunen. Oboist Annette Perkins of Milwaukee will add selections by Bernstein, Gershwin and Copland, with Wauwatosa pianist, Mariann Landa, at the keyboard. Interspersed will be popular songs by Bolcom, Frishberg, Ricardell, Bricusse, Trenet, and Kern sung by Wauwatosa soprano Judith Pilon. She will be joined by guest artist jazz pianist, Mark Davis of Whitefish Bay. Suzanne Pajunen, Event Chair
June 1, Choral Competition for Wisconsin composers, 25 years of age or younger as of January 1st, 2009. Open to residents or those studying within the State, the 4-6-minute work is to be for small or chamber S.A.T.B. choir, accompanied by a single instrument (violin, cello, flute, trumpet, or piano). The entries will be reviewed by three distinguished judges: Emily Crocker, staff member at Hal Leonard Publishing Company and Founder/Director of the Milwaukee Children’s Choir; Dr. Sharon Hansen, Head of Choral Activities at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Founder/Director of the Milwaukee Choral Artists; and former Milwaukee resident Donald St. Pierre, composer and faculty member at the Curtis Institute of Music and Conductor of the Mendelssohn Glee Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The top three entries will be announced in Spring 2009, the winner to receive the $1,500 prize plus a public performance on a MacDowell Club concert. Awards for the Second and Third Place compositions will be $1,000 and $750, respectively. Applications are being accepted now through June 1, 2008, and are to be accompanied by a nonrefundable fee of $25. Entries must be postmarked no later than midnight Friday, January 2, 2009, and mailed C/O MacDowell Club of Milwaukee, 6922 W. Wisconsin Av., Wauwatosa, WI 53213-3818 or phone Suzanne Pajunen at 414-771-5832.
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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April 13, 2008, J. S. Bach & Sons has works of Johann Sebastian Bach comprise the first half of the program with pianist Mariann Landa opening the concert with his Toccata in G major. Violinist Joan Rooney of Port Washington and her accompanist, Ann Celeen Dohms, will play the familiar Air on the G String and his Partita in E Major. Schliesse, mein Herze from the Christmas Oratorio; Bereite dich, Zion; and Erbarme dich, mein Gott from the St. Matthew Passion will be sung by mezzo-soprano Julie Maurer, accompanied by Suzanne Pajunen, piano, and Alyssa Yank, violin. Also on the program will be Racine flutist, Frank Suetholz, with Bach’s Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013, and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Sonata in A minor (ca. 1750). The closing work will be the Sonata in F major by Wilhelm Friedermann Bach performed by pianists Suzanne Pajunen and Mariann Landa, both of Wauwatosa.
March 30, 2008, A Tea in the Key of C at Steinway Piano Gallery, 11550 W. North Av., Milwaukee. Invitation (PDF 21k).
February 10, 2008, Soprano Potpourri will feature MacDowell Club members Ardenne Bunde, Carol Haywood, Kathleen Matts, plus guests Faye Cheatham and Batiah Jones. Dr. Wallace Cheatham, pianist and composer, will be at the keyboard. All the artists are residents of the City of Milwaukee. Performed will be arias, art songs and spirituals by composers Bonds, Burleigh, Catalani, Cheatham, Pool, Previn and Villa-Lobos.
January 20, 2008, 100th anniversary of the death of its namesake, Edward MacDowell (1860-1908), concert. Four of the Club’s pianists will perform the four movements of MacDowell’s monumental Piano Sonata in G minor, Opus 45. They are Suzanne Pajunen; Robbi Heighway-Nebel; Milton Peckarsky; and the Club’s newest pianist, Adam Baus. Another new member, mezzo-soprano Kay Belich, with Peckarsky at the keyboard, will sing Frauenliebe und Leben (Women’s Love and Life), Opus 42, by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), one of MacDowell’s major influences. Opening the program will be Five Pieces for Pianoforte written in 1905 by George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931), a contemporary of MacDowell’s. This will be performed by guest pianist Jeff Gibbens.
November 4, 2007, Opera Plus - Arias, Piano Solos, Woodwinds in the Wings, a delightfully varied program features vocalists: Judith Pilon, soprano; Donna Shriner, mezzo; Sally Lane Schwarz, soprano; in arias and ensembles from works by Mozart, Delibes, Saint-Saens, Offenbach, Torroba and Bizet. They will be accompanied by Suzanne Pajunen (Wauwatosa) and guest accompanist Sharon Goodrum (of Dousman). Pianist Robbi Heighway-Nebel (of Waukesha) will perform compositions of Beethoven, Lizst, Chopin, and Gottschalk. Completing the matinee, flutists Karen Fiedler and Linda Hartig with clarinetists Jean Kacanek and Sandra Dagon (all of Waukesha) will play selections of quartet music by Gordon Jacob, plus a collection of Hebrew folk song arrangements.
October 7, 2007, Fall Favorites, Mary Ellen Burrescia, violinist; Jo Ann Haasler, violin; Eric Haasler, guest cellist; Jeanne Henderson, harpist; Kristin Schwecke, soprano, winning a MacDowell Club’s 2007 Scholarship. Miss Schwecke will be accompanied by guest pianist Sharon Goodrum. This program, chaired by Donna Shriner, includes works for harp by Robert Bochsa, A. Hasselmans, and Franz Plenitz; piano solos by Rachmaninoff and Liszt; Preludium and Rondo for Violin & Cello by Bohuslav Martinu; and songs from operas by Mozart, Donizetti, Menotti, Strauss, and Moore.
September 9, 2007, Fall Luncheon, the guest speaker will be Dr. James Kinchen, Director of Choral Activities at UW-Parkside and Conductor of the Milwaukee Choristers, a group celebrating 75 years of making music together.
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