2008 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 for 50 cents.

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 18

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.

January 18-20

Gamelan Workshop with Joko Sutrisno, Music Director, Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota. Funded by a Bush Grant administered through the USD Center for Teaching and Learning. Sessions will run from Friday evening through Sunday morning and include the musical and technical aspects of the gamelan, as well as Javanese culture and traditions. Saturday, January 19, 1:30: Special session, "Introduction to the Gamelan." Free.  Open to the public.

January 25  Brown bag lunch program, Songs and Stories, featuring Tim Duggan, voice and guitar, Professor of English, The University of South Dakota, performing his original compositions.   12:05 p.m. Free.

February 1

 Brown bag lunch program, Benny's Gig, with Deborah Check Reeves, clarinet, and Rick Rognstad, double bass, The University of South Dakota. Morton Gould's composition, "Benny's Gig," written for the legendary clarinet player, Benny Goodman, will be featured. 12:05 p.m. Free.

February 8 Brown bag lunch program, Earthbound Songs and Stories, featuring Barb Ryman, singer/songwriter, Minneapolis. A rich mosaic of contemporary folk, country blues, Celtic-flavored ballads, old-time gospel, and bits of folk-rock. 12:05 p.m. Free.

February 15

Brown bag lunch program, Woody Guthrie, featuring Evie Johnson, The University of South Dakota. A high-energy presentation about the life, works, and philosophy of one of the country's greatest folk music icons. 12:05 p.m. Free.

February 22

Brown bag lunch program, Listen to the New EQ!, featuring The Euclid String Quartet, Indiana University South Bend, playing Bartok's Quartet No. 6; Shostakovich's Polka; and, Puccini's Chrysanthemums.  12:05 p.m. Free.

March 14 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.

April 4

Brown bag lunch program, Presidential Pursuits:  The Music of Thomas Jefferson's Life and Times, featuring Nancy Cooper, harpsichord and organ, University of Montana, Missoula. Cooper, one of the most respected authorities on Jeffersonian-era music, was the music consultant for Ken Burns' PBS documentary, Jefferson (1997). 12:05 p.m. Free.

April 11

  Brown bag lunch program, Inikagapi:  Celebration of Life, featuring Jerome Kills Small, Red Robin, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, performing and translating a selection of the Lakota sweat lodge songs featured on his latest CD (2007).  A man of many talents, Jerome is a traditional storyteller, oral historian, and drum maker, as well as an instructor in USD's American Indian Studies Department. 12:05 p.m. Free.

April 18

Brown bag lunch program, Music of a One-Track Kind:  An Hour of Train Songs, featuring John and Susan McNeill, Springfield, South Dakota, playing train songs from folk, big band, country, and gospel sources.  12:05 p.m. Free.

April 25

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

May 2

Brown bag lunch program, Terrific Trios!, The Cleveland Duo, piano and violin, with James Umble, saxophone. Members of the renowned Cleveland Orchestra, this exciting threesome are pioneers in the chamber music world. Their unique programming combines new music, exclusive transcriptions, and familiar repertoire for any of six possible instrumental combinations.   12:05 p.m. Free.

May 9

Brown bag lunch program, Jack Norton and the Mullet River Boys, Minneapolis, perform vintage ragtime and jazz, hobo bluegrass, honky-tonk country, gospel and vaudeville-inspired folk.  12:05 p.m. Free.

May 16

Brown bag lunch program, The Jazz Diversity Project, created by the Sioux Falls Jazz & Blues Society, and featuring Jim Speirs, trumpet; Jeremy Hegg, piano; Joel Shotwell, saxophones; and Bobby Gripp, drums. A multi-media presentation and live jazz combo bring to life the role played by jazz in the early 20th century, through the Civil Rights Movement, to the present day.   12:05 p.m. Free. The Jazz Diversity Project is supported in part by First PREMIER Bank/PREMIER Bankcard, the Larson Foundation, the South Dakota Humanities Council, the Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation, and the South Dakota Arts Council.

May 23

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Brown bag lunch program, Brilliant Variations on Sentimental Songs:  Slipping Virtuosity into the Antebellum Drawing Room, featuring Vivian Montgomery, Newton, Massachusetts, fortepiano, Adjunct Professor, College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, and Darla Earnest, Adjunct Professor of Voice, USD Theatre Department. 12:05 p.m. Free.

May 30

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Brown bag lunch program, Late Eighteenth-Century Iberian Keyboard Music, featuring Mário Marques Trilha, Aveiro, Portugal, playing music by João Cordeiro da Silva, João Sousa Carvalho, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, and António Leal Moreira, on the NMM's harpsichord by José Calisto, Portugal, 1780. 12:05 p.m. Free.

June 2-5

June 9-12

    

June 13

Brown bag lunch program, Contemporary Traditional Acoustic, featuring Dorian Michael, central California, playing acoustic guitar selections ranging from his own original compositions to blues and traditional. 12:05 p.m. Free.

