WEBVTT 00:00:10.722 --> 00:00:16.396 - Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the 39th Annual Showcase of the Arts presented 00:00:16.396 --> 00:00:22.411 - by the Bloomington Chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters. We're very pleased this afternoon 00:00:22.411 --> 00:00:28.255 - to have Carrie Buick Cadillac Pontiac GM Trucks as a sponsor of this event, which spotlights the Young 00:00:28.255 --> 00:00:34.270 - Artist Awards in the chapter's 2005 competitions in the arts. I think we should all give them a big hand. 00:00:44.098 --> 00:00:50.747 - I am Murray McGibbon, and I will be your host and the master of ceremonies for the program. Our first 00:00:50.747 --> 00:00:57.266 - presentation is by Vanessa Brinchley. Vanessa is a second year student in the MFA acting program at 00:00:57.266 --> 00:01:03.981 - Indiana University, and her IU credits include Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, The 00:01:03.981 --> 00:01:10.630 - Laramie Project, and The Cherry Orchard. Currently she can be seen in the musical Pal Joey at IU. She 00:01:10.630 --> 00:01:13.694 - has also appeared elsewhere in The King and I, 00:01:14.274 --> 00:01:20.605 - Pegamai Heart, The Turn of the Screw, and Pride and Prejudice. Vanessa received her undergraduate degree 00:01:20.605 --> 00:01:26.755 - summa cum laude in theater and political science from Utah State University, and she was Miss Utah in 00:01:26.755 --> 00:01:32.965 - the Miss American Pageant, where she won the Burt Parks Talent Award. She's been a recurrent performer 00:01:32.965 --> 00:01:39.055 - with the Utah Festival Opera Company and the Old Lyric Repertory Company. This summer, she will be a 00:01:39.055 --> 00:01:42.974 - member of the Acting Company at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. 00:01:43.810 --> 00:01:50.770 - Her audition piece contains musical selections from Follies and My Fair Lady, and a monologue from The 00:01:50.770 --> 00:01:54.622 - Lady and the Clarinet. Please welcome Vanessa Brinchley. 00:06:46.626 --> 00:06:52.829 - major, sorry, and a minor in creative studies in dance and technology, entered the dance world when 00:06:52.829 --> 00:06:59.404 - he began his studies at the university level. He has performed nationally with various performance groups 00:06:59.404 --> 00:07:05.669 - and at numerous regional events. Since his transfer to IU in 2002, he has been an active participant 00:07:05.669 --> 00:07:12.306 - in the contemporary dance program there. Ricardo has also had his video work showcased in several national 00:07:12.306 --> 00:07:15.966 - exhibitions and has won numerous awards. After graduating, 00:07:16.354 --> 00:07:22.053 - He would like to experience the professional world for a while before pursuing a Master of Fine Arts 00:07:22.053 --> 00:07:26.398 - in Dance. He will do a contemporary dance solo, possibly maybe, to the music 00:12:48.610 --> 00:12:55.054 - Tina is currently a Master of Fine Arts student in the Creative Writing Program at IU. She grew up in 00:12:55.054 --> 00:13:01.435 - Oklahoma City and served as a Peaks Core Volunteer Librarian in Zimbabwe. Her work is forthcoming in 00:13:01.435 --> 00:13:07.248 - the Mid-American Review and Quarterly West. After graduation, she plans to teach English in 00:13:07.248 --> 00:13:13.566 - an inner-resourced community in New York City. Kay will be reading two of her poems this afternoon. 00:13:32.770 --> 00:13:42.945 - is a French high wire act artist who, in August of 1974, as the World Trade Center towers were just 00:13:42.945 --> 00:13:53.221 - being completed, strung a wire between both of them and crossed eight times. Oh, Philippe Petit, you 00:13:53.221 --> 00:13:59.326 - skyscraper walker, pulling your wire first between bridges. 00:13:59.746 --> 00:14:10.076 - as if to deny the crossing its length, its fill. Only you with your wire rope stretched taut, your string 00:14:10.076 --> 00:14:20.308 - between twin towers, was it a childhood game to you? On each end, a tower not yet taut, two rusty jagged 00:14:20.308 --> 00:14:29.566 - lips of an old tin, your length of yarn. What did they say to each other on that windy August? 00:14:30.274 --> 00:14:39.872 - What vibration was afoot? But I know it wasn't like that. There were the 200 kilos of cable to sneak 00:14:39.872 --> 00:14:49.469 - to the 100th floor, two Cavaletti wires, block and tackles, your neatly ironed costume. Hiding under 00:14:49.469 --> 00:14:55.646 - tarps in the stairwell, you waited until the night guard passed. 