HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_ARTAB_04.19.2016Minutes of the meeting of the
Arts and Culture Board
City of Georgetown, Texas
April 19, 2016
The Arts and Culture Board met on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 4:30 p.m. in the Small Conference
Room of Georgetown Public Library, 402 W. 8t" Street
MEMBERS PRESENT: Gary Anderson, Tim Fleming, Jeff Hillery, Betty Ann Sensabaugh, Laura
Sewell, Carol Watson, and Linda Wilde.
STAFF PRESENT: Eric Lashley- Library Director, Dana Hendrix- Fine Arts Librarian, Lawren Weiss -
Administrative Assistant, David Morgan- City Manager
Chair Sensabaugh called the meeting to order at 4:30 p.m.
Regular Session
A. Citizens wishing to address the board. — None were present.
B. Announcements of upcoming arts and culture events. — On Broadway tickets are still on sale.
This event brings "On Broadway" stars to Georgetown to teach GISD students of all ages
about vocal health, character voices, and audition tips. The On Broadway performances take
place May 6-8 at the Kieft Performing Arts Center. The master classes will be held May 2-4 at
the East View Theatre.
The City of Georgetown Sculpture tour is refreshing the tour by removing and adding a few
pieces, as well as rotating others to a new location. The Georgetown Airport is no longer a
Sculpture Tour location due to on-going construction.
The Red Poppy Festival will take place this weekend, April 22-24.
Arts and Culture student intern, Kaleigh Kelley will start on May 23.
Georgetown Festival of the Arts' Fire and /ce events will take place June 1-5.
Dana Hendrix passed out a flyer advertising art and music in the library during May (attached
to these minutes).
Dr. Seuss Wants You! Exhibit will be on display in the library from April 29- May 26.
C. Review of correspondence to the Arts & Culture Board. —Eric Lashley. Board members
reviewed a thank you letter from Georgetown Heritage Society and a grant report from the
Williamson County Symphony Orchestra. The report fulfilled a grant requirement by the board
for those who were awarded this year.
D. Consideration and approval of the -minutes -of the March 15;-2016 Arts & Culture Board
meeting. Betty Ann Sensabaugh. Linda Wilde moved to approve the March 2016 minutes as
distributed. Gary Anderson seconded the motion, which passed unanimously.
E. Introduction of City Manager, David Morgan_— Betty Ann Sensabaugh. David Morgan and
board members introduced themselves. Morgan answered questions from the board.
F. Introduction of new board members, Laura Sewell and Jeff Hillery. —Betty Ann Sensabaugh
New members, Laura Sewell and Jeff Hillery introduced themselves to the board, explained
their backgrounds and interest in arts and culture.
G. Election of Vice- Chair. —Betty Ann Sensabaugh. Wilde moved to elect Gary Anderson as
Vice- Chair. Laura Sewell seconded the motion which passed unanimously.
H. Election of Secretary.--- Betty Ann Sensabaugh. Hillery moved to elect Carol Watson as
Secretary. Wilde seconded the motion which passed unanimously.
1. Re wort regarding the operation of Georgetown Art Center. —Eric Lashley. Lashley explained
that Georgetown Art Works was not able to provide a report this month because President
Amanda Still (who compiles the report) was out of town for a family emergency. Lashley
reported, that 3,414 people visited the Art Center and many sales were made during the
Botanicals exhibit. Stereotypes is the current exhibit. The second floor of the Art Center is now
managed by Georgetown Art Works and almost all of the available spaces have been rented to
artists. The revenue generated from second floor rentals will allow Georgetown Art Works to
hire an office manager in the future. Dr. Edward Burger, President of Southwestern University
will be the guest speaker at the Art Center on April 28 at 7 p.m. for A Conversation About
Stereotypes event.
J. Report on Red Poppy art exhibit. —Eric Lashley. Lashley showed a video created by the City to
commemorate the Red Poppy public art display that's located on the courthouse lawn. Board
members received a copy of The Blood of Heroes Never Dies brochure which advertises the
project and explains the history behind it, (attached to these minutes). Lashley reported that 88
poppies were sold in just the first day of the display. Georgetown Art Center will host Richland
College's Clive Siegel & Jeri Rose on May 1 at 2 p.m. for a discussion about their The Blood of
Heroes Never Dies project. Laura Sewell offered to send information about the exhibit to the
Dallas Morning News. Board members discussed sending a letter of recognition to Williamson
County for allowing use of the courthouse lawn for the exhibit. Anderson made a motion for
Lashley to draft a thank you letter to Williamson County and Richland College for their efforts
in bringing the Blood of Heroes Never Dies exhibit to Georgetown. Hillery seconded the
motion which passed unanimously.
K. Report on the Americans for the Arts Conference in Boston, Massachusetts during June. —Eric
Lashley. Lashley reported that he will attend the Americans for the Arts conference in Boston
during June. He plans to connect with the National Endowments for the Art group and attend
workshops on public art. Lashley will give a report during July's meeting about the conference.
L. Report on 2016-2017 Arts & Culture Guide. —Dana Hendrix. Hendrix passed out statistics from
the 2015-2016 Arts & Culture Guide (attached to these minutes). Hendrix explained her plans
for the next guide, which includes reducing the cost and creating a smoother process for
gathering information from the featured organizations.
