The 32nd Annual ~ first virtual ~ Town & Gown Musicale

Saturday, February 20, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.

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WELCOME Joseph Merchant, President, Board of Directors Paula Forrest, Artistic Director

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English Suite No 2 in A minor, BWV 807 Johann Sebastian Bach I. Prelude Seth Shaoyi Durbin, piano

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Sonntagsruhe (Ländler) Alois Breitfuss Im Bummelzug Alois Breitfuss and Josef Ihring Dark Eyes Sindo Garay, arr. Aretta/Rodionoff/Polashek

Caleb Hans Polashek, violin Emil Polashek, accordion

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Concerto for oboe and strings Ralph Vaughan Williams I. Rondo Pastorale Rachel Keske, oboe Nai-Ying, Liao, piano

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Improvisation Nadia Boulanger Miriam Zach, organ

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Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 Johannes Brahms II. Scherzo The Ames Piano Quartet

INTERMISSION FEATURE

Romance, Op. 21, for trombone and 27-bell carillon Axel Jørgensen (Originally composed for trombone and piano)

Tin-Shi Tam, carillon Nathan Dishman, trombone

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"Je veux vivre" from Roméo et Juliette Charles Gounod

Hope Metts, soprano Jodi Goble, piano

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Selections from Such a Thing Again (2020) Jodi Goble (Text by Melanie Faith, see next page) Recovery ~ Final Questions

Chad Sonka, baritone Jodi Goble, piano First performance (Premiere of complete work forthcoming)

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Liebesleid Fritz Kreisler-Rachmaninoff

Mei-Hsuan Huang, piano

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Banjo and Fiddle William Kroll Jonathan Sturm, violin Jodi Goble, piano

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Thank you for sharing this special evening with us! Join us again next month as we continue Town & Gown's 2020-21 Virtual Season. (Details on back page)

from ROMÉO ET JULIETTE, by Charles Gounod

JE VEUX VIVRE

I want to live in this dream that intoxicates me This day still, Sweet flame, I keep you in my soul Like a treasure!

This intoxication of youth Lasts, alas, only for one day! Then comes the hour When one weeps. The heart surrenders to love And the happiness flies Far from the morose winter Let me, let me slumber The heart surrenders to love And the happiness flies without returning.

Far from a morose winter, Let me slumber And breathe in the rose Before it dies.

from SUCH A THING AGAIN, by Jodi Goble Texts by Melanie Faith (This Passing Fever)

RECOVERY FINAL QUESTIONS

It was a week I don't know. I was blessed before I could sit up in bed or I was one of the lucky ones and run a brush through my hair Take your pick. to sort out the snarls. Another few days more Can we wrap our minds until I could walk around not knowing why? across the room Not on human understanding. without swaying like a top Can we survive in the grips of pain, or passing out. thrive in the throes of uncertainty? With faith. Only with faith Imagine: the feeling of running water from the pump I tell you, though, heated on the kettle the spirit of this town is tough. over my hair. Imagine: We banded together, the feeling of running bare feet we watched out for each other. across grass just starting to green, We got through it; darting across that green may we never have to with arms open. get through such a thing again.

I felt stunned amazement. Fresh air, running, life anew— Lazarus awoken from the tomb.

Musicale Artists

THE AMES PIANO QUARTET ~ Violinist BORO MARTINIC is professor of violin at State University. In his extensive career in the U.S. and Europe, he has served as concertmaster of the Phoenix Symphony, the Santa Fe , and I Solisti di Zagreb. Violist NICOLÒ EUGELMI is the former violist of the Fine Arts Quartet. GEORGE WORK is professor of cello at ISU. He is also a member of the Belin String Quartet and the Des Moines Symphony. MEI-HSUAN HUANG, professor of piano at ISU, performs widely as chamber musician, recitalist, and concerto soloist in North America, Europe, and her native Taiwan, as well as in numerous summer festivals. She is a Steinway Artist.

NATHAN DISHMAN is professor of trombone at . He has frequently performed and presented at the International Fellowship of Conductors, Composers, and Collaborators, performing in this country and in Brazil. An Edwards Instruments performing artist, Nathan currently performs with the Charlottesville Opera and the Blue Ridge Trombone Quartet and has been a member of numerous orchestras, including the Des Moines Symphony.

