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April 2019 Edition

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Aging Iowans Benefit
from a Full Continuum of Services
on One Campus
by Amy Schauer, MAC,
​Executive Director of Development

Stonehill Franciscan Services campus
in Dubuque’s North End

As Iowa ages, it is paramount for service providers and senior living communities to plan for their needs and assess the type of care seniors really want. Seniors and their families should choose a senior care community where they can receive the right care at the right time and all in one, central location. One campus providing this comprehensive continuum of services is Stonehill Franciscan Services. Stonehill provides the opportunity to receive the services they need and the ability to change service levels as needed, all in one convenient location. Someone who starts out in Independent Living can choose a post-acute rehabilitation stay or outpatient therapy following an injury or surgery, stay active in a wellness center, or can move to assisted living or a memory care unit if their diagnosis necessitates and to long term care when needed. 

Many older Iowans are very active and are choosing to stay in their homes longer and seek out long term care later. The Iowa State Data Center shows 20% of Iowans age 65 and older are still participating in the labor force. Stonehill offers a comprehensive continuum of services built on over 100 years of tradition for serving the community and provides care with the foundational values of compassion, hospitality, reverence, and stewardship. Recently Stonehill added a dedicated Palliative Care Program and Hospice Care Dedicated Unit and is beginning plans to add Memory Care Assisted Living. In partnership with Aegis Therapies, new therapy options have been added such as LSVT Big and LSVT Loud for people who have Parkinson’s. Stonehill is proud to partner with many community resources including UnityPoint Health-Finley Hospital and MercyOne Dubuque, as well as Crescent Community Health Center, which offers a dental clinic right on the Stonehill campus. Resident transportation to health appointments is also available. 

Working together with the community, Stonehill can help prepare Iowa seniors for the next chapter of life and meet the changing needs of our community. To learn more, visit www.StonehillDBQ.com.

The Stonehill Wellness Center is open to residents, team members, and the community at large.

Doing Nothing in Retirement

A show of hands, please: How many of us are doing nothing we’d planned to do once we quit working? How many of us are, more accurately, doing nothing at all?

I thought it was just me, jettisoning carefully laid plans for how I’d spend my time and opting to do ... not much. I’m not the only one among my friends. Those who are ahead of me claim they did the same thing for one year. That length of time seems to be the common theme, spending a year chilling out, avoiding responsibility if it involves making plans and in general hiding from those who want to rope us into doing ... anything. The suspected reason: We did too much during our working years.

At the end of the year, I’m told, it’s like coming up for air, looking around at the world and deciding to join it again.

Experts say this happens frequently, that once we retire we don’t know how to make new friends, and so on. I think they’re wrong. It’s not that we don’t know how to do those things, we just don’t want to. When it comes to volunteering, they say that the “menial” type of volunteer work available doesn’t appeal to us. But then neither does the “mentoring” they say should be the answer to it all because it would use our skills.

Once I identified this “I’m not going to do anything” mentality in myself, I decided to counter all the TV watching with a personal strategy designed to at least get me out of the house. On a big calendar I’ve made entries for things like visiting the library once a week or checking out a class at the senior college.

And when the time comes I don’t actually have to do those things. I can say no.

​© 2019 King Features Synd., Inc.

The Dubuque Chorale presents Canticles of the Spirit
​ by Ruth Assmus, Dubuque Chorale

The Dubuque Chorale, its chamber choir Cadenza,
​and Dubuque Chorale Children’s Choir

The Dubuque Chorale, its chamber choir Cadenza, and the Dubuque Chorale Children’s Choir are excited to announce their spring concert, Canticles of the Spirit, hosted by their guest collaborators, the Clarke Collegiate Singers. The concert will take place in Clarke University’s Sacred Heart Chapel to help the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary celebrate 175 years of education at Clarke.

Amanda Huntleigh, the Dubuque Chorale’s Artistic Director, says that for this concert the Chorale “wanted to take this opportunity to highlight music of the spirit” due to the concert’s unique sacred venue. Huntleigh continues: “I’m excited about the Chorale singing in the Clarke University Sacred Heart Chapel, since the space resonates so differently than the spaces where we typically perform.”

Canticles of the Spirit will include music from the Christian religious tradition as well as songs from a myriad of other faiths, and Huntleigh wants to emphasize the importance of this inclusionary approach. According to Huntleigh, the concert is “about shared humanity and the universality of the human spirit. This is why I did not just want a Christian concert, but something broader that speaks to anyone who might come to our concert seeking connection to something greater than themselves.”

When asked about their favorite pieces being performed in the concert, Assistant Director Roxanne Rollefson replied that hers is “‘Ubi Caritas’ by [Maurice] Duruflé … sung by Cadenza in this concert … the hymn is very old, perhaps as old as 4th century,” while Children’s Choir Director Karmella Sellers said that the Islamic piece the children are presenting might be hers. “Watching kids navigate another language is a wonder,” Sellers elaborates. “I think I also probably like it because I learned it by listening to Yusef Islam ([formerly] Cat Stevens) singing it. I’ve loved his voice for years.”