M. Report on second round of Texas Commission on the Arts grant. — Eric Lashley. Lashley
reported that the TCA application is due in early June for the second round of grant. The
matching grants could be a source of funding for the 2016-2017 Arts & Culture Guide. The
Palace Theatre will also be applying for a TCA grant. Lashley reminded the board that any
organization applying for these TCA grants must have a letter of support from the Arts &
Culture Board.
N. Consideration of future board meeting dates. —Eric Lashley. The next Arts and Culture Board
meeting will be on May 17, 2016 at 4:30 PM.
Chair Sensabaugh adjourned the meeting at 5:48 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Carol Watson, Secretary
Betty Ann Sensabaugh, Chair
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Individual poppies will be avaibtble for purchase for $10 apiece
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Proceeds will benefit Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit organization
that provides service dogs for combat veterans returning home
from Iraq and Afghanistan who have suffered a physical injury
including traumatic brain injury or port -traumatic stress disorder.
For more information, please visit puppiesbehindbars.com
OKRA COMPTON
Henry Purl Compton (nicknamed Okra) helped Georgetown
to become the Red Poppy Capital of Texas when his service
as a corporal in the Army during World War I ended and in
1919 poppy seeds he collected in northern France were
planted in the yard of his mother's home on Seventh Street
in Georgetown.
On April 25, 1990, Georgetown was certified by local residents
and the Texas Legislature as the "Red Poppy Capital of Texas".
Red poppies have been a part of Georgetown's landscape for
over seventy years.
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The origin of the poppy as a'memorial symbol for veterans
dates from one of the most famous poems to come out of that
most infamous of modern conflicts, the First World War.
From the commencement of the war in August 1914, the
employment of sophisticated weaponry on an industrial scale -
a produced staggering casualty rates. In May 1915 the appalling
ql casualties and ferocity of the conflict, coupled with the recent
combat death of a young fellow officer, moved a Canadian
physician; Lc Col. John McCrae, to pen the war's most famous
poem, "In Flanders Fields." The poem was originally titled
"We Shall Not Sleep," but over time after the author's death
it has come to. be known worldwide by its current title.
Poppies figured prominently in the poem because they are
a common native flower of Flanders that thrives in disturbed
soil—something that the millions of battlefield shell craters
and burial mounds covering the Flanders landscape provided
in abundance.
IN FLANDERS FIELDS
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
d That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
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If ye break faith with us
who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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McCrae did not survive the war. In January 1918 he joined
in death those whose graves, "row on row," were decorated
with Flanders poppies. By then, however, his poem had developed
a life of its own. After McCrae wrote the poem, it was submitted
to the popular British magazine Punch, where it first appeared
in the. December 1915 issue. Its popularity soon spread, as
did public knowledge 'of who its author was, and in 1918 it
appeared in the November issue of the American magazine
Ladies'Home journal. It was there that it inspired American
YMCA volunteer Moina Belle Michael to pledge to "keep
the faith" with those who died in the war, and would set in
motion her successful campaign to immortalize the poppy
as a universal symbol of remembrance for veterans' sacrifices.
MOINA MICHAEL
On November 9, 1918, three days before the armistice that
ended the First World War, a young soldier handed a copy
of the latest Ladies Home journal magazine to YMCA volunteer
Moina Belle Michael. The young soldier who gave her the
magazine had marked apage, and Michael opened it to find
Lt. Col. John McCrae's poem. Although she had read the
poem before, she was so moved that site resolved to make it
her mission to "keep the faith" with those who died in the
war, and she quickly wrote her pledge inthe 'form of a poem.
Richland College has chosen a line from that poem as the
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Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,
Sleep sweet- to rise anew!
We caught the torch you threw
And holding high, we keep the Faith
With All who died.
We cherish, too, the poppy red
That grows on fields where valor led;
It seems to signal to the skies
That blood of heroes never dies,
But lends a lustre to the red
Of the flower that blooms above the dead'
In Flanders Fields.
And now the Torch and Poppy Red
We wear in honor of our dead.
Fear not that have died for naught;
We'll teach the lesson that ye wrought
In Flanders Fields.
The day she wrote the poem, she hit upon the idea of emphasizing
the strong symbolic link between poppies and the remembrance
of the war's dead by purchasing twenty-five artificial poppies
on her lunch break and distributing them to herYMCA colleagues
to wear on their lapels. She subsequently worked tirelesslyto
promote the idea of the poppy as a remembrance symbol of
the war, and it was due to her efforts that it was first adopted
as such by the American Legion at their 1920 convention, and
by the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1922. w
The poppy as a remembrance symbol spread to Europe, and
by 1921 Britain, Canada; Australia, and New Zealand veterans'
groups had adopted it well. Virtually all of these organizations w
continue to this day to utilize die sale of cloth or paper poppies
to fund relief programs for needy and disabled veterans.
Almost exclusively, these same veterans have been employed
to make the poppies, which from the 1920s until today are t
made by the millions each year.
