Mills Breast Cancer Institute Weekly Music Series - Discontinued
We extend sincere thanks to the patients, staff, doctors, performers, friends, and fans who supported the mission of the music series from 2007-12, and continue to contact us inquiring when the music series will resume. They let us know how much the series is missed and how it made such a positive impact on their lives. This is most reassuring after five years of 190 programs and 7 benefit concerts. The mission of the weekly free performances, on Thursdays from noon to 12:45pm in the atrium, served to be uplifting, inspiring, soothing, distracting from daily stress & medical concerns, and made all who entered the MBCI feel welcome and comfortable in the environment.
Supporting the Music Series: The Music Series was supported by private donations, hundreds of paid and volunteer performers, and 600+ hours of volunteer support staff.
Your Feedback is welcome: Please let the Carle Foundation and private sponsors know how much the series benefited patients, family members, staff, the community, & what it meant to you. Send your positive feedback and words of appreciation to vcello1@comcast.net.
The final 2012 Music Series Performance Schedule
(Barbara Hedlund, Co-Founder/Coordinator/Performer
February 2, 2012 The Prairie Dogs Bluegrass Band
February 9, 2012 The Zingara Piano Trio Plays Tchaikovsky- Cristian Neacsu, violin; Patricia Likos, cello; Yu-Chi Tai, piano
February 16, 2012 Duo Pianists Reid Alexander and Jo Ellen DeVilbiss
February 23, 2012 Rossini's Barber of Seville preview UI Opera - Jerold Siena, Stage Director
March 1, 2012 Rudolf Haken, Five-String Viola & Jiaxin Ng, Piano
March 8, 2012 Kerry Patrick Clark, A Musical Norman Rockwell Award-winning, nationally #1 charted folk singer-songwriter & former member of the New Christy Minstrels
March 15, 2012 Mark Morris Dance Group Musicians - A Krannert Center Outreach event
March 22, 2012 Songs to Bid Friends Welcome, Part I - Ronald Hedlund, bass-baritone; Barbara Hedlund, cello; Cara Chowning, piano. Songs to Bid Friends Welcome, Parts I & II on Sunday, March 25, 2012, 3PM EST at Montpelier, VA - the historic home of James & Dolly Madison in the Grand Salon
March 29, 2012 The Healing Connection - The Chorale, Julie Beyler, Music Director
April 5, 2012 Homecoming - Multi-award winning pianist Zsolt Bognár - cancelled April 3 due to illness -unfortunately could not be rescheduled
April 5, 2012 Songs to Bid Friends Welcome, Part II - Ronald Hedlund, bass-baritone; Barbara Hedlund, cello; Cara Chowning, piano - Songs by Youmans, Porter, Weill, Gershwin, Sieczynski, Holdridge, Rodgers & Hammerstein, & more.
April 12, 2012 The Great American Songbook - Marilyn Coles, mezzo; Paul Johnston, piano
April 19, 2012 Music of French Musician, Harpsichordist & Composer Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre Elizabeth Buckley, mezzo; Ben Hayek, gamba; Charlotte Mattax, harpsichord
April 26, 2012 Jazz & Classics by HarpCore 4 - Harpists Julia Jamieson, Molly McKenzie, Erin Brooker, & Charles Lynch
May 3, 2012 The New Orleans Jazz Machine - Carl Johnson, clarinet/sax; John Tubbs, bass; Gordy Wilson, piano
May 10, 2012 Carmen to Camelot - A Danville Symphony preview - Vocalists: John Gomez, Tania Coambs, Lila Powell, Ingrid Kammin, Ronald Hedlund, Pianist: Cara Chowning, Master of Ceremonies: Ronald Hedlund - CARMEN HABANERA - Lila Powell | SEGUIDILLA & DUET - Lila Powell & John Gomez GYPSY SONG - Lila Powell, Tania Coambs, Ingrid Kammin | LA FLEUR - John Gomez, MY FAIR LADY: WOULDN'T IT BE LOVERLY -Ingrid Kammin | I COULD HAVE DANCED ALL NIGHT -Tania Coambs; I'VE GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO HER FACE - Ronald Hedlund
