2006 Calendar of Events

Brown Bag Lunch Programs are free and open to the public. They begin at 12:05 and end at 12:55 PM. 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 South Dakota Arts Council support provided 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 Museum's Board of Trustees.

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

January 27

Brown bag lunch program, Happy Birthday, Mozart!, John Thomson, violin, and Susanne Skyrm, piano, USD Department of Music. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the world's great composers, was born in Salzburg, Austria, on January 27, 1756. To mark the 250th anniversary of his birth, Skyrm and Thomson will perform Mozart's Sonata in D for violin and fortepiano (K. 7), a short sonata that he wrote when he was 8 years old, and a masterpiece from his maturity (age 28), the Sonata in B-flat for violin and fortepiano (K. 454)—all on musical instruments of the period. 12:05 p.m. Free.

February 3

Brown bag lunch program, The Euclid Quartet performs Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 59, No. 1 in F Major. 12:05 p.m. Free.

February 17 Brown bag lunch program, Klassic Klarinet Klezmer, Deborah Check Reeves, clarinet, University of South Dakota, with John D. Check, piano, Central Missouri State University. 12:05 p.m. Free.

February 24

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.

March 17

Brown bag lunch program, Music from County Clare, John Everist, concertina, and Bill Peterson, fiddle. Irish music (jigs, reels, hornpipes, and polkas), played in the old style, illustrates the history of traditional Irish dance from the 1700s to the present. 12:05 p.m. Free.

March 31

Brown bag lunch program, Armando Bayolo's Ludi for double string quartet. Degas String Quartet (Western Piedmont Symphony, Hickory, NC) and the Euclid String Quartet (Morningside College) join forces to perform this new work by a young American composer born in Puerto Rico in 1973. 12:05 p.m. Free.

March 31-April 2

USD Gamelan Workshop with Joko Sutrisno, Music Director, Indonesian Performing Arts Association of Minnesota. Open rehearsals, call 605-677-5306 for more information.

April 7 Brown bag lunch program, Mostly French:  In Memory of Laurette Goldberg.  Angeline Case, University of Memphis, plays music for harpsichord by Bach, Couperin, and Jacquet de La Guerre. 12:05 p.m. Free.

April 28

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

April 29 Live radio broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion featuring Garrison Keillor, from the USD DakotaDome. Program will feature instruments and music from the collections of the National Music Museum, including a reprise performance of the music of Felix Vinatieri with Steve Charpié and and The New Custer Band.  Keillor's guitarist, Pat Donahue, will play instruments from the NMM's Great American Guitars exhibition; Susanne Skyrm (USD Music Department) will play an American reed organ, with USD mezzo-soprano, Aidan Soder, singing Stephen Foster songs.    4:45 p.m. Special ticket sales for Friends of South Dakota Public Broadcasting, The University of South Dakota, and the National Music Museum from February 21-February 25 (8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CST). General ticket sales begin February 27 (8 a.m. to 8 p.m. CST through March 3 and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST thereafter). Ticket prices start at $20. Call 1-800-333-0789 for ticket information.

May 5

Brown bag lunch program, American Songs and Stories, featuring Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, banjo, guitar, harmonica, and vocals, Maryville, Tennessee. This dynamic duo maintain an active performance schedule, singing songs and telling stories from the American tradition, including railroad songs, Appalachian music, blues, slave songs, Civil War music, gospel, work songs, cowboy music, ballads, as well as Sparky's original compositions. 12:05 p.m. Free.

May 12 Brown bag lunch program, Music in the Air, Bayou Seco Duo, featuring Ken Keppeler and Jeanie McLerie, Silver City, New Mexico. Performing music of the Southwest—from the Mississippi River to the deserts of Arizona—the Bayou Seco Duo presents an exciting and informative program of Southwestern music on diatonic accordions, fiddles, guitar, mandolin, banjo, and harmonica. 12:05 p.m. Free.

May 19-23

The National Music Museum (NMM) hosts the 35th annual meeting of the American Musical Instrument Society, held in collaboration with The Galpin Society and the International Committee of Musical Instrument Museums and Collections (CIMCIM) of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Friday-Tuesday, May 19-23, 2006. Click here for further information.

May 26 Brown bag lunch program, The Euclid Quartet performs Hugo Kauder's String Quartet No. 2 and Claude Debussy's String Quartet in g minor, Op. 10. 12:05 p.m. Free.

