WEBVTT 00:00:10.146 --> 00:00:17.999 - Good afternoon and welcome to the 38th Annual Showcase of the Arts. I'm Peggy Bachman and I'm Co-President 00:00:17.999 --> 00:00:25.486 - of the National Society of Arts and Letters, the Bloomington Chapter. I'm sure that you all know that 00:00:25.486 --> 00:00:33.413 - the Bloomington Chapter is the only one in the country which holds a competition in each of the disciplines 00:00:33.413 --> 00:00:39.358 - of art, music, literature, dance, drama, and this year we added musical theater. 00:00:39.586 --> 00:00:48.095 - And to this end, we raised a record-breaking $21,650 in cash prizes, which we will award this afternoon. 00:00:48.095 --> 00:00:56.198 - Thank you so very much, all of you, for the work you've done to make this possible. And now this is 00:00:56.198 --> 00:01:04.626 - the yearly venue where you will be able to see and hear the winners of our competitions. Please go into 00:01:04.626 --> 00:01:06.814 - the art gallery downstairs 00:01:06.978 --> 00:01:14.848 - before you leave so that you can see the art show. Next year, we hope to show slides of the winning 00:01:14.848 --> 00:01:23.347 - works. I'd like to thank our first Vice President, David Albright, who's standing at the door for arranging 00:01:23.347 --> 00:01:31.767 - this showcase, as he has for several years, along with his helpers, Mary Carol Reardon and George Koronek. 00:01:31.767 --> 00:01:35.230 - After the show, the prizes will be awarded. 00:01:35.394 --> 00:01:48.706 - Thank you. I'd like to introduce you to my co-president, Ingellar Welch. Thank you very much. I can 00:01:48.706 --> 00:02:02.417 - only agree with Peggy, every word she said. I'm 100% behind her. I also have the pleasure to introduce 00:02:02.417 --> 00:02:04.414 - this afternoon 00:02:04.578 --> 00:02:12.129 - Once again, our Master of Ceremonies, Professor Murray McGibbon. Professor McGibbon, as you may know, 00:02:12.129 --> 00:02:20.050 - has been with us in previous years, the last two years anyway, is a professor of the Department of Theater 00:02:20.050 --> 00:02:27.675 - and Drama at Indiana University and has an MFA from the University of Southern Illinois. He's a native 00:02:27.675 --> 00:02:31.006 - of South America, which is a lovely country. 00:02:32.482 --> 00:02:40.480 - where he received a number of major directing awards, along with the university, which include Aqueous, 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:48.402 - Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and this season, he will be directing Master Harold and the 00:02:48.402 --> 00:02:52.478 - Boys. Please give a warm welcome to Murray McGibbon. 00:03:03.458 --> 00:03:09.783 - Thanks. Good afternoon. It's good to be with you again. Our first performer this afternoon will be Sam 00:03:09.783 --> 00:03:16.170 - Wotton. Sam holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Georgia and is a second year student 00:03:16.170 --> 00:03:22.495 - in the MFA acting program at Indiana University. Since being with us, he has performed in Proof, Romeo 00:03:22.495 --> 00:03:28.882 - and Juliet, Lysistrata, and Art at the University Theater. And he has played in Picasso at the La Panna 00:03:28.882 --> 00:03:32.382 - Gille and My Three Angels at the Brown County Playhouse. 00:03:32.898 --> 00:03:39.032 - as well as being in an independent production of our country's good here at the John Waldron Art Center. 00:03:39.032 --> 00:03:45.165 - He can currently be seen in Malafickia, a wonderful discovery of witches, at the Bloomington Playwrights 00:03:45.165 --> 00:03:51.065 - Project this afternoon, within a few minutes after performing here, and again this evening. So those 00:03:51.065 --> 00:03:57.199 - of you who sneak out, I know where you're going. This summer, Sam will study Commedia dell'arte in Italy 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:02.398 - with the famed Antonio Fava. Today, he will be doing excerpts from William Shakespeare's 00:04:02.722 --> 00:04:17.868 - the Merchant of Venice, and the Mercy Seat by Neil Labout. Please welcome Sam Wotton. Certainly my conscience 00:04:17.868 --> 00:04:31.774 - will serve me to run from this Jew, my master. The fiend is at my elbow and tempts me, saying to me, 00:04:32.066 --> 00:04:42.509 - Gobble. Lancelot, gobble. Good Lancelot. Good Gobble. Good Lancelot, gobble. Use your legs. 00:04:42.509 --> 00:04:54.654 - Take the start. Run away. Well, my conscience says no. Take heed on us, Lancelot. Take heed on us, Gobble. 00:05:22.338 --> 00:05:32.366 - My honest friend, Lancelot Gobbo, being an honest man's son, or rather, an honest woman's son, for indeed, 00:05:32.366 --> 00:05:41.926 - my father did something smack, something grow to. He had a kind of a taste. Well, my conscience says, 00:05:41.926 --> 00:05:51.486 - bouge not, bouge, says the fiend, bouge not, says my conscience. Conscience, say I, you counsel well. 00:05:54.178 --> 00:06:02.477 - My conscience is but a kind of hard conscience to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew. Who is, 00:06:02.477 --> 00:06:10.858 - say to me, reverence the devil incarnate? But the fiend, if I should run from the Jew, well, I would 00:06:10.858 --> 00:06:19.240 - be following the devil himself. But in my conscience, my conscience is but a kind of hard conscience 00:06:19.240 --> 00:06:22.974 - to offer to counsel me to stay with the Jew. 00:06:23.650 --> 00:06:41.216 - The fiend gives the more friendly counsel. I will run, fiend. My heels are at your commandment. 00:06:41.216 --> 00:06:51.646 - I will run. You think I was born this way? Like I'm some 00:06:52.226 --> 00:07:01.253 - Hot throat pirate of the high seas? Huh? Hell, I'm just trying to muddle through. That's all, just muddle 00:07:01.253 --> 00:07:10.025 - my fucking way through the middle age. See if I can make it that far. Wait, you like trivia so goddamn 00:07:10.025 --> 00:07:18.796 - much, well, here's a tidbit for you. I'm faking, okay? Totally getting by on fumes. I put my game face 00:07:18.796 --> 00:07:20.670 - on and I go out there 00:07:23.138 --> 00:07:31.526 - Scared shitless. But you know what? I take that back. This is me. I screwed up every step of my life, 00:07:31.526 --> 00:07:39.832 - Abby. I'm not afraid to admit it. Happy to, actually. I'm happy to sing it out there for anybody who 00:07:39.832 --> 00:07:48.302 - wants to hear. I always take the easy route. Do it faster, simpler. You know, whatever it takes to get 00:07:48.302 --> 00:07:52.990 - it done. Be light. Get by. That's me. Cheated in school. 00:07:53.538 --> 00:08:01.750 - screwed over my friends, took whatever I could get from whomever I could take it from. My marriage, 00:08:01.750 --> 00:08:09.798 - there's a goddamn fiasco, of which you're intimately aware. The kids, I barely register as a dad, 00:08:09.798 --> 00:08:18.339 - I'm sure. But compared to the other shit in my life, I'm Dr. Fucking Spock. No matter what I do or have 00:08:18.339 --> 00:08:20.638 - done, they adore the house. 