00:14:56.130 --> 00:15:05.414 - Two people climbed the south tower. Comrades, you called them, though there was no war on. They only 00:15:05.414 --> 00:15:14.791 - waited with a bow and arrow. The first shot, an arrow with a fishing line tail, you're unable to find 00:15:14.791 --> 00:15:24.351 - in the dark. Stripping down, you buzz the roof like a child pretending flight until the line hooks your 00:15:24.351 --> 00:15:25.822 - right shoulder. 00:15:25.986 --> 00:15:35.422 - The rigging, the smile of the catenary curve tight-lipped for your crossing. You drop your shirt, which 00:15:35.422 --> 00:15:44.222 - tumbles through the air shaft to your friend's gasp. Your first step, your long, balancing pole. 00:15:45.218 --> 00:15:54.545 - You walk, then kneel, then lie down, face up to the overcast big top. You cross again, cross eight times, 00:15:54.545 --> 00:16:03.431 - diverting the police with each pivot. The pictures expose you laughing. Your wind-topped sandy mane, 00:16:03.431 --> 00:16:12.230 - your black slacks flagging. From below, you are a mourning dress, inverted on a clothesline, rising 00:16:12.230 --> 00:16:14.078 - up to meet the dead. 00:16:15.362 --> 00:16:24.939 - From above, no one knows. To a plane, you could be a quarter note, a minor key of ego, a staff over 00:16:24.939 --> 00:16:34.612 - the shifting grid of the city. Later, you'll say, your lungs were full of ecstasy instead of oxygen. 00:16:34.612 --> 00:16:43.806 - For now, you call out to the god of the balancing pole, of the feet, of the void, oh, Philippe, 00:16:44.226 --> 00:16:56.612 - Philippe Petit, is anyone's name large enough? The second poem I'll be reading was inspired while visiting 00:16:56.612 --> 00:17:09.114 - the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Southern California. And at the time, I was reading about carnival festivities 00:17:09.114 --> 00:17:11.198 - in the Caribbean. 00:17:11.842 --> 00:17:20.644 - and how, like our modern day Mardi Gras, they served as a sort of steam valve where people who were 00:17:20.644 --> 00:17:29.533 - often oppressed by their lives were allowed to go crazy for a little while in order to maintain calm 00:17:29.533 --> 00:17:34.462 - the rest of the year. Visiting the Kelp Forest exhibit, 00:17:36.226 --> 00:17:46.705 - The brochure pumps out its propaganda like the tank's wave machine vital for fish life. More than 100-plus 00:17:46.705 --> 00:17:56.989 - species are volunteers arrived in the raw seawater settled on the rock work. Behind three-story acrylic, 00:17:56.989 --> 00:18:05.118 - swaying Halloween orange kelp banners the water. No roots, stems, flowers, leaves. 00:18:06.338 --> 00:18:15.704 - Drying above, it is the drowned remains of Carnaval, unlooped, fallen, and trampled in the streets. 00:18:15.704 --> 00:18:25.070 - Schools of new sardines indifferently circle the span of tank lights like homeless around trash can 00:18:25.070 --> 00:18:34.435 - fires. Kelp blades, ribs, ridges ripple above the corrugations of shanty shelters. A diver drops in 00:18:34.435 --> 00:18:35.934 - from the right, 00:18:36.514 --> 00:18:45.210 - his second skin as silvery as the tunas. He cleans the tank. His attachments catching surges of almost 00:18:45.210 --> 00:18:53.652 - mechanized waves, his buoyancy regulator, his bristle-mouthed vacuum. The kelp forest exhibit grows 00:18:53.652 --> 00:19:02.179 - up to six inches a day. For hundreds of years, people have gathered kelp and its kin for fertilizer, 00:19:02.179 --> 00:19:03.614 - chemicals, food. 00:19:04.610 --> 00:19:17.024 - He must hear only his breath, amplified, removed from him, bubbling up a machine onto himself. The senoritas, 00:19:17.024 --> 00:19:25.150 - a brief flash of scaly darts, nibble at his numb neoprenees. Thank you. 00:19:41.314 --> 00:19:48.143 - Charlene Young, a native of Taiwan, is pursuing doctoral studies in piano at the Indian University School 00:19:48.143 --> 00:19:54.973 - of Music under the direction of Evelyn Brancardt. She has also worked with Seymour Lipkin, Robert Levine, 00:19:54.973 --> 00:20:01.415 - Arnaldo Cohen, and Susan Starr. After winning an IU concerto competition, she performed Beethoven's 00:20:01.415 --> 00:20:04.830 - second piano concerto with the IU Concert Orchestra. 