SETH SHAOYI P. DURBIN, a senior at Ames High School, was recently named winner of the Iowa Music Teachers Auditions, Ames District Level F, as well as the Terrace Hill Piano Competition. He began his piano studies with Michiyo Nakatani and currently studies with Mei-Hsuan Huang. The keyboard works of J.S. Bach have been his favorites since an early age. Other musical activities have included participation in Ames Children's Choirs and the Ames High school Concert Chorale. Seth is also very active in the Iowa Science Olympiad Team and is the founder/captain/coach of the AHS Table Tennis Club/Team.

PAULA FORREST, Artistic Director of Ames Town & Gown, has been in a leadership role with the organization since coming to Ames 33 years ago from Washington, D.C. Inspired by the abundance of musical talent here, she produced the first annual Musicale in 1990. A third-generation professional pianist, she has taught piano at the Interlochen Center for Arts and at Simpson College, and for 10 years served as staff accompanist at ISU. She also maintains a private piano studio.

JODI GOBLE, of the ISU music faculty, is Music Director of the ISU Opera Studio. She is also an award- winning composer whose work has been performed nationally and internationally and heard on National Public Radio. She is the pianist for the Simon Estes Roots and Wings Community Concert series and the official accompanist of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in Iowa. Jodi serves on the Ames Town & Gown Board as faculty representative.

RACHEL KESKE, from Sugar Grove, Illinois is a senior at Iowa State, studying with Amy Christensen. In 2020, she won the ISU Concert of Soloists competition and she looks forward to a live performance with the ISU orchestra. She is also a founding member of ISU's the Metaladera Wind Quintet, specializing in outreach, in person and virtual, throughout the country). She looks forward to graduate studies in oboe performance in the future.

NAI-YING LIAO maintains a private studio for piano and viola. She works extensively as an accompanist at ISU and also for the Ames Children's Prep Choir and Chorale. As violist, she is a member of the Central Iowa Symphony.

HOPE METTS, from Altoona, Iowa, is a junior music major at Iowa State, studying with Mary Creswell. She was a finalist in the 2020 ISU Concert of Soloists competition and has also performed as soloist in concert with Simon Estes. Recently, Hope received Honorable Mention at the 2020 Central Region NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) competition.

CALEB HANS POLASHEK is a native of Ames, son of Emil and Mary Kay Polashek (Ames High orchestra director). Currently enjoying a varied career in Texas as violinist and composer, he has been a member of the Austin Symphony since 2012, and is violinist with the Artisan String Quartet. His musical activities also include performances outside traditional classical realms, including jazz and performances on electric violin. Ames audiences have heard Caleb several times as featured concerto soloist with the Central Iowa Symphony.

EMIL POLASHEK can often be found nights in weekends performing as both a vocalist and accordion player. In both roles, he has performed on earlier Town & Gown Musicales. During the workweek, Emil writes documentation for Siemens Digital Industries Software.

CHAD SONKA of the ISU voice faculty is Co-Director of the ISU Opera Studio with Jodi Goble. His own recent performances have included Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre's Madama Butterfly, soloist in Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem at Carnegie Hall with Iowa State University Choirs and Mahler's Kindertotenlieder with the Oneota Valley Community Orchestra. Chad is also the Education and Outreach Coordinator with the Savannah VOICE Festival and VOICExperience. He serves on the Ames Town & Gown Board as faculty representative.

JONATHAN STURM is in his 30th season as the Concertmaster of the Des Moines Symphony. He also performed and recorded as the violist with the Ames Piano Quartet from 1998 to 2017. Since 2002, Jonathan has been professor of music history at Iowa State University.

TIN-SHI TAM is Cownie Professor of Music and Iowa State University Carillonneur. The 27-bell campanile-carillon model (https://www.music.iastate.edu/carillon/campmodel) in the Sukup Atrium on campus, was dedicated in October 2019 and is a cross-discipline collaborative project involving students, faculty and staff of music, engineering and design. Student performances will take place on March 12 and April 9, open to the public observing face covering and physical distancing requirements, and will also be live-streamed on https://www.facebook.com/isucarillonsociety.

MIRIAM ZACH is the Charles and Mary Sukup Endowed Artist in Organ at ISU, where she teaches organ and harpsichord, music history, acoustics, and architecture. Her research on the creative work of women composers includes recordings from Princeton University Chapel that can be heard on NPR. She is organizing the 25th International Festival of Women Composers March 27, 2021 to be webcast from ISU's Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall. She continues to serve as Music Director/Organist for St. John’s Episcopal Church in Ames.

