WEBVTT 00:00:11.042 --> 00:00:19.717 - A very warm welcome to all of you to the 37th Annual Showcase of the Arts. We are so privileged, we 00:00:19.717 --> 00:00:28.653 - feel so privileged to welcome you. My name is Ingelore Welch, and I'm co-president with Peggy Bachman, 00:00:28.653 --> 00:00:36.894 - and I hope you very much enjoy this show. It's been our privilege to present. I want to add my 00:00:37.186 --> 00:00:45.451 - Blessings on all of you who came out of your gardens and came here today. We're so pleased to have you 00:00:45.451 --> 00:00:53.637 - see our award winners. And also, you'll have an opportunity to meet the chairs of these competitions, 00:00:53.637 --> 00:01:01.661 - people who do all the hard work. Thank you. Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome 00:01:01.661 --> 00:01:07.038 - to the 37th annual showcase of the Arts of the Bloomington Chapter 00:01:07.490 --> 00:01:13.371 - of the National Society of Arts and Letters. I am Murray McGibbon, and I'll be your Master of Ceremonies 00:01:13.371 --> 00:01:19.028 - for the program this afternoon, which will feature the top award winners of our 2003 competitions in 00:01:19.028 --> 00:01:24.740 - the arts. After the performances, we will present the awards in these competitions. The program today 00:01:24.740 --> 00:01:30.733 - will deviate a bit from the printed program. Daishan Chang's accompanist has to leave to play at a recital 00:01:30.733 --> 00:01:35.326 - later this afternoon, so Daishan will appear in the early portion of the program. 00:01:35.906 --> 00:01:42.728 - and Elisa Torres will close out the first half of the program. We begin with Sarah Smith. Sarah, from 00:01:42.728 --> 00:01:49.884 - Boca Raton in Florida, is at present a freshman in the ballet department of the School of Music at Indiana 00:01:49.884 --> 00:01:56.639 - University, and she plans to major in ballet performance with an outside field of nutrition science. 00:01:56.639 --> 00:02:03.728 - She began studying ballet at the Boca Ballet Theater when she was 11. By the time that she was a freshman 00:02:03.728 --> 00:02:04.798 - in high school, 00:02:05.314 --> 00:02:12.218 - She was attending the Harrod Conservatory, and after graduating, she spent a year training at the Joffrey 00:02:12.218 --> 00:02:19.188 - Ballet School in New York City. She has had starring roles in productions of La Bayadaire, The Nutcracker, 00:02:19.188 --> 00:02:25.832 - and Swan Lake. This next summer, she will spend six weeks training intensively at the American Ballet 00:02:25.832 --> 00:02:32.606 - Theater in New York City. For us, she will perform a variation from La Bayadaire. Ladies and gentlemen, 00:02:32.606 --> 00:02:34.430 - please welcome Sarah Smith, 00:02:35.618 --> 00:02:35.966 - Yeah. 00:04:03.938 --> 00:04:10.408 - Sam Wotton comes from Marietta, Georgia, and is completing his first year in the Master of Fine Arts 00:04:10.408 --> 00:04:16.879 - program in acting at Indiana University. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of 00:04:16.879 --> 00:04:23.797 - Georgia, where he appeared in productions of The Rivals, Buried Child, All Men Are Whores, and The Tempest. 00:04:23.797 --> 00:04:30.332 - Since arriving at Indiana University, he has performed in Art and Lysistrata, and this summer he will 00:04:30.332 --> 00:04:32.830 - be seen in Picasso at the La Panagile, 00:04:33.058 --> 00:04:41.439 - at the Brown County Playhouse. Today, he will present portions of William Shakespeare's Taming of the 00:04:41.439 --> 00:04:49.821 - Shrew and Neil LeBout's The Shape of Things. Thus have I politically begun my reign. It is my hope to 00:04:49.821 --> 00:04:58.695 - end successfully. My falcon now is sharp and passing empty. And till she's stew, she must not be forgorged. 00:04:58.695 --> 00:05:01.982 - For then she never looks upon her lure. 00:05:02.914 --> 00:05:10.278 - Another way I have to man my haggard to make her come, know her keeper's call, that is to watch her 00:05:10.278 --> 00:05:14.622 - as we watch these kites that bait and beat and will not be 00:05:32.738 --> 00:05:40.940 - There the bolster, this way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Aye, and amid this hurley, I intend 00:05:40.940 --> 00:05:49.463 - that all is done in reverent care of her. And in conclusion, she shall watch all night. And if she chants 00:05:49.463 --> 00:05:57.022 - to nod, I'll rail and brawl, and with the clamor keep her still awake. This is the way to go. 00:06:01.698 --> 00:06:12.062 - mad and had strong humor. He that knows better how to tame a shrew, and now let him speak to his charity 00:06:12.062 --> 00:06:22.328 - to show. When Picasso took his shit, he didn't call it a sculpture. He knew the difference. That's what 00:06:22.328 --> 00:06:30.718 - made him Picasso. And if I'm wrong about that, I mean, if I totally missed the point 00:06:31.202 --> 00:06:37.331 - and somehow puking up your own little shitty neuroses all over people's laps is actually art, then you 00:06:37.331 --> 00:06:43.341 - ought to realize that there's a price to it all. And somebody pays for people like you. Someone pays 00:06:43.341 --> 00:06:49.291 - for your two minutes on CNN. They always pay for people like you. And if you can't get that, if you 00:06:49.291 --> 00:06:55.480 - can't see that much, then you're about two inches away from using babies to make lampshades and calling 00:06:55.480 --> 00:07:00.478 - it furniture. I know they call it the art scene, but that's not all it should make. 00:07:01.506 --> 00:07:08.114 - There should be more than that. Anybody can be shocking or provocative, or stand up in class or the 00:07:08.114 --> 00:07:14.920 - mall, take a piss, paint themselves blue, run screaming through the church on the means of people that 00:07:14.920 --> 00:07:21.792 - they've slept with. But is it art? Or did somebody just forget to take their Ritalin? For art to exist, 00:07:21.792 --> 00:07:28.862 - there has to be a line. There has to be a line out there somewhere. A line between really saying something 00:07:40.066 --> 00:07:47.569 - Cheng is from a family of bassists in the city of Harbin in northeast China. He began playing the double 00:07:47.569 --> 00:07:54.714 - bass at the age of nine and is admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing when he was 00:07:54.714 --> 00:08:02.002 - 10. In 2000, he graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy and he now studies with Lawrence Hurst in 00:08:02.002 --> 00:08:08.862 - the Artist Diploma Program at Indiana University. Cheng has won a number of prestigious awards. 00:08:09.314 --> 00:08:16.273 - These include first prize in the 2001 International Society of Bassists Solo Competition, grand prize 00:08:16.273 --> 00:08:23.095 - in the two-year long American String Teachers Association National Solo Competition, first prize in 00:08:23.095 --> 00:08:29.985 - the 2002 Young Artists Competition of the Women's Auxiliary of the Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, and 00:08:29.985 --> 00:08:37.694 - first prize in the 2003 Young Concert Artists Auditions. At the auditions, he also received five special prizes. 00:08:38.274 --> 00:08:45.194 - the Clare Toe Prize, which sponsors his New York debut on May the 18th, 2004, the Washington Performing 00:08:45.194 --> 00:08:52.047 - Arts Society Prize, a Washington, D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center, the La Jolla Chamber Music Society 00:08:52.047 --> 00:08:58.901 - Prize, the Orchestra New England Prize, and the Fergus Prize. Quite exhausted after reading all those. 00:08:58.901 --> 00:09:05.688 - For us this afternoon, he will play a number by Pablo de Sarasate. Please put your hands together for 00:09:05.688 --> 00:09:06.686 - Daishan Chang. 00:18:02.338 --> 00:18:08.765 - Kim McGlynn was born in South Korea, adopted by her parents, and grew up in Lower Marion, Pennsylvania, 00:18:08.765 --> 00:18:15.130 - just outside Philadelphia. She attended a Quaker high school, and then Oberlin College, from which she 00:18:15.130 --> 00:18:21.372 - graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing, English, and Religion. Currently, she 00:18:21.372 --> 00:18:26.996 - is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction, as well as a Master of Arts in Literature at 00:18:26.996 --> 00:18:31.198 - Indiana University. Previously, she has received honorable mentions 00:18:31.394 --> 00:18:38.131 - in competitions for the Diane Vruels Fiction Award at Oberlin College and the Lois Davis Ellison Award 00:18:38.131 --> 00:18:44.737 - at Indiana University. This afternoon, she will read selections from her short story, Grace. Hi. I'm 00:18:44.737 --> 00:18:51.474 - going to read two passages from my short story, Grace. But before I do that, I'm going to give a brief 00:18:51.474 --> 00:18:58.080 - plot synopsis. The title character and narrator is a woman in her late 30s named Grace who is living 00:18:58.080 --> 00:19:00.958 - just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 00:19:01.858 --> 00:19:07.961 - She's a working artist and she teaches a Wednesday evening class on basic sculpture for some extra income. 