00:20:05.538 --> 00:20:12.016 - More recently, she won the Camerata Orchestra Concerto Competition and will be playing the Prokofiev 00:20:12.016 --> 00:20:18.493 - Third Piano Concerto with it. She has also received second prize and the Mary Winston Small Memorial 00:20:18.493 --> 00:20:25.035 - Piano Award at the 2004 WAMSO Young Artist Competition in Minnesota and first prize at the Kingsville 00:20:25.035 --> 00:20:31.705 - International Isabelle Schianti Competition. A chamber musician as well as a soloist, she has performed 00:20:31.705 --> 00:20:34.206 - at the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival 00:20:34.658 --> 00:20:41.022 - and most recently with the esteemed violinist Ikhwan B. Today she will be playing Chasse-Neige by Franz 00:20:41.022 --> 00:20:44.510 - Liszt. There's a small change from your printed program. 00:26:52.930 --> 00:27:00.191 - After receiving a BFA in musical theatre performance from Western Michigan University, Anjanette Armstrong 00:27:00.191 --> 00:27:07.317 - began a career in New York City. A few of her favourite theatre credits include Eve in Children of Eden, 00:27:07.317 --> 00:27:14.171 - The Baker's Wife in Into the Woods, Janet in The Rocky Horror Show, Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost 00:27:14.171 --> 00:27:20.414 - and Amy in Company. She also appeared in the NBC series Ed as the character Gretchen Huber. 00:27:21.474 --> 00:27:27.445 - She now resides in Bloomington with her husband John, who is an MFA student in the theater and drama 00:27:27.445 --> 00:27:33.357 - department at IU, as well as their eight-month-old son Jack. She will be performing selections from 00:27:33.357 --> 00:27:38.974 - Tartuffe, the role of Doreen, and Business Lunch at the Russian Tea Room, the role of Melissa. 00:28:11.874 --> 00:28:20.117 - Come here, you two, stop fussing and be quiet. We're going to have a little armistice. Now, weren't 00:28:20.117 --> 00:28:28.689 - you silly to get so overheated? Aren't you a simpleton to have lost your head? You're both great fools. 00:28:28.689 --> 00:28:37.014 - Her sole desire, Valere, is to be yours in marriage. To that I'll swear. He loves you only and wants 00:28:37.014 --> 00:28:41.630 - no wife but you, Marianne. On that, I'll stake my life. 00:28:42.850 --> 00:28:50.387 - Give each other your hands, you two. Yours first. And now a hand from you there. A perfect fit. You'll 00:28:50.387 --> 00:28:58.436 - suit each other better than you'll admit. I tell you, mothers are completely mad. Let's table that discussion 00:28:58.436 --> 00:29:06.046 - for the present. Your father has a plan which must be stopped. We'll use all manner of means and all it 00:29:19.618 --> 00:29:27.369 - Oh, as often as necessary, the day on which you have agreed to marry, you'll thus gain time, and time 00:29:27.369 --> 00:29:35.195 - will turn the trick. Sometimes, for instance, you'll be taken sick, and that will seem good reason for 00:29:35.195 --> 00:29:41.502 - delay, or some bad omen will make you change the day. You'll dream of muddy water, 00:29:42.274 --> 00:29:49.509 - as a dead man's hers, or break a looking glass. If all else fails, no man can marry you unless you take 00:29:49.509 --> 00:29:56.467 - his ring and say I do. But now, let's separate. If they should find us talking here, our plot might 00:29:56.467 --> 00:30:03.424 - be divine. Go to your friends, tell them what's occurred, and have them urge her father to keep his 00:30:03.424 --> 00:30:10.799 - word. Meanwhile, we'll stir her brother into action, and get Elmire as well to join our faction. Goodbye. 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.190 - Oh, lovers! Lovers! 00:30:12.354 --> 00:30:22.785 - are never still. Be off now. No time to chat. You, leave by this door. You, leave by that. Christopher? 00:30:22.785 --> 00:30:33.416 - All of us at Zero Facts, we're interested in the old fashioned kind of movie making, where the characters 00:30:33.416 --> 00:30:42.142 - have dialogue, and thoughts, and emotions. You know, like four weddings and a funeral. 00:31:05.218 --> 00:31:12.639 - writers. I produced Sleezerama for the television last year. See it? It got great numbers. But it was 00:31:12.639 --> 00:31:20.059 - about a serial killer who becomes president, who finds his humanity only after he gets AIDS and dies. 00:31:20.059 --> 00:31:27.625 - We loved it. But we have heard Wilson actually wrote the first script. But that word people didn't like 00:31:27.625 --> 00:31:29.662 - it, so we had to have Bubba 00:31:30.146 --> 00:31:37.593 - and then come in and rewrite every single word. Well, you know, Landon understood. He thought we wanted 00:31:37.593 --> 00:31:44.825 - something serious, but we didn't. She brings a caviar scene. I have a meeting with Nora Ephron in 15 00:31:44.825 --> 00:31:52.630 - minutes. We want Nora to write a movie for Meg Ryan, where Meg's a widow who misses her husband desperately. 