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Summary: Georgetown Arts & Culture Guide 2015-2016
Purpose of the Arts & Culture Guide
This inaugural Guide project was created to communicate the depth and
breadth of arts & culture activity in the City for residents and visitors, and
to increase awareness of the number and variety of art, music, theatre,
and cultural opportunities that the City's Cultural District anchor
organizations offer. In addition, the Guide was designed to attract visitors
to the City's arts & culture website and social media. The Guide offered a
detailed calendar of arts & culture events spanning October 2015 through
September 2016; an attractive design coordinated with the City's new
website and featuring vibrant photos; prominent reminders to visit the
website; a map; and text written from a single point of view and
perspective describing the wide range of offerings in the Cultural District.
Intended audience
The intended audience for the publication was current and potential attendees at arts & culture events
in Georgetown, specifically at events sponsored by the Georgetown Cultural District's anchor
organizations: Georgetown Art Center, Georgetown Palace Theatre, The Williamson Museum, The
Georgetown Public Library, the Grace Heritage Center, the Georgetown Symphony Society, the
Georgetown Festival of the Arts, and the Sarofim School of Fine Arts at Southwestern University.
Participants
The City of Georgetown has no dedicated Arts & Culture staff; City grants to arts nonprofits, public art
projects, the oversight of the Cultural District, the arts & culture website and social media presence, and
more are managed by the advisory Arts & Culture Board and the Director of the Georgetown Public
Library, who has part-time support from two additional library staff members.
The inaugural Georgetown Arts & Culture Guide was a collaboration between the Georgetown Public
Library, the Convention and Visitors Bureau, and the Arts & Culture Board. Members of all Cultural
District anchor organizations played a crucial role in submitting images, calendar entries, and text.
Cost of the Project
The project cost about $40,000 for the 5,000 copy overrun printing and delivery, the online flip book
creation and hosting, and broad distribution of 38,000 copies in the Austin metro area. Ads brought in
$2,700 in revenue; costs were shared by the City of Georgetown Convention and Visitors Bureau,
nonprofit Georgetown Art Works, and the City of Georgetown Arts & Culture budget.
Unpaid professional services: Two volunteers, an Arts & Culture Board member and the President of
Georgetown Art Works (the nonprofit that runs the Georgetown Art Center) played key roles in
conceiving and realizing the publication, working over 125 volunteer hours on a proposal, facilitating
meetings between key players, raising awareness of the Guide, selling ads, and project management.
Paid professional services: The City's Fine Arts Librarian was the primary writer and editor for the project
as part of a salaried position. A designer contracted for this project created the page proofs,
coordinating design with the City's arts & culture website at arts.georgetown.org; that designer and
another who created the map were paid about $3,000.
Distribution of the Guide
5,000 copies were distributed free to visitors and residents at Georgetown Public Library, Georgetown
Art Center, the Palace Theatre, The Williamson Museum, the Georgetown Visitors Center, and
Southwestern University.
The project was mounted online in a flip book for 6 months (October -March). The flip book was featured
on the City's arts & culture website during that time.
The printed Guide was also tip -sheeted inside Austin Monthly and distributed to subscribers,
newsstands, and hotels. The total distribution of Austin Monthly is 38,000 with a readership of 118,000.
Below is a list of hotels where Austin Monthly is distributed in -room.
Aloft Austin at the Domain
AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center
Courtyard Marriott Downtown
Driskill Hotel
Embassy Suites Arboretum
Four Seasons Hotel
Hampton Inn & Suites Austin at the University
Hampton Inn & Suites Downtown
Heywood Hotel
Hilton Austin Airport
Hilton Garden Inn Downtown
Hotel Ella
Hotel San lose
Outcomes
Hyatt Regency
InterContinental Stephen F. Austin
JW Marriott
Kimber Modern
Lakeway Resort & Spa
Lone Star Court at the Domain
Omni Austin Hotel at Southpark
Omni Austin Hotel Downtown
Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa
Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol
W Austin Hotel
Westin at the Domain
The Guide raised awareness of the City's arts & culture presence online: from Oct. 2015 -March 2016,
user sessions on the Arts & Culture website at arts.georgetown.org were up 58 percent over the
previous six-month period, and users of the site were up 67 percent. In addition, during the first four
months the Guide was available to the public, page views for the City of Georgetown's Arts & Culture
Calendar increased by 84 percent over the previous four-month period. Arts & Culture in Georgetown,
Texas on Facebook increased its "likes" by 46 percent in the same time period.
Impressions the flip book version of the Guide received online in the first six months:
October 37,496 impressions January 35,800 impressions
November 27,300 impressions February/March 37,566 impressions
December 36,030 impressions
Residents and visitors reported attending events in Georgetown because they saw them in the Guide.
Library Director Eric Lashley received calls and comments from residents and guests remarking on the
quality and content of the Guide. Diane Gaume, the owner of the Artisans Connect gallery, tracked
visitors, and in the first 2 % months she had 150 people state that they came to Georgetown because of
receiving the Guide. Amanda Still, 2016 President of Georgetown Art Works, said, "There was a spike in
visitors to the Georgetown Art Center in October 2015 who said they travelled to Georgetown from
Austin because of the Guide."
The Guide exceeded expectations in terms of anecdotal and quantitative measures. City staff hope to
issue a second, updated Guide in September 2016.
