CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Pictured from left to right are Dr. Ken Lyons, Mary Giese, Pat Kirner, Christine Norman Hall and Julianne Paustian who performed a program of folk music at the Tuesday Musical Club’s November meeting.

Guest performer Dr. Ken Lyons joined Tuesday Musical Club members Mary Giese, Pat Kirner, Christine Norman Hall and Julianne Paustian for a program featuring folk music from five different countries at the club’s Nov. 12 meeting. The meeting was held at the home of Marsha Bristley, with Cindy Mack serving as co-hostess.

Norman Hall and Paustian opened the program with four violin duets written by contemporary Norwegian composer Egil Storbekken, whom Paustian had met personally while visiting Norway. Next they played Bohemian composer Antonin Dvorak’s familiar and lovely “Slavonic Dance No. 4” as a piano duet.

Giese introduced Lyons as her guest, relating that Lyons had been learning to play the violin independently. Together with Kirner on guitar, they performed three pieces from American folk literature, as well as the traditional Irish air, “Danny Boy.”

The program closed with Giese and Kirner performing a Maori stick game, “Titi Toria,” from New Zealand. “Titi Toria” is often presented at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Hawaii, as well as in New Zealand. The game involves tapping dowel sticks on the ground and exchanging them in the air with a partner to the rhythm of the “Titi Toria” song, sung in the Maori language. Following their demonstration, Giese and Kirner invited the club members to try their hands at the movements of the game.

Refreshments were served following the program, and a club business meeting was conducted to conclude the afternoon.