00:31:52.630 --> 00:31:59.934 - They have this really special kind of relationship. And then this man hears her talking on the radio, 00:32:00.066 --> 00:32:07.624 - really moved by what she says he wants to contact her with. But the switch is, it's her husband who 00:32:07.624 --> 00:32:15.182 - hears her on the radio. She's not a widow at all. He disappeared at sea just like Julia Roberts did 00:32:15.182 --> 00:32:23.118 - in, whatchamacallit, and then he shows up and he kills her. It's sort of like Sweet Listen Seattle meets 00:32:23.118 --> 00:32:24.478 - Psycho, you know? 00:32:42.946 --> 00:32:48.913 - Christopher Noctrab is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Ballet at Indiana University with an outside 00:32:48.913 --> 00:32:54.880 - field in comparative literature. He trained originally with his mother in his native New York. During 00:32:54.880 --> 00:33:00.846 - his three years with the IU Ballet Theater, he's been featured in The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty 00:33:00.846 --> 00:33:06.696 - Act III, Serenade, Glassworks, and Viva Vivaldi. Most recently, he appeared in the lead role of the 00:33:06.696 --> 00:33:10.206 - Jester in IU Ballet Theater's world premiere of Cinderella. 00:33:11.010 --> 00:33:16.786 - Christopher's many honors include the Kenneth C. Whittner Award for Ballet Excellence, the Music Dean's 00:33:16.786 --> 00:33:22.563 - Scholarship, and Mark Diamond's Award for Best Choreography. He will be dancing the male variation from 00:33:22.563 --> 00:33:27.006 - the pas de deux of Leo de Libre's Sylvia as choreographed by George Balanchine. 00:35:10.690 --> 00:35:16.623 - Prano Elizabeth Marshall is working towards a master's degree in music performance at IU and studies 00:35:16.623 --> 00:35:22.498 - with James MacDonald. A native of Maine, she graduated from the University of Southern Maine with a 00:35:22.498 --> 00:35:28.608 - Bachelor of Music Education. She has sung with the Portland Symphony, the Bangor Symphony, the Southern 00:35:28.608 --> 00:35:34.776 - Maine Symphony, and the Portland Opera Repertory Theater, including its summer program, Maine's Emerging 00:35:34.776 --> 00:35:39.006 - Artists, in 2002. Among her awards are the Louise B. Mayer Vocal Prize, 00:35:39.362 --> 00:35:46.430 - and the Emily K. Rand Award in Voice. She will be singing an aria from Rossini's La Pietra Peragone. 00:38:43.138 --> 00:38:51.896 - briefly so that you can get up and stretch and move about if you'd like to use the restrooms. These 00:38:51.896 --> 00:39:00.829 - are on the other side of the hall from the door through which you entered. I've been asked to ask you 00:39:00.829 --> 00:39:09.761 - to please be back in your seats in seven minutes time. We're going to continue our program ladies and 00:39:09.761 --> 00:39:12.126 - gentlemen with Emily Doak. 00:39:12.418 --> 00:39:18.498 - Emily is an MFA student in the creative writing program at IU, but previously she studied ballet at 00:39:18.498 --> 00:39:24.944 - the School of American Ballet and the North Carolina School of the Arts and Film at New York University's 00:39:24.944 --> 00:39:31.328 - Tisch School of the Arts. It was at NYU that she found her way into fiction writing through screenplays. 00:39:31.328 --> 00:39:37.956 - Her work has been recognized in a number of fiction contests. In 2003, she was a finalist in the competition 00:39:37.956 --> 00:39:42.334 - for the Katherine Ann Porter Prize for fiction of Nimrod International. 00:39:43.234 --> 00:39:49.785 - She was runner-up in the competition for Meridian's 2004 Editors' Prize for Fiction. In 2004, she also 00:39:49.785 --> 00:39:56.527 - received honorable mention in Hunger Mountain's Howard Frank Mosher Short Story Contest and was runner-up 00:39:56.527 --> 00:40:03.397 - in the BOM Magazine Fiction Contest. Her short stories are forthcoming in the journals Inkwell and Isotope. 00:40:03.397 --> 00:40:09.630 - Today, she will read an excerpt from the opening chapter of her novel, The Rock Hound's Daughter. 