00:08:25.474 --> 00:08:36.560 - Kids are like. And you. I mean, let's not forget you. Us. I haven't done all I said. I promised I do. 00:08:36.560 --> 00:08:47.537 - I fuck up along the way. But I've been trying. I really have. This time out, I've really been trying 00:08:47.537 --> 00:08:53.950 - with you. I don't know what it looks like or feels to you. 00:08:55.202 --> 00:09:02.996 - But I've really made a go of us. And so then yesterday, through all the smoke and fear and just... I 00:09:02.996 --> 00:09:11.021 - don't know, apocalyptic shit. I see a way for us to get out of it. You know, to totally erase the past. 00:09:11.021 --> 00:09:19.046 - And I don't think that makes me Lucifer or some criminal or a bad man for noticing it. We've been given 00:09:19.046 --> 00:09:21.438 - something here. A chance to... 00:09:26.626 --> 00:09:38.590 - all the rotten crap we've done. More than anything, that's what this is. A chance. I know it is. 00:09:56.930 --> 00:10:03.635 - Jenna Wolf is currently pursuing a ballet major with an outside field in business at Indiana University, 00:10:03.635 --> 00:10:10.276 - and is a part of the IU Honors College. She began dancing at the Ruth Mitchell Dance Studio in Atlanta, 00:10:10.276 --> 00:10:16.789 - Georgia, at the age of four. Continuing her training, she joined the Ruth Mitchell Dance Theater, and 00:10:16.789 --> 00:10:23.749 - subsequently danced in various ballets, including The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, La Bayader, Coppelia, 00:10:23.749 --> 00:10:26.878 - and Swan Lake. She has also had soloist roles in 00:10:27.074 --> 00:10:33.896 - Sherba gala performances, and at the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, South Carolina. With the Indiana 00:10:33.896 --> 00:10:40.399 - University Ballet Theater, she has had roles in original works by Mark Godden and Violette Verde, The 00:10:40.399 --> 00:10:46.775 - Nutcracker, Swan Lake, George Balanchine's Four Temperaments and Serenade, and The Sleeping Beauty. 00:10:46.775 --> 00:10:53.406 - For us this afternoon, she will be dancing Aurora's Variation from Peter Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. 00:13:19.426 --> 00:13:25.924 - Mary Jarrell grew up in the small town of Petersburg, Indiana, and she's been an undergraduate degree 00:13:25.924 --> 00:13:32.295 - from the University of Evansville. She is currently completing her master's thesis at Johns Hopkins 00:13:32.295 --> 00:13:38.666 - University under the direction of poet Dave Smith. Her work has been published in several journals, 00:13:38.666 --> 00:13:45.036 - including The Rainbow Review, Hayden's Fairy Review, Poeta del Sol, and The Formalist. She has also 00:13:45.036 --> 00:13:48.158 - received two consecutive Intro to Journal Awards 00:13:48.514 --> 00:13:58.240 - from the Associated Writing Programs. Today she will be reading four of her poems. The four poems I'm 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:07.966 - reading today are from a longer series of narrative poems, all set in a small town. The first two are 00:14:07.966 --> 00:14:17.502 - from the perspective of a young woman who lives in the town and her experiences at the county fair. 00:14:17.602 --> 00:14:26.308 - The last two are from the perspective of two older women in the town. Demolition Derby. Another word 00:14:26.308 --> 00:14:35.099 - for girl was target, which I should have read but didn't in his smile the first time I climbed in the 00:14:35.099 --> 00:14:43.719 - driver's seat. His 89 Impala lasted four whole minutes before two tires blew and I became the candy 00:14:43.719 --> 00:14:46.046 - stuck in his steel pinata. 00:14:46.498 --> 00:14:53.996 - scared senseless, which he liked, and falling hard for the violent rush, the magic of the hit, the souped-up 00:14:53.996 --> 00:15:01.081 - consciousness. I learned to strip the cars myself, to smash them in the back end so they spun, and how 00:15:01.081 --> 00:15:08.028 - to get unhooked. I didn't mind the busted lip, bruised wrists, or blues I had the morning after. But 00:15:08.028 --> 00:15:13.118 - sometimes, walking off the field alone, the empty bleachers littered with 00:15:13.346 --> 00:15:20.590 - soda cans, beer bottles, and half-eaten funnel cakes, I remember my first race and that boy as scared 00:15:20.590 --> 00:15:27.904 - for me as I was, winking as he strapped me in and sent me chasing after more than just a crush. Behind 00:15:27.904 --> 00:15:35.006 - me now lies a trail, deep ruts, and wrecks of crumpled steel, while across the chest of my t-shirt, 00:15:35.006 --> 00:15:40.190 - the spattered mud from spun-out tires dries brown and stains like blood. 00:15:45.474 --> 00:15:53.718 - Pig wrestling. Well-greased and terrified, it screeches its way into the pen where we four high school 00:15:53.718 --> 00:16:01.962 - girls last year's division champs anticipate its first evasive move. It barrels left, zigzagging right 00:16:01.962 --> 00:16:09.726 - between us while we slog barefoot, our jeans rolled to the knees through muck three inches deep. 00:16:10.466 --> 00:16:17.239 - The crowd shouts strategies as we close in, the pig prepared to dodge us like a cornered memory that's 00:16:17.239 --> 00:16:23.881 - stuck somewhere between forbidden and forgotten. We spring together, struggle to subdue it, stop its 00:16:23.881 --> 00:16:30.589 - squealing, feel its slimy skin beneath us, the muscles twitching. When the bell calls time, it twists 00:16:30.589 --> 00:16:37.230 - off in escape, just like those thoughts that bolt away after their capture, more alive than when you 00:16:37.230 --> 00:16:39.006 - pinned them for the count, 00:16:45.570 --> 00:16:52.714 - Anniversary. He's hiding things from me again. I found our bank book in the freezer stuck between the 00:16:52.714 --> 00:16:59.927 - icy slabs of deer meat our boys brought home last fall. The past few nights, I haven't slept with him. 00:16:59.927 --> 00:17:07.141 - He doesn't remember who I am. He called me a hussy and a fool to think he'd sleep with just anyone who 00:17:07.141 --> 00:17:13.374 - walked into his room. At the hospital today, the therapist played the moonlight serenade 00:17:13.666 --> 00:17:20.404 - and asked him what he remembered about the song. He knew the name and hummed the tune in his wobbly 00:17:20.404 --> 00:17:27.143 - old man baritone. Frank Sinatra sang that song, he said, and closed his eyes. I watched him sway to 00:17:27.143 --> 00:17:34.353 - the music, wondering if he remembered my head on his shoulder at the USO in Boston, holding him so tightly 00:17:34.353 --> 00:17:40.350 - as we danced that the buttons of his jacket left small imprints on my chest and stomach. 