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Vol. 4, Issue 19 Editor: Susan Williams Week of May 15, 2019 Community Activities Coordinator

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND……

MASTER GUITARIST EDGAR CRUZ

FRIDAY, MAY 17TH

4:00 PM

GRAND BALLROOM

Come on out for an afternoon concert by acclaimed guitarist Edgar Cruz. If you’ve heard him before you know how he can make a guitar sing. He can play just about any song you request; you can’t stump him easily. So grab your friends and neighbors and join us for some music by Edgar Cruz in the grand ballroom at 4:00 pm.

IF YOU ARE GOING TO THE OKC DODGERS GAME ON MONDAY,

MAY 20TH, please be in the lobby ready to leave by 10:00 am. You will get your ticket when you board the bus that morning.

https://epworthvilla.org/communitylife/resident-calendar/

EDITION HIGHLIGHTS:

(click on event to go to that page)

Save A Tree.......………....…….....….2

Villa Voices to Present Vespers in Song………………………………………….3

Blood Pressure Checks……………...5

Piatigorsky Foundation……....6 & 7

Infant Crisis…..............................9

New Books in Library................11

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COFFEE CHAT WITH THE CEO

Enjoy coffee with CEO Ron Kelly, Thursday, May 16th, starting at 10:00 am in the Coffee Lounge. Joining Ron will be Chef Daniel Paredes. These coffees are being held every Thursday to give residents an opportunity to chat in an informal setting.

SAVE A TREE!!

If you want to save a tree, raise your hand. Want to know how??? If you have a computer or smart phone and get email, you can receive the Happenings by email weekly.

Help save time, paper and thus the world by opting into this option by letting Michele at the front desk know and she will add you to the distribution list.

Thank you to those who already receive the Happenings by email. You ROCK!!

REMINDER: There will be a Garden Meeting on Thursday, March 16th at 2:00 pm in the Wellness Center. If you are interested in having a garden plot this year, please plan to attend.

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SUNDAY SCHOOL

SUNDAY, MAY 19TH BRILL CHAPEL

9:30 AM

Romans 11:11-24 THE CALL OF THE GENTILES

Paul writes that the Call to Spread the Gospel is to both the Jewish people and the Gentiles living in Rome. The purpose of our lesson today is to realize how easily pride can destroy effective Christian discipleship. Our questions today will focus on: If Jesus is the Christ, what will happen to the Jews who don't follow him? Why did God extend salvation to the Gentiles before saving all of Israel? Does this mean the Jews failed God?

Come listen to some insightful teaching. Pat will play before the service and we will enjoy signing together.

VESPERS

THURSDAY, MAY 16TH

3:30 PM

BRILL CHAPEL

Vespers speaker will be Rev. Joseph Alsay, Rector at St. Augustine of Canterbury Episcopal Church, OKC.

Music by the Villa Voices: “Father Jacob”

VESPERS

THURSDAY, MAY 23rd

3:30 PM

BRILL CHAPEL

The Epworth Choir, “Villa Voices” will present an all

music worship service at Vespers, May 23, at 3:30

p.m., in the Brill Chapel. The Service will also

include scripture, prayers, and hymns. The anthems

will be some of the favorites from the Villa Voices over

the last year.

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ART AT EPWORTH ART CORNER (Second Floor above the Library)

We are very fortunate to have the space for all to participate in needle work, crafts and arts of all mediums (oil, acrylics, water, etc.).

Come join the fun on Tuesdays at 2:30 pm in the Art Corner. The group will continue drawing classes by resident Doris L.

Needlework Group

Interested in meeting with friends and engaging in energizing conversation? THEN WE’RE THE GROUP FOR YOU!! We meet on Thursdays at 1:00—3:00 pm in the Art Corner on the second floor, above the lobby.

OH, DID I MENTION, we also work on needlework projects. You too can do this. If help is needed, this talented group can teach you to knit, crochet, do needlepoint, cross stitch or embroider. Come renew your old skill or learn a new one. More importantly, spend quality time with Epworth friends.

