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"we should make each community we do business in What is your role as the co-artistic director of the Madison Early Music Festival (with your husband Paul Rowe, professor of voice at UW's School of Music)? My husband Paul had also been a member of The Waverly Consort—we met when he auditioned. Our first summer at UW Paul , noticed that all the lights were on at the School of Music but the building was empty and he thought it was time to start the summer program, and collaborated with Chelcy Bowles [professor of music and director of continuing education music] to launch it. As co-artistic director, I came on to help choose each festival's themes, generate programming and teach. What do you love about the Madison Early Music Festival? MEMF is a perfect fit for the Madison community due to the university and the culturally aware people here. It offers a world-class concert series, lectures and other special events open to the public and an opportunity for workshop participants and faculty to immerse themselves for one week in a fascinating period—almost like a historical reenactment from that era! a better place because we're there." SAMUEL C. JOHNSON, FOUNDER OF JOHNSON BANK Madison Children's Museum's Wonder Ball Have a ball at our annual gala dinner and auction. Proceeds help bring to life one-of-a-kind opportunities for discovery learning and creative play at Madison Children's Museum. Special thanks to Title Sponsors JP Morgan Chase & Co., Michael Best and Friederich and Peggy and Tom Pyle and special guest Michael Feldman, host of Wisconsin Public Radio's Whad'Ya Know? Saturday, Aug. 24, 6 p.m. Madison Children's Museum, 100 N. Hamilton St., Madison Sponsorship tables begin at $1,500, individual tickets are $175. Reserve your seats today! Contact Cedric Johnson at (608) 256-6445, ext. 537 or cjohnson@MadisonChildrensMuseum.org. ••• Open to the public, the 14th annual Madison Early Music Festival, July 6-12, includes free pre-concert lectures by renowned musicologists, historians, artists and linguists. Special festival events include a masked ball and Handel Aria Competition for emerging singers. Tickets: the All Festival five-concert pass, $75; individual concerts, $20. Purchase tickets online, at Vilas Hall and Wisconsin Union Theater box offices, or by calling (608) 265-ARTS (2787). Visit continuingstudies.wisc.edu/lsa/memf. Karin Wolf is the arts program administrator for the Madison Arts Commission. Find her at cityofmadison.com /mac/index.cfm. Member FDIC johnsonbank.com July 2013 bravamagazine.com 73