June 20

Brown bag lunch program, The Brown Bag Polka Premiere, featuring John F. Check, Oshkosh, Wisconsin; John D. Check, University of Central Missouri; Deborah Check Reeves, University of South Dakota; and friends from the USD Department of Music. 12:05 p.m. Free.

July 18

 Brown bag lunch program, Seeing Things, featuring Heidi Muller (singer, appalachian dulcimer player, and guitarist) and Bob Webb (dulcimer, guitar, mandolin, electric cello), Charleston, West Virginia. In her 30 years of performing, Muller has released six critically-acclaimed recordings and been a featured performer in concert halls, coffeehouses, radio broadcasts and festivals nationwide including the Kerrville Folk Festival, Kentucky Music Week, and Mountain Stage. 12:05 p.m. Free.

July 25

Brown bag lunch program, Le "Champion" du clavecin, featuring Françoise Lengellé, Paris, playing works from the French repertoire on the NMM's harpsichord by Jacques Germain, Paris, 1785. 12:05 p.m. Free.

August 8

Brown bag lunch program featuring the Nordanstigs Spelmanslag, Sweden. Fifteen members of this popular Swedish ensemble will perform traditional Swedish folk music, from the northern part of Hälsingland, on violin, harmonica, melodeon, diatonic accordion, and guitar. 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 4

Brown bag lunch program, An Auspicious Moment: Sampling the Sounds of Tibet, featuring an ensemble of monks from the Gaden Shartse monastery in Mungrod, India, playing traditional Tibetan instruments from the NMM's collections. The monks, who will be in Sioux City from September 2-7, to build a sandmandala in the Levitt Gallery on Morningside College's campus, are touring the U.S. to raise money to equip a hospital located at their settlement in India. 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 5

Brown bag lunch program, Fingerstyle Fireworks, featuring guitarist, Bill Mize, Pittman Center, Tennessee, with Beth Bramhall, accordion. Applauded by critics and guitar enthusiasts alike for his composition, tone, emotion, and smooth "multi-part" style, Mize is a past winner of The National Fingerstyle Guitar Competition at The Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas. 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 12 Brown bag lunch program, Fantasies, Fugues, Toccatas, and Sonatas, featuring Asako Hirabayashi, harpsichord, Falcon Heights, Minnesota, playing works by J. S. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti, as well as her own award-winning compositions. 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 19

Brown bag lunch program, More 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 9

Native American Day celebration, Vermillion 5th-grade students. Demonstrations of traditional flutes, drums, singing, story telling, regalia, and food. Sessions: 9:30-10:45 and 1:00-2:15. Free.

October 10

Brown bag lunch program, Voices from the Baltics, featuring the folk music ensemble, "Sualë," from Šiauliai University, Šiauliai, Lithuania. 12:05 p.m. Free.

October 17

Brown bag lunch program, Get Along Little Doggies, featuring Bob Bovee & Gail Heil, Spring Grove, Minnesota, fiddle, banjo, guitar, harmonica, singing, and yodeling. Cowboy songs about bad horses, outlaws, trail drives, and love affairs will be spiced with old-time tunes from ranch dances and stories of the mountains and plains. 12:05 p.m. Free.

October 31

Brown bag lunch program, Halloween Trick and Treat, featuring John Thomson (violin), Arian Sheets (viola), and Stephanie Kocher (flute), University of South Dakota, performing Beethoven's Serenade,Op. 25 and Federigo Fiorillo's Trio in F, Op. 29, No. 1. 12:05 p.m. Free.

November 7

The Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan, featuring Tatag Gamelan Ensemble, USD. This special opportunity will be held in the Beede Gallery on the second floor of the NMM, where the Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan is on exhibit. You can either stand around the gamelan, where you can see and hear everything “up close and personal,” or you can sit in the hallway or a near-by gallery, where you will be able to hear the music resonating throughout the area. This special event is in addition to the traditional performance each year in the Arne B. Larson Concert Hall on the first Friday in May. 12:05 p.m. Free.

November 14

Brown bag lunch program, Ear of the Beholder, John Thomson, violin, and the University of South Dakota Chamber Orchestra perform music written during the lives of Stradivari, Amati, and Guarneri. Thomson challenges the audience to explore whether or not it can "hear the difference" when the same Vivaldi concerto is played on several different violins! 12:05 p.m. Free.

November 21

Brown bag lunch program, Beyond Scarlatti: Keyboard Music of 18th Century Spanish Composers, featuring Susanne Skyrm, University of South Dakota, playing the NMM's grand piano by Thomas and Barbara Wolf, The Plains, Virginia, 2004; after Johann Schantz, Vienna, ca. 1800. 12:05 p.m. Free.

December 5

Brown bag lunch program, Holiday Brass, featuring the South Dakota Brass Quintet, USD. 12:05 p.m. Free.

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 50 cents.

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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