2010 Calendar of Events

Brown Bag Lunch Programs are free and open to the public. They begin at 12:05 and end at 12:55 p.m. Bring a brown bag lunch. Or, if you prefer to eat early, late, or not at all, please join us anyway. Coffee and tea will be available fora 50-cent donation.

The NMM's public programming is underwritten by the South Dakota Arts Council through the S. D. Department of Tourism and State Development and the National Endowment for the Arts, the USD Student Association, and the members of The Stradivari Society, a fund-raising initiative of the NMM's Board of Trustees.

Note: All events are held in the Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, unless otherwise noted.

January 15

Brown bag lunch program, The Living Roots of Music, featuring Lauren Pelon, Red Wing, Minnesota. The story of music and musical instruments from diverse cultural heritages will be explored through Pelon's singing and virtuosic playing on more than 25 ancient and modern instruments. 12:05 p.m. Free.

February 19

Brown bag lunch program, P. D. Q. Bach's Lunch: A Quodlibet of Treats, featuring Vermillion's own Deborah Check Reeves (clarinet), Ken Drobnak (tuba), Susanne Skyrm (piano), Lorrie Thomas (bassoon), Stephanie Kocher (flute), and others, playing hilarious music composed by Peter Schickele (under his infamous P.D.Q. Bach [1807-1742?] pseudonym) for unusual combinations of instruments. Combining elements from Western musical traditions, popular culture, and slapstick, this performance of music attributed to "the last and least son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach," should not be missed! 12:05 p.m. Free.

March 19

Brown bag lunch program, Music for Sweet and Cross Flutes, featuring Susanne Skyrm (USD) and Judy Walker (Sioux City), playing music for harpsichord, fortepiano, flute, and recorder. 12:05 p.m. Free.

April 16

Brown bag lunch program, An English Treat, featuring Susan Alexander-Max, London, playing the NMM's grand piano by Anton Martin Thym, Vienna, ca. 1815. Alexander-Max, a fortepianist and clavichordist specializing in the music of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, has performed, recorded, and taught extensively throughout the U.S., the U.K., the Far East, and Europe. 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 10

Brown bag lunch program, Duos for Harpsichord and Fortepiano, featuring Asako Hirabayashi, harpsichord (Falcon Heights, Minnesota) and Gail Olszewski, fortepiano (Minneapolis), playing works for two keyboards by J. S. Bach, W. F. Bach, J. Mattheson, F. Couperin, Krebs, and Mozart, as well as some of Hirabayashi's own compositions. 12:05 p.m. Free.

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Brown Bag Lunch Programs are free and open to the public. They begin at 12:05 and end at 12:55 p.m. Bring a brown bag lunch. Or, if you prefer to eat early, late, or not at all, please join us anyway. Coffee and tea will be available for a 50-cent donation.

The NMM's public programming is underwritten by the South Dakota Arts Council through the S. D. Department of Tourism and State Development and the National Endowment for the Arts, the USD Student Association, and the members of The Stradivari Society, a fund-raising initiative of the NMM's Board of Trustees.

Note: All events are held in the Arne B. Larson Concert Hall, unless otherwise noted.

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