00:17:42.274 --> 00:17:49.057 - Yesterday, on our anniversary, I took out our old wedding pictures. I didn't expect him to remember 00:17:49.057 --> 00:17:55.840 - them, and he didn't. They tell me this is good for him, but I'm not convinced. He asks me questions 00:17:55.840 --> 00:18:03.166 - as he glances at them, but he doesn't believe my answers. He just looks at me. His eyes are clear and deep. 00:18:03.586 --> 00:18:11.824 - Cold water in a wishing well, but his thoughts are burnt gold pennies tossed by lovers, friends, 00:18:11.824 --> 00:18:20.402 - and children, old and new coins spread apart or jumbled up together, lying at the bottom with no way 00:18:20.402 --> 00:18:28.980 - to scoop them out without falling in. Beautician. Because they know she'll do it when their time has 00:18:28.980 --> 00:18:33.566 - come, her ladies sometimes joke about it at the shop. 00:18:34.338 --> 00:18:41.365 - They stand and say, I want it just like this, then laugh at the mirror. She laughs, too, until someone's 00:18:41.365 --> 00:18:48.057 - last appointment brings her here, to this white room of sterile metal, quiet, cold, windowless. She 00:18:48.057 --> 00:18:55.016 - only sets the sides and front, the backs not seen, of course. She works on women she has known for more 00:18:55.016 --> 00:19:01.976 - than 30 years, making sure the handheld dryer is on the cooler setting, doing things exactly like she's 00:19:01.976 --> 00:19:02.846 - always done. 00:19:04.194 --> 00:19:11.271 - When the hair has dried, she takes the rollers out and lets the perfect glossy curls fall into place. 00:19:11.271 --> 00:19:18.278 - Then, with a curling iron, touches up the last few strands. But today the iron grazes the dead flesh 00:19:18.278 --> 00:19:25.216 - at the temple, hissing softly. And for a moment she expects to see the woman's facial muscles press 00:19:25.216 --> 00:19:30.974 - the mouth into a rounded ouch of pain and hear some sound emitted from the throat. 00:19:31.586 --> 00:19:39.063 - Instead, she only hears the echo of her voice. I'm sorry, Catherine. As embarrassment warms her face, 00:19:39.063 --> 00:19:46.174 - knowing the hand that wants to ease the darkening burn is her small, age-spotted own. Thank you. 00:20:01.474 --> 00:20:08.257 - Abigail Mueller from Evanston, Illinois, is a senior majoring in theater and drama at Indiana University. 00:20:08.257 --> 00:20:14.848 - On the IU main stage, she has appeared in Trelawney of the Wells, Sweeney Todd, Sweet Charity, and the 00:20:14.848 --> 00:20:21.311 - IU Broadway Cabaret. Other credits include Queen of Bakersfield at the John Waldron Arts Center, How 00:20:21.311 --> 00:20:27.902 - to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at the Baskook Chumley, and Man of La Mancha, Little Shop 00:20:27.902 --> 00:20:30.014 - of Horrors, Fiddler on the Roof, 00:20:30.242 --> 00:20:36.159 - and the last five years, all with the Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre in Grand Lake, Colorado. She 00:20:36.159 --> 00:20:42.846 - will be performing selections from the most happy fella and the last five years. Please welcome Abigail Mueller. 00:21:46.146 --> 00:21:53.387 - My name is Catherine Hyatt. I'm here to see Mike Stelmeyer, please. Thank you. Hyatt! Mike! Hyatt! It's 00:21:53.387 --> 00:22:00.627 - Kathy Hyatt. No, no, no. This will only take a minute. I'm sorry if I'm interrupting. Well, two things. 00:22:00.627 --> 00:22:07.798 - Actually, one, I just wanted to make sure you got those reviews I sent you from the summer. Yes, I got 00:22:07.798 --> 00:22:12.254 - some notices in the local paper and I thought you'd enjoy them. 00:22:14.626 --> 00:22:21.565 - to send out another set of those, sure, sure. The other thing was just, you know, checking in, seeing 00:22:21.565 --> 00:22:28.369 - if there's anything you wanted to send me in for. I feel like I'm in a really good place right now. 00:22:28.369 --> 00:22:35.444 - Yes, yes, yes, certainly. As soon as I'm doing something in the city, I will let you know. Okay, thanks 00:22:35.444 --> 00:22:39.390 - so much for your time, Mike. Okay, I'll talk to you soon. 00:26:32.642 --> 00:26:38.487 - Christopher Nochtrab is completing his second year with the Indiana University Ballet Theater. He began 00:26:38.487 --> 00:26:44.500 - his dance training with his mother in Long Island, New York, and as he advanced, he joined a small company 00:26:44.500 --> 00:26:50.401 - known as Harbor Ballet Theater in Port Jefferson, New York. He danced in many ballets with this company, 00:26:50.401 --> 00:26:56.414 - including The Nutcracker, Peter and the Wolf, and many new works. He also attended summer ballet intensive 00:26:56.414 --> 00:27:00.798 - programs with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School, The Rock, and Chautauqua. 00:27:01.538 --> 00:27:07.746 - Since arriving at IU, he has danced in new works by Jacques in Virginia and Cezbron, George Balanchine's 00:27:07.746 --> 00:27:13.894 - Four Temperaments, and Serenade, Swan Lake, and The Sleeping Beauty. This summer, he will be performing 00:27:13.894 --> 00:27:19.925 - as a company apprentice with the Chautauqua Company. For us this afternoon, he will be doing the male 00:27:19.925 --> 00:27:22.526 - solo from George Balanchine's Square Dance. 00:30:31.938 --> 00:30:38.119 - Jason Plaude is currently a graduate student at IU where he studies with Patricia Wise. He received 00:30:38.119 --> 00:30:44.485 - his Bachelor of Music and Voice Performance from the University of Southern Maine. Since coming to IU, 00:30:44.485 --> 00:30:50.851 - he has appeared with the IU Opera Theater in La Traviata, The Merry Widow, The Ballad of Baby Doe, and 00:30:50.851 --> 00:30:57.464 - Peter Grimes. He has also had roles elsewhere in The Marriage of Figaro, The Telephone, The Secret Garden, 00:30:57.464 --> 00:30:59.998 - HMS Pinafore, Rita, and Jekyll and Hyde. 00:31:00.386 --> 00:31:07.861 - His concert soloist work includes Gabriel Forez Requiem, Wolfgang Mozart's Requiem, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 00:31:07.861 --> 00:31:14.990 - Five Mystical Songs, and Joseph Hayden's Lord Nelson Mass. Among his honors are the Lillian A. Nordica 00:31:14.990 --> 00:31:22.188 - Scholarship, the Emily K. Rand Vocal Prize, and the Ed DiBrando Pisetti Scholarship. He will be singing 00:31:22.188 --> 00:31:29.109 - an aria from Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, and an art song by Richard Strauss. Ladies and gentlemen, 00:31:29.109 --> 00:31:30.078 - Jason Plaude. 00:31:51.874 --> 00:32:11.310 - Have you already won the case? What do I hear? What do I have to do with it? I want to punish you in 00:32:11.310 --> 00:32:18.238 - such a way. It will be my pleasure. 