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One of our goals is to keep Georgetown an interesting and nourishing place to live and work.
We appreciate the support of our community, and we look for ways to return the favor.For 2015 and 2016, in addition to putting on the Festival in June, these are some of our "extra" activities.
January 2015 Start of a six-week Senior University course taught
by Ellsworth Peterson on the music of Robert and Clara Schumann,
the composers for the 2015 Festival of the Arts.
January 2016 Start of a six-week Senior University course taught
by Ellsworth Peterson on the music of composers for the 2016
Festival of the Arts.
We presented a Chamber Concert at Round Rock Presbyterian
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One of our goals is to keep Georgetown an interesting and nourishing place to live and work.
We appreciate the support of our community, and we look for ways to return the favor.
For 2015 and 2016, in addition to putting on the Festival in June, these are some of our "extra" activities.
January 2015 Start of a six-week Senior University course taught
by Ellsworth Peterson on the music of Robert and Clara Schumann,
the composers for the 2015 Festival of the Arts.
January 2016 Start of a six-week Senior University course taught
by Ellsworth Peterson on the music of composers for the 2016
Festival of the Arts.
We presented a Chamber Concert at Round Rock Presbyterian
Church, co-sponsored by the Round Rock Symphony.
We presented a Chamber Concert at Round Rock Presbyterian
Church, co-sponsored by the Round Rock Symphony.
May 2015 We presented a Chamber Concert in the Hewlett Room
of the Georgetown Public Library, co-sponsored by the Round Rock
Symphony.
April 2016 We presented a Chamber Concert in the Hewlett Room
of the Georgetown Public Library, co-sponsored by the Round Rock
Symphony.
We presented a children's concert, co-sponsored by the Friends of
the Library, in the Hewlett Room of the Georgetown Public Library.
November 2015 We presented a Chamber Concert in the Hewlett
Room of the Georgetown Public Library, co-sponsored by the Round
Rock Symphony.
May 2016 We will present a children's concert, co-sponsored by
the Friends of the Library, in the Hewlett Room of the Georgetown
Public Library.
Please continue your support of the Festival of the Arts. The Festival is run entirely by volunteers,
but we cannot charge our audiences enough to pay for our events. We must rely on contributions from individuals and organizations.
Please consider making a generous donation toward Festival 2016.
Please come to the Festival, June 1 -5, 2016, and bring your friends. If you would like to be a Festival volunteer, please let us know.
l�_E & ICE
This year we feature music of Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland: Nordic musiethat is distinct from that of Europe to the south or Russia to the east.
At times it suggests the endless spaces of a dark and lonely frozen land; at other times it rejoices around the warmth of a winter fire or dances in the magical
light of a glorious midsummer evening when the sun never sets.
The Norwegian Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) is the
most clearly nationalistic of the three. He had a
great love of the fjords and mountains of his country,
but it is not so much the scenery as the people of
his land that appear in his music: we hear their
songs, their dances, their performances on their na
tive instruments. His compositions are inspired by
Norwegian folk music, an influence that can be felt
even in his most abstract works-the sonatas for
violin, cello, and piano and his one string quartet.
Portr;iits by Paloma Mayorga-'--
The Finn Jean Sibelius {1865-1957) was deeply influ
enced by the Kalevala, the Finnish epic, with its
mythical accounts of the origin and early history
of the Nordic world, and by the runic melodies to
which the stories were chanted. But he seems to
have been more inspired by the landscape of his
country, with its endless forests and immense
lakes, than by its people. Many of his compositions
reflect the gloom and loneliness of vast dark
spaces, bleak. cold and icy, lighted, if at all. by the
mystical Northern Lights.
The Dane Carl Nielsen (1865-1931) has fire to con
trast with Sibelius' ice. Like Grieg, Nielsen loved his
countrymen. He wrote many, many songs for
schools and public gatherings; some have almost
become Danish folksongs. But in his symphonies
he creates fire that moves through the movements
to brilliant. blazing climaxes. For him life, like fire.
is "inextinguishable" {the name he gave his fourth
symphony). No matter how tragic and tense some
sections of his works may appear, they end in a tri
umph of goodness and truth. They seem lit by the
sun. the Helios of his overture by that name.
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Ellsworth Peterson, Artistic Directe:,r, is professor emeritus of music at Southwestern University. He holds an undergraduate degree from SoUJthwestern University,
a Master of Sacred Music de_greefr,al'fl Union Theological Seminary, and a PhD from Harvard. He has been Artistic Director for all of the e1even previous Festivals
of the Arts. Festival composers have been Handel (2005); Haydn (2006); Schubert (2007); Mendelssohn (2008); Dvorak (2009); Coplanl:I �2010); Brahms (20n);
Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc (2012); Tchaikovsky, Arensky, and Rachmaninov (2013); Albeniz, Granados, and Falla (2014); and RoberCand Clara Schumann
(2015). Festival 2017 is stirring in his imagination.
David Polley, organ, is a recently-retired music educator. He is currently music
director and organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Georgetown and teaches
organ students at Southwestern University. A native of Kansas, he has studied
at Concordia University, Northwestern University and the Univ�rsity of Ne
braska. He holds a DMA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has per
formed with high school, college, and community choruses in the United
States, Europe and China.