Canticles of the Spirit will be performed on Saturday, April 27th, at 7:30 pm and Sunday, April 28th, at 2:00 pm, at the Clarke University Chapel, 1550 Clarke Drive, Dubuque, Iowa. This concert is free and open to the public; however, freewill offerings will be accepted.

​The Dubuque Chorale Children’s Choir has also announced dates for interviews for the choir’s 2019-2020 season to be held at the Multicultural Center at 1157 Central Ave in Dubuque on May 4 and 18 at 9:00 AM. This choir is for children entering grades 3-6 in the fall of 2019. If you have questions, or would like to schedule an interview time, please call 563-580-6229 or check our website at dubuquechorale.org.

Dubuque Chorale Children’s Choir
(for children grades 3-6)

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UD Heritage Center 
Ends Season on High Notes
​ by Thomas Robbins, Executive Director, Heritage Center

OLÉ! Music and Comedy of Old Mexico
with the Original Three Amigos 
​Friday, April 12 – 7:30 p.m. in John and Alice Butler Hall

DUBUQUE, Iowa – University of Dubuque Heritage Center will close its sixth annual Live at Heritage Center Performing Arts Series with a variety of compelling events highlighted by a visit with Mark Twain, a trip to Old Mexico, and a return home to Dubuque by an acclaimed opera singer.

“An Afternoon/Evening 
with Mark Twain”
Starring Michael Mauldin
Friday, April 5
 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. 
in Babka Theatre

This final B.I.T.E. Size Series presentation will offer an intimate portrait of one of America’s most beloved and controversial literary figures performed by New York actor Michael Mauldin. His hilarious and insightful portrayal of Mark Twain recreates an actual lecture that the world-famous humorist would have delivered during his highly-acclaimed world tour culminating in 1905. Having toured over 35 years with this theatrical tour-de-force, Mauldin undergoes a makeup transformation to achieve an uncanny likeness to the 70-year- old “Grand Old Man of American Letters.” Mauldin leaves audiences with the indelible impression that they have actually witnessed the Old Man himself. With a combination of Twain’s published and unpublished works and speeches, the experience proves exciting for Twain aficionados and novices alike. A Q&A conversation with Mauldin follows each performance.

OLÉ!
Music and Comedy 
of Old Mexico with 
the Original Three Amigos
Friday, April 12 – 7:30 p.m. 
in John and Alice Butler Hall

The musical talents and comedic creativity of Paul Morocco and his two “amigos” fuse harmoniously to form the trio OLÉ! Extremely skilled comedic musicians, each member fights for their pride while playing, spinning, and throwing their Spanish guitars, rapidly weaving slapstick, pop parodies, and flamenco rhythms throughout their act. It’s an intoxicating mix of music and comedy, full of surreal invention and fun. OLÉ! offers exhilarating sounds from rhythms of flamenco to salsa, swing, blues, jazz and pop. The Montreal Gazette raved, “OLÉ! makes the marriage between frenetic slapstick and classical guitar seem natural.” A free preshow CyberCafé Knapp Stage concert from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. will be offered featuring Dubuque native Elizabeth Mary performing on vocals and guitar mixing country, blues, and pop.

“Lyrics Alive” 
with members of Lyric Opera
​of Chicago’s Ryan Opera Center
Friday, May 3 – 7:30 p.m. 
in John and Alice Butler Hall

Dubuque native and tenor Eric Ferring

This unique concert offers an opportunity to witness three impressive operatic talents. Dubuque native and tenor Eric Ferring joins soprano Ann Toomey and baritone Ricardo José Rivera in a diverse program with selections including opera, art song, Broadway, folk, jazz, and more, with piano accompaniment. These acclaimed performers from the Ryan Opera Center, Lyric Opera of Chicago’s apprenticeship program, perform solos and ensembles in a recital-format program.

Ferring, a Dubuque Senior High School graduate, received his bachelor of music from Drake University and master of music from the Boston Conservatory. He was a resident artist at Pittsburgh Opera for two seasons. Ferring was a 2017 apprentice singer at The Santa Fe Opera where he will return in 2020 for a major role debut. He has also been seen at Wolf Trap Opera and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where he received a career award recognizing his great vocal potential. This past season at Lyric Opera, Ferring performed several roles. He is a former voice student of Kristen Eby, assistant professor of music at UD.

Free preshow music will be offered live from the CyberCafé Knapp Stage from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. Charles Barland, professor of music at UD, will perform Broadway favorites on the piano.

​Other upcoming Live at Heritage events include:

March 31 – 2:00 p.m.
“Stuart Little” – A Family Series Performance performed by Virginia Repertory Theatre


April 6 – 7:30 p.m.
Canadian Brass
​– presented by the Dubuque Arts Council


April 14 – 2:00 p.m.
“The Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System” – A Family Series Performance performed by TheaterWorksUSA

Tickets can be purchased Monday through Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Farber Box Office, Heritage Center, University of Dubuque, 2255 Bennett Street; by phone at 563.585.SHOW; or online at www.dbq.edu/heritagecenter.

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