00:32:26.434 --> 00:32:43.871 - If the old woman pretends to pay her, in what way? And then there's Antonio, who refuses to marry a 00:32:43.871 --> 00:32:55.902 - nephew to the unknown Figaro. Cultivating the pride of this mad cat, 00:33:02.754 --> 00:33:04.766 - Let's make a turn. 00:39:25.730 --> 00:39:26.590 - take a short break. 00:40:26.914 --> 00:40:33.425 - As we resume our program, the next performer will be Laura Otto. Laura has a BA in English and a BA 00:40:33.425 --> 00:40:40.132 - in rhetoric from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and she is currently completing work for 00:40:40.132 --> 00:40:46.903 - an MFA in fiction at IU. She's also the associate director of the Indiana University Writers Conference 00:40:46.903 --> 00:40:53.740 - and a freelance journalist for The Business Ledger, a business newspaper serving the Chicago area. She's 00:40:53.740 --> 00:40:56.670 - a single mother of a six-year-old boy, Cole, 00:40:57.154 --> 00:41:03.570 - who is her pride and joy, but the greatest detriment to getting any work done. She spends lots of time 00:41:03.570 --> 00:41:09.799 - driving coal to hockey, baseball, and martial arts practice, and not much time writing. Any writing 00:41:09.799 --> 00:41:16.277 - that she does tends to be late at night. For us, she will read selections this afternoon from her short 00:41:16.277 --> 00:41:18.270 - story, How to Kill a Wild Boar. 00:41:28.194 --> 00:41:34.348 - How to Kill a Wild Boar is written in second person point of view, which means that the narrator is 00:41:34.348 --> 00:41:40.809 - addressing a you character and making the you character a central character in the story. In this story, 00:41:40.809 --> 00:41:47.270 - the you character is named Jory. Her mother died while giving birth to her, and Jory has grown up living 00:41:47.270 --> 00:41:53.670 - alone with her father. Jory is now 17 and is trying to come to terms with her and her father's strained 00:41:53.670 --> 00:41:57.854 - relationship. How to Kill a Wild Boar. You can do it with a bullet. 00:41:58.210 --> 00:42:04.793 - But if you're really brave, you'll use a bow and arrow. Your best bet is to get him in the neck. You 00:42:04.793 --> 00:42:11.440 - have one shot. If you miss, the boar will go after you. And believe me, you don't want to be faced to 00:42:11.440 --> 00:42:18.088 - snout with an angry boar, because with every wild boar comes 10 wild boars. They travel in packs, and 00:42:18.088 --> 00:42:24.736 - they'll come after you with their long razor-sharp tusks, poking and jabbing you in the legs, leaving 00:42:24.736 --> 00:42:28.190 - scars a foot long and an inch deep. And if you fall, 00:42:28.546 --> 00:42:36.123 - Don't fall. It's all over. They've got you, your little girl stew. And they'll eat anything, roots, 00:42:36.123 --> 00:42:43.699 - cow patties, onions, lizards, small birds, raspberry jello, sour corn, eggs, grapes, their own dead 00:42:43.699 --> 00:42:51.427 - kin. Don't think they won't eat you. Your father tells you this as you watch him snap open the bed of 00:42:51.427 --> 00:42:56.958 - his pickup truck. He has just returned home from a six-day camping trip. 00:42:57.570 --> 00:43:04.159 - Three of the days were spent driving from your home in a small Chicago suburb to the South Carolina 00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:10.748 - swamps and back again. Primo hunting ground, your father explains. You are watching Three's company 00:43:10.748 --> 00:43:17.403 - reruns when he runs inside the house waving his arms frantically. Jory, you've got to see something, 00:43:17.403 --> 00:43:24.124 - he says, breathless. When he clicks the television off, you sigh and roll your eyes. Your home early, 00:43:24.124 --> 00:43:26.430 - you say. It is noon on a Saturday. 00:43:26.978 --> 00:43:33.353 - You didn't expect him to return until early the next morning. You had been looking forward to an evening 00:43:33.353 --> 00:43:39.545 - alone, or almost alone. Jean, your boyfriend of six months, is supposed to come over with a bottle of 00:43:39.545 --> 00:43:43.006 - sparkling grape juice and a rented copy of Pulp Fiction. 00:43:43.618 --> 00:43:49.515 - Jean knows you don't like sleeping alone when your father's out of town, especially since you just found 00:43:49.515 --> 00:43:55.131 - out that Darren, the pimply-faced kid that lives next door, has been hiding in the bushes that line 00:43:55.131 --> 00:44:00.860 - the front of your house and watching you undress at night. Darren is only 12, but he looks nearly 20. 00:44:00.860 --> 00:44:04.510 - And unlike the other little boys that live in your neighborhood, 00:44:04.770 --> 00:44:10.779 - He is already taller than you and has patches of brown fuzz that trail the soft curve of his jaw in 00:44:10.779 --> 00:44:17.268 - wild and erratic patterns, like the chia pet your father bought you for Christmas three years ago. Darren's 00:44:17.268 --> 00:44:23.336 - mother works late at Jenny's, a little diner on the west side of town. And sometimes, late at night, 00:44:23.336 --> 00:44:29.345 - you hear his stepfather yelling at him, and you hear crashes and metal things banging together. And 00:44:29.345 --> 00:44:32.830 - you hear the high-pitched screech of his stepfather's car 00:44:32.994 --> 00:44:39.666 - as he spins out of the driveway. And if things get really bad, you hear Darren blast the Star Wars theme 00:44:39.666 --> 00:44:46.212 - song so loud that the ceramic ballerina on top of your dresser wobbles a little. If things get really, 00:44:46.212 --> 00:44:53.075 - really bad, Darren will scream at the top of his lungs, sometimes in tune with the music. Once, he screamed 00:44:53.075 --> 00:44:59.620 - for a good 10 minutes straight, beginning with a droid battle and not ending until passage through the 00:44:59.620 --> 00:45:00.446 - planet core. 00:45:01.666 --> 00:45:07.658 - You feel sorry for Darren and disgusted at the thought of him looking at you that way. You wonder if 00:45:07.658 --> 00:45:13.769 - he ever watched you make out with Gene or dance around your room in your Tuesday underpants pretending 00:45:13.769 --> 00:45:19.880 - to be baby from dirty dancing. You wonder if he ever saw you scratch your butt or pluck the tiny black 00:45:19.880 --> 00:45:25.932 - hairs that grow out of the space between your eyebrows. You wonder how many times he saw you naked or 00:45:25.932 --> 00:45:31.390 - if he saw you naked at all. Most of all, you wonder what it is about your tall, lanky body. 00:45:31.682 --> 00:45:37.962 - too tall and too lanky for a girl of 17, in your opinion, that he finds so appealing. But when you lie 00:45:37.962 --> 00:45:44.242 - awake at night, the noises from next door are somewhat comforting. You marvel at Darren's amazing lung 00:45:44.242 --> 00:45:50.644 - capacity, the reverberating battles of the house next door, so different than your own speechless house. 