Virginia Dupuy, mezzo soprano, is an alumna of Southwestern University and
professor of music at Southern Methodist University. Her career in vocal perform
ance and recording includes a Grammy nomination for her CD Voces Americanas
with the Voices of Change ensemble. An Emily Dickinson scholar, she has recorded
Dwell in Possibility: Emily Dickinson in Song. She has appeared with orchestras and
opera companies across the US, and has been a performer in and supporter of
the Festival of the Arts since its beginning.
Dale Dietert, piano, is a pianist, voice teacher, and coach who has served on the
faculties of the Britten-Pears School for Advanced Musical Studies {Aldeburgh,
England); the International Institute of Vocal Arts (Tel Aviv, Israel); and the Som
merakademie Mozarteum (Salzburg, Austria). He holds a BM in music literature
and MM in piano performance from the University of Texas. He has been on the
vocal faculties of the University of California at Santa Barbara and Texas State
University, and is currently on the faculty of Southern Methodist University.
Gregory Allen, piano, was Grand Prize winner of the 1980 Arthur Rubinstein Inter
national Piano Competition in Tel Aviv. He won second prize at the 1978 Queen
Elisabeth Competition in Brussels and has received top honors in the Los Angeles
Young Musicians Foundation, Gina Bachauer, and Washington International Piano
Competitions. He has appeared with the New York, Los Angeles, and Israel Phil
harmonics, as well as with orchestras in San Francisco, San Diego, Baltimore,
Houston, Austin, and San Antonio. His teachers include John Perry, Jerome Lowen
thal, and Leon Fleisher.
Lynn Parr Mock, soprano, holds a BME degree from Southwestern University,
where she studied with Virginia Dupuy, and MM degree frnm the University of
Texas at Austin. She balances performing commitments with service on the
boards of many fine arts organizations and is a co-founder of Lone Spring Arts
in Dallas.
Hai Zheng. cello, is Artist in Residence at Southwestern University, She has ap
peared in recital at the Shanghai Conservatory and New York City's Steinway Hall,
in master classes and recitals at Gungzhou and Macau Conservatories, and at a
special invitation concert for the Hong Kong Asia Society, among many others.
She has played as guest cellist with the Enso, Mir6, and Shanghai Quartets.
Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano, is Professor of Music and Associate Dean for the
Sarofim School of Fine Arts at Southwestern University. He has performed as a
soloist and collaborative pianist in North America. Europe, and Asia. His latest
orchestra appearances have been in performances of Mozart's Piano Concerto in
C Major. K. 503, with the Austin Symphony Orchestra; with the Oahu Civic Or
chestra of Honolulu, Hawaii; and performances of Mozart's Concerto in E-flat
Major, K. 482, with the Temple Symphony Orchestra. In 2015 he appeared on tour
in Asia and made a CD recording with Southwestern faculty cellist Hai Zheng.
Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano, was born and raised in Foggia, Italy. He was top
prize-winner at the 1998 Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris,
France, won the Cleveland International Piano Competition in 1999, and won a
silver medal at the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. He has ap
peared in performance across five continents. His recording catalogue features
20 CDs and includes recordings of all of the works of Edvard Grieg on 12 discs for
Centaur Records. A Steinway artist, Mr. Pompa-Baldi is on the piano faculty of the
Cleveland Institute of Music.
Paul Gaffney, lecturer, is Professor of Theater at Southwestern University. From
2003 to 2015 he was Dean of the Sarofim School of Fine Arts at Southwestern,
after serving for 16 years as Professor of Theater at Dartmouth College. Other
teaching assignments include the University of Texas at Austin, the University
of Tennessee-Chattanooga and Mansfield University of Pennsylvania. His area of
specialty in theatre is directing. In addition to many college and university as
signments. he has directed for many other theaters including the Texas Shake
speare Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Nebraska Repertory
Theatre, and the California Theatre Center.
Wednesda}'.'., June 1 Thursdat, June 2
6:30 pm 8:oo pm
Reception for Donors to Piano Recital
Meet the Artists Alma Thomas Theatre
Parish Hall Southwestern University
Grace Episcopal Church Antonio Pompa-Baldi, piano
8:oo pm Holberg Suite, Op. 40, by GriPg
Sonata in E Minor, Op. 7, by Grieg Opening Concert Six Etudes, Op. 23, Grace Episcopal Church by Anton Rubinstein David Polley, organ
Virginia Dupuy, mezzo soprano Friday, June 3 Lynn Parr Mock, soprano
Dale Dietert, piano 10:00 am Gregory Allen, piano Fire & Ice Symposium II Hai Zheng, cello Jones Theatre in the Round Kiyoshi Tamagawa, piano Southwestern University
lntrada for Organ by Sibelius Paul Gaffney, Four Songs from Op. 36 Some Words about Ibsen's by Sibelius PeerGynt c:;11itP fnr Pi;inn. On . .1.c;, D,,,..n Dn.�it""
Ryan Ross, lecturer, received his PhD in musicology from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaigne and is on the music faculty at Mississippi State University.