As always, the Art Corner is always available for anyone to use for their own enjoyment.

Fitness on the Floors Schedule for May

2019

Friday, May 17: 3 South

Friday, May 24: 3 North

FRIDAY, MAY 31:

NO FITNESS ON THE FLOORS

We will start at 10:30 am.

Bring your neighbor!

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INQUIRING MINDS

MONDAY, MAY 20TH

7:14 PM

WELLNESS CENTER

“THE DUTCH MASTERS”

Moderator: Franz van Antwerpen

The third and last presentation of “The Dutch Masters” covers the life and paintings

of Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669). He was the greatest artist of the Dutch school and

the leading portrait painter in the country. A master of light, shadow and rich colors, his

paintings covered all genres including group portraiture, landscape and religious work.

BLOOD PRESSURE CLINIC

TUESDAY, MAY 21ST

9:30 - 10:30 AM

COFFEE LOUNGE

HAVE YOU HAD YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE CHECKED RECENTLY?

Blood pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of the arteries that carry blood from your heart to other parts of your body.

TUESDAY, MAY 21ST

3:00 PM

SOUTH CLASSROOM

HearingLife will be at Epworth Villa on Tuesday, MAY 21st beginning at 3:00 pm in the South Classroom, to help with your hearing aid needs. Free cleaning and adjustments of your existing hearing aids, servicing your existing hearing aids, minor repairs at no charge, battery supplies and other assisted listening devices at a discounted price. They can also answer any questions you may have regarding your hearing or hearing aids at that time. No appointment or sign up is necessary, just SHOW UP if you need help with your hearing aid. http://www.hearinglife.com/

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THE PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION

PRESENTS DORIS STEVENSON ON PIANO AND

MARCUS THOMPSON ON VIOLIN

FRIDAY, MAY 24TH

7:00 PM

BRILL CHAPEL

The Piatigorsky Foundation makes it’s return to Epworth Villa with a program you are sure to enjoy by Doris Stevenson, pianist and Marcus Thompson, violinist. Let’s fill the chapel for these two very talented musicians.

Doris Stevenson, pianist, has won lavish praise from critics and public alike in performances around the world. She has soloed with the Boston Pops, played at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Salle Pleyel in Paris and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. Her acute sensitivity and profound musicality have made her a sought-after partner with some of the leading lights in string playing. She has performed with Gregor Piatigorsky, Ruggiero Ricci and Paul Tortelier, great players of the past. Early in her career, she was invited to play with Heifetz and Piatigorsky together. She was pianist for the cello master classes of Gregor Piatigorsky, who described her as "an artist of the highest order." She is a founding member of the Sitka Summer Music Festival in Alaska and has performed in many other chamber music festivals.

Her recordings include the Saint Saens violin sonatas with Andres Cardenes on the Arabesque label and the complete Mendelssohn cello works with Jeffrey Solow for Centaur, as well as three CDs with cellist Nathaniel Rosen: the Brahms Sonatas for JMR records, plus two albums of romantic pieces entitled "Reverie" and "Orientale" for Northstar. A recent Stravinsky CD with violinist Mark Peskanov received a Grammy nomination. Miss Stevenson taught for ten years at the University of Southern California and has been Artist in Residence at Williams College since 1987. She has been playing concerts for the Piatigorsky Foundation ever since it began presenting concerts more than 20 years ago.

Marcus Thompson, violinist is a brilliant violist who has been heralded for “major mastery of his instrument” and called “the complete interpreter,”. Marcus Thompson is indeed a remarkable violist.

Since his exciting and heralded New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1968, Mr. Thompson has continued to delight audiences with his wide breadth of repertoire spanning four centuries on both the viola and viola d’amore as concert soloist, recitalist, and in chamber music.

(See page 8 for further information on Marcus)

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PIATIGORSKY FOUNDATION (continued from page 7)

Born in New York’s South Bronx, Marcus Thompson began violin studies at the age of six. At fourteen, he continued violin with Louise Behrend at Juilliard Pre-College, and later attended The Juilliard School where he studied viola. Ten years later he was awarded Juilliard’s first doctoral degree in viola following studies with Walter Trampler.