00:45:50.644 --> 00:45:57.106 - You wonder what it must feel like to scream like that. You tried practicing once in the shower, wondering 00:45:57.106 --> 00:46:00.094 - if your father would run up the stairs panicked. 00:46:00.514 --> 00:46:06.892 - You screamed for five minutes straight until foamy rivers of shampoo slid down your forehead and filled 00:46:06.892 --> 00:46:13.087 - your mouth, and you had to stop. Gene tells you that it's peaceful in your house, calm, refreshingly 00:46:13.087 --> 00:46:19.281 - still. Not a creature is stirring, he says, tickling your foot. I would have killed for this at your 00:46:19.281 --> 00:46:25.475 - age. My house was full of noises all the time, the coffee grinder, my brother's stereo. I would have 00:46:25.475 --> 00:46:27.806 - loved this. You have so much freedom. 00:46:28.482 --> 00:46:34.693 - You grimace at the way Gene said, your age, like you're his five-year-old cousin or something. Then 00:46:34.693 --> 00:46:41.090 - you think about the word freedom and realize that freedom is earned. Freedom means giving up something 00:46:41.090 --> 00:46:47.363 - because you want to, because you don't want it anymore. But I never asked for this, you say. I never 00:46:47.363 --> 00:46:53.636 - asked for all this quiet. When your father grabs your hand and pulls you out of the chair, you think 00:46:53.636 --> 00:46:54.878 - about calling Gene. 00:46:55.138 --> 00:47:00.976 - You want to tell him not to come or to forget about the sparkling grape juice at least. You don't want 00:47:00.976 --> 00:47:06.758 - your father to find out that Gene sometimes spends the night when your father is away. You don't want 00:47:06.758 --> 00:47:12.596 - your father to notice Gene's dark green silk boxers, the ones with the dancing jalapenos that you love 00:47:12.596 --> 00:47:18.661 - so much peeking out from the waist of his jeans. You don't want your father to smell Gene's excess cologne 00:47:18.661 --> 00:47:22.686 - or notice the small cut on his chin still bleeding from a fresh shave. 00:47:23.394 --> 00:47:29.430 - Gene always tries to make himself look good for you, and you are afraid that your father will notice 00:47:29.430 --> 00:47:35.884 - and start asking questions. You are afraid that your father will see the indentations from your fingernails 00:47:35.884 --> 00:47:42.039 - in his back like tiny half moons. You are afraid that your father will smell Gene's musky odor in your 00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:48.254 - hair, on your hands. You and Gene have not had sex yet, but you have come close. Gene says he's willing 00:47:48.254 --> 00:47:52.318 - to wait, but by the way, his hands reach for the arch of your back, 00:47:52.450 --> 00:47:58.652 - pulling you towards him in desperate thrusts, you are not sure how long. Or perhaps you are not so much 00:47:58.652 --> 00:48:05.033 - afraid that your father will find out about you and Gene, but that he will notice but say nothing, looking 00:48:05.033 --> 00:48:11.176 - at you with a slight tilt of the head as if you were a complex math equation. And then he'll shake his 00:48:11.176 --> 00:48:17.438 - head and walk away, and you'll want to tell him to come back, to not give up, but he'll already be gone. 00:48:18.658 --> 00:48:24.121 - You want to call Jean, but before you can pick up the phone, you find yourself standing at the edge 00:48:24.121 --> 00:48:29.694 - of the driveway, shivering in just a t-shirt and running shorts, despite the glare of an October sun. 00:48:29.694 --> 00:48:35.375 - Your father is excited and talking rapidly. He is now telling you about the mating habits of wild boars 00:48:35.375 --> 00:48:40.893 - and how they have a three-inch layer of fat, grizzly tendons between their muscle and skin that's as 00:48:40.893 --> 00:48:41.822 - strong as armor. 00:48:42.050 --> 00:48:48.473 - And to kill them, you have to aim for this one particular spot at the base of their neck, directly between 00:48:48.473 --> 00:48:54.777 - the shoulder blades, and how he knows a guy that tried to kill one with a pistol, but the bullet bounced 00:48:54.777 --> 00:49:00.780 - right off. When he says, bounced right off, he points at his chest, and then at you, and you wonder 00:49:00.780 --> 00:49:07.084 - if it is a symbolic gesture. His cheeks are flushed, the same pale pink color of your petaguanas tongue. 00:49:07.084 --> 00:49:11.646 - You rarely see him like this, so ready and willing to look you in the eyes. 00:49:12.290 --> 00:49:18.501 - Usually he looks the other way when he sees you coming. And sometimes you think the fragility of your 00:49:18.501 --> 00:49:24.591 - 17-year-old body and the peachy scent of your perfume scares him a bit. A reminder of the woman you 00:49:24.591 --> 00:49:30.741 - killed when you heaved your way through the dark tunnel of her vagina and out into this bright white 00:49:30.741 --> 00:49:34.334 - world. Sometimes you think he hates you for it. Thank you. 00:49:48.258 --> 00:49:55.009 - Jessica Galgiani will graduate from Indiana University this coming August with a BS in ballet and biology 00:49:55.009 --> 00:50:01.568 - after only two years of study. She was born and reared in Tucson, Arizona, and she began taking ballet 00:50:01.568 --> 00:50:08.064 - when she was eight years old, inspired by a ballet teacher who was brought in to coach the gymnastics 00:50:08.064 --> 00:50:15.006 - team Jessica was on. Jessica was trained under the expert eye of Mary Beth Cabana and spent summer workshops 00:50:15.298 --> 00:50:21.718 - with the San Francisco and Boston Ballets. Over time, she progressed to performing leading roles in 00:50:21.718 --> 00:50:28.202 - classical ballet such as The Nutcracker and more contemporary pieces set for Cabana's company Ballet 00:50:28.202 --> 00:50:34.622 - Tucson. She graduated from high school with honors and was named a National Merit Scholar and an AP 00:50:34.622 --> 00:50:41.170 - Scholar with Distinction. At IU, she has recently performed in Sleeping Beauty, staged and coached by 00:50:41.170 --> 00:50:44.958 - Julie Kent. Jessica hopes to begin her professional career 00:50:45.250 --> 00:50:50.910 - fall. Today she will dance a variation from the bluebird pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty. 00:52:14.210 --> 00:52:20.687 - Nino Cotirella is a student of Menekim Prezler at Indiana University School of Music. Nino made his 00:52:20.687 --> 00:52:27.164 - public debut at the age of 14 performing his own composition, Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra with 00:52:27.164 --> 00:52:34.029 - the Evansville Philharmonic. Since then, he has performed extensively in public. Recently, he was invited 00:52:34.029 --> 00:52:40.765 - to play Franz Liszt's first piano concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for a private donor 00:52:40.765 --> 00:52:43.550 - appreciation concert. And in January 2004, 00:52:43.810 --> 00:52:50.538 - He did a concert tour of the Hawaiian Islands. He has won many top prizes and competitions. Among these 00:52:50.538 --> 00:52:57.008 - are the Indianapolis Concerto Competition at the age of 17, the National Foundation for Advancement 00:52:57.008 --> 00:53:03.736 - in the Arts Competition, the Music Teacher's National Association Competition, and Indiana University's 00:53:03.736 --> 00:53:07.294 - Concerto Competition. Nino is also an active composer. 