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 5-7

Gamelan Workshop for Tatag (USD Gamelan Ensemble) with Joko Sutrisno, Music Director, Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota.  Funded by the NMM and the USD Honors Program. Free.  Open to the public.

February 19

Brown bag lunch program, P. D. Q. Bach's Lunch: A Quodlibet of Treats, featuring Vermillion's own Deborah Check Reeves (clarinet), Susanne Skyrm (piano), Lorrie Thomas (bassoon), Stephanie Kocher (flute), Clayton Lehmann (trumpet), Gary Reeves (horn), Jonathan Alvis (trombone), Ken Drobnak (tuba), 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.

April 30

 Brown bag lunch program, The Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan, featuring the Tatag Gamelan Ensemble (USD). 12:05 p.m. Free.

July 30

Brown bag lunch program, Keyboard Sonatas, featuring Michael Tsalka, Mexico City, Mexico, playing works by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Emanuel Bach, Daniel Gottlob Türk, Wolfgang A. Mozart, and Luigi Cherubini on the NMM's Tangentenflügel by Frantz Jakob Spath & Christoph Friedrich Schmahl, Regensburg, 178[4] and the NMM's clavichord by Johann Paul Kraemer and Sons, Göttingen, 1804. 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.

September 17

Brown bag lunch program, Front Porch Stories & Blues, featuring Alvin "Little Pink" Anderson, son of the legendary South Carolina Piedmont bluesman, Pink Anderson; as such, he is the only second-generation blues player active today. 12:05 p.m. Free.

October 1

Brown bag lunch program, Muzio Clementi, Father of the Pianoforte, featuring Erin Helyard, McGill University, Montreal, the 2009-2010 Westfield Concert Scholar (Cornell University, Ithaca, New York), playing Clementi sonatas on both the harpsichord and the fortepiano. Helyard's doctoral research about Clementi (1752-1832) reflects the Australian-born keyboardist's passion for the music and culture of the eighteenth century and the ideals of the Enlightenment. 12:05 p.m. Free.

October 15

Brown bag lunch program, The Euclid Quartet, featuring Jameson Cooper (violin), Jacob Murphy (violin), Luis Enrique Vargas (viola), and Si-Yan Darren Li (cello). The Euclid Quartet, whose performances are filled with passion, virtuosity, and sensitivity, is one of the most well-regarded chamber ensembles of its generation. Taking its name from Euclid Avenue, at the cultural heart of Cleveland, this award-winning group currently holds the prestigious quartet residency at Indiana University South Bend. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Watch This Space for Future Event Listings

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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