Mr. Thompson has appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, The Atlanta Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta and the Czech National Symphony. In recital, Mr. Thompson has appeared in series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum in Boston, Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis, the Terrace Theater at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Herbst Theater in San Francisco, and at numerous colleges and universities. He has also appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Chamber Music Society of Amsterdam in Holland, and with the Boston Chamber Music Society, of which he has served as Artistic Director since 2008.

His recordings include the standard and the unusual –concertos by Bartok and Penderecki, Hindemith, and that of organist Anthony Newman, commissioned by Mr. Thompson for the 1985 International Viola Congress. He has also recorded a fascinating work by Barry Vercoe “Synapse for Viola and Computer” included in a disc entitled “Computer Generations,” and the premiere recording of Frank Martin’s Sonata da Chiesa for Viola d’Amore and Strings.

Among several career highlights have been a performance of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a performance of the Hindemith Viola d’Amore Concerto Kammermusik 6 with the Philadelphia Orchestra during the Hindemith Centennial at Saratoga, and performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on ‘Live from Lincoln Center’ and at a Presidential Inaugural Concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Mr. Thompson has appeared recently as soloist with the Boston Pops, as a guest with the Borromeo String Quartet at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and in festivals and radio broadcasts of live concerts on stations throughout the United States and Canada.

In addition to his busy performing career, Mr. Thompson serves as a member of the Viola Faculty at New England Conservatory of Music, and has served as the Robert R. Taylor Professor of Music and a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he founded performance programs in private studies and chamber music. In June of 2015, Mr. Thompson was named to MIT’s highest faculty honor, becoming one of its thirteen Institute Professors.

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Technicians from Smith Medical will be here in the Joe White Living Room on Tuesday, MAY 28TH beginning at 11:00 am to look at walkers and scooters for problems you may be having FREE of charge. If they find something that they cannot repair or fix while here, there may be a small charge for parts and to possibly take it back to their shop in Edmond.

So, if you are having trouble, just stop by the Joe White Living Room (NO NEED TO SIGN UP) starting at 11:00 am to visit with them. For more information visit: http://smithmedicalequipmentokc.com

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29TH

1:00 PM

ART CORNER

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TRIP TO RIDE THE OKC STREETCARS

FRIDAY, MAY 24TH

LEAVE @ 1:00 PM

We will be making a return trip to Downtown OKC for a Ride on the OKC Street Cars. On this trip we will ONLY be riding the street cars then returning to Epworth.

Currently the TRIP IS FULL. If you would like to be put on the waiting list for this trip, please contact Susan Williams. You may leave a message for her at 486-1385. If you need to cancel, please let her know as soon as possible.

BINGO WITH BILL

FRIDAY, MAY 31ST

7:15 PM

REDBUD

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NEW ‘READS’ IN THE EPWORTH VILLA LIBRARY: The following books have been added to the Epworth Library and are ready to be checked out. New books are usually shelved at the beginning of the Fiction Books and after the Paperbacks. Later, they will be placed in the correct order on the shelves.

Bradford, Barbara Taylor The Heir (large print book)

Bradford, Barbara Taylor Just Rewards (large print book)

Burke, James Lee The New Iberia Blues

Carter, Jimmy A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety

Fielding, Helen Olivia Joules & Overactive Imagination

(Large Print Book)

Hill, Clint Mrs. Kennedy and Me

Kilmeade, Brian Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans

McGreal, Chris American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts

O’Reilly, Bill Killing Jesus

Owens, Delia Where the Crawdads Sing

Patterson, James The Chef

Steel, Danielle The Cottage

Woods, Stuart Unbound

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SATURDAY MATINEE MOVIE

(Shown in the 2nd Floor Theater)

SATURDAY, MAY 18TH

2:00pm

2018

FIRST MAN This film is the riveting and triumphant story behind the first manned mission to the moon, focusing on Neil Armstrong and the events leading to the extraordinary Apollo 11 flight, one of the most dangerous missions in history. This account of the 60’s space race, the story behind the first manned mission, will be an immersive and rigorously precise experience with characters consumed by single-minded passion.