00:40:20.642 --> 00:40:27.263 - So this is from the beginning of my novel, The Rockhound's Daughter. Chapter 1, Old Yellow. I had my 00:40:27.263 --> 00:40:33.950 - mom's bird watching binoculars and was up on the fence, my sneakers gripping the bottom rung, my hips 00:40:33.950 --> 00:40:40.638 - leaning into the splintery top rail. I was watching the sky through the magnifying glasses, clear and 00:40:40.638 --> 00:40:47.193 - blue, big white cumulus, waiting to see a bird above the scrappy slash pines. Mom had told me often 00:40:47.193 --> 00:40:50.078 - enough that this wasn't the way you did it. 00:40:50.530 --> 00:40:57.702 - that you had to use your senses, listen and look, and bring up the binoculars only when you had a target 00:40:57.702 --> 00:41:04.805 - on the bird. The phone was ringing across the backfield. Then it fell quiet, heavy, hot, stringed bugs, 00:41:04.805 --> 00:41:12.045 - no breeze. Mom inside must have answered. I let go of the top rail and leaned over at the most precarious 00:41:12.045 --> 00:41:19.422 - angle I could till it felt like my feet needed to fly up behind me. I stayed balanced there on my hip bones 00:41:19.650 --> 00:41:26.952 - with the arched back of a swan dive. Holding the binoculars with one hand, my free arm I outstretched 00:41:26.952 --> 00:41:34.253 - like a wing and swung my head in arcs of magnified blue, swiftly soaring through patches of white. My 00:41:34.253 --> 00:41:41.411 - head felt light, and maybe, just maybe, I was not Penny Creed at all, but I was the bird. Penny, my 00:41:41.411 --> 00:41:49.214 - mother's voice soaring up to me in blue and white and the sharp sun to my side so I was flying north. Penny, 00:41:49.858 --> 00:41:56.420 - My name rippling through the heat up to me. Penelope, get in here now. I jumped off the fence, fell 00:41:56.420 --> 00:42:02.983 - far and straight and human to the dirt, and held onto the binoculars so they wouldn't thump against 00:42:02.983 --> 00:42:09.676 - my flat chest as I ran the backfield to our house, tall grasses itching my shins. We lived outside of 00:42:09.676 --> 00:42:16.436 - town towards Lloyd, but still inside the Leon County line, down a series of red clay roads that melted 00:42:16.436 --> 00:42:18.142 - to rivers when it rained. 00:42:18.850 --> 00:42:25.492 - My father was a geologist and found the property through his stream bed research. Our house sat in the 00:42:25.492 --> 00:42:32.134 - middle of an oxbow in a real meandering stream. It winded its way from Lake Miccosukee to the Gulf and 00:42:32.134 --> 00:42:38.776 - had no official name, but changed as often as street signs as it passed through different counties and 00:42:38.776 --> 00:42:45.418 - towns, Miccosukee Creek to Wasissa River to St. Mark's Estuary. At our house, the stretch of water had 00:42:45.418 --> 00:42:48.126 - no name, and so we called it Creed Oxbow. 00:42:49.186 --> 00:42:55.359 - It wrapped around the perimeter of our house and fields in a wide horseshoe that only became apparent 00:42:55.359 --> 00:43:01.533 - when walking the whole thing out on foot and arriving on either end back at the long dirt driveway to 00:43:01.533 --> 00:43:07.646 - our house. The ends pinched up close to each other there, and then each turned away in a switchback, 00:43:07.646 --> 00:43:14.001 - wiggling its course into the neighbor's property. My mom called our house Old Yellow, but it was painted 00:43:14.001 --> 00:43:15.998 - white now. Paul, my big brother, 00:43:16.322 --> 00:43:22.396 - had to spend his spring break painting it as punishment for something completely forgettable when he 00:43:22.396 --> 00:43:28.651 - did something even worse, he took off. He took off with the backside of the house still its old yellow, 00:43:28.651 --> 00:43:34.785 - the two sides completely done and the front trying to dry, wet with multiple coats of white. The next 00:43:34.785 --> 00:43:40.859 - day was to be perfect weather for painting, but Paul up and left. When I caught him fully dressed in 00:43:40.859 --> 00:43:43.806 - the middle of the night, I begged him not to go. 00:43:44.386 --> 00:43:51.340 - Oh, you'll see someday, he told me. What's so bad with it here, I asked, grabbing hold of his leg. 00:43:51.340 --> 00:43:58.504 - Let go, he shook me off and whispered past mom and dad's bedroom. You're just a kid. You can't see at 00:43:58.504 --> 00:44:05.528 - all. Yes, I can, I said to his back as he walked downstairs. But I was only eight then. Yes, I can, 00:44:05.528 --> 00:44:11.358 - he mocked me when we got to the back door. Paul, shh. Maybe he sensed I was upset. 