His research interests include Northern European and American composers of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, twentieth-century music historiography, and
music for film and motion picture media. He has written for periodicals including
the Journal of the American Music Research Center, Twentieth-Century Music, Notes,
Carl Nielsen Studies, and The Musical Times. He is writing Ralph Vaughan Williams:
A Research and Information Guide, to be published by Routledge.
The Round Rock Symphony, now in its eighth season, is the only professional
orchestra in Williamson County. It has been under the leadership of Music Direc
tor Stefan Sanders since 2012. Its goal is to make the RRS a part of the cultural
fabric of central Texas, expanding audiences through creative programming,
appearances in a range of different venues, and increased educational offerings.
Stefan Sanders, conductor, is Music Director and Conductor of the Round Rock
Symphony. He also holds the Montante Family Endowed Associate Conductor
Chair with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He holds a bachelor's degree from
the Juilliard School and Master and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from the Uni
versity of Texas at Austin. Prior to a career as a conductor, Mr. Sanders was a con
cert"trombonist, performing as a soloist in the United States. Asia and Europe.
Jason Kwak, piano, has careers as both an artist and a pedagogue. Born in
Seoul, South Korea, Dr. Kwak began his piano studies at age four and holds de
grees in Piano Performance from Eastman School of Music and The University
of Texas at Austin. He is currently Professor of Piano and Keyboard Area Coor
dinator at Texas State University in San Marcos. Recent performing engage
ments have taken him to England, Turkey, Malaysia, Taiwan, Italy, Brazil,
Bulgaria, and South Korea. He is in demand for performances, master classes,
lectures, and adjudications on the state, national, and international level.
Bruce Cain baritone, is Associate Professor of Music and director of the Opera
Theatre at Southwestern University. He holds a BMus degree from McMurry
University, MM us from Indiana University, and DMus from Northwestern Uni
versity. He has performed concerts on five continents and is conductor of the
San Gabriel Chorale.
Toby Blumenthal, piano, has appeared as soloist with many ensembles, including
the Chicago and Houston Symphony Orchestras. She is director of CHAMPS
(Chamber Music in Public Schools) for Salon Concerts in Austin and Artistic Di
rector and pianist for the Classic Chamber Concerts series. She has studied with
Leonard Shure at the University of Texas and with Rudolf Serkin at the Marlboro
Chamber Music Institute in Vermont.
Jessica Mathaes, violin, is a soloist, recording artist, educator, and concertmas
ter of the Austin Symphony. She has appeared as a soloist in the United States,
Europe, and Asia, and has been broadcast on Performance Today; Chicago Public
Radio; and ARTE, the French-German cultural television channel. She has ap
peared as soloist with orchestras including the Austin, Victoria, Bismarck-Man
dan, Round Rock, and No rthwest Iowa Symphonies and the Masterworks and
National Music Festival Orchestras. She has given recitals on the Dame Myra
Hess Series, the Artist Series of Sarasota, and at The University of Iowa, Texas
Christian University, Texas Tech University, Northwestern College, Baylor Univer
sity, the University of Houston, the University of Texas, the Organ Vesper Series,
and the Tenri Cultural Institute in New York City
The San Gabriel Chorale was founded in 1988 at Southwestern University by Dr.
Kenny Sheppard as a "town and gown" outreach to offer adults a chance to sing
works from the rich a cappella and oratorio choral traditions from the sixteenth
century to the present. It has about 75 singers, all volunteers who pay annual
dues and buy their own copies of the music. They are mostly from Georgetown, in
cluding many from Sun City, but some come from anywhere from Lakeway and
North Austin to Killen and Temple. Dr. Bruce Cain has been conductor since 1998.
Kenny Sheppard, conductor, is a professor in the Department of Music at South
western University and conductor of the University Chorale. Since 1988 he has
trained active choral conductors through the Conductor's Institute, providing
instruction and experience in conducting a chorus with orchestra. He has led the
Festival Chorus and Orchestra for all of the Georgetown Festivals of the Arts.
Frida_}'.'., June 3 Saturda_}'.'. Evening
8:oo pm 8:oo pm
Orchestra Concert Concert in the Park
Alma Thomas Theatre The Gazebo in San Gabriel Park
Southwestern University Georgetown High School Music
The Round Rock Symphony Ensembles
Stefan Sanders, conductor Mary Powers, conductor
Jason Kwak, piano Justin Smith, band director
Helios Overture by Nielsen Joey Lowrance, chorus director
Piano Concerto in A Minor, Post-concert fireworks display is
Op. 16, by Grieg courtesy of the Williamson County Sun.
Symphony No. 2 in D Major,
Op. 43, by Sibelius
Sunday, June 5
Saturday, June 4 3:15 pm
Pre-concert Lecture 10:00 am Lois Perkins Chapel Salon Concert Southwestern University Jones Theatre in the Round Ellsworth Peterson Southwestern Universitv A r ___ .J:_ -,1: __ r ........ _____ L-.�--' ��
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Ron Bohmer -Ron's stage career spans over twenty years of Broadway
productions and national tours. He has starred in Fiddler on the Roof, Les
Miserables, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Aspects of Love, Sunset Boulevard, as
well as the starring role in Phantom of the Opera. He has many regional and
national touring company credits, most recently starring in the national tour of
The Book of Mormon.