June 2

Brown bag lunch program, The Poker Alice Band plays country, swing, jazz, and blues. South Dakota Arts Council support provided with funds from the State of South Dakota, through the Department of Tourism and State Development, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 12:05 p.m. Free.

June 5-8

June 5-8:    Summer Explorer Series for students entering the fourth through sixth grade in the fall of 2006.  Registration due by Wednesday, May 31. June 12-15:  Summer Discovery Series for students entering the first through third grade in the fall of 2006.  Registration due by Wednesday, June 7.

June 23

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.

July 28 Brown bag lunch program, The Jigheads—Ancient, New and Unplugged, Willson & McKee, Colorado Springs, Appalachian and hammered dulcimer, harp, bouzouki, guitar, and vocals. South Dakota Arts Council support is provided with funds from the State of South Dakota, through the Department of Tourism and State Development, and the National Endowment for the Arts. 12:05 p.m. Free.

August 11

Brown bag lunch program, A Schubertian Showcase, featuring Kathleen Solose, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, playing Schubert's Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960 on the NMM's grand piano by Anton Martin Thÿm, Vienna, ca. 1815. 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 8 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.

September 15

Brown bag lunch program, Climbing Up the Mountain, featuring Russ Stewart singing songs of inspiration, rebellion, and protest from the African-American tradition. Accompanied by Jayson Dobney playing the NMM's new digital piano donated by Yamaha Corporation of America and Westmoor Music, Sioux Falls. 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 22 Brown bag lunch program, Mozart's "Hoffmeister." The Euclid String Quartet performs Mozart's String Quartet in D, K. 499, known as "The Hoffmeister." 12:05 p.m. Free.

September 29

Brown bag lunch program, "There's No Business Like Bow Business," featuring the Dakota String Quartet playing music by Bach, Mozart, Shostakovich, and Scott Joplin. 12:05 p.m. Free.

October 5

Native American Day celebration, Vermillion 5th-grade students, all day.

October 6

Brown bag lunch program, Both Sides of the Atlantic, featuring Sara Grey, a New Hampshire native who has lived in Crieff, Scotland, for the past 36 years. Sara, who is a traditional song collector and singer with a mesmeric, frailed, 5-string banjo style, will perform with her son, Kieron Means, guitar. 12:05 p.m. Free.

October 13 Brown bag lunch program, Rural Roots & the Global Family. Dynamic story songs with Larry Olson, rural Lincoln County, South Dakota, guitar and vocals. 12:05 p.m. Free.

October 20

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.

October 27 Brown bag lunch program, Klassic Klarinet Klezmer II, Deborah Check Reeves, clarinet, NMM Curator of Education, with John D. Check, Central Missouri State University, playing the NMM's new digital piano donated by Yamaha Corporation of America and Westmoor Music, Sioux Falls. 12:05 p.m. Free.

November 3

Brown bag lunch program, Ritmos Latinos: Sounds of Percussion from Latin America and the Caribbean, featuring Darin Wadley and members of the USD Percussion Ensemble. 12:05 p.m. Free.

November 10 Brown bag lunch program, Songs From the Stage:  Opera and Broadway Favorites, featuring Darla Earnest, soprano, who performs on opera and musical theater stages internationally, with Jayson Dobney, NMM Associate Director, performing on the NMM's new digital piano donated by Yamaha Corporation of America and Westmoor Music, Sioux Falls. Joining Earnest and Dobney will be Bruce Earnest, tenor, Director of Musical Theater at USD, and Aidan Soder, mezzo-soprano, Assistant Professor of Voice at USD. 12:05 p.m. Free.

November 17

Brown bag lunch program, An Electrifying Era: The Choralcelo, presented by John Koster, NMM Conservator. 12:05 p.m. Free.

NMM 11315.  Choralcelo console (left) by the Choralcelo Company, Boston, 1917, formerly in the New York City studio of Wilber and Regene Farrington, and related electrical equipment. Gift of C. Wade Jenkins, Hanover, Massachusetts, 2006. Currently on exhibit in the NMM's Lewison Gallery.

December 1

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

December 8 Brown bag lunch program, A Euclidean Encore, featuring the Euclid String Quartet. 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 PM. 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 South Dakota Arts Council support provided 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 Museum's Board of Trustees.

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

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