2009 Calendar of Events

Brown bag lunch program, Percussive Pyrotechnics, featuring Tatsuya Nakatani, a contemporary percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan. His music is based in improvised/experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music. Nakatani utilizes the drum set, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, and metal objects in his creative performances. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Confederates at the Keyboard: Southern Piano During the Civil War Era, featuring David B. Thompson, Limestone College, Gaffney, South Carolina, piano, and Bruce C. Kelley, University of South Dakota, voice. Music from all genres (dances, song arrangements, and concert pieces), along with diary excerpts attesting to the importance of music and the piano in society during the war, will be featured. 12:05 p.m. Free.

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

Brown bag lunch program, Turkish Musical Traditions, featuring Gary Pederson, Sioux Falls. Pederson, an instrumental music teacher at Patrick Henry Middle School, was one of four South Dakota teachers, chosen by the South Dakota Council on World Affairs, to travel to Turkey in 2008, through a grant awarded by the Turkish Cultural Foundation. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Klassic Klarinet Klezmer, Deborah Check Reeves, clarinet, The University of South Dakota, with John D. Check, piano, University of Central Missouri. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program featuring Mário Marques Trilha, Aveiro, Portugal, playing on the NMM's great harpsichords. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Appalachian Folk Songs and the Mountain Dulcimer, featuring Gail Dooley, soprano, Morningside College, Sioux City. Dooley’s multi-media presentation will highlight the origins of Appalachian folk song and the development of the mountain dulcimer—both created by melding together German and Scots-Irish folk music traditions. The program will include traditional fiddle tunes, played on the dulcimer, along with ballads that crossed the ocean with immigrants from the British Isles. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Rose Songs: A Dozen from American Popular Music, featuring John and Susan McNeill, Springfield, South Dakota, playing songs about roses from folk, big band, country, and gospel sources.  12:05 p.m. Free.

I-Chun Chiang

Gideon Carlisle

Kathryn Hufnagle

Marilyn Schempp

Brown bag lunch program, The Baroque to Broadway:  Celebrating 350 Years of Great Music!, featuring Amy Ridings and Patrick Sciannella, Phoenix. Double Play, the world's only professional flute and tuba duo, has been performing throughout the U.S. since 1989. This husband and wife team, graduates of the Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, will present an entertaining musical program interspersed with their own unique blend of humorous and historical anecdotes. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, All-American: Music from America. The Contrapunctus Brass Trio (Amy Schendel, trumpets; Marilyn Schempp, piano; and Todd Schendel, trombone), Texas Woman's University, perform works by Gershwin, Clarke, Wilson, and Waller. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Rocky Mountain Celtic, with Willson & McKee, Colorado Springs. The popular duo, Jigheads, returns with a "non-traditional performance by design," to define "what Celtic becomes when it settles comfortably in the West." Appalachian and hammered dulcimer, harp, bouzouki, guitar, and vocals. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Summer Explorer Series for students entering 4th-6th grades

Monday-Wednesday 9:00-11:30 AM; Thursday 9:00 AM -1:00 PM

Summer Discovery Series for students entering 1st-3rd grades

Monday-Thursday 10:00-11:00 AM OR 1:00-2:00 PM

Brown bag lunch program, Vermillion's Own King of the Guitar, featuring T. Wilson King, South Dakota poet/songwriter, acoustic and bottle-neck guitars. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, An Eclectic Musical Journey, featuring Curtis Teague & Loretta Simonet, acoustic folk music duo from Minneapolis, with their unique blend of traditional Celtic tunes, American folk songs, original music, and familiar old-time songs. Acclaimed for their exquisite harmonies and incisive songwriting, the duo will perform on an array of stringed instruments, including Celtic harp, mandocello, mandolin, guitar, clawhammer banjo, and ukulele. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Concerto Transcriptions and Variations, featuring Michael Tsalka, Mexico City, Mexico, playing works for harpsichord and fortepiano by Vivaldi, Marcelo, Türk, Mozart, and J. S. Bach on the NMM's harpsichord by Jacques Germain, Paris (1785) and Tangentenflügel by Frantz Jakob Spath & Christoph Friedrich Schmahl, Regensburg (178[4]). 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Professors Polka Party, featuring Prof. John F. Check, concertina (Vermillion); Prof. John D. Check, tuba (University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg); Prof. Deborah Check Reeves, clarinet (University of South Dakota); and, a selection of professorial friends from the USD Department of Music. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Picking Up Where He Left Off, featuring the return of folk singer and song writer, Dennis Warner (Clearwater, Minnesota), in a memorable program blending humor, audience participation, and serious music with his own unique, percussive style of playing the six- and twelve-string guitars. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, American Songs & Stories, featuring Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, Maryville, Tennessee, banjo, guitar, harmonica, and vocals, including railroad songs, Appalachian music, blues, slave songs, gospel, cowboy songs, and more. 12:05 p.m. Free.

Brown bag lunch program, Banner Era Gibsons: The Story of the Extraordinary Flattop Guitars of 1942-1945 and the Women Who Built Them, John Thomas, Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law, Hamden, Connecticut. Enjoy some lively fingerpicking music played on a Gibson war-time guitar while learning about the "mystery banner" that appeared on Gibson guitar headstocks shortly after the U.S. entered W.W. II and disappeared when the war ended! 12:05 p.m. Free.