"Muscular, gentle .... A dreamy tenor." -The New Yorker
"A charmingly quiet spark of glee in his eyes and a shimmery, excellent voice."
-The New York Times
Sandra Joseph -Sandra has the distinction of having played the role of Christine
Daae in Phantom of the Opera on Broadway more than any other actress ... more
than 1300 performances spanning almost a decade. She has performed in
theaters across the United States and Europe. Sandra has also starred in
numerous episodes of Law and Order and performed with the New York City
Opera and at the Kennedy Center. Sandra is an author and is featured as a
keynote speaker at corporate events, meetings and workshops across the nation.
"One of Broadway's biggest stars ... " -Oprah Winfrey
"Joseph's light, lyric soprano wends its way beautifully through "Angel of Music",
"Wishing You Were Here Again" ..... exuding a youthful passion that draws
attention to her no matter where she is on stage." -Variety
Carter Calvert -Carter is best known for originating her role in the Tony
nomioated Ain't Nothin' But the Blues", alongside Grammy winning jazz
vocalist Gregory Porter. She has also appeared in Forbidden
Broadway:Comes Out Swinging, The Thing About Men and starred as
Grizabella in Cats. Carter has enjoyed critical acclaim performing the title role
in Always Patsy Cline starring opposite Emmy award winning actress Sally
Struthers. Carter has been touring the globe performing to sold-out
audiences, garnering critical acclaim for her extraordinary talent. She has
performed as a headliner internationally in South Africa, Greece, Bermuda,
Croatia and Italy.She has recently released what promises to be another very
successful jazz album entitled "It's a Man's World".
"A voice of smoke and fire ... " -The San Diego Weekly
"Carter Calvert effervesces: her voice echoes chimes in the night. Her
smoldering grip on Fever is positively dangerous." -The New York Times
Lawrence Clayton -Lawrence played the role of C.C. White in the Broadway
production of Dreamgirls with Jennifer Holliday, as well as the national touring
company. He also starred on Broadway in It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues, The
Civil War, Once Upon a Mattress, The High Rollers Social and Pleasure Club
and Bells are Ringing. He has starred in the national touring companies of Les
Miserables and Jesus Christ Superstar, among many others. Lawrence made
his Carnegie Hall debut with Harvey Keitel in Jerry Springer: the Opera. His
television credits include Law and Order: Cl, and the made for TV movie Mary
and Rhoda.
When Judas (Lawrence Clayton) first appears and expresses gravedoubts
about the unhealthy fanaticism surrounding Jesus, he cuts a commanding
figure and sings "Heaven on Their Minds" with spine-tingling strength. -Variety
Raymond Jaramillo McLeod -Ray began his professional career singing at the
Metropolitan Opera in New York. He has performed with Luciano Pavarotti,
Jose Carreras and Placido Domingo, as well as the San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Santa Fe, Montreal and Mexico City Operas. He began his Broadway
career by originating the role of Simon Stride in Jekyll & Hyde. He starred in the
Tony award winning production of Wonderful Town opposite Brooke Shields
and Donna Murphy, and The Wild Party with Taye Diggs. Ray starred as Juan
Peron in the 20th anniversary tour of Evita. His voice can be heard on hundreds
of movie sound tracks, including The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Beauty and the
Beast and Pocahontas. After appearing in Fresh Prince of Bel Air with Will
Smith, he was asked to record some tracks on Michael Jackson's "Dangerous"
album by Quincy Jones. He has also starred in Law and Order: Cl.
This exhibit will include photographs from many artists
that either support or challenge people's pre-conceived
stereotypes.
STER•E•O•TYPE
plural noun: stereotypes
A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or
idea of a particular type of person or thing.
ARTIST RECEPTION:
SATURDAY, APRIL 16
6-7 PM Members Only Reception
7-9 PM Open to Public
A CONVERSATION
ABOUT STEREOTYPES
with Dr. Edward Burger
President of Southwestern University
THURSDAY, APRIL 28
7 PM, Free Admission
Join us for a conversation about stereotypes. W+iere
do they come from? Can a stereotype be a positive
thing? Is it always a negative? Should one embrac_e
it? You are not going to want to miss it.
GEORGETOWN ART CENTER
816 South Main Street
Georgetown, TX 78626
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�� d �iDU,NeverDiesisalarg�ourdoor insr,!llation o"f5, 171 cc:rnmic p<>ppies commemoratingeach Texas soldier killed in the First Word War. The installationwas first exhibited at Richland College in Dallas, Texas in November of 2015. This project came into being when' historian Clive Siegle, and artist Jen Rose were inspired by the poppy installation at the Tower of London created by Paul Cummings.The team in London created 888,246 ceramic poppies tomemorialize each soldier killed in the First Word War fromEngland. Siegle and Rose, both faculty at Richland College,made a similar commitment to create one poppy fo} everyfallen Texas, soldier from that war.Jen Rose began production in Dallas on September 4, 2015,and with the help of 500 volunteers; the poppies \\;ere ready to install only seven weeks lacer. Each hand-made poppyis unique and represents an individual who lost their lifein the war. This monumental project is the largest pi;ippywar memorial created on U.S. soil and has rallied the Richland College community and the Georgetown community alike.Students of all age groups and backgrounds, as well as faculty,staff and members of the Dallas community contributedcountless volunteer hours towards chis project.• Iii
Richland College
DALLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Puppies Behind Bars You can own a piece of Individual poppies will be available for purchase for $10 apiece
at the Visitors Center, I 03 W. Seventh Street on the Square.
