by Michelle Sicat Powell | Dec 8, 2025 | Keynotes, Members Only
Season’s Greetings! I hope this season finds you in good health and in good spirits, and that you are able to celebrate in a meaningful way. 2025 concludes with an influx of new AMSF members and a few returning members. We welcome our newbies, and we hope you...
by Carol Henry | Dec 8, 2025 | Keynotes, Members Only
Yukiko Takedai was born in Hokkaido, which is the northernmost prefecture of Japan. She lived there with her parents and her brother until she was a teenager. Hokkaido was rich in natural beauty, and as a child, she and her family enjoyed skiing in winter and camping...
by Carol Henry | Dec 8, 2025 | Community Outreach, Keynotes, Members Only
Waltonwood Retirement Community is located in Ashburn, Virginia, and for Maryland members, it is a very long, scenic drive. However, of the five participants in this recital, three were from Virginia and welcomed the much shorter commute. There were four pianists and...
by Mark Serrano | Dec 8, 2025 | Keynotes, Members Only
Richard Zierdt, Randy Burd, Amy Kett, Kuo-Wei Wang, Yukiko Takedai, Alison Hickman, Patrick Shea AMSF’s November Cadenza Recital offered a wide mix of music, moving comfortably from Baroque clarity to Classical charm, Romantic emotion, and touches of 20th-century...
by Kuo-Wei Wang | Dec 8, 2025 | Keynotes, Members Only
Joan Rosenfield. Jack Stabile, Mary Lewers, Don Foy, Kuo-Wei Wang, Marion Spahn, Naomi Brodsky On a beautiful fall afternoon, seven performers met at the home of Joan Rosenfield in College Park, Maryland. To start, Joan and Naomi performed two movements of Brahms...