00:44:11.874 --> 00:44:18.237 - because he leaned over and tousled my hair kind of sweetly. But then he straightened back up and shouted 00:44:18.237 --> 00:44:24.419 - to the empty kitchen, this place sucks. He slammed the back door. None of the outside lights were on, 00:44:24.419 --> 00:44:30.540 - so in two strides he disappeared in the night that didn't have a moon. I could hear mom's feet creak 00:44:30.540 --> 00:44:36.783 - the wood floor beside their bed upstairs, but she didn't move quick enough to have heard Paul. She was 00:44:36.783 --> 00:44:39.934 - unsure why she was awake. I waited by the back door 00:44:40.258 --> 00:44:46.372 - curling my toes on the linoleum, squishing my nose at the fresh paint smell that got slammed inside 00:44:46.372 --> 00:44:52.548 - when Paul left. Penny, what are you doing out of bed? Mom said when she finally scraped her slippers 00:44:52.548 --> 00:44:58.662 - downstairs and realized I was in the kitchen. I went to the window and couldn't see Paul. I thought 00:44:58.662 --> 00:45:04.899 - I heard something, I said. I told her I thought it was a raccoon. But she said, no, I thought I heard 00:45:04.899 --> 00:45:09.790 - a door. That was me. I opened the back door to demonstrate. I opened it to see. 00:45:10.466 --> 00:45:16.718 - Then I started acting real sleepy. You know, to see if there was a raccoon out there, I did a sort of 00:45:16.718 --> 00:45:22.848 - headbutt nuzzle past her legs and staggered upstairs before she could say anymore. I knew she would 00:45:22.848 --> 00:45:29.038 - follow to tuck me in tight again. That night, Paul stole our neighbor's credit cards. He let himself 00:45:29.038 --> 00:45:35.352 - in through old Mr. McDaniel's always unlocked front door. He crept up the stairs to the master bedroom 00:45:35.352 --> 00:45:38.110 - and opened the old man's top dresser drawer. 00:45:38.722 --> 00:45:45.296 - Mr. McDaniel slept all the while in the guest room down the hall, where he made his bed after his wife's 00:45:45.296 --> 00:45:51.681 - death some decade ago. In that lonely decade, Mr. McDaniel took to answering every piece of mail that 00:45:51.681 --> 00:45:57.942 - was delivered, including credit card offers. His dresser drawer brimmed full of approved yet unused 00:45:57.942 --> 00:46:04.453 - credit cards. All Paul did was dip his hand in that night, and he came out with a fistful. It must have 00:46:04.453 --> 00:46:06.206 - been overwhelming for Paul, 00:46:06.562 --> 00:46:13.125 - Because my father did not believe in credit cards. They weren't real money. They were nothing. Our household 00:46:13.125 --> 00:46:19.447 - worked solely with businesses that still accepted personal checks drawn directly from our bank accounts. 00:46:19.447 --> 00:46:25.830 - So Paul, with his fist full of fake money, must have felt defiant as he popped my parents' station wagon, 00:46:25.830 --> 00:46:32.092 - new blue, into neutral and pushed it out to the road before he cranked it. Or at least I waited up that 00:46:32.092 --> 00:46:36.126 - night as long as I could, tucked in so tight I couldn't turn over. 00:46:36.578 --> 00:46:43.025 - waiting to hear him take the car. But then again, maybe I did fall asleep, and he started it up right 00:46:43.025 --> 00:46:49.471 - there in the carport, because when I woke up, it was to a shriek downstairs, exclaiming that new blue 00:46:49.471 --> 00:46:55.918 - was gone, and it was full morning, and I had untucked myself, and was lying uncovered on my belly. It 00:46:55.918 --> 00:47:02.807 - was as if I could see through the solid floor that morning, to where my father, like every day at 8.17 a.m., 00:47:02.807 --> 00:47:04.766 - not changing for spring break, 00:47:05.218 --> 00:47:11.758 - would have had his briefcase in one hand and paper lunch sack in the other. Both his hands full, Mom 00:47:11.758 --> 00:47:18.623 - would have opened the door. That morning, he dropped his lunch and stood paralyzed with the bright yellow 00:47:18.623 --> 00:47:25.293 - backside of his house looming above him, because what he saw when he looked past the deck was nothing. 00:47:25.293 --> 00:47:26.782 - The carport was empty. 00:47:40.642 --> 00:47:47.027 - Sarah Wilkins graduated from IU in December 2004 with degrees in dance performance and English. In the 00:47:47.027 --> 00:47:53.660 - summer of 2003, she trained for several months in New York City, working mostly at the Dance Space Center. 00:47:53.660 --> 00:48:00.355 - She spent the summer of 2004 training at the American Dance Festival, where she had the honor of performing 00:48:00.355 --> 00:48:06.802 - the repertory of John Jaspers and Ming Yang. This coming May, she will be in China for two weeks, where 00:48:06.802 --> 00:48:10.398 - she will assist in teaching and perform the choreography. 00:48:10.626 --> 00:48:16.608 - Then in July, she will be relocating to New York City to pursue a career as a contemporary 00:48:16.608 --> 00:48:23.051 - dancer, choreographer, and artist. For us this afternoon, she will dance a piece entitled Unfold, 00:48:23.051 --> 00:48:26.206 - choreographed to music of J.C. Lowe and Dredge. 