00:53:07.650 --> 00:53:14.060 - and has won awards in several composition competitions, including a second prize nationally in the Music 00:53:14.060 --> 00:53:20.287 - Teacher's National Association Composition Competition. This afternoon, he will play pieces by Claude 00:53:20.287 --> 00:53:22.302 - Debussy and Sergei Rachmaninoff. 00:54:00.898 --> 00:54:01.214 - you 01:01:15.426 --> 01:01:21.661 - Vanessa Brinchley hails from Utah, where she received degrees in theater and political science summer 01:01:21.661 --> 01:01:27.836 - cum laude from Utah State University. She was Miss Utah in the Miss America competition and received 01:01:27.836 --> 01:01:34.071 - the Burt's Parks Talent Award at the Miss America Pageant. Currently, she is a first-year MFA student 01:01:34.071 --> 01:01:40.184 - in acting at Indiana University, where she has appeared in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well in Living 01:01:40.184 --> 01:01:44.830 - in Paris and the Laramie Project. Her credits before arriving at IU include 01:01:45.218 --> 01:01:51.150 - The King and I, Pegger My Heart, and Pride and Prejudice. She's also been a performer with the Utah 01:01:51.150 --> 01:01:57.142 - Festival Opera Company and the Old Lyric Repertory Company. This summer, she will be a member of the 01:01:57.142 --> 01:02:03.075 - Acting Company of the Utah Shakespearean Festival. For us this afternoon, she will perform excerpts 01:02:03.075 --> 01:02:09.482 - from William Shakespeare's Henry IV Part II and Conor McPherson's The Where. Please put your hands together 01:02:09.482 --> 01:02:10.846 - for Vanessa Brinchley. 01:03:40.866 --> 01:03:50.849 - was ill-sorted. Therefore, captains have need look to it. For God's sake, thrust him downstairs. I cannot 01:03:50.849 --> 01:04:00.266 - endure such a fusty and rascal. Oh, you sweet little rogue, you. Alas, poor ape, how thou sweatest. 01:04:00.266 --> 01:04:07.518 - Come, let me wipe thy face. Come on, you whoresome chops. Ah, rogue, if they 01:04:10.914 --> 01:04:27.963 - In March last year, the school had a sponsored swim, and the kids were going to swim the length of the 01:04:27.963 --> 01:04:40.542 - pool, and I promised I was going to watch her, but I got, well, I was late. 01:04:41.282 --> 01:04:47.445 - out of work, and I was only going to be able to meet her afterwards, but when I got there, there was 01:04:47.445 --> 01:04:53.609 - an ambulance outside, and I thought like, well, the pool is in the central remedial clinic, and so I 01:04:53.609 --> 01:04:59.772 - thought like it was just somebody being dropped there. I didn't really pay any attention, but when I 01:04:59.772 --> 01:05:06.301 - got in, there was nobody in the pool, and one of the teachers was standing there with a group of children, 01:05:06.301 --> 01:05:10.878 - and she was crying, and some of the kids were crying, and then this woman, 01:05:11.874 --> 01:05:19.542 - Another one of the moms came over and she said that there'd been an accident and that Neum had hit her 01:05:19.542 --> 01:05:27.209 - head in the pool and she'd been in the water and they were trying to resuscitate her. But she said she 01:05:27.209 --> 01:05:34.654 - was going to be all right. She was in her bathing suit and the ambulance man said he didn't know if 01:05:34.654 --> 01:05:41.726 - what he was doing was working and he didn't know if she was alive, but the ambulance man knew. 01:05:42.274 --> 01:05:51.003 - I think. Well, she wasn't breathing and he just knew. And he said if I wanted to say goodbye to her 01:05:51.003 --> 01:05:59.906 - in the ambulance in case I didn't get a chance in the hospital, then. So I gave her a little hug. Her 01:05:59.906 --> 01:06:08.984 - body was freezing cold. I told her that mommy loved her very much. She just looked asleep, but her lips 01:06:08.984 --> 01:06:10.206 - had gone blue 01:06:29.730 --> 01:06:36.017 - Colin Donnell, originally from St. Louis, is now a junior at Indiana University majoring in musical 01:06:36.017 --> 01:06:42.555 - theater through the individualized major program. He has performed, or is performing in, Sweet Charity, 01:06:42.555 --> 01:06:49.282 - Betty's Summer Vacation, Sweeney Todd, and Parade. His regional credits include shows such as Miss Saigon, 01:06:49.282 --> 01:06:55.695 - South Pacific, My Fair Lady, and a number of others at Muni St. Louis. He plans to return there again 01:06:55.695 --> 01:06:58.398 - this coming summer. But before he does so, 01:06:58.946 --> 01:07:05.022 - He will be participating in May in the National Society of Arts and Letters National Competition in 01:07:05.022 --> 01:07:11.098 - Musical Theatre at Urbana-Champaign, where the top prize is $10,000. Today Colin will do selections 01:07:11.098 --> 01:07:14.014 - from She Loves Me, Hello Dolly, and Doonesbury. 01:07:41.730 --> 01:07:52.344 - me and to my amazement I love it knowing that she loves me she loves me true she doesn't show it well 01:07:52.344 --> 01:08:03.166 - how could she when she doesn't know it yesterday she loathed me but not today she loves me and tomorrow 01:08:14.402 --> 01:08:25.795 - I'm speechless, for I mustn't tell her. It's wrong now, but it won't be long now, before my love discovers 01:08:25.795 --> 01:08:28.670 - that she and I are lovers. 