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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 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 19
 Susanne Skyrm |
 Darla Earnest |
 Deborah Check Reeves |
Brown bag lunch program, Eine Schubertiade, music by Franz Schubert, performed by members of USD's Dakota Baroque & Classic Company: Darla Earnest, soprano; Deborah Check Reeves, six-keyed boxwood clarinet; and, Susanne Skyrm playing the NMM's grand piano by Anton Markus Thÿm, Vienna, ca. 1815; Rawlins Fund, 1985. Restoration funds gift of Stella Anker (1912-2004), Vermillion, in whose memory this program is dedicated. 12:05 p.m. Free.
January 26
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February 23
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Brown bag lunch program, Mexican, Italian, and French Baroque Music, featuring Héloïse Degrugillier (France), recorder, and Maria Virginia Rolfo (Argentina/Italy), harpsichord. This international duo, who met while performing early music in The Netherlands, are both currently studying in the U.S. Rolfo, a specialist in early keyboard music, is pursuing a Master of Music degree with a concentration in the History of Musical Instruments at USD and will perform on the NMM's harpsichord by Jacques Germain (Paris, 1785). Sponsored by Schmitt Music, Sioux Falls. 12:05 p.m. Free.
March 16
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March 30
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April 20
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Title page and engraving from Versuch einer Gründlichen Violinschule by Leopold Mozart (Augsburg: 1756). First Edition. Mahoney Collection. |
Brown bag lunch program, The Mahoney Collection of Violin-family Books, Periodicals, and Ephemera, with violin music played to honor the donors, John and Barbara Mahoney, Tallahassee, Florida, who will be in attendance. John Mahoney assembled one of the world's great research collections of books, periodicals, and other printed materials about the instruments of the violin family. It has been donated to the Archives and Special Collections at the I. D. Weeks Library at the University of South Dakota, where it will be accessible for use by faculty, staff, students, and visiting researchers. 12:05 p.m. Free.
April 27
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May 4
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Brown bag lunch program, The Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan, USD Gamelan Ensemble with guest artist, Joko Sutrisno, gamelan master teacher and performer, St. Paul, Minnesota. This program is partially funded by a generous Arts/Humanities Partnership grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council and the South Dakota Arts Council. 12:05 p.m. Free.
May 25
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June 1
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June 4-11
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June 4-7: Summer Explorer Series for students entering the fourth through sixth grade in the fall of 2007. Advance registration required.
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June 8
Brown bag lunch program, The Choral Arts Society Teens (CAST). This choir consists of students in grades 8 through 12 chosen from more than 20 schools in the Omaha area. All are brought together by their love of singing and the desire to create beautiful choral music. CAST has toured to Chicago, Colorado, and Houston, where they have had the opportunity to work with some of the top directors in the country, and this year's tour will take them to San Antonio where they will sing at the University of Texas and perform at the famed San Fernando Cathedral. 12:05 p.m. Free.
June 15
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June 22
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September 15
Concert, America's Favorite Cowboy and Grammy Award-winning Western Music and Comedy . . . The Cowboy Way! Riders in the Sky—Ranger Doug, Woody Paul, Too Slim, and Joey the CowPolka King—perform music firmly grounded in the rich American music traditions of such legendary cowboy singers as Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and the Sons of the Pioneers. With fun-filled performances that have enchanted audiences of all ages in this country and abroad for almost 30 years, Riders in the Sky, traveling out of Nashville, are now the stuff of legend. Slagle Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Advance tickets: $25 per person ($40 at the door). Call 605-677-5909 for tickets (Visa or MasterCard).
Pre-concert, old-fashioned pig roast under the tent with cole slaw, baked beans, potato salad, ice cream, and soft drink, $10.00 per person (pig roast seating limited to the first 350 people who order pig roast tickets). NMM/USD lawn. 6:00 p.m. Call 605-677-5909 for tickets.
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September 21
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September 28
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Lloyd A. Loar (1886-1943) |
Roger Siminoff |
Brown bag lunch program, The Lore of Loar, presented by Roger Siminoff, Arroyo Grande, California, one of America's foremost authorities concerning stringed instruments and their design, who founded Pickin' magazine, was later editor of Frets, and wrote about Orville Gibson in Walter Carter's book, Gibson Guitars: 100 Years of an American Icon. "Lloyd Allayre Loar's contribution to stringed musical instruments," according to Siminoff, "ranks in the high order of the musical genius of Antonius Stradivarius, Orville Gibson, Leo Fender, and Christian Martin." Siminoff's engaging presentation will recount the life and work of Lloyd A. Loar, the talented inventor and musician, many of whose innovations in electric and electronic musical instrument design are preserved in the collections of the NMM. 12:05 p.m. Free.
October 5
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.
October 12
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October 19
Brown bag lunch program, A Commemoration of the 300th Anniversay of the Death of Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707), Maria Virginia Rolfo (Argentina/Italy). Rolfo, a specialist in early keyboard music, is pursuing a Master of Music degree with a concentration in the History of Musical Instruments at USD and will perform on the NMM's harpsichord by Jacques Germain (Paris, 1785) and the NMM's pipe organ by Christian Dieffenbach (Bethel Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1808). 12:05 p.m. Free.
October 26
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November 2
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November 9
Brown bag lunch program, Prof. Michelle Kiec and the University of Mary Saxophone Quartet, Bismarck, North Dakota, 12:05 p.m. Free.
November 16
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November 30
Brown bag lunch program, Bows and Bridges, Saddles and Scrolls, featuring the Dakota String Quartet. 12:05 p.m. Free.
December 14
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Brown bag lunch program, Holiday Brass, featuring the USD Faculty Brass Quintet. 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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