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2020-21 AMES TOWN & GOWN BOARD OF DIRECTORS Paula Forrest, Artistic Director Joseph Merchant, , President Paul Sacks Vice President Richard Hamilton, Secretary William Dilla, Treasurer

Barbara Atkins, Patti Cotter, Tascha Hauber, William Jenks Marina Kraeva, Helen Park, Eric Weber Joan White, Cinian Zheng-Durbin Jodi Goble and Chad Sonka, ISU faculty representatives Grant Becker and Breanna Penenger, ISU student representatives

(VIRTUAL) MUSICALE 2021 SPONSORS

GOLD BRONZE Kay and Roger Berger Lynn Avant Carl Bleyle Roger and Neena Bentley John Greve Gloria Betcher and Doug Biggs Judy and Tom Jackson Arlan Branhagan Rhoda Mansbach Jim Cornette Joseph and Mary Merchant Kathryn Corones Rae Reilly Dee Dreeszen Erika and Brian Saunders Wendy and Martin Edelson Suzanne Zilber & Adin Mann Bronwyn Frame & Giancarlo Moschini Hanna and David Gradwohl SILVER James and Ruth Hill Roberta Abraham Stu and Ginny Huntington Lisa Barnes Marcia Imsande Sam Brylawski & Gail Sonnemann Irmi's Recorder Studio William and Mary Ann Dilla Jane Lohnes Beth Douglass and Jere Maddux George and Sandra McJimsey Peggy Earnshaw & Paul Tanaka Helen McRoberts Douglas Finnemore Mary E. Richards Herbert and Katherine Fromm Constance and Stephen Ringlee Bruce and Jodi Held Ann Russell K. Joan Hopkins Robert and Dorothy Rust Etha Hutchcroft Paul and Mary Ann Shao Mary James Angela and Costas Soukoulis Warren and Beverly Madden Dennis Wendell John and Kathryn Miller Mark Widrlechner Cosette and Lou Scallon Maureen Wilt David Stuart B. Joan White Ellen Widiss Stephen and Lee Anne Willson Eve Wurtele & Basil Nikolau

THE MISSION OF THE AMES TOWN & GOWN CHAMBER MUSIC ASSOCIATION is to enrich the quality of life in central Iowa by presenting world-famous musical ensembles, as well as brilliant emerging artists, in intimate concert settings. Equally important is the commitment to share our artists’ enthusiasm for chamber music with people of all ages and needs through educational outreach activities.

OUR SINCEREST APPRECIATION TO OUR GENEROUS 2020-21 CONTRIBUTORS, WHO HAVE MADE POSSIBLE THIS SPECIAL TOWN & GOWN SEASON

LEADERS Joseph and Mary Merchant

SPONSORS William and Mary Ann Dilla ~ Paul Durbin & Cinian Zheng-Durbin Richard Hamilton and Marit Nilsen-Hamilton ~ The Kawaler Family Foundation ~ Erv Klaas Frederick Lorenz & Roberta Vann (in memory of Joanna Courteau) ~ Rae Reilly

BENEFACTORS Barbara Atkins (in memory of Richard and Helen Atkins) ~ Betty and Tom Barton Peggy Earnshaw & Paul Tanaka ~ Judy and Tom Jackson ~ Margaret Johnson (in honor of the Town & Gown Board) ~ Anne Kimber & Robert Haug ~ Jean Peterson Paul Sacks & Ina Pour-El (in memory of Seymour Sacks) Erika and Brian Saunders (in honor of Paula Forrest) ~ B. Joan White

PATRONS Anonymous ~ Mark and Deborah Blaedel ~ Campus Garage ~ Ethalinda Cannon Herbert and Katherine Fromm ~ Jennifer Garst & Steve Libbey ~ Alexander Henkin Carole Horowitz (in memory of Faith and Sidney Forrest) ~ Mary M. James Helen and Rudy Jensen ~ Jean Krusi & Ed Braun Indira Kudva & Manohar John ~ Adah Leshem & Peter Keeling ~ Warren and Beverly Madden Adin Mann & Suzanne Zilber ~ Sarah Nusser & Michael King ~ Klaus Ruedenberg Dirk and Lucinda Scholten ~ Wesley Shank (in memory of Georgene Shank) Art and Jayne Staniforth ~ Mark Widrlechner ~ Kathy Wiederin