00:19:07.961 --> 00:19:13.721 - Two characters you need to know for this section are Josh, her ex-husband, who she still talks to on 00:19:13.721 --> 00:19:19.482 - the phone and may in fact still be a little bit in love with, and Dean, a man in her sculpture class 00:19:19.482 --> 00:19:25.299 - who only has one arm and who she's starting to build a relationship with. Also, Ernest is a character 00:19:25.299 --> 00:19:29.406 - who appears very briefly, another man who's taking the sculpture class. 00:19:31.010 --> 00:19:37.758 - I'm going to read a selection from the beginning of the piece, which relates back story concerning Grace's 00:19:37.758 --> 00:19:44.255 - relationship with Josh. And then I'm going to skip to a scene from the middle of the story where Grace 00:19:44.255 --> 00:19:50.688 - is getting to know Dean. So if you're following along, the first selection begins on page two and the 00:19:50.688 --> 00:19:57.310 - second begins on page 13. After Josh decided he was leaving Arizona, there was no reason for me to stay. 00:19:58.978 --> 00:20:05.955 - Back east to the land of snow and ice, Josh said when I told him I was leaving too. He was blowing dust 00:20:05.955 --> 00:20:12.797 - off his camera lens before wrapping it in a soft cloth and packing it up. And he pretended to blow it 00:20:12.797 --> 00:20:19.506 - in my direction the way a fairy blows magic off her palm. We weren't really speaking so much at the 00:20:19.506 --> 00:20:26.349 - time, just asking questions like what went wrong and was this yours or mine? Questions we mostly knew 00:20:26.349 --> 00:20:27.422 - the answers to. 00:20:28.066 --> 00:20:35.470 - or at least it seemed that way. So I answered him honestly. Away from the land of sun and heat, I said, 00:20:35.470 --> 00:20:42.660 - back home, or what feels like it. I grew up just outside of Philadelphia in Lower Marion, right down 00:20:42.660 --> 00:20:49.778 - the street from my apartment now. My parents moved to Wisconsin after I graduated from college some 00:20:49.778 --> 00:20:57.182 - 17 years ago. But even they still refer to Lower Marion as home. They swear they will never move again. 00:20:58.818 --> 00:21:05.195 - They like to be rooted somewhere, and I don't blame them. It's why I moved back here after I got divorced, 00:21:05.195 --> 00:21:11.275 - back to the place I grew up. Shortridge Park with the same stream I caught minnows in when I was six. 00:21:11.275 --> 00:21:17.414 - The same shopping center, although the food fair changed to a shop right when I was living in Arizona, 00:21:17.414 --> 00:21:23.374 - and has changed to an Old Navy in the few years that I've been here. The same loud man who yells at 00:21:23.374 --> 00:21:28.798 - his daughters, sweet women with round faces, and who works at the pizza place in Narberth. 00:21:30.914 --> 00:21:37.247 - Unlike my parents and me, Josh likes locational change. He's a wildlife photographer and he's moved 00:21:37.247 --> 00:21:43.834 - all around the country from Louisiana to North Dakota to Maine taking pictures of animals that interest 00:21:43.834 --> 00:21:50.294 - him. He's gone to other countries too. He's got pictures of everything from manatees in South Florida 00:21:50.294 --> 00:21:56.753 - to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert. Currently, he's in Minnesota studying a pack of timber wolves who 00:21:56.753 --> 00:21:58.590 - he's named the Daniel Seven. 00:21:59.618 --> 00:22:06.790 - Why Daniels? I asked him. For David Daniels, he told me, the countertenor from that Scarlatti CD I gave 00:22:06.790 --> 00:22:13.824 - you last Christmas. He paused, and I could picture him smiling, his eyes dark and polished like dried 00:22:13.824 --> 00:22:21.134 - beans, his beard a content shade of black. When we were together, I begged him to shave his beard because 00:22:21.134 --> 00:22:28.167 - it made him look too mysterious. As if he was always scowling or smirking, I couldn't tell which, but 00:22:28.167 --> 00:22:28.926 - he hadn't. 00:22:30.274 --> 00:22:36.628 - I always told him that was the beginning of the end, though of course I knew better. In the end, he 00:22:36.628 --> 00:22:42.856 - was gone for weeks at a time, away on various projects, camping out like a middle-aged boy scout. 00:22:42.856 --> 00:22:49.401 - In the end, we drifted apart or maybe just realized that we hadn't been so similar in the first place. 00:22:49.401 --> 00:22:56.136 - In the end, he said he had his career and I told him I'd had an affair. In the end, he moved to Minnesota 00:22:56.136 --> 00:22:57.598 - and I moved back home. 00:22:59.522 --> 00:23:06.630 - Because wolves have beautiful voices, I told him after a minute, because they sing cantatas to the moon. 00:23:06.630 --> 00:23:13.534 - I always knew exactly what he meant, even when things were bad between us. Like I knew he was leaving 00:23:13.534 --> 00:23:20.506 - when he came in from the desert that night and told me that he'd found a lizard tail lying by the side 00:23:20.506 --> 00:23:27.411 - of the road, dropped from the claws of a hawk. Knew it by the way he held it in his hands, a cool and 00:23:27.411 --> 00:23:29.374 - scaly piece of broken flesh, 00:23:29.762 --> 00:23:37.480 - but precious, the discarding of something necessary in order for a creature to live. This is the second 00:23:37.480 --> 00:23:45.050 - selection. Tonight, Dean asked me again if I'd like to go smoke with him. He asks as if he knows I'll 00:23:45.050 --> 00:23:52.769 - say no, as if he's asking because it's a ritual now, and he seems to be looking forward to it, his eyes 00:23:52.769 --> 00:23:56.702 - sardonic, his shoulders already turning to the door. 00:23:58.722 --> 00:24:05.133 - So tonight I say yes, because I hate it when people assume, because I can see him leaving already. 00:24:05.133 --> 00:24:11.933 - All right, I tell him, I wouldn't mind. I can feel Ernest gaze upon me, speculative, his eyes inquiring, 00:24:11.933 --> 00:24:18.474 - but I don't turn to face him. I think Ernest likes me and I know that he likes Dean. I can see it in 00:24:18.474 --> 00:24:25.144 - his eyes when he talks to him, a certain light in his eyes when he jokes with him, the kind of respect 00:24:25.144 --> 00:24:28.382 - that men show each other, rough and affectionate, 00:24:29.090 --> 00:24:36.441 - The way they jostle shoulders or clap each other on the back to say they love each other. Perhaps Ernest 00:24:36.441 --> 00:24:43.653 - approves. I walk in silence behind Dean and we stand in silence together outside. It's starting to get 00:24:43.653 --> 00:24:50.864 - dark early and I can see the moon off behind the trees in the parking lot. It's slight and curved like 00:24:50.864 --> 00:24:58.846 - a fingernail sliver. I shiver a little bit and Dean starts as if he's just now aware of me. You're cold, he says. 00:24:59.586 --> 00:25:06.400 - I shake my head. Someone walked over my grave, I tell him, and he smiles. He doesn't offer me his jacket 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:13.278 - the way most men would do, just nods and smiles, accepting what I've said. Instead, he offers me a smoke, 00:25:13.278 --> 00:25:19.897 - flicking his wrist, the cigarette rising perfectly out of the pack toward me, and when I take it from 00:25:19.897 --> 00:25:22.558 - him, he lights it for me without asking. 00:25:23.970 --> 00:25:31.030 - He's so quick that I hardly notice how he's done it, maneuvering the lighter from the palm of his hand 00:25:31.030 --> 00:25:38.226 - and up to his thumb, holding the cigarette pack between his pinky and ring finger as if he's just trying 00:25:38.226 --> 00:25:45.149 - to be cool. He takes a cigarette for himself. In the dark, he looks calm and something else too, the 00:25:45.149 --> 00:25:52.414 - way boys looked when I was younger, the cigarette glowing red with promise with each inhalation, a breath 00:25:52.414 --> 00:25:53.374 - of certainty. 00:25:54.402 --> 00:26:01.654 - In the dark, it looks like his left arm is whole, as if he's just resting his hand in his left pants 00:26:01.654 --> 00:26:09.049 - pocket. How did it happen? I don't mean to ask him, but I do. I'm immediately sorry, and I take a drag 00:26:09.049 --> 00:26:16.301 - of my cigarette, embarrassed that I had to start this way, but he doesn't seem surprised. He doesn't 00:26:16.301 --> 00:26:21.758 - seem angry either. Accident when I was 17, he shrugs casually, car that is. 00:26:23.810 --> 00:26:30.696 - I nod and then realize he might not have seen me. He is looking to the west across the parking lot which 00:26:30.696 --> 00:26:37.450 - glitters with broken glass at the moon behind the trees. I clear my throat, but he doesn't turn toward 00:26:37.450 --> 00:26:44.335 - me. I almost died, he continues. He shrugs again. I was lucky to just lose an arm. Lucky, I repeat after 00:26:44.335 --> 00:26:51.155 - him, wondering how he can say this. And he smiles as if he knows what I'm thinking. I can see the gleam 00:26:51.155 --> 00:26:52.926 - of his teeth in the light. 