01:08:52.642 --> 01:09:00.540 - Just think, there I sat, cooped up in Yonkers for years and years, and wonderful people like Mrs. Malloy 01:09:00.540 --> 01:09:08.061 - were just walking around in New York, and I didn't know them. I don't know if y'all can see it from 01:09:08.061 --> 01:09:15.959 - where you're sitting. Well, for instance, the way her cheeks and her eyes and her forehead come together 01:09:15.959 --> 01:09:21.374 - up here. Can you? I tell you right now that a fine-looking woman is the 01:09:21.506 --> 01:09:28.650 - greatest work of God on earth. You can talk all you like about the pyramids and Niagara Falls, but they 01:09:28.650 --> 01:09:35.588 - aren't in it at all. I mean, of course, I've talked to women before, but today, today, I talk to one 01:09:35.588 --> 01:09:42.457 - equal to equal, and they're so different for men. And they're often mysterious, too. I bet that you 01:09:42.457 --> 01:09:49.326 - could know a woman for a hundred years without ever being really sure whether she liked you or not. 01:09:49.326 --> 01:09:50.494 - Today, I've lost 01:09:53.058 --> 01:10:02.782 - My job, my future, everything that people think is important. But I don't care. Even if I have to dig 01:10:02.782 --> 01:10:11.838 - ditches for the rest of my life, at least I'll be a ditch digger who once had a wonderful day. 01:10:22.722 --> 01:10:36.533 - not to move too fast with her. I know we're new at learning how to care, but if she comes to me a night 01:10:36.533 --> 01:10:39.454 - that's soft and still 01:11:20.258 --> 01:11:26.903 - Theresa Herold is a master's student at IU studying with Constanza Cucaro. She has recently performed 01:11:26.903 --> 01:11:33.614 - in IU's production of Peter Grimes, The Magic Flute, and the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, and a local 01:11:33.614 --> 01:11:40.194 - Bloomington production of Dido and Anais. Among her past credits are roles in Jeppe, The Marriage of 01:11:40.194 --> 01:11:46.774 - Figaro, and Dr. Miracle. She's also soloed with several local and university choirs, performing such 01:11:46.774 --> 01:11:49.054 - works as Mozart's Coronation Mass, 01:11:49.474 --> 01:11:56.706 - Handel's Messiah, Schubert's Mass and E-flat Major, Bach's Magnificat, and Britain's Rejoice in the 01:11:56.706 --> 01:12:03.938 - Lamb. In 2003, she received third place in the Indianapolis Matinee Musicale. She also placed first 01:12:03.938 --> 01:12:11.170 - in both the 2001 and 2002 competitions of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. In 2002, 01:12:11.170 --> 01:12:19.198 - she participated in the Maine's Emerging Artist Program, and in 2003, she attended the Charlie Creek Workshop. 01:12:20.162 --> 01:12:26.781 - This coming summer, she will be a member of the Bach Festival Chorale in Carmel, California. Teresa 01:12:26.781 --> 01:12:30.686 - will perform an art song by Brahms and an aria by Rossini. 01:22:04.994 --> 01:22:10.804 - note on which to end our program this afternoon. It's been a pleasure to be with you and to introduce 01:22:10.804 --> 01:22:16.899 - you to this remarkable talent and I'd now like to turn the podium back to Ingallor Welsh and Peggy Buckman 01:22:16.899 --> 01:22:21.342 - to introduce the NSAL area chairs who will present the awards to the winners. 01:22:30.626 --> 01:22:39.814 - Thank you very much, Murray, and thank you everyone who performed. It was absolutely thrilling and fabulous. 01:22:39.814 --> 01:22:48.413 - I enjoyed it a lot, and I hope you did too. We are now going on to our awards, and Peggy Bachman will 01:22:48.413 --> 01:22:56.927 - be giving out the awards for the visual arts program. She is doing this for Rhoda Celizzi, and Becky 01:22:56.927 --> 01:22:57.854 - Cresmolos. 01:23:03.266 --> 01:23:10.880 - Would the award winners for the visual arts competition please come up to the front of the stage? And 01:23:10.880 --> 01:23:18.270 - we would like to ask the audience to hold your applause please until we have completed the awards. 01:23:31.426 --> 01:23:44.172 - The first award is to Ayako Goto. He has been awarded the Pygmalion's Merit Award in Visual Arts. 01:23:44.172 --> 01:23:55.358 - Not here? Okay. Gabby Grodin has been awarded Pygmalion's Merit Award in Visual Arts. 01:24:05.314 --> 01:24:17.390 - Wes Harvey has been awarded the Bachman Merit Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. Nick Canning has 01:24:17.390 --> 01:24:29.467 - been awarded the Keller Merit Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. Brian Smith has been awarded the 01:24:29.467 --> 01:24:33.374 - Kahl Merit Award in Visual Arts. 01:24:38.050 --> 01:24:47.325 - Neil Colander has been awarded the Klein Merit Award in Visual Arts. Michael Schulbaum has been awarded 01:24:47.325 --> 01:24:56.601 - the Schnicke Merit Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. Shane Moses has been awarded the Alan W. Kahn 01:24:56.601 --> 01:25:06.590 - Memorial Award in Visual Arts. Is that how you say your first name? Chaney. Chaney, I'm sorry. Congratulations. 01:25:10.562 --> 01:25:21.046 - Timothy Borntrager has been awarded the Carter Merit Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. Jared Landberg 01:25:21.046 --> 01:25:31.039 - has been awarded the Grace Dyer Memorial Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. Jesse Mathis has been 01:25:31.039 --> 01:25:37.310 - awarded the Christ Merit Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. 01:25:42.786 --> 01:25:53.989 - John Dean Eleven has been awarded the Alma Eicherman Memorial Award in Visual Arts. Rachel Brewer has 01:25:53.989 --> 01:26:05.083 - been awarded the Noor Primo Merit Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. Wes Harvey has been awarded 01:26:05.083 --> 01:26:12.222 - the Rosemary Fraser Merit Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. 01:26:16.770 --> 01:26:39.685 - And Matthew Ballou has been awarded the Chapter Career Award in Visual Arts. Congratulations. Okay, 01:26:39.685 --> 01:26:42.206 - that's it. 01:26:44.738 --> 01:26:56.521 - I'd like to introduce Joan Athanas, Joanne Athanas, who is chair of the dance. She will present those 01:26:56.521 --> 01:27:06.686 - awards. First, I'd quickly like to say a few thank yous before I invite the winners up. 01:27:06.786 --> 01:27:13.532 - I'd like to thank my friend, Mary Stroh, who stood in for me during an emergency. Mary is right there. 01:27:13.532 --> 01:27:20.081 - And Mary is going to be our dance chair next year. Thank you, Mary. I'd also like to thank our trio 01:27:20.081 --> 01:27:26.762 - of judges who gave up a Sunday of their lives to adjudicate this competition. They were Larry Attaway 01:27:26.762 --> 01:27:33.442 - of Indianapolis, Elizabeth Hartwell of Louisville, and Michael Tevlin of Cincinnati. And finally, I'd 01:27:33.442 --> 01:27:36.062 - like to thank our member, Violet Verde, 01:27:36.386 --> 01:27:47.710 - who really makes this competition a success. She coaches the students, helps them with their variations, 01:27:47.710 --> 01:27:59.142 - and I thank her very much. I'm sorry she couldn't be here today. And I guess that's it. Would the winners 01:27:59.142 --> 01:28:05.182 - now come up and please hold your applause till the end. 01:28:06.594 --> 01:28:17.859 - Fifth place award, the Athanas Merit Award, goes to Elana Lichtman. Our fourth place award is the Shiner 01:28:17.859 --> 01:28:28.695 - Merit Award, and it goes to Stephanie Lam. Our third place award goes to Christopher Noctrob, and it 01:28:28.695 --> 01:28:35.454 - is the Marina Svetlova Tribute Award, donated by Violet Verdi. 