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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.
January 23
  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. |
January 30
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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. |
January 30-February 1
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Gamelan Workshop for Tatag (USD Gamelan Ensemble) with Joko Sutrisno, Music Director, Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota. Free. Open to the public.
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February 20
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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. |
March 13
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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.
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March 20
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April 3
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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. |
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April 17
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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. |
April 24
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Brown bag lunch program, Bach, Viola, and Inspired, featuring violists I-Chun Chiang and Gideon Carlisle, members of the South Dakota Symphony, assisted by Augustana College faculty cellist Kathryn Hufnagle and pianist Marilyn Schempp. Explore the viola music of J. S. Bach and its influence on the compositional styles of such diverse, international composers as Max Reger, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and John Corigliano. 12:05 p.m. Free.
May 1
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Brown bag lunch program, The Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan, featuring the Tatag Gamelan Ensemble (USD). 12:05 p.m. Free.
May 8
 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. |
May 21
 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. |
May 22
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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. | 
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June 1-4
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Dakota Jones and the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon Summer Explorer Series for students entering 4th-6th gradesMonday-Wednesday 9:00-11:30 AM; Thursday 9:00 AM -1:00 PM |
June 8-11
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Dakota Jones and the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon Summer Discovery Series for students entering 1st-3rd gradesMonday-Thursday 10:00-11:00 AM OR 1:00-2:00 PM |
June 12
Brown bag lunch program, Cantori: Kaleidoscope. Cantori, an advanced-level children's choir from the Nebraska Choral Arts Society presents a concert of varied choral repertoire, including folk-song settings from many different countries and in many languages. Highlights include selections by Palestrina, Mozart, Saint-Saens, and the set Petites voix by Poulenc. 12:05 p.m. Free.
June 19
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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. |  |
June 26
Brown bag lunch program, Musical Selections from the Italian and French Repertoires, featuring Sonia Lee, harpsichord, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, playing works by Frescobaldi, Philips, Böhm, Demars, and Forqueray on the NMM's harpsichords by Giacomo Ridolfi, Italy (ca. 1662-1682) and Jacques Germain, Paris (1785). 12:05 p.m. Free.
July 10
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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. |  |
July 24
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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. |
September 17
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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. |  |
September 18
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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. |
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October 16
Brown bag lunch program, The Autonomous Autoharpist, featuring Bryan Bowers, autoharp master, singer/songwriter, and storyteller, Sedro Woolley, Washington. For nearly three decades, Bowers has been to the autoharp what Earl Scruggs was to the five-string banjo. He presents instrumental virtuosity combined with warmth, eloquence, expression and professionalism. 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 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.
April 16
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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. |  |
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