ENTHUSIASTS Ted and Carol Bailey ~ Barbara Beattie ~ Kay and Roger Berger ~ Jim Cornette Beth Douglass & Jere Maddux (in honor of the pandemic's medical professionals) Peggy Faden ~ Cornelia and Jan Flora ~ Homer and Sandra Gartz ~ Winnie and Mark Gleason James and Ruth Hill ~ Joan Hopkins ~ Marcia Imsande ~ Jane Lohnes ~ Helen McRoberts Peter Orazem & Patricia Cotter ~ Mary E. Richards (in memory of Marion "Duffie" Lorr and Janet Klaas) Constance and Stephen Ringlee ~ Philip and Galina Spike ~ Don and Kay Zytowski

FRIENDS Anonymous ~ Mary and Mark Ambrose (in memory of Suzanne Zaffarano) Martha Anderson & George Burnet ~ Achilles Avraamides and Dilys Morris Louis and Pat Banitt ~ George and Jan Bera ~ Peggy and Greg Dieter ~ John and Cynthia Dobson Martin and Wendy Edelson ~ Bronwyn Frame & Giancarlo Moschini Anatoli Frishman & Larisa Kanevski ~ Barbi and Reggie Greenlaw ~ Isabel Hendrickson Tom Hertz ~ Irmi's Recorder Studio (in memory of all victims of Covid 19) ~ Roger Jones Ruth and Edwin Jones ~ Ann Joseph (in honor of Paula Forrest and her parents, Faith and Sidney Forrest) Lisa and Ed Kasper ~ Stuart and Barbara Kolner ~ Marina Kraeva ~ Marshall and Pnina Luban Rhoda and Richard Mansbach ~ Frank Mariner ~ Cynthia L. Martin ~ Jean and David Meek Bruce and Barbara Munson ~ Jay and Margaret Munson ~ Pam Sibbel Music Studio (in honor of Paula Forrest) ~ John and Cynthia Paschen ~ Jonah Powell ~ Doug Reed ~ Elizabeth Ritvo & Robert Kunzendorf Robert Thomas Dance Center ~ Dennis Ross ~ Phyllis Seim ~ Paul and Mary Ann Shao (in memory of Eino and Genevieve Kainlauri) ~ Leland Smithson ~ Marcia Thompson ~ Carl and Tatiana Tipton Betsy West & Gary Alexander ~ Stephen and Lee Anne Willson

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LEADER $2500 and above SPONSOR $1000-$2499 BENEFACTOR $500-$999 PATRON $250-$499 ENTHUSIAST $150-$249 FRIEND Up to $1149

STILL TO COME IN TOWN & GOWN'S 2020-21 VIRTUAL SEASON www.amestownandgown.org

Friday, March 19 - Tuesday, March 23 THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Conversation and commentary: featured artist GLORIA CHIEN, PIANO FIELD Nocturne in C minor; LISZT Gran duo concertant sur "Le Marin" for violin and piano; MENDELSSOHN Piano Quartet in C minor

Friday, April 9 – Tuesday, April 13 THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Conversation and commentary: featured artist ARNAUD SUSSMAN, VIOLIN BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4; CHAUSSON Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet

Friday, April 30 – Tuesday, May 4 THE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER Conversation and commentary: featured artist ANNE-MARIE McDERMOTT MOZART Piano Concerto in D minor, with flute and strings, arr. Czerny; SMETANA Piano Trio in G minor

Friday, May 21 – Sunday, May 23 THE CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET, from London 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artists of the Year HAYDN Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No 3 ("Emperor"); JANACEK Quartet No. 1 in E minor ("Kreutzer Sonata"); BRAHMS Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2

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TOWN & GOWN MUSICALE PERFORMERS 1990-2020

