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Association Events

 Event and activity reservations must be made at The aboard the bus and check everyone in. For safety, the sheet so we may plan accordingly. The first two
Retreat Front Desk. tour monitor/escort will sit in the front seat behind rows on each bus are reserved for the Monitor/Escort
 Refunds are given only if an activity is cancelled. the bus driver. and any special accommodations. Thank you.
 Each event indicates an RSVP deadline date and in  PERFUME/SCENTS: Please refrain from  REFUND PROCEDURES: If an activity is
wearing perfume, cologne, and scented bath products
cancelled, all funds will be refunded as quickly as
some cases may be as much as four weeks prior to when attending events and bus trips. possible.
the actual event, should tickets need to be purchased.
 The popularity of any trip means it may sell out long  CELL PHONES: While riding in a bus or  CANCELLATIONS AND WAITING LIST:
participating in a group tour, please limit your cell
before the RSVP date, so please plan accordingly. phone conversations. We encourage you to wait until For your convenience, once an event is filled or final
 We load the bus for day trips approximately 10 you are off the bus or able to step away from the reservations are given, a waiting list will be started.
Ordered meals cannot be changed.
minutes prior to departure times stated in each trip group and can talk privately.
description.  SPECIAL NEEDS: Please indicate special needs  PAYMENT: We accept cash, checks, and all
 Our tour monitor/escort will board the bus first in at time of purchase for the trip or event. We will do credit cards. For your convenience, you may call The
order to ensure everything is prepared for our our best to accommodate all requests. Be sure to ask Retreat and pay over the phone with a credit card.
journey. The monitor/escort will then invite you the monitor to note the accommodations on the event

Watercolor Painting Class - March 427 songs in their repertoire, there's definitely something for everybody.
Thursday, March 3rd Feel free to bring a beverage of your choice to enjoy. Wine glasses will be
The Retreat Thursdays from provided.
1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Corned Beef and Cabbage dinner served around 6:00 p.m. while the
Your teacher is Maria Winkler, MFA and PhD, musicians take a break.
who has taught art and art education at several Dinner and Music $17.00 / per person
universities for 40 years. You can see her Music only $8.00 / per person
portfolio and resume on her web site, www.mariawinkler.com.
In the class, Maria provides handouts of a sample painting or photograph,
from which you will paint your own painting at your own pace. Lessons Fred Moyer Piano Concert
will include a critique of the finished lesson and introduction to the next Sunday, March 20th
project. We will paint a variety of subjects. We discuss painting 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
techniques, and the use of the elements of art: color, shape, form, Frederick Moyer began
texture, space, and value; and the principles of art, which are balance, studies at age seven with his
movement, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, repetition, pattern, variety and mother Betsy Moyer, a
unity. graduate of Oberlin
$125.00 for March, 5 Sessions Conservatory. In junior high
Want to start taking the class? Call Maria 916-872-4356 school, he began studies with
Theodore Lettvin, and in high
school entered Curtis Institute
AARP Driver Safety Class of Music where he studied
2 DAY CLASS with Eleanor Sokoloff. Later,
Monday, March 14th and Tuesday, March 15th at Indiana University, he studied with Menahem Pressler of the Beaux
8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. DAILY Arts Trio. Throughout, he coached with his grandfather David Moyer, a
This two day course will be led by Tom McMahon. Hear about the new student of Ferruccio Busoni and Ernst Von Dohnanyi.
California laws and how they affect your driving. This class may make For over 35 years, Fred has made a living solely from concerts and
you eligible for a discount on insurance (check with your agent). You recordings. He plays hundreds of concerts annually across the country,
must attend both days to receive credit for completing the course. has performed in 44 countries, in such venues as Suntory Hall in Tokyo,
Payment: Make checks payable to AARP and give to the instructor the Syndey Opera House, Windsor Castle, Carnegie Recital Hall,
morning of the 1st class. Tanglewood, and the Kennedy Center.
$20.00 for AARP members His many recordings comprise works by over thirty composers and
$25.00 for Non-Members reflecting an affinity for a wide variety of styles. His CD of Clara
Please bring your AARP card and Driver’s License to the first day of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor was the first commercial
class. Must RSVP at The Retreat in advance. recording of a large-scale Romantic work using an orchestra created from
sampled sounds. His Mussorgsky/Mendelssohn CD was the first using the
Bosendorfer 290 SE Recording Piano. Other recordings include David
St. Patrick’s ~ It’s 5 O'clock Somewhere ~ Ott’s Second Piano Concerto with the London Symphony which was
Gruvy2ns written for Moyer. Many other composers have written for Moyer
Thursday, March 17th including Pulitzer Prize winners George Walker and Ned Rorem, and
5:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Donal Fox whose Etudes of 2002-2006 were commissioned by the
The Gruvy2ns have been rockin' Northern Guggenheim Foundation.
California for a while now and everywhere they $13.00 / per person
go people are simply amazed at the sound, not to
mention how much fun they are. With well over
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