00:26:54.306 --> 00:27:01.158 - Now he turns to me and I can see his eyes in the dark, sparkling like bits of mica. He steps closer 00:27:01.158 --> 00:27:08.011 - to me and I let him brush a strand of hair from my eyes. Funny, I think, the way men always know to 00:27:08.011 --> 00:27:15.137 - do that. The way they know how it gets you every time, that putting back into place, that small gesture 00:27:15.137 --> 00:27:19.934 - done in care of you. Lucky, he says again, and it sounds like a song. 00:27:26.050 --> 00:27:31.769 - Jenna Wolf hails from Atlanta, Georgia and is a freshman honors college student at Indiana University 00:27:31.769 --> 00:27:37.544 - planning to double major in ballet and business. She commenced her classical ballet studies at the age 00:27:37.544 --> 00:27:43.151 - of four and she joined the Ruth Mitchell Dance Theater when she was eight and continued dancing for 00:27:43.151 --> 00:27:49.094 - the next 10 years in the company's productions of The Nutcracker and other ballets. She spent her summers 00:27:49.094 --> 00:27:54.757 - training at the North Carolina School of the Arts and Pacific Northwest Ballet summer dance programs 00:27:54.757 --> 00:27:55.934 - on full scholarship. 00:27:57.186 --> 00:28:03.270 - Before arriving at IU, she performed soloist roles at the Southeast Regional Ballet's Gala performances 00:28:03.270 --> 00:28:09.236 - and at the Spiletto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. Since coming to IU, she has appeared 00:28:09.236 --> 00:28:15.145 - with the Indiana University Ballet Theater in several works, including The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. 00:28:15.145 --> 00:28:20.702 - She will dance a variation from Peter Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. Please welcome Jenna Wolf. 00:30:26.370 --> 00:30:32.713 - Amix will receive his Master of Fine Arts in Acting from Indiana University in May. On the IU stage, 00:30:32.713 --> 00:30:39.244 - he has been seen in Moon for the Misbegotten, Skopino, Waiting for Godot, Translations, and Life During 00:30:39.244 --> 00:30:45.587 - Wartime. He has also acted with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival Company at Boise State University and 00:30:45.587 --> 00:30:51.867 - the Bloomington Playwrights Project. He is producing a play in New York this summer. Today, we will 00:30:51.867 --> 00:30:55.070 - hear him in roles from Steven Dietz's 10 November, 00:30:55.522 --> 00:31:07.688 - and William Shakespeare's King Lear, Ira Amickx. Hello, everyone. I will be doing Edmund from King Lear 00:31:07.688 --> 00:31:19.738 - and John Salem from 10 November. This is the excellent phabery of the world, that when we are sick and 00:31:19.738 --> 00:31:25.470 - fortunate, often the surface of our own behavior 00:31:26.338 --> 00:31:33.933 - We made guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars, as if we were felons on necessity, 00:31:33.933 --> 00:31:41.454 - fools on heavenly compulsion, naves, thieves, and treacherous by spherical predominance, drunkards, 00:31:41.454 --> 00:31:46.718 - liars, and adulterers by some enforced obedience of planetary infamy. 00:31:55.138 --> 00:32:02.433 - to lay his goatish dispositions for the charge of a star. My father compounded with my mother under 00:32:02.433 --> 00:32:08.414 - the dragon's tail. My nativity is under Ursa Major, so thus it follows I am born. 00:32:34.690 --> 00:32:36.734 - Tomorrow I'm a little better. 00:34:34.562 --> 00:34:41.180 - Lisa Torres is a native of Puerto Rico and began her harp studies in 1987 at the Conservatory of Puerto 00:34:41.180 --> 00:34:47.798 - Rico. After completing her studies at the Conservatory, she went on to earn a bachelor's degree in harp 00:34:47.798 --> 00:34:54.416 - at Indiana University under distinguished professor Suzanne MacDonald. And she is at present completing 00:34:54.416 --> 00:35:00.971 - her master's degree in harp performance at IU. She has been an active performer in Puerto Rico playing 00:35:00.971 --> 00:35:03.198 - with the San Juan Pops and in 1998 00:35:03.426 --> 00:35:10.168 - with the Puerto Rican Symphony Orchestra in the renowned Castles Festival. Elisa has also collaborated 00:35:10.168 --> 00:35:16.844 - in popular music recordings with various artists. She will play for us pieces by Maria Auguste Durand 00:35:16.844 --> 00:35:20.510 - and Bernard Andres. Ladies and gentlemen, Elisa Torres. 00:42:17.378 --> 00:42:24.241 - Welcome back. Our second half of the program opens with Chris Nelson, who is completing his third year 00:42:24.241 --> 00:42:31.037 - in the MFA program in acting at Indiana University. A native of Birmingham, Alabama, he has performed 00:42:31.037 --> 00:42:37.966 - in A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Much Ado About Nothing, Parade, God's Country, 00:42:37.966 --> 00:42:44.828 - Translations, and Equus for IU. He has also appeared in Murder Among Friends, One for the Pot, and the 00:42:44.828 --> 00:42:46.494 - Miss Firecracker Contest 00:42:46.690 --> 00:42:52.706 - at the Brown County Playhouse and in the Three Little Kittens and the Queen of Hearts at the Birmingham 00:42:52.706 --> 00:42:58.780 - Children's Theatre in Alabama. Chris's hobbies include baseball and other team sports, reading and civil 00:42:58.780 --> 00:43:04.796 - war history. His selections for us will be from Italian American Reconciliation by John Patrick Shanley 00:43:04.796 --> 00:43:06.878 - and Othello by William Shakespeare. 00:43:26.466 --> 00:43:32.521 - You get the Hong Kong flu. You get rid of it. And now you want it back. She killed your dog. The woman 00:43:32.521 --> 00:43:38.459 - shot your dog with a zip gun, and now you want it back? Ah, Huey, Huey, why? What are you telling me 00:43:38.459 --> 00:43:44.573 - here? Oh, your life doesn't mean anything without a why. I'm not going to argue with you there. I don't 00:43:44.573 --> 00:43:50.452 - know whether your life means anything or not. Maybe it doesn't mean anything. Who cares? Why should 00:43:50.452 --> 00:43:55.390 - your life mean anything? My life doesn't mean anything. Maybe that's the good news. 00:43:56.258 --> 00:44:01.830 - meant something when you were with Janice. Yeah, and then heartache, screaming, bad food, and finally 00:44:01.830 --> 00:44:07.567 - a dead dog. Is this something to miss? Listen, Huey, a lot of people have an expression of this problem. 00:44:07.567 --> 00:44:13.084 - They had something really horrible for a really long time, then they get away from it, and then they 00:44:13.084 --> 00:44:18.602 - miss it. They want the horrible thing back, but only in the very, very blandest, stupidest way. This 00:44:18.602 --> 00:44:24.830 - is where friends come in. Friends are those people appointed in your life to blow the whistle when you're insane. 00:44:25.890 --> 00:44:35.119 - I didn't hear from you for a while. I call you, no answer. So immediately when I thought about it, I 00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:43.892 - figured you were having some kind of mental episode. So I'm your friend. I'm here to do my job. 00:44:43.892 --> 00:44:50.654 - Wake up! The Casio loves sir, I do well to believe it. And she loves him. 00:44:55.842 --> 00:45:02.950 - albeit that I adore him not, is of a constant, noble, loving nature. And I dare think he'll prove to 00:45:02.950 --> 00:45:10.410 - Desimona our most dear husband. Now, I do love her, too. Not out of absolute lust, though, per adventure, 00:45:10.410 --> 00:45:17.588 - I stand accountant for his great assent. But partly that die at my revenge, but that I do suspect the 00:45:17.588 --> 00:45:24.625 - lusty more have lept into my seat, a thought whereof doth, like a poisonous mingle, gnaw my n-words 00:45:24.625 --> 00:45:25.470 - and nothing 00:45:26.338 --> 00:45:34.959 - nor shall content my soul till I am even with him, wife for wife, or fail myself, yet that I put the 00:45:34.959 --> 00:45:43.495 - moor at least into a jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do with this poor 00:45:43.495 --> 00:45:47.166 - trash of Venice, my thrash? Stand the poor 00:46:01.410 --> 00:46:14.173 - and reward me for making him egregiously an ass and practicing upon his peace and quiet, even to madness. 00:46:14.173 --> 00:46:26.455 - It is here, and yet confused, never his plain face is never seen to amuse. Thank you. Robert Bonerski 00:46:26.455 --> 00:46:30.910 - is a student in the School of Music. 00:46:31.138 --> 00:46:37.684 - at IU majoring in ballet with an outside field in chemistry and biology. And he's currently the Chancellor's 00:46:37.684 --> 00:46:43.750 - Scholar for the School of Music. Before coming to IU, he trained at the Chicago Academy for the Arts 00:46:43.750 --> 00:46:49.876 - and the San Francisco Ballet School. And he also attended the summer program at the Pacific Northwest 00:46:49.876 --> 00:46:56.423 - Ballet School. He has performed in many of these ballets presented by IU's Ballet Department. Most recently, 00:46:56.423 --> 00:46:59.966 - Four Temperaments by George Balanchine and Homage to Hamo, 00:47:00.162 --> 00:47:08.990 - by NSAL member Violet Verdi. Today he will dance Gopak, a Russian character dance. Please welcome Robert Bonerski. 