ACTORS’ “Tomfoolery” Ensemble (Jane Funk, Bill Helms, Laurie Hoifeldt, Steven Hoifeldt, Samantha Koontz, Cynthia Marten, Ben Moews, Brian Parrish ) ~ Andrew Adams ~ Janet Alcorn ~ The Amara Piano Quartet (Boro Martinic-Jercic, Jonathan Sturm, George Work, Mei-Hsuan Huang) ~ The Ames Piano Quartet (Mahlon Darlington, Laurence Burkhalter/Jonathan Sturm, George Work, William David) ~ The Ames Piano Quartet (Boro Martinic-Jercic, Stephanie Price-Wong, George Work, Mei-Hsuan Huang) ~ Ames Children’s Choirs* ~ The Ames Junior Trio*(Samantha Bennett, Sarit Luban, James Kwon) ~ Kevin Amidon ~ Amy Anderson** ~ Basically Baroque ~ Samantha Bennett* ~ Tyler Born** ~ James Bovinette ~ The Brandenburg Players ~ Laurence Burkhalter ~ Ethalinda Cannon ~ Rong-Kwei Chen ~ Peter Chimenti* ~ Michael Ching ~ Andrew Choi* ~ Amy Christensen ~ John Clem ~ Matthew Coley ~ Cathy Compton** ~ Mason Conklin ~ Karen Corbin** ~ Count Me In** ~ Mary Creswell ~ Mahlon Darlington ~ William David ~ Michael Davis ~ Jesse Donner** ~ Kenny Drefke** ~ Paul Ferrone ~ Marika Fischer Hoyt ~ Zachary Fisher** ~ Susan Flaskerud ~ Paula Forrest ~ Mary Foss ~ Gordon Gerrard ~ David Giese ~ Michael Giles ~ Sonja Giles ~ Jodi Goble ~ Stacey Goodman** ~ Reggie Greenlaw ~ Benjamin Gruman** ~ Joshua Grunmann ~ Michiyo Hattori ~ Sue Haug ~ Jonathan Haupt ~ Laura Haupt ~ Donna Heer ~ Alan Henson ~ Julie Fox Henson ~ The Henson Family String Quartet (Julie Fox Henson, Beau Henson*, Fox Henson*, Alan Henson) ~ Paul Hertz ~ Aaron Hofmeyer** ~ Christopher Hopkins ~ Mei-Hsuan Huang ~ Maureen Hurd** ~ Ayron Hyatt** ~ ISU Chamber Singers** ~ Kevin Judge ~ Thomas Julstrom** ~ Larisa Kanevski ~ Stephanie Kasper** ~ Chris Kyurim Kim* ~ Hangyul Kim* ~ Joanna Kim* ~ The Klier String Quartet* (Joanna Held, Jana Kim, Beau Henson, Grace Kim) ~ Leah Kolner ~ Ann Kostelnik** ~ Kelly Kruse** ~ Barry Larkin ~ Bri Leahy** ~ So-Yeoun Lee** ~ Nai-Ying Liao ~ Ruth Lin ~ Wilber Lio** ~ Michael Londra ~ Kevin Marashinghe* ~ Helen Marlais ~ Alexandra Mascolo-David ~ Robert Maxham ~ Keith McCaulley ~ Sarah McClanahan* ~ Samantha McCurry** ~ Eric McIntyre ~ Joseph Messenger ~~ Ari Micich ~ Patricia Moline ~ Claire Morris* ~ Andrea Mowen** ~ Craig Mushel ~ The Music Men ~ Jena Nahnsen** ~ Laurie Neuerburg** ~ Gregory Oakes ~ Jonathan Park* ~ Yeil Park** ~ Mary Petersen ~ Heather Peyton ~ The Phoenix String Quartet (Julie Fox Henson, Larysa Kozak, Marika Fischer Hoyt, Mary Pshonik) ~ Paul Pisano Brianna Poage** ~ Emil Polashek ~ Jennifer Porto** ~ Cheryl Richt ~ Nicholas Riesen ~ Helen Rublaitus ~ Elizabeth Sadilek~ ~ Vagram Saradjian (Visiting Artist) ~ Kevin Schilling ~ Ryan Schweers** ~ Phillip Sears ~ Joan Serfass ~ Loren Serfass ~ Sarah Shin* ~ Shy of a Dozen** ~ Donald Simonson ~ Julie Simson ~ Skyline Brass (visiting artists) ~ Eliza Smith**~ Phyllis Smith ~ Chad Sonka ~ The Sostrini Quartet* (Esther Lee, Tiffany Loe, Joanna Held, Fox Henson) ~ Shon Stevenson ~ David Stuart ~ Jonathan Sturm ~ Julie Sturm ~ Wei-Li Suen* ~ Elizabeth Swanson ~ Tin-Shi Tam ~ James Tener ~ Gretchen Theesfield ~ Michael Thiele ~ Jean Thomas ~ Anne Todey** ~ Laurel Trinity ~ May Tsao-Lim ~ Shelby Sievers VanNorstrand~ ~ Amy Wagar** ~ Chelsea Wang* ~ Wendy Ware ~ Grace Warren* ~ Anne Watson ~ Carol Weber ~ Brooke Westphal** ~ Melanie Wilson** ~ Tom Wilson** ~ Anson Woodin** ~ George Work ~ Ana Yam* ~ Miriam Zach ~ Lynn Zeigler ~ Yuer and Adam Zhu*