May 17, 2012 LIBER: Ensemble for Early Music - award winning vocal acapella ensemble William Hudson, tenor/founder; Andrew Rader, countertenor; Daniel Carberg, tenor; Matthew Leese, baritone
May 24, 2012 Rebecca Johnson, Flute & Cara Chowning, piano
May 31, 2012 The Game of Love Musical Comedy Preview - Cast members from The Celebration Company at The Station Theatre Narrator/ Director: Stephen Fiol; Piano Trio: Aaron Schwartz/Violin, Barbara Hedlund/Cello, Sarah Schwartz/Piano; Vocalists: James Mayer, Lindsay Eckhardt, Dawn Harris, Ingrid Kammin, & Tania Coambs
June 7, 2012 Michael Fenoglio Jazz Trio
June 14, 2012 And this is my beloved: Music for When You Say I Do - Joseph Madden/Violin, Barbara Hedlund, Cello, Ronald Hedlund, Bass-baritone, Cara Chowning/Piano
June 21, 2012 Children from the Carle Auditory Oral School
June 28, 2012 Too Loud Daddy - Tenors Dr. John Moore & Jason Morgan, Baritones Dr. John Brockenbrough, Dr. James Kumar, Ronald Hedlund, with guest artist Charles E. Voigt; Sarah Schwartz, piano
July 2012 The music series will be on hiatus in July and will resume in August 2012.
August 2, 2012 The Lady sings Gershwin, Porter & Berlin - Vocalist Dena Vermette & Pianist Willard "Woody" Woodward
August 9, 2012 Front of the Line Hollywood: Vocalist, Song writer Jared Yates
August 16, 2012 Reels, Hornpipes & Jigs - Irish Harpist Erin Brooker & Fiddler Brennan Brooker
August 23, 2012 Norman Rockwell’s "Willie Was Different", Music by Seymour Barab, Stephen Fiol, Narrator, Rebecca Johnson, Flute, Magie Smith, Clarinet, & Cara Chowning, Piano
August 30, 2012 Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance Musical Comedy (UI Barn Concert Preview), Dawn Harris, Stage Director
September 6, 2012 Old Favorites: Pianist Edward Rath
September 13, 2012 Autumn Memories: Pianist Chee Hyeon Choi
September 20, 2012 September Serenade: Violinist Aaron Schwartz, Violist Jieyeon Kim Schleicher, & Pianist Sarah Schwartz
September 27, 2012 The Eureka College Chamber Singers, Dr. Joseph D. Henry, Music Director
October 4, 2012 The Shustova/Jacobs Duo: Violinist Aaron Jacobs & Pianist Tatiana Shustova
October 11, 2012 Oktoberfest: Maria & Co - Maria Merkelo, Accordion, Carl Johnson, Clarinet, & Josh Houchin, Bass
October 18, 2012 This is the Moment: Baritone Kent Conrad & Pianist Paul Johnston
October 25, 2012 The Drowsy Chaperone: A 1920s American musical parody - Aaron Kaplan, Music Director
November 1, 2012 UI Opera Premiere Preview of Daniel Catan’s Florencia en al Amazonas - Eduardo Diazmuñoz, Music Director
November 8, 2012 Oboist John Dee, Pianist Cara Chowning
November 15, 2012 Pianist Timothy Ehlen
November 22, 2012 Thanksgiving - no program
November 29, 2012 Bravicelli: Classics & Cabaret: Heartland Festival Orchestra Cellists - Program #190 Barbara Hedlund, Moises Molina, & David Commanday
November 28, 2012 The December music series performances were unexpectedly cancelled with no warning nor honoring of agreements.
December 6, 2012 Madrigal Singers from the High School of St. Thomas More
December 13, 2012 CU Symphony Sounds of Holiday Cheer
December 20, 2012 Too Loud Daddy VIII: Seasons Greetings - Performers: Carle Doctors Dr. John Brockenbrough, Dr. James Kumar, Dr. John Moore, Tenor Dennis Sims, Bass-baritone & Carle Singing Voice Consultant Ronald Hedlund, & Pianist Sarah Schwartz
End of 2012 MBCI Music Series programs