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Pea Soup, Pancakes, and Punsch - $10
(prepaid with 2001 dues - $7)
at the
Annual Meeting, Saturday, Jan. 27nd
6:00 - 9:00 PM
Inwood Forest Country Club, 7603 Antoine
(north of US 290, past W. Little York Rd)
Click here for a map produced by Mapquest.
RSVP to John Stavinoha - 713 661 0159
DUES NOTICE FOR 2001
Please don't delay, send in your renewal check today!!
Family $35
Individual $25
Student / Au pair $10 (fall-spring)
Make check payable to: The Swedish Club of Houston
| Mail to: | Update: |
| John Stavinoha | Phone: __________ |
| 807 Mulberry Ln. | E-mail: __________ |
| Bellaire, TX 77401-3807 | Address: __________ |
Swedish Club Fall Picnic
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What: A picnic for club members & friends.
This is a (free) family event, so we will have games and
prizes for kids and adults.
The games will consist of a water balloon toss (all ages + one for kids only),
a Swedish mambo contest (all ages -- trust me, it is easy...
no mambo dancing required), and a scavenger hunt.
Prizes will be IKEA gift certificates and Swedish Club T-shirts.
Horseshoe pitching will be available also. When: Saturday, 15 September 2001, 4:00 PM Where: Bear Creek Park, between shelters 7 and 8 What to bring: Bring a picnic basket and an ice chest and enjoy the afternoon with your friends in the Swedish Club. Bring bug repellant and some lawn chairs if you like. There are picnic tables and grills in the area also. |
Smörgåsbord
When: Friday, 12 October 2001, 6:30 PM
Where: Brae-Burn Country Club,8101 Bissonnet
How much: $30 per person, cash bar
Table 1
Crisp bread rounds - Leksands from IKEA
Swedish Farmers and Edam cheeses
(thin sliced, or blocks with planes)
Braunschweiger brick
Three sorts of herring: Wine, Mustard, Cream
Thinly sliced Cucumber in vinegar/sugar water
Boiled egg halves with smoked herring pate
Smoked salmon / Gravad lax
Mustard sauce for gravad lax (egg mustard vinegar sugar dill)
Table 2
Braised red cabbage
Small boiled new potatoes, skin on
Swedish meatballs with brown gravy and side of lingonberry jam
Janssons Temptation (potato onion and anchovy casserole)
Spiral sliced ham with mustard sauce
Dessert
Rice pudding
Apple Cobbler with vanilla sauce
RSVP to John Stavinoha - 713 661 0159
Make check payable to: The Swedish Club of Houston
| Mail to: |
| John Stavinoha |
| 807 Mulberry Ln. |
| Bellaire, TX 77401-3807 |
A World of Song:
Music of Scandinavia and More
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SPRING, Texas - The sounds of over 250 north Houston choral students will
fill The Centrum, 6823 Cypresswood Dr., when Swedish conductor, Robert Sund,
conducts a choir concert entitled, A World of Song: Music of Scandinavia and
More at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, November 4, 2001.
Cypress Creek Foundation for the Arts & Community Enrichment (FACE) is proud
to present this unique concert, as part of their Focus on Education program.
This concert is the second in a series of nine concerts in the
2001-2002 Fifth Anniversary Season Promenade Concert Series. Students from Cy-Fair, Kingwood and Klein Oak high schools will combine for the performance. Sund was named Conductor of the Year in 1993 by the Föreningen Sveriges Körledare (Association of Swedish Choirmasters). For the past 17 years he has been professor of choral studies at the Musikhögskolan (Academy of Music) in Stockholm. Sund is conductor of the internationally renowned male choir Orphei Drängar. He joined the choir as a second bass in 1965, and was also its assistant conductor under Eric Ericson for a number of years. Sund's career as a conductor, adjudicator, composer/arranger, and educator has earned him worldwide acclaim. He has guest conducted the radio choirs in Stockholm and Vienna, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, the Adolf Fredriks Bach Choir, the Coro Nacional in Cuba, the Grupo de Canto Coral in Buenos Aires, and the World Youth Choir. He has lectured in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, England, the USA, Venezuela, Argentina, and New Zealand. The University of Minnesota, the University of Tacoma, and the College of Music in Düsseldorf offered him a chair as visiting professor. He is also known as a composer and arranger of both instrumental and choral works that are widely performed throughout the world. The program will include Mozart: V'amo di core; Åslund: KOM; Åhlén: Sommarpsalm; Rachmaninov: Bogoroditse Devo; Victoria: Domine, non sum dignus; Kostiainen: Jaakobin pojat; Marschner: Gute Nacht; Sund-Alin: Fever; Bardos: Cantemus, Sund: Alouette and The Drunken Sailor. A concert CD will be available for order the evening of the concert. FACE, a non-profit performing arts foundation, brings a variety of performances to The Centrum, a world-class, 900-seat facility on the campus of the Cypress Creek Christian Community Center on Cypresswood Drive in Spring. Who: Cypress Creek FACE Promenade Series Concert What: A World of Song: Music of Scandinavia and More with Swedish Conductor Robert Sund and North Houston Choral Students When: 7:00 p.m., Saturday, November 3, 2001 Where: The Centrum, 6823 Cypresswood Drive, Spring Tickets: $12, $10, $6 (Group Ticket pricing available) Contact: FACE Box Office at 281-440-4850 or http://www.cypresscreekface.org |
Christmas Traditions
Please join us in celebrating
The Swedish Club Annual Christmas Traditions
featuring Lucia and her Procession
on Saturday December 8, 2001
at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 306 East 15th Street, Houston.
The program is from 3:30 PM until 6:00 PM, and includes a short church service, followed by an opportunity to shop for Christmas presents at the Bazaar. Childrens dances around the Christmas tree will also be part of the festivities, as well as some traditional refreshments and music. For more information, please call the information event line: 713-774-2739.
God Jul och Gott Nytt År!
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