00:48:19.010 --> 00:48:25.078 - Misty Hopper comes from Georgia and is a first year student in the MFA creative writing program at IU. 00:48:25.078 --> 00:48:31.088 - She began reading and writing poetry in 1997 through a governor honors program. But when she finished 00:48:31.088 --> 00:48:37.098 - high school, she went to Georgia Tech to major in industrial design. After two quarters, however, she 00:48:37.098 --> 00:48:43.166 - switched her major to science, technology, and culture, Georgia Tech's equivalent of an English major. 00:48:44.546 --> 00:48:50.776 - Then during the spring semester of her junior year, she took a workshop with visiting poet Thomas Lux, 00:48:50.776 --> 00:48:57.067 - who encouraged her to apply to Master of Fine Arts programs, an option she had never considered before. 00:48:57.067 --> 00:49:03.116 - While at Georgia Tech, she published poetry in Erato, the school's literary magazine. Misty will be 00:49:03.116 --> 00:49:09.226 - representing the Bloomington chapter of the NSAL at the National Competition in Poetry in Lexington, 00:49:09.226 --> 00:49:12.190 - Kentucky in May, where the top prize is $10,000. 00:49:12.898 --> 00:49:21.194 - She's going to read for us three poems from her entry in that competition. The first poem I'd like to 00:49:21.194 --> 00:49:29.489 - read is titled Slips of the Eye. Say it's late afternoon and the sky's got a bloody nose. Say a woman 00:49:29.489 --> 00:49:38.110 - on a green bicycle sees a blue warped canvas cresting a trash pile, a crude painting, half sea and shore, 00:49:38.110 --> 00:49:42.014 - half sky, three sailboats bubbling the horizon, 00:49:43.074 --> 00:49:51.527 - The canvas is cracked and weathered, its signature a year numbed off an old coin. Say she bikes off 00:49:51.527 --> 00:50:00.234 - with this sea painting, and as she turns a street corner, the sea breaks on a telephone pole and folds 00:50:00.234 --> 00:50:09.025 - inward like a child called stupid. Say it. Or an injured bird wings buckling, and they begin to careen. 00:50:09.025 --> 00:50:11.646 - Say all of this, the wobbling, 00:50:11.906 --> 00:50:21.189 - The color of the bike, the ruined canvas, brings you two things at once. One, how in some novelist's 00:50:21.189 --> 00:50:30.656 - diary, Virginia Woolf, you mistook mother's having the seats painted green as mother's having the seas 00:50:30.656 --> 00:50:40.766 - painted green. Say you saw tan sailors floating on yellow inner tubes, paint brushes greening shingled waves. 00:50:41.154 --> 00:50:51.028 - A man who used to pedal by your porch, a trash bag of aluminum cans on his shoulders, boom box in a 00:50:51.028 --> 00:51:01.100 - basket. How one day he rode by with a handwritten biblical sign, something about evil de-storying us. 00:51:01.100 --> 00:51:07.518 - And the second poem is Frank Leaves Missouri for the first time. 00:51:08.802 --> 00:51:16.392 - Frank spent the summer on sabbatical from the family abattoir. He went to Italy to sit in gondolas and 00:51:16.392 --> 00:51:23.907 - walk through cathedrals and pigeon flocks. He came back with souvenirs and recipes, back to his wife, 00:51:23.907 --> 00:51:31.571 - religious and plump, back to his brick butchery, squat as a stump with its cement floors and the bowels 00:51:31.571 --> 00:51:38.718 - and beef flanks, the hog teeth and tongues, surplus lungs. He flew back to gravy, the lawnmower, 00:51:38.914 --> 00:51:46.518 - TV back to shaped like a boot ain't it Frank say something in Italian and was it pretty Frank Frank 00:51:46.518 --> 00:51:54.350 - came back like a boomerang saying yeah it was real pretty real pretty he came back like a tumor purple 00:51:54.350 --> 00:52:02.257 - and fisted nobody thought to ask why he returned if they had he might have said because the things here 00:52:02.257 --> 00:52:03.550 - they inherit you 00:52:04.098 --> 00:52:11.257 - Often as his knife swims silver through the meat and then stumbles through the joints, he sees again 00:52:11.257 --> 00:52:18.487 - the statues left incomplete, the stone heads frilled at their neck bottoms, the men's arms cut off at 00:52:18.487 --> 00:52:25.647 - the wrist as if sculpting the hand would have been too difficult. What to do with it? Have it waving 00:52:25.647 --> 00:52:29.758 - or holding something? Bracing the hip or drooping beside? 00:52:30.466 --> 00:52:39.696 - Scientists say homing pigeons have magnetite inside their brains. Like a net, it drags them home. And 00:52:39.696 --> 00:52:49.107 - the last poem is Wednesday morning ballet lessons at the nursing home. Three lanky men and seven ladies 00:52:49.107 --> 00:52:56.798 - twirl across the parlor floor, heirlooms, china teapots looping near a table's edge. 00:52:57.058 --> 00:53:06.589 - A nurse who hoped to be a ballerina gives instruction. Ralph wears a yellow tutu and slacks. Anne's 00:53:06.589 --> 00:53:16.121 - bunion-toed. One's frail hipbones, seashells. Lizzie holds a baby doll. Three wear silver slippers. 00:53:16.121 --> 00:53:24.318 - Rose drools. Albert's a creaking top that cannot spin for long. And Johnny's humming. 00:53:25.698 --> 00:53:34.224 - Mary skipped today because a girl has come from beauty school to style hair free of charge. She's not 00:53:34.224 --> 00:53:42.917 - so good yet. Mary needs her hair a sturdy black again. The girl is standing, moving hands through white 00:53:42.917 --> 00:53:51.694 - hair thin as Bible pages. She sees hair lately even where there's none. The wisteria against the window, 00:53:51.694 --> 00:53:55.038 - for instance, hangs like purple beards. 00:53:55.330 --> 00:54:03.342 - she saw the same thing almost yesterday, while Ralph ate holding a bunch of grapes to his mouth. 00:54:03.342 --> 00:54:11.850 - Thank you. Michael Namorovsky began his piano studies at the age of seven in his native city of Moscow 00:54:11.850 --> 00:54:20.524 - and gave his first recital at the age of nine at the Nesson School of Music. After emigrating to Israel, 00:54:20.524 --> 00:54:24.158 - where he studied at the Rubin Conservatory, 00:54:24.706 --> 00:54:31.707 - He moved to New York to study at the Manhattan School of Music. He is currently a student of Edward 00:54:31.707 --> 00:54:38.777 - Ayer at Indiana University and working towards a master's degree. Michael was twice the recipient of 00:54:38.777 --> 00:54:46.058 - the Karen Sharrett Award in Israel, first prize winner in the Cozzi Yusko Foundation Chopin Competition 00:54:46.058 --> 00:54:52.638 - in New York, the Misha Slav Muntz Competition, and the World Piano Competition in Cincinnati. 00:54:53.186 --> 00:54:59.684 - and second prize winner at the Andorra International Competition. He has been a soloist with the Usdan 00:54:59.684 --> 00:55:06.183 - Symphony in New York, the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra in North Carolina, the Bronx Arts Ensemble, 00:55:06.183 --> 00:55:12.618 - and the New Britain Symphony. Today, he will play a set of two Mazurkas by Frederick Chopin and a set 00:55:12.618 --> 00:55:17.918 - of three Preludes by Sergey Rachmaninoff. Ladies and gentlemen, Michael Namorovsky. 00:58:12.610 --> 00:58:15.358 - You. 01:06:05.122 --> 01:06:11.447 - Sarah Roth has been dancing for 14 years. She began her study at the Frederick School of Classical Ballet 01:06:11.447 --> 01:06:17.414 - in Maryland, where she first danced the variation she will be doing today. In the fall of 2000, she 01:06:17.414 --> 01:06:23.679 - enrolled in the Indiana University Ballet Department and will graduate in May with a Bachelor of Science 01:06:23.679 --> 01:06:29.765 - in Ballet and an outside field in education. Next fall, Sarah will join the Boston Ballet Company for 01:06:29.765 --> 01:06:34.718 - its 2003-2004 season. She will perform for us a variation from Peter Tchaikovsky's 01:06:34.914 --> 01:06:36.958 - Sleeping Beauty, Sarah Roth. 01:07:59.170 --> 01:08:06.207 - Jose Antonio Garcia from Hamden, Connecticut is a third-year student in the Master of Fine Arts acting 01:08:06.207 --> 01:08:13.381 - program at IU. Before coming here, he was at the University of Connecticut, where he received a Bachelor 01:08:13.381 --> 01:08:20.213 - of Fine Arts. Since arriving at IU, he has had roles in Lysistrata, Art, American Buffalo, Much Ado 01:08:20.213 --> 01:08:27.113 - About Nothing, God's Country, True West, and Oedipus. This summer, he'll be playing the name role in 01:08:27.113 --> 01:08:28.958 - Picasso at the La Panagio, 01:08:29.602 --> 01:08:37.113 - He has also appeared in One for the Pot at the Brown County Playhouse. In 2002, he was named the best 01:08:37.113 --> 01:08:44.919 - male performer at the National Stage Combat Workshop in Las Vegas, and he is a recognized actor competent 01:08:44.919 --> 01:08:52.430 - by the Society of American Fight Directors. He will present selections from William Shakespeare's The 01:08:52.430 --> 01:08:58.174 - Tempest and Miguel Pinero's Short Eyes. Today, my first piece will be Trecula 01:08:59.266 --> 01:09:11.442 - and the second one will be met from Shorthat. Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any well at 01:09:11.442 --> 01:09:23.982 - all. In another storm brewing, yon same black cloud, yon huge one, looks like a foul bummer that could 01:09:23.982 --> 01:09:26.174 - shake his liquor. 01:09:27.010 --> 01:09:37.278 - If it's a thunder now as it did before, I don't have where to hide my head. John St. Cloud cannot choose 01:09:37.278 --> 01:09:47.351 - but fall by pale falls. What have we here? A man or a fish? Dead or alive? A fish. Smells like a fish. 01:09:47.351 --> 01:09:54.686 - A very ancient and fish-like smell, a kind of fat of the newest poor John. 01:09:58.754 --> 01:10:04.503 - Now, as I once was, it happened this fish painted. Not a holiday fool there would give a piece of silver. 01:10:04.503 --> 01:10:10.035 - There with this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a do 01:10:10.035 --> 01:10:13.886 - it to relieve a lame beggar, they'll lay out ten to see a dead Indian. 01:10:38.818 --> 01:10:55.713 - Under his guarantee. There is no other shelter here about. Misery acquints a man with strange bedfellows. 01:10:55.713 --> 01:11:04.958 - I will hear shrouds of the dreads of the storm be passed. 01:11:28.258 --> 01:11:47.070 - Davis, Claude Davis. On the gate. Come here. 01:12:00.162 --> 01:12:06.650 - I'm only going to say this one time and one time only. This is a nice floor, a quiet floor. There has 01:12:06.650 --> 01:12:13.266 - never been too much trouble on this floor. Now, with you, I smell trouble. Now, I'm not one to question 01:12:13.266 --> 01:12:19.881 - the captain's or the warden's motives, but just this once, I'm going to ask why they put a sick-fucking 01:12:19.881 --> 01:12:21.726 - degenerate like you on life. 01:12:33.058 --> 01:12:39.597 - You mispronounce my name once. If you take more food than you can eat, if you call me for something 01:12:39.597 --> 01:12:46.333 - I feel is unnecessary, if you oversleep, undersleep, you just give me one good reason, and I will tear 01:12:46.333 --> 01:12:53.068 - your face apart so bad your own mother will not know who you are. Shut up! I am talking to this bitch. 01:12:53.068 --> 01:12:59.672 - I have an eight-year-old daughter who was molested by one of these sick bastards, and I just as well 01:12:59.672 --> 01:13:01.438 - pretend he was you, Davis. 01:13:01.570 --> 01:13:03.614 - who you understand. Sit down, Murphy! 01:13:30.306 --> 01:13:42.257 - and I will ram it so far off your ass. So help me God. I hope they take you off this floor. Send you 01:13:42.257 --> 01:13:53.854 - up to sing-sing. The men up there know what to do with degenerates like you. That's it, I'm done. 01:13:53.854 --> 01:13:58.942 - My game. My game for the count. Hey Davis. 01:14:00.930 --> 01:14:13.903 - Christopher Burchette has sung not only with the Indiana University Opera Theatre and the University 01:14:13.903 --> 01:14:27.262 - of Louisville Opera Theatre, but also with a number of opera companies. Among them, the Santa Fe Opera, 01:14:27.426 --> 01:14:33.954 - the Palm Beach Opera, the Kentucky Opera, the Utah Festival Opera, and the Opera Theater of St. Louis. 01:14:33.954 --> 01:14:40.355 - His extensive concert experience includes work with the Indiana University Orchestra and Chorus, the 01:14:40.355 --> 01:14:46.883 - University of Louisville Orchestra, the Boulder Bach Festival, and the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra, the 01:14:46.883 --> 01:14:50.686 - Indianapolis Symphonic Choir, and the Louisville Orchestra. 01:14:51.682 --> 01:14:58.337 - Among his numerous awards are first place in the American Bach Society Bach Choir of Bethlehem Competition, 01:14:58.337 --> 01:15:04.683 - the Virginia Adams Vocal Fellowship, the Palm Beach Opera Vocal Competition Priscilla and Dennis Rocco 01:15:04.683 --> 01:15:11.091 - Award, and third place in the Orpheus Vocal Competition. He has also been a Metropolitan Opera Regional 01:15:11.091 --> 01:15:17.807 - Finalist and a winner of an Encouragement Award. A former student of Giorgio Totti, Christopher is currently 01:15:17.807 --> 01:15:21.566 - studying with the Metropolitan Opera Baritone Timothy Noble. 01:15:22.306 --> 01:15:27.006 - Today he will sing for us arias by Eric Korngold and Jacques Offenbach. 01:23:20.610 --> 01:23:27.719 - brings us to the end of this afternoon's performances, and it gives me pleasure now to introduce Peggy 01:23:27.719 --> 01:23:34.621 - Bachmann and Ingallor Welsh, co-presidents of the Bloomington chapter of the NSAL, who will preside 01:23:34.621 --> 01:23:41.662 - over the remainder of today's activities. I've enjoyed being with you this afternoon and wish you all 01:23:41.662 --> 01:23:48.702 - a very good afternoon. It's definitely a wonderful privilege to be part of this organization and it's 01:23:49.250 --> 01:23:59.069 - all done by volunteers and friends of the art. And what we're doing now is we're going to introduce 01:23:59.069 --> 01:24:09.379 - the chairs that are responsible for each and every one of those disciplines. It's impossible or it would 01:24:09.379 --> 01:24:14.878 - be impossible to do this show and this showcase without 01:24:15.042 --> 01:24:25.269 - the chairs. And the first one is Helga Keller. She represents visual arts and I want you to know it's 01:24:25.269 --> 01:24:35.797 - a lot of work that goes into these programs before they come for you to see and also for the competition 01:24:35.797 --> 01:24:45.022 - to come along. So Helga Keller is visual arts. Are you going to come up Helga? I can't see. 01:24:45.634 --> 01:24:57.433 - This blinds me something fierce. And doesn't she hand hers out now? Yeah. 100 artworks were submitted 01:24:57.433 --> 01:25:09.347 - to our competition by young people from southern Indiana who have sometimes their roots in other areas 01:25:09.347 --> 01:25:11.198 - of our country. 01:25:11.362 --> 01:25:19.748 - And what I find so special about the visual arts competition is that the artists give us a little glimpse 01:25:19.748 --> 01:25:27.817 - into their private lives. Sometimes their inspiration comes from their birthplaces, maybe in Utah, or 01:25:27.817 --> 01:25:35.887 - they have lived in Philadelphia, the cradle of fine arts, or they just have spent a leisure afternoon 01:25:35.887 --> 01:25:38.814 - doodling away on their coffee table. 01:25:38.978 --> 01:25:50.718 - Many of them have also been inspired by the sometimes interesting moods over Bloomington and over Southern 01:25:50.718 --> 01:26:02.018 - Indiana. And I want to thank everyone who entered the competition and who shared their creativity with 01:26:02.018 --> 01:26:08.382 - us. And it's not possible to give awards to everyone, but 01:26:08.866 --> 01:26:18.181 - we enjoyed looking at all the artworks. And I wanted to share with you a quote from Michael Kimmelman, 01:26:18.181 --> 01:26:27.315 - the chief art critic for the New York Times, who said, one can only speak properly about painting in 01:26:27.315 --> 01:26:31.294 - front of paintings. And I would like to see 01:26:31.458 --> 01:26:40.225 - One can only speak properly about the creativity and fine craftsmanship of young artists in southern 01:26:40.225 --> 01:26:48.905 - Indiana in front of the works exhibited today at the John Baldwin Art Center. I hope all of you had 01:26:48.905 --> 01:26:58.367 - a chance to peruse the artwork and to think a little bit about the time and effort and inspiration presented 01:26:58.367 --> 01:26:59.582 - to us. Sugar? 01:27:02.114 --> 01:27:13.964 - Okay, I would like to present awards to 12 artists who are exhibited with their artwork in the Baldwin 01:27:13.964 --> 01:27:19.486 - Art Center. And I would like Carrie Lynn Smith, 01:27:19.618 --> 01:27:30.340 - to come here, who shares with us her heritage in Utah with a beautiful, small sculpture of clay and 01:27:30.340 --> 01:27:41.812 - wood-fired laterite. She won the Prygmalion's Merit Award, and thank you very much, Cari. Congratulations. 01:27:41.812 --> 01:27:48.030 - William Hunter Stamps won the Prygmalion gift certificate 01:27:48.162 --> 01:27:58.636 - for his ceramic sculpture, Dunking Booth, and there's also his second sculpture on exhibition, very 01:27:58.636 --> 01:28:08.062 - inspirational during land times. Please make sure you see it. Ryan Coburn was inspired by 01:28:08.258 --> 01:28:17.090 - the surroundings of Bloomington, which can be, at many seasons, beautiful. He had entered a painting 01:28:17.090 --> 01:28:26.098 - about a winter scene of Lake Monroe, which I found beautiful. It was very moody. The judge awarded the 01:28:26.098 --> 01:28:27.934 - Encore Married Award 01:28:28.386 --> 01:28:40.504 - to Ryan Coburn for his oil painting Winter Field, a beautiful, smaller study, and yet also very moody. 