00:54:08.034 --> 00:54:14.400 - Elizabeth Falconberry, who hails from Bermuda, is a sophomore at Indiana University working on a double 00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:21.072 - major in musical theater and English. At IU she's had roles in Sweet Charity and Batboy, and she's currently 00:54:21.072 --> 00:54:27.316 - appearing in Pal Joey. Her non-IU credits include Chicago, High Society, and Les Miserables. She will 00:54:27.316 --> 00:54:33.498 - spend this coming summer in Daytona Beach, Florida, performing with the Seaside Musical Theater. Her 00:54:33.498 --> 00:54:36.926 - audition piece offers musical selections from falsettos 00:54:37.090 --> 00:54:40.574 - and Kiss Me Kate and the monologue from Where's My Money? 00:58:58.754 --> 00:59:04.687 - For more at Indiana University, Michelle Mohawold is pursuing a BS in ballet performance with an outside 00:59:04.687 --> 00:59:10.338 - field in English literature. Before joining the IU Ballet Theater, she trained with the Continental 00:59:10.338 --> 00:59:16.215 - Ballet Company in her native Minnesota, and she has attended such nationally recognized summer programs 00:59:16.215 --> 00:59:21.979 - as the American Ballet Theater in New York. During her two years with the IU Ballet Theater, Michelle 00:59:21.979 --> 00:59:26.782 - has performed in Serenade, Glassworks, Viva Vivaldi, The Nutcracker, and Cinderella. 00:59:27.650 --> 00:59:33.121 - Today she will dance a variation from the pas de deux of Leo Dalib's Sylvia as choreographed by George 00:59:33.121 --> 00:59:33.758 - Balanchine. 01:01:48.002 --> 01:01:54.225 - Yumiko Nishio-Yalkai is currently in her first year of work on a performer diploma at the School of 01:01:54.225 --> 01:02:00.760 - Music at Indiana University, where she is studying percussion with Antony Sarone and timpani with Gerald 01:02:00.760 --> 01:02:07.294 - Carlos. Born in Kochi, Japan, she began to play percussion in the high school band when she was 15 years 01:02:07.294 --> 01:02:14.078 - old. As a high school and university student, she performed as a guest with the orchestra ensemble Kanazawa, 01:02:14.078 --> 01:02:16.318 - the Shikoku Philharmonic Orchestra, 01:02:16.610 --> 01:02:24.651 - and the Kochi Friday Wind Ensemble. She also played a graduation concert at Kurashiki Sakuyu University 01:02:24.651 --> 01:02:32.461 - and a new musician concert in Kochi in 2003. In 2004, she received the H.S. Klaw Scholarship and the 01:02:32.461 --> 01:02:40.425 - Avedis Ziljian Percussion Scholarship. She will perform marimba pieces by Eric Semet and Ludwig Albert 01:02:40.425 --> 01:02:43.518 - and will be accompanied by Jeff Franta. 01:08:22.786 --> 01:08:28.606 - Fantilan, a first-year MFA student in the Department of Theatre and Drama at Indiana University, will 01:08:28.606 --> 01:08:34.426 - represent the Bloomington Chapter at the National NSAL Drama Competition in May in Honolulu. Born and 01:08:34.426 --> 01:08:40.360 - raised in Salt Lake City, he discovered theatre in the ninth grade and never turned back. Before coming 01:08:40.360 --> 01:08:46.466 - to IU, he received a BFA in acting from Utah State University, and he worked at many professional theatres 01:08:46.466 --> 01:08:52.286 - in Utah, including the Utah Festival Opera, the old Lyric Repertory Company, the Hale Center Theatre, 01:08:52.642 --> 01:08:59.146 - the Pioneer Theatre Company, and the Grand Theatre. Among his credits at IU are roles in Dracula, Happy 01:08:59.146 --> 01:09:04.963 - Birthday, Wanda June, and the recent Scarlet Letter. He is also a proud member of the Golden 01:09:04.963 --> 01:09:11.405 - Key International Honor Society and received first place in its international acting competition. This 01:09:11.405 --> 01:09:18.222 - coming summer, Eric will be working with the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Today, he will offer us selections 01:09:18.222 --> 01:09:21.662 - from Sheridan's The Rivals, The Role of Lord Falkland, 01:09:22.114 --> 01:09:35.654 - and Peter Schaffer's Amadeus, the role of Amadeus. Well, sir. But you were saying that Miss Melville 01:09:35.654 --> 01:09:49.461 - has been so exceedingly well. What then? She has been merry and gay, I suppose. Always in spirits, eh? 01:09:49.461 --> 01:09:51.070 - By my soul. 01:09:51.234 --> 01:09:59.990 - There is an innate levity in woman that nothing can overcome. What? Happy? And I away? Why, Jack, have 01:09:59.990 --> 01:10:08.747 - I been the joy and spirit of the company? Have I been lively and entertaining? Have I been full of wit 01:10:08.747 --> 01:10:17.418 - and humor? Well, I'll