01:28:41.090 --> 01:28:50.427 - Our second place winner is Jenna Wolf, and she receives the Marina Svetlova Tribute Award donated by 01:28:50.427 --> 01:29:00.041 - Lila Hughes. And finally, our first place winner is Jessica Gagliani, who wins the $1,000 award donated 01:29:00.041 --> 01:29:05.310 - by the Bloomington Chapter members. And you may applaud. 01:29:19.394 --> 01:29:28.386 - I have the honor to ask Marilyn Norris, who's the chair of the Drama Awards, please to give her awards. 01:29:28.386 --> 01:29:37.119 - And I congratulate you, too. Thank you. Drama winners, will you take the stage? And we'll remind you 01:29:37.119 --> 01:29:40.318 - to hold your applause until the end. 01:29:51.906 --> 01:30:00.459 - is not what actors do on stage. The theater is the spontaneous combustion that occurs between what the 01:30:00.459 --> 01:30:09.593 - actors are doing on stage and you in the audience. These today we honor because a panel of very distinguished 01:30:09.593 --> 01:30:17.896 - judges decided that these six and one, the two who could not be here, were capable of creating that 01:30:17.896 --> 01:30:19.806 - spontaneous combustion 01:30:20.610 --> 01:30:29.551 - even on the basis of a very brief one or two minute audition. And so we like to honor them and congratulate 01:30:29.551 --> 01:30:38.162 - them today. The winner of the Ilknoll and Robert Ralston Merritt Award is a Phi Beta Kappa double major 01:30:38.162 --> 01:30:47.103 - in Thea and Geology and unfortunately today is on a required geology field trip. Alia Maria Tawell received 01:30:47.103 --> 01:30:49.918 - the Ralph Collins Memorial Award. 01:30:56.898 --> 01:31:06.594 - receives the Lazarus Merit Award. Congratulations. Josh Devoyan receives the Frank and Becky Persimales 01:31:06.594 --> 01:31:15.917 - Merit Award. Congratulations. And in a few minutes, we'll be on stage in Tidus and Brontas. Michael 01:31:15.917 --> 01:31:25.054 - Malloff receives the Linneth Rocket, Carol Mooney, and Fran Snig Memorial Award. Congratulations. 01:31:26.914 --> 01:31:34.688 - on stage in a few moments. Sam Wojtek, who is the recipient of the Laura Scheiner Memorial Award, is, 01:31:34.688 --> 01:31:42.767 - even as we speak, on stage in Malafika at the Bloomington Playwrights Project production. And our chapter 01:31:42.767 --> 01:31:46.654 - career winner, Vanessa Wrenchley, congratulations. 01:32:08.610 --> 01:32:17.011 - I would like to introduce Ruth Albright, who is chair of the literature competition. Ruth. Thank you, 01:32:17.011 --> 01:32:25.247 - Peggy. Would all the literature winners please come forward? While they're coming forward, I'd like 01:32:25.247 --> 01:32:33.731 - to tell you that it was a stiff competition this year. We had 50 entries, plays, poems, short stories, 01:32:33.731 --> 01:32:38.590 - essays of literary merit, TV scripts, et cetera, and these 01:32:38.690 --> 01:32:46.596 - 10 people. I'm not sure everyone's here today, but the 10 people won these awards and really deserve 01:32:46.596 --> 01:32:54.579 - them. Our first winner is Michelle Ross, who seems not to be here. She won the McCluskey Merit Award. 01:32:54.579 --> 01:33:02.407 - Sarah Jane Stoner won the Josephine Piercy Creative Writing Award. Congratulations. Robin Jane Kish 01:33:02.407 --> 01:33:05.694 - won the Hannah Bennis Wilson Merit Award. 01:33:09.474 --> 01:33:19.180 - Kathleen Susan Balma won the Roy Battenhouse Memorial Award. Amanda Hong was not able to be with us 01:33:19.180 --> 01:33:29.468 - today. She has a class today, which is too bad for Amanda. Allison Powell, I guess she's not here either. 01:33:29.468 --> 01:33:38.494 - She won the Will H. Hayes Jr. Memorial Award. Brian Cox. Brian won the Albright Merit Award. 01:33:42.082 --> 01:33:51.796 - Dan Manchester. Dan won the Helen Caldwell Merit Award. Carrie Jarrell, who read her poems for us, won 01:33:51.796 --> 01:34:01.699 - the Roy Battenhouse Memorial Award. Carrie came all the way from Baltimore to read for us today, because 01:34:01.699 --> 01:34:10.942 - she goes to Johns Hopkins. We appreciate her coming. Laura Ann Otto won our Chapter Career Award. 01:34:13.858 --> 01:34:35.013 - Congratulations to all the winners. I have the pleasure to ask Dee Lane to come to the podium and introduce 01:34:35.013 --> 01:34:39.518 - her music competitors. 01:34:52.194 --> 01:35:02.189 - they are assembling up here, I would like to remind us all that music is an exacting discipline and 01:35:02.189 --> 01:35:12.583 - their performances and their competition represents many years of cultivating not only their instrument 01:35:12.583 --> 01:35:21.278 - but their interpretations and their techniques and it represents wonderful discipline. 01:35:22.754 --> 01:35:43.194 - We are proud of all. Joon Eun Jo has been awarded the Hapfield Merit Jacobi Merit Award. Her discipline 01:35:43.194 --> 01:35:48.894 - is violin. Jessica Jo Julin. 01:35:57.250 --> 01:36:08.640 - has been awarded the Margaret Viewer White Memorial Award. His discipline is piano. Jason Sloan has 01:36:08.640 --> 01:36:20.031 - been awarded the Caldwell Merit Award, and you know his discipline is the voice. Nino Cocharena has 01:36:20.031 --> 01:36:25.726 - been awarded the Elizabeth H. Berger Merit Award, 01:36:26.082 --> 01:36:35.240 - and we congratulate you, is Disability Forces Piappa. And Teresa Piappa has been awarded the Chapter 01:36:35.240 --> 01:36:39.230 - Career Award in Voice. Thank you very much. 01:36:59.490 --> 01:37:13.919 - Our final presenter is George Penny, who did the competition for musical theater. George, you want to 01:37:13.919 --> 01:37:24.670 - give out your award? It is truly a pleasure and honor to be able to present 01:37:24.962 --> 01:37:35.355 - the first ever National Society of Arts and Letters musical theater competition. Galia Arad, Hall Merit 01:37:35.355 --> 01:37:45.947 - Award. Alexander Meisner, the Bossman Merit Award. Rhea Campos, the Borkenstein Memorial Award and Jacobs 01:37:45.947 --> 01:37:53.342 - Merit Award. Thank you. Zachary Frank, the Albright Caldwell Merit Award. 01:37:57.122 --> 01:38:08.025 - Vanessa Branchley, the Scott Burgess Jones Tribute Award. Abigail Mueller, William and Gail Cook Award 01:38:08.025 --> 01:38:18.927 - in honor of George Clooney. Colin Donald, Mrs. Granville Wells Memorial Award, our competition winner. 01:38:18.927 --> 01:38:21.150 - Thank you very much. 01:38:37.506 --> 01:38:44.455 - That concludes our program. We would like to ask the winners to come and stay here for a photo session 01:38:44.455 --> 01:38:51.336 - for a minute, and then if you'd all go downstairs and enjoy yourself with some refreshments, we would 01:38:51.336 --> 01:38:58.622 - like to invite you to do that. And that concludes our program. Thank you for coming. I hope you enjoyed it.