01:28:40.504 --> 01:28:52.270 - Is Ryan here? Oh. Grayson Cox, who is not quite unknown to the NSAL, once again submitted beautiful 01:28:52.270 --> 01:28:58.270 - prints, and this year he won the Klein Merit Award 01:28:58.402 --> 01:29:09.438 - for his sandblasted Mesotint Dungeon. Grayson, congratulations. And it's nice to see you back there 01:29:09.438 --> 01:29:21.026 - in Germany. Good luck. David Staninonas won the Maxi Schnicker Award for his oil on pine painting Swipe. 01:29:21.026 --> 01:29:26.654 - And I was very intrigued by the colors he employed 01:29:26.754 --> 01:29:37.412 - And I thought it's wonderful to be able to honor you here, David. Congratulations and good luck for 01:29:37.412 --> 01:29:48.282 - your home. Is Lauren Janee Allen here? Wonderful. Lauren comes to us from Vincennes University. There 01:29:48.282 --> 01:29:56.702 - were various competitors from Vincennes University and also from Green Castle. 01:29:56.866 --> 01:30:07.724 - and of course, Bloomington, and it's nice that an award went to Vincennes. But not only one award, please 01:30:07.724 --> 01:30:17.968 - do keep in mind that the judge actually only sees the artwork and the title. And Lorenz and Ney won 01:30:17.968 --> 01:30:21.246 - two awards for the two entries, 01:30:21.442 --> 01:30:30.609 - in black and white photography and in color photography. Her color photography is called Complementary 01:30:30.609 --> 01:30:39.508 - Light, and her black and white photography, Comfortable Memories. Welcome to Bloomington, and thank 01:30:39.508 --> 01:30:44.670 - you for participating in our exhibition. Congratulations. 01:30:45.858 --> 01:30:53.960 - These are the Eleanor Kahn Memorial Award and the Ledford Carter Married Award for Photography. The 01:30:53.960 --> 01:31:02.225 - Grace Dyer Memorial Award, which has been given to the NSAL by Viva Scheiner, went to Gabriel Meldahl 01:31:02.225 --> 01:31:10.408 - for his diptych paper, Assemblage, Kirkwood Events, posting one and two. Unfortunate, Gabriel had to 01:31:10.408 --> 01:31:13.406 - leave because he has to work and his 01:31:13.602 --> 01:31:24.063 - boss did not give him off from work to accept his award. This is a beautiful, inspiring work of art 01:31:24.063 --> 01:31:34.734 - because it connects us to the now in Bloomington and to the now in Kirkwood and I thought it was just 01:31:34.734 --> 01:31:36.094 - a tremendous 01:31:36.226 --> 01:31:48.138 - idea to collect paper announcements from posts along Kirkwood and put them together into an assemblage. 01:31:48.138 --> 01:31:59.936 - Please do enjoy it and mention it to Gabriel when you see him. The Christ Merit Award donated by Nelda 01:31:59.936 --> 01:32:01.310 - Christ Khan 01:32:01.474 --> 01:32:12.334 - goes to Micah Benjamin Bornstein for his monoprint Venice Number Four. Thank you very much 01:32:12.334 --> 01:32:25.342 - and congratulations. We are also honoring one of our great professors at Indiana University in metalsmithing 01:32:25.342 --> 01:32:31.070 - and today's students in the School of Fine Arts 01:32:31.170 --> 01:32:42.088 - who work under the guidance of Professor Long, might often hear Alma Eickermann's name. Rita Grunwald, 01:32:42.088 --> 01:32:53.642 - a long time art supporter in this town, keeps awake the memory of Alma Eickermann by every year underwriting 01:32:53.642 --> 01:33:00.638 - an award. And on Dean Vivian 11, won this year's award, no blame. 01:33:01.922 --> 01:33:14.093 - Congratulations. And it's a wonderful tribute to a very famous professor. Noah Primo at one point was 01:33:14.093 --> 01:33:26.026 - an NSAL winner. And ever since he forged out into the real world, the working world, has not failed 01:33:26.026 --> 01:33:31.038 - to underwrite the Noah Primo Merit Award. 01:33:31.170 --> 01:33:40.757 - very happy that this year's award goes to Jonathan Dana Sperry for his light installations, the shifting 01:33:40.757 --> 01:33:49.978 - typography of my coffee table. Now, I know that Dana has a very responsible job and a beautiful job, 01:33:49.978 --> 01:34:00.478 - and I'm surprised you had time to create these, darlings. Congratulations, and good luck with your continued work. 01:34:02.882 --> 01:34:13.295 - Wayne Craig, who was here earlier but needed to leave for another event in town, underwrites the Rosemary 01:34:13.295 --> 01:34:24.003 - Frazier Married Award. We are very thankful to Wayne Craig. And this award went this year to Laura Bregmanes 01:34:24.003 --> 01:34:30.782 - for her oil painting, Baby in Window. Congratulations and good luck. 01:34:31.458 --> 01:34:41.284 - The NSEL Bloomington Chapter Career Award goes to a young artist who came to Philadelphia, from Philadelphia 01:34:41.284 --> 01:34:50.748 - to Bloomington. Bloomington attracts not only outstanding students to Indiana University, but also young 01:34:50.748 --> 01:35:00.574 - musicians and young artists who give a lot to the community who participate in the art world of Bloomington. 01:35:00.834 --> 01:35:10.214 - Christine Kunz is very much part of this art scene here in Bloomington, and we are very happy to welcome 01:35:10.214 --> 01:35:20.041 - her to Bloomington with a wonderful award for her All Pain Still Life with Teapot. Christine, we congratulate 01:35:20.041 --> 01:35:30.046 - you for this award, and we hope that Christine Kunz will be able to join us for many years here in Bloomington. 01:35:30.242 --> 01:35:39.105 - Thank you very much. Thank you, Helga. I would say perhaps that the art discipline is the most time 01:35:39.105 --> 01:35:48.234 - consuming to be chair of the art because you have to get the word out, you have to be there to receive 01:35:48.234 --> 01:35:57.186 - the paintings, you have to be there to give out the paintings. It's really a job. But I think we can 01:35:57.186 --> 01:35:59.934 - all tell that Helga enjoys it. 01:36:00.994 --> 01:36:09.899 - I would like to introduce you to another hard-working chair, Joanne Athanas, who's chair of the dance 01:36:09.899 --> 01:36:18.803 - discipline. You may think that Joanne looks like one of the little ballet dancers. I always think she 01:36:18.803 --> 01:36:24.478 - does, but you know what she really is in real life? She's a CPA. 01:36:25.186 --> 01:36:34.096 - And this is, what, April 13th? So she really took time away from her work. Thanks, Joanne. I'll be brief. 01:36:34.096 --> 01:36:43.006 - I'd like to thank all 17 of the dancers who participated in the competition for making it so challenging. 01:36:43.362 --> 01:36:51.454 - meaningful and enjoyable for those of us who are there to see it. I'd also like to thank our three judges 01:36:51.454 --> 01:36:59.164 - and especially our member, Violet Verde, who generously gave her time to coach and encourage all the 01:36:59.164 --> 01:37:06.874 - competitors. I'll start with the first award is the Welch Merit Award, contributed by Engelor Welch, 01:37:06.874 --> 01:37:09.470 - and it goes to Robert Bernischke. 01:37:23.554 --> 01:37:33.847 - The next award is the Shiner Merit Award and the Jingles Merit Award, contributed by Reva Shiner, Marianne 01:37:33.847 --> 01:37:43.851 - and Bruce Jingles, and it goes to Sarah Smith. Our second place award is the Violet Verde Tribute Award 01:37:43.851 --> 01:37:53.086 - and the Marina Svetlova Tribute Awards, and they are contributed by Peggy Bachman, Lili Hughes, 01:37:53.218 --> 01:38:06.324 - myself, Lou and Leonard Newman, and David and Ruth Albright. And this goes to Jenna Wolf. Finally, our 01:38:06.324 --> 01:38:15.358 - first place award, contributed by all the members, goes to Sarah Roth. 01:38:35.874 --> 01:38:45.514 - Thank you very much, Joanne Athanas. I know it's a lot of work that you put in, and we thank you all 01:38:45.514 --> 01:38:55.249 - very much. Next comes up, Drama Awards. And we are calling on Marilyn Norris, our very, very good and 01:38:55.249 --> 01:38:58.494 - helpful drama teacher. Thank you. 01:39:19.938 --> 01:39:28.456 - an actor is an act of courage. Not only is one joining a profession in which 96% of its professional 01:39:28.456 --> 01:39:36.974 - membership of Actless Equity is unemployed at any time, but if one does get the role and the job, it 01:39:36.974 --> 01:39:45.660 - lasts only as long as the run of the show. And then you have to start job hunting, role hunting again. 01:39:45.660 --> 01:39:49.118 - And to get that role in the first place, 01:39:49.794 --> 01:39:57.779 - to get that job. There is no one hour interview or 30 minute interview or even 15 minutes to sell yourself 01:39:57.779 --> 01:40:05.466 - to the director or the casting director or both. You have one to two minutes to convince that director 01:40:05.466 --> 01:40:13.004 - and or that casting director that you are the actor for the role. So it is because of the excellence 01:40:13.004 --> 01:40:19.198 - of the auditions by these people that we are honoring them as drama winners today. 