, Proceeds will benefit Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit organization
that provides service dogs for combat veterans returning home
ftom Iraq and Afghanistan who have suffered a physical injury,
including traumatic brain injury or post-traumatic stress disorde1:
For more information, please visit puppiesbehindbars.com OKRA COMPTON Henry Purl Compton (nicknamed Okra) helped Georgetownto become the Red Poppy Capital of Texas when his serviceas a corporal in the Army during World War I ended and in1919 poppy seeds he col lected in nor thern France wereplanted in the yard of his mother's home on Seventh Streetin Georgetown.On April 25, 1990, Georgetown was certified by local residents and the Texas Legislature as the "Red Poppy Capital of Texas".Red popp ies have been a pare of Georgetown's lands cape forover sevent y years.w
WILLIAMSON COUNTY --,.-,-
SPONSORED BY
LT. CoL. JOHN McCRAE; MD. The origin of the poppy as a memorial symbol for veteransdates from one of the most famous poems to come out of that most infamous of modern conflicts, the First World War. From the commencement of the war in August 1914, the employment of sophisticated weaponry on an industrial scale produced staggering casualty rates. In May 1915 the appalling casualties and ferocity of the conflict, coupled with the recent combat death of a young fellow officer, moved a Canadianphysician, Lt. Col. John McCrae, to pen the war's most famous poem, "In Flanders Fields." The poem was originally titled"We Shall Not Sleep," but over time after the author's deathit has come to be known worldwide by its current title.Poppies figured prominently in the poem because they area common native flower of Flanders that thrives in disturbedsoil-something that the millions of battlefield shell cratersand burial mounds covering the Flanders landscape providedin abundance.IN FLAND ERS FIELDS In Flanders fields the poppies blowBetween the crosses, row on row,That mark our place; and in the skyThe larks, still bravely singing, flyScarce heard amid the guns below.We are the Dead. Short days agoWe lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,Loved and were loved, and now we lieIn Flanders fieldsTake up our quarrel with the foe:To you from failing hands we throwThe torch; be yours to hold it high.If ye break faith with us who dieWe shall not sleep, though poppies growIn Flanders fields.:"1cCrae did not survive the war. In January 1918 he joinedm death those whose graves, "row on row," were decoratedwith Flanders poppies. By then, however, his poem had developed a life of its own. After McCrae wrote the poem, it was submitted �o the popular British magazine Punch, where it first appeared m the December 1915 issue. Its popularity soon spread, as did public knowledge of who its author was, and in 1918 it appeared in the November issue of the American magazineLadies' Home journal. It was there that it inspired AmericanYMCA volunteer Moina Belle Michael to pledge to "keepthe faith" with those who died in the war, and would set inmotion her successful campaign to immortalize the poppyas a universal symbol of remembrance for veterans' sacrifices.MOINA MICHAEL On November 9, 1918, three days before the armistice that ended the First World War, a young soldier handed a copyof the latest Ladies' Home journal magazine to YMCA volunteer Moina Belle Michael. The young soldier who gave her themagazine had marked a page, and Michael opened it to findLt. Col. John McCrae's poem. Although she had read thepoem before, she was so moved that she resolved to make ither mission to "keep the faith" with those who died in thewar, and she quickly wrote her pledge in the form of a poem.Richland College has chosen a line from that poem as thetheme for our "The Blood of Heroes Never Dies" memorialpoppy project:• G ..... Oorp AUS 5/17; pvt OQ.t, 1/18 WESHALLKEEPTHEFAITH Oh! you who sleep in Flanders Fields,Sleep sweet -to rise anew!We caught the torch you threwAnd holding high, we keep the FaithWith All who died.We cherish, too, the poppy redThat grows on fields where valor led;It seems to signal to the skiesThat blood of heroes never dies,But lends a lustre to the redOf the flower that blooms above the deadIn Flanders Fields.And now the To rch and Poppy RedWe wear in honor of our dead.Fear not that ye have d,ied for naught;We'll teach the lesson that ye wroughtIn Flanders Fields.The day she wrote the poem, she hit upon the idea of emphasizing the strong symbolic link between poppies and the remembrance of the war's dead by purchasing twenty-five artificial poppieson her lunch break and distributing them to her YMCA colleaguesto wear on their lapels. She subsequently worked tirelessly topromote the idea of the poppy as a remembrance symbol of the war, and it was due to her efforts that it was first adoptedas such by the American Legion at their 1920 convention, andby the Veterans of Foreign Wars in 1922.The poppy as a remembrance symbol spread to Europe, andby 1921 Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand veterans' groups had adopted it as well. Virtually all of these organizations continue to this day to utilize the sale of cloth or paper poppies to fund relief programs for needy and disabled veterans.Almost exclusively, these same veterans have been employedto make the poppies, which from the 1920s until today aremade by the millions each year.� < � ............. 0111�. !".'���.'-��:::--;a·:·,�:::: .. � �r••