Ratings: PG Run Time 2hr 21min

EVTV MOVIE WILL BE SHOWN

On EVTV Channel 1960

SAT. 7:00 PM AND

WED. 8:00 PM

SAT., MAY 18TH AND

WED., MAY 22ND

VACATION

The Griswold family are on a quest. A quest to a Walley World theme

park for a family vacation, but things aren't going to go exactly as planned,

especially when Clark Griswold is losing all thought towards a mysterious

blonde in a red Ferrari.

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EPWORTH VILLA HAPPENINGS IN PICTURES

WHISKEY BARREL SALOON

WOMEN’S COFFEE

MUFFINS FOR MOMS, GRAND-MOMS & ALL IL LADIES

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Epworth Villa Weekly Activities Week of May 15 through May 22, 2019

Wednesday May 15

8:30 a.m. 9:00 9:45

Leave @ 10:00

1:00 p.m. 3:00 – 4:00

8:00

Catholic Communion – BRILL CHAPEL Flex and Stretch – Wellness Center Limber Up – Wellness Studio Grocery Shopping – Homeland/Uptown Grocery Tai Chi – Wellness Classroom McDaniel Reception (Come & Go) – Coffee Lounge Movie – EVTV Channel 1960, Replay

Thursday May 16

9:00 a.m. 10:00 10:45

1:00 p.m. 1:30

3:30 7:00

Water Aerobics – Pool Coffee with the CEO-Coffee Lounge Chair Yoga – Wellness Classroom Needlework Group – Art Corner Balance & Fall Prevention – Wellness Center Vespers Service – Brill Chapel Vespers REPLAY – EVTV Channel 1960

Friday May 17

9:00 9:30

Leave @ 10:00 10:30

4:00 p.m.

Flex and Stretch – Wellness Center Line Dancing – Wellness Studio Shopping – Walmart Fitness on the Floors-3 South Edgar Cruz – Grand Ballroom

Saturday May 18

9:00 a.m. 10:00 10:45

2:00 p.m. 7:00

Tai Chi w/Kathy Plummer – Wellness Studio Flex and Stretch - Wellness Center Chair Yoga – Wellness Center Matinee Movie in the Theater Movie Night – EVTV Channel 1960

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Business Hours for Services Available at Epworth Villa

Monday May 20

9:00 a.m. 9:30

Leave @ 10:00 10:15 11:00

2:00 p.m.

7:14

Flex and Stretch – Wellness Center Line Dancing – Wellness Studio OKC Dodgers Baseball Game Limber Up – Wellness Studio Golden Swans – Wellness Studio Parkinson’s Exercise Class – Wellness Classroom Inquiring Minds – Wellness Classroom

Tuesday May 21

9:00 a.m. 9:30 – 10:30

10:45 1:30 p.m.

2:30 3:00

Water Aerobics – Pool EAH Blood Pressure Checks-Coffee Lounge Chair Yoga – Wellness Classroom Balance & Fall Prevention – Wellness Classroom Art Group – Art Corner HearingLife-South Classroom

Wednesday May 22

8:30 a.m. 9:00 9:45

Leave @ 10:00

1:00 p.m. 8:00

Catholic Communion – Brill Chapel Flex and Stretch – Wellness Center Limber Up – Wellness Studio Grocery Shopping – Walmart Market/Natural Grocers/Braum’s Tai Chi – Wellness Classroom Movie – EVTV Channel 1960, Replay

M – F 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Closed 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Mercy Clinic is Open

M, W, F 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. BancFirst is Open

M - F 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Market is Open

M – F 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Thrifty Pharmacy is Open

DINING HOURS

M – Sat. 7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Café Open

M, F & Sat. 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Bistro Open

T, W, TH 11:00 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. Bistro Open

1st, 2nd, & 3rd Sun. 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Bistro Open

T – TH 4:45 -- 7:00 p.m. Redbud Open

4th Sun. of Month 11:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Redbud Open