01:40:19.618 --> 01:40:27.382 - because a panel of very distinguished three judges determined that theirs were the best of the best 01:40:27.382 --> 01:40:35.146 - auditions. So congratulations to, beginning with the Penny Merritt Award donated by our own member, 01:40:35.146 --> 01:40:37.630 - George Penny, Alia Maria Tawil. 01:40:53.122 --> 01:41:04.138 - Collins, in honor of her husband, who was a great supporter of all of the arts and especially theater, 01:41:04.138 --> 01:41:15.796 - Lindsay Morgan Anderson. The Laserwitz Merit Award is donated by NSAL members Catherine and James Laserwitz, 01:41:15.796 --> 01:41:19.326 - and it goes to Eliza Fland Hart. 01:41:26.786 --> 01:41:33.941 - is donated by Marion, long-time NSAO member Marion Battenhouse and her daughter Anna. It is the Roy 01:41:33.941 --> 01:41:41.239 - Battenhouse Award in honor of her husband, who was a great drama scholar, and particularly in writing 01:41:41.239 --> 01:41:48.681 - about Shakespeare and the Bible. Unfortunately, our award winner is the spot operator for Sweeney Todd, 01:41:48.681 --> 01:41:55.907 - and she is head over heels in her tech rehearsal this afternoon, for which, of course, she could not 01:41:55.907 --> 01:41:56.766 - be excused. 01:41:57.058 --> 01:42:07.818 - So Christina Parmoviziega, we would like to applaud in. You'll see her spot work beginning Friday. Our 01:42:07.818 --> 01:42:18.579 - next award is donated by NSAO members, Becky and Frank Somalis. Her Somalis Merit Award goes to Joshua 01:42:18.579 --> 01:42:21.086 - Goboe. Congratulations. 01:42:30.466 --> 01:42:42.997 - donated by NSAL members and former national president Helen Caldwell and Linton Caldwell. And this year's 01:42:42.997 --> 01:42:54.937 - Caldwell-Veras Award goes to Sam Woodton. The next award is presented by Marion Bankhart-Michael and 01:42:54.937 --> 01:42:59.902 - R. Keith-Michael. This award honors three 01:43:00.194 --> 01:43:11.049 - of our deceased members, all of whom loved theater and were active in theater, and who've now gone on 01:43:11.049 --> 01:43:22.010 - to play on other, better stages. The Leonard Brockett, Carol Booty, and Fran Sneak Memorial Award goes 01:43:22.010 --> 01:43:29.566 - this year to Ira Ames. Another former national president, Reba Shiner, 01:43:29.922 --> 01:43:39.270 - is the donor of the Laura Scheiner Memorial Award, which honors her daughter, who though she achieved 01:43:39.270 --> 01:43:48.893 - fame in computer and technical fields, was a theater major here at IU and loved theater all of her life. 01:43:48.893 --> 01:43:58.974 - The Laura Scheiner Memorial Award this year goes to Chris Nelson. And our top award this year from all of you 01:43:59.810 --> 01:44:18.658 - after career award goes to Jose Antonio Garcia. Thank you Marilyn for the way you do this. You always 01:44:18.658 --> 01:44:26.974 - do it with a dramatic flair. It's wonderful. 01:44:27.138 --> 01:44:37.172 - Chair I would like to introduce is Ruth Albright. Ruth Albright is our last year's president of NSAO. 01:44:37.172 --> 01:44:47.205 - A lot of our chairs have full-time jobs, and Ruth does too, doing volunteer work mostly for the arts. 01:44:47.205 --> 01:44:54.878 - And she is also the wife of David Albright, who is the chair of the showcase. 01:44:57.410 --> 01:45:05.058 - It was a fun year to be literature chair this year because the national focus is on poetry. So we decided 01:45:05.058 --> 01:45:12.489 - that we would have two competitions, one in poetry, and that winner will go to the national convention 01:45:12.489 --> 01:45:18.910 - to compete against 19 other poets from other chapters of NSAL. And we also had a general 01:45:19.042 --> 01:45:25.339 - literature competition, which we always have, and we thought that there was no reason to do away with 01:45:25.339 --> 01:45:31.697 - that and have just poetry, so we had to. I know two of my judges are in the audience today. With these 01:45:31.697 --> 01:45:38.302 - lights in your eyes, you can't see anything, but Alice Freiman from Indianapolis was a long-time professor 01:45:38.302 --> 01:45:44.907 - at the University of Indianapolis is here. She was one of our national, one of the judges for the National 01:45:44.907 --> 01:45:46.142 - Poetry Competition. 01:45:46.338 --> 01:45:54.689 - And also I know that Roger Finxton, one of our members and a judge of the general literature competition 01:45:54.689 --> 01:46:03.518 - is here. So you young winners may want to talk to them. Are there any more judges here? Okay. Our first winner 01:46:03.682 --> 01:46:09.992 - is Craig Neal Owens, who's a playwright and has actually had a play produced here in Bloomington at 01:46:09.992 --> 01:46:16.365 - the Bloomington Playwright Project. He is not able to be with us today because he had an out of town 01:46:16.365 --> 01:46:22.738 - engagement. He is the winner of the Marjorie K. Borkenstein Memorial Award, which was donated by the 01:46:22.738 --> 01:46:28.606 - Borkenstein Endowment. Most of the, I think all of these winners in the general category are 01:46:28.898 --> 01:46:37.569 - No, that's not true, because Craig Neal Owens is a PhD student in playwriting. But the rest of these 01:46:37.569 --> 01:46:46.326 - are all in the creative writing department at Indiana University. We did have several applicants from 01:46:46.326 --> 01:46:53.022 - other universities, but these all are IU winners. Michelle Ross. Is she here? 01:46:53.858 --> 01:47:04.786 - Okay, I didn't know she wouldn't be here. Michelle wins the Hannah Bennis Wilson Merit Award, which 01:47:04.786 --> 01:47:15.714 - was donated by Hannah Bennis Wilson, one of our long-time members. Laura Ann Otto. Sorry, gotta get 01:47:15.714 --> 01:47:17.790 - the right one out. 01:47:20.866 --> 01:47:30.648 - Laura wins, for her novel, Laura wins the Josephine K. Piercy Writing Award and the John McCluskey Merit 01:47:30.648 --> 01:47:40.429 - Award, donated by the Piercy Endowment and John McCluskey, one of our members and also a writer himself. 01:47:40.429 --> 01:47:47.230 - Thank you and congratulations, Laura. Our next winner, whose short story 01:47:47.362 --> 01:47:53.334 - wins the Patrick O'Mara Merit Award and the Will H. Hayes Jr. Memorial Award. I knew could not be here 01:47:53.334 --> 01:47:59.190 - from the very beginning. She had a family wedding this weekend and could not get out of those plans. 01:47:59.190 --> 01:48:05.278 - These awards were donated by our member, Patrick O'Mara, who's the Dean of International Programs at IU. 01:48:05.410 --> 01:48:13.939 - and Bill Hayes, who donated his award, and he's also a member of our chapter, and donated the award 01:48:13.939 --> 01:48:22.554 - in memory of his father. Our chapter career award winner is Kim McGlynn, who you heard read from her 01:48:22.554 --> 01:48:31.680 - story, Grace. Kim, are you here? These chapter career awards are our top awards and are donated by members 01:48:31.680 --> 01:48:35.262 - of our chapter. Thank you very much, Kim. 01:48:39.746 --> 01:48:46.809 - Now to the poetry competition. We had three winners in the poetry competition. The first is Micah Ling, 01:48:46.809 --> 01:48:53.804 - who unfortunately was not able to be here today. She is a senior at DePauw, and she had a four o'clock 01:48:53.804 --> 01:49:00.731 - class this afternoon, if you can imagine that, which seems totally unfair to me. She wins the Georgia 01:49:00.731 --> 01:49:07.454 - P. Albright Memorial Award, which was given by David and Ruth Albright in honor of David's mother. 01:49:07.682 --> 01:49:17.277 - who died a couple of years ago. Our second place winner in poetry is Chris Millian. Chris has won also 01:49:17.277 --> 01:49:26.872 - a Roy Battenhouse Memorial Award given by Marion and Anna Battenhouse, his wife and daughter. And this 01:49:26.872 --> 01:49:35.070 - is a very special award because Roy was a long time professor in the English department 01:49:35.586 --> 01:49:44.100 - Chris is in the creative writing department, so I know this means a lot to him. Thank you and 01:49:44.100 --> 01:49:53.520 - congratulations. And our top winner in poetry who will represent us in Lexington in just a month's time 01:49:53.520 --> 01:50:02.668 - is Misty Harper, whom you met when she read from her poetry. She wins a very special award, the Mrs. 01:50:02.668 --> 01:50:05.566 - Granville Wells Memorial Award. 01:50:05.666 --> 01:50:12.511 - which is donated by the Herman B. Wells Endowment. Mrs. Granville Wells, who was Herman's mother, was 01:50:12.511 --> 01:50:19.423 - an early member of our chapter, and Chancellor Wells was a big supporter of our chapter, and left this 01:50:19.423 --> 01:50:26.268 - endowment in order to let us give an award in his mother's name each year, and that is our top award. 01:50:26.268 --> 01:50:29.086 - And we congratulate Misty for doing that. 01:50:35.074 --> 01:50:44.646 - She will be competing for a $10,000 top award, and there probably will be at least five or six sizable 01:50:44.646 --> 01:50:54.218 - awards. Last year, our piano competitor won that top $10,000 award, so we all have our fingers crossed 01:50:54.218 --> 01:51:04.254 - and hope that this will happen for Misty, too. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Ruth, for all your 01:51:04.994 --> 01:51:14.461 - work that you did and I'm just so pleased that we have again a big winner here to go to Lexington, Kentucky 01:51:14.461 --> 01:51:23.227 - and I want to invite all of you in the membership to go to Lexington, Kentucky if you can. We would 01:51:23.227 --> 01:51:32.255 - love to have several people there. The next chair is Ginny and Doug Jewell and Keith and Doris Johnson 01:51:32.255 --> 01:51:34.622 - and they chaired the music 01:51:35.042 --> 01:51:41.463 - competition. The Johnsons can't be here. They're on a trip to Europe, and I think they're going along 01:51:41.463 --> 01:51:47.947 - the Rhine River on a lovely boat. I hope they're going to have a good time. But Ginny and Doug, Jewel, 01:51:47.947 --> 01:51:54.368 - please. So it's very difficult for someone, for instance, in high school to compete against people of 01:51:54.368 --> 01:52:00.790 - your talent and training and maturity. But that happens from time to time, and we wanted to recognize 01:52:00.790 --> 01:52:04.126 - a student this year that we felt was outstanding yet 01:52:04.258 --> 01:52:17.002 - a young person. He is 17 years old. He's a Bloomington High School South saxophonist who studies under 01:52:17.002 --> 01:52:29.622 - Professor Otis Murphy, and his name is Thomas Glassy, and he's 17 years old. That will be a sometimes 01:52:29.622 --> 01:52:31.230 - award in our 01:52:31.554 --> 01:52:38.486 - competition in the future as is indicated or is merited. The Jacobi Merit Award is probably a name that's 01:52:38.486 --> 01:52:45.091 - familiar to most of you if you read the paper. Peter Jacobi is an NSAL member. He is an IU professor 01:52:45.091 --> 01:52:51.630 - emeritus in journalism, and he's a well-known reviewer of classical music for the Herald Times. The 01:52:51.630 --> 01:52:58.366 - winner of the Jacobi Award is an IU student of Constanza Cucaroe pursuing a master's in voice, and her 01:52:58.366 --> 01:52:59.870 - name is Allison Bates. 01:53:07.522 --> 01:53:14.536 - The Suzanne McDonald merit award donated by Susan McDonald who is a harpist and a professor of harp 01:53:14.536 --> 01:53:21.621 - at IU and an NSAL member herself goes to Megan Stout who is a professor's choice because she is also 01:53:21.621 --> 01:53:27.934 - a harpist and she's pursuing a bachelor's degree in music in harp. Congratulations Megan. 01:53:32.226 --> 01:53:39.094 - Virginia Ziani is a name that may be familiar to those of you in music, or in vocal music especially. 01:53:39.094 --> 01:53:46.165 - She's an NSAL member and a professor of voice at IU. Her former husband, she's a widow now, was an opera 01:53:46.165 --> 01:53:52.898 - star in Europe. His name is Nicola Rossi Lamini, and so we have a Rossi Lamini Memorial Award given 01:53:52.898 --> 01:53:58.622 - to Kelly Holtz, please, who is pursuing a master's degree in voice. Congratulations. 01:54:04.642 --> 01:54:10.704 - The reason we're spending so much time sharing the donors' names with you is because if it weren't for 01:54:10.704 --> 01:54:16.707 - the donors every year, we would have nothing to give you. So you'll bear with us while we honor these 01:54:16.707 --> 01:54:22.710 - generous people, I hope. Sometimes there's a memorial award, a very special one, and this one is one. 01:54:22.710 --> 01:54:28.714 - Kenda Webb was the wife of the Dean Emeritus, Charles Webb, of the School of Music. And in her honor, 01:54:28.714 --> 01:54:31.774 - this award has been dedicated by NSAL members Helga 01:54:32.066 --> 01:54:39.924 - Keller, who you just saw a little bit ago, and her husband Howard, Roberta Somak, as well as Wayne Craig, 01:54:39.924 --> 01:54:47.337 - in memory of Kenda, who was a longtime member of NSAL, a musician in her own right, and the beloved 01:54:47.337 --> 01:54:54.824 - wife of Dean Charles Webb. Goes to Michelle Auslander, an IU student of Constanza Cucarro, getting a 01:54:54.824 --> 01:54:59.198 - performance degree in music. I can't seem to get that out. 01:54:59.746 --> 01:55:05.283 - We heard mentioned a bit ago a little bit about the staging that's going on today for Sweeney Todd and 01:55:05.283 --> 01:55:07.326 - unfortunately we have a vocal person. 01:55:07.490 --> 01:55:14.134 - Fortunately for her, she has a major role in Sweeney Todd coming up. That's Catherine Lindsay. And Catherine 01:55:14.134 --> 01:55:20.413 - was to have received today the Donald Felton Memorial Award, which was donated by NSAL member Mary Ann 01:55:20.413 --> 01:55:26.631 - Felton in memory of her husband, Colonel Donald Felton, who was a much loved music lover and longtime 01:55:26.631 --> 01:55:33.214 - supporter of the arts. That was to go to Catherine Lindsay, who is a voice student of Patricia Wise, who is 01:55:33.378 --> 01:55:41.572 - pursuing a bachelor's degree of music in voice, so let's give her our hand. The next four awards are 01:55:41.572 --> 01:55:49.766 - equal in amount. I won't be so crass as to go into the amount of all these, but they are second only 01:55:49.766 --> 01:55:57.960 - to our chapter career award, and I wanted you to be aware of that. We had a lot of talent this year. 01:55:57.960 --> 01:56:01.854 - We had 35 competitors, about 20 of them were in 01:56:01.954 --> 01:56:07.707 - voice, and about 15 in instrumental. And if you all remember, we were putting you through there at a 01:56:07.707 --> 01:56:13.402 - pretty good clip all day long. We had a lot of people to choose from. And they were excellent. They 01:56:13.402 --> 01:56:19.098 - really were. This was an exceptional year. And I'd like to thank, while we're at it, the six judges 01:56:19.098 --> 01:56:24.964 - that judged for us, three for instrumental and three for vocal music. Anyway, the first of this second 01:56:24.964 --> 01:56:30.774 - prize award goes to Daxun Zhang, who you heard earlier. He's a double bassist, and he's an IU student 01:56:30.774 --> 01:56:31.742 - of Larry Hearst. 01:56:31.842 --> 01:56:40.976 - pursuing an artist diploma. He has received the Elizabeth Burnham Merit Award given for instrumentalists 01:56:40.976 --> 01:56:49.761 - and I think you can agree he's absolutely outstanding. The next award goes to Eliza Torres who is an 01:56:49.761 --> 01:56:56.894 - IU harpist who's studying with Suzanne McDonald and pursuing a master's in music. 01:57:04.866 --> 01:57:11.400 - Eliza has just received the Margaret Bueller White Memorial Award for Instrumental Music. Ms. White 01:57:11.400 --> 01:57:18.065 - was a member of the NSAL and she was also a harpist. The Rolston Merit Award was donated by Ilkner P. 01:57:18.065 --> 01:57:24.600 - Rolston, who was a longtime member of NSAL and a supporter of the arts, including music. This award 01:57:24.600 --> 01:57:31.264 - goes to Jimmy Briere, who is an IU student working towards his performance diploma under the guidance 01:57:31.264 --> 01:57:32.702 - of Menachem Pressler. 01:57:40.866 --> 01:57:48.932 - The Caldwell Merit Award was donated by Helen and Keith Caldwell, the longtime members of the NSAL and 01:57:48.932 --> 01:57:56.841 - generous supporters of the arts. It goes to Christopher Breschette, I'm sorry Chris, I'm glad you're 01:57:56.841 --> 01:58:02.558 - not messing up like that, a Barrett home who studies with Timothy Noble. 01:58:07.138 --> 01:58:15.930 - And finally, the highest award given at the local level, the Chapter Career Award, which is, 01:58:15.930 --> 01:58:25.573 - as they said, is donated by all the Bloomington Chapter NSAL members, goes to an IU student of Edward 01:58:25.573 --> 01:58:34.270 - Auer, pursuing a Masters of Music degree in piano, Michael Namorowski. Thank you very much. 01:58:40.834 --> 01:58:47.955 - Thank you very much, Doug and Jenny. You did an outstanding job. I had the privilege to be 01:58:47.955 --> 01:58:55.781 - at this competition and it was really wonderful to be part of that and see how it works. It's a lot 01:58:55.781 --> 01:59:03.763 - of work. It's a lot of preparatory work and it's just pretty involved. So we really, really thank all 01:59:03.763 --> 01:59:04.702 - our chairs. 01:59:04.930 --> 01:59:12.356 - from the bottom of our hearts because they put in many hours and it's all volunteer work and it's done 01:59:12.356 --> 01:59:19.854 - with a lot of love. Also, we would like to thank David Albright and Mary Carol Rillerton, his assistant 01:59:19.854 --> 01:59:25.694 - for the showcase program, which I thought was wonderful. He did a wonderful job. 01:59:32.578 --> 01:59:41.486 - I would also like to invite all the contestants for a picture here afterwards and then we would very 01:59:41.486 --> 01:59:50.395 - much like for you to come downstairs where we are having a reception for all of you and we'd like to 01:59:50.395 --> 01:59:59.391 - chat with you and thank you again and I am certainly privileged and thankful that you all came and we 01:59:59.391 --> 02:00:02.302 - hope we do this again next year.