contain myself, perhaps as you say, for form's sake. I'm not sorry that she has 01:10:17.418 --> 01:10:20.734 - been happy. No, no, I am glad of that. 01:10:21.314 --> 01:10:29.291 - But she has been dancing too, I doubt not. Now, disappointment on her! Defend this, Jack! Why don't 01:10:29.291 --> 01:10:37.267 - you defend this? Country dances, jigs, and reels? A minuet I could have forgiven. I should not have 01:10:37.267 --> 01:10:45.244 - minded that. I say I should not have regarded a minuet, but country dances. Soons! Had she made one 01:10:45.244 --> 01:10:49.950 - in a cotillion, I believe I could have forgiven even that. 01:10:50.338 --> 01:10:56.402 - to be monkey-led for a night, to run the gauntlet through a string of amorous, palming puppies, to show 01:10:56.402 --> 01:11:02.350 - paces like a managed filly. O Jack, there never can be but one man in the world whom a truly delicate 01:11:02.350 --> 01:11:08.298 - and modest woman ought to pair with in the country dance, and even then the rest of the couple should 01:11:08.298 --> 01:11:14.654 - be her great uncles and aunts. If there be but one vicious mind in the set, it will spread like a contagion, 01:11:14.946 --> 01:11:23.417 - The action of their pulse beats to the lascivious movements of the jig. Their quivering warm breath 01:11:23.417 --> 01:11:32.226 - sighs impregnate the air. The atmosphere becomes electrical to love, and each amorous fog darts through 01:11:32.226 --> 01:11:40.950 - every link of the chain. I must leave you. I own. I am somewhat flurried, and you, you, you confounded 01:11:40.950 --> 01:11:44.254 - booby, have perceived. Damn your news! 01:11:52.162 --> 01:11:59.643 - about real people, Baron. And I want to set it in a real place. A boudoir. Because that, to me, is the 01:11:59.643 --> 01:12:06.978 - most exciting place on Earth. Underclothes on the floor, sheets still warm from a woman's body, even 01:12:06.978 --> 01:12:14.604 - a piss pot brimming under the bed. I want life, Baron, not boring legends. I'm sick of all your elevated 01:12:14.604 --> 01:12:20.414 - themes. Elevated, elevated. The only thing I mentioned, elevate, is his doodle. 01:12:20.610 --> 01:12:28.045 - Excuse the language, Baron, but really, if you are honest, each one of you, which of you isn't more 01:12:28.045 --> 01:12:35.703 - at home with his hairdresser than Hercules? Or Horatius? Or your stupid Danaius come to that? Or mine? 01:12:35.703 --> 01:12:43.584 - Mine, Idomeneo, King of Crete, all these anguished antiques? They're all bores. Bores, bores! All serious 01:12:43.584 --> 01:12:46.558 - operas written this century are boring. 01:12:50.338 --> 01:12:57.764 - What a perfect quartet. I'd love to write it, this second of time, this, now as you are. Herr Prefect 01:12:57.764 --> 01:13:04.607 - thinking, impertinent Mozart, I must speak to the emperor at once. Herr Chamberlain thinking, 01:13:04.607 --> 01:13:12.033 - ignorant Mozart, debasing opera with his vulgarity. Herr court composer thinking, German Mozart, what 01:13:12.033 --> 01:13:17.566 - can he finally know about opera? And Mozart himself in the middle thinking, 01:13:18.786 --> 01:13:26.229 - nice fellow. Why do they all disapprove of me? That's why opera is important, because it's realer than 01:13:26.229 --> 01:13:33.961 - any play. The dramatic poet would have to put each line down one after another to make us hear everything. 01:13:33.961 --> 01:13:41.187 - The composer can put them all down at once and still make us hear every word. Astonishing device, a 01:13:41.187 --> 01:13:48.702 - vocal quartet. I tell you, I want to write a finale lasting half an hour. A quartet becoming a quintet, 01:13:49.218 --> 01:13:58.868 - A sextet, a septet, on and on, wider and wider, all sounds multiplying and rising together and then 01:13:58.868 --> 01:14:09.194 - together becoming a sound entirely new. I bet that's how God hears the world. Millions of sounds ascending 01:14:09.194 --> 01:14:19.134 - at once, rising and mixing in his ears to become an unending music unimaginable to us. That's our job. 01:14:19.458 --> 01:14:29.968 - That's our job, we composers, to combine the inner minds of him and him and him and her and her, thoughts 01:14:29.968 --> 01:14:39.883 - of chambermaids and court composers, and turn the audience into God. I'm sorry. I talk nonsense all 01:14:39.883 --> 01:14:45.534 - day long. It's incurable, Astanzee. My tongue is stupid. 01:15:10.274 --> 01:15:17.467 - I'm sure we wish him well in Honolulu. Jinhwan Beun is working toward a Master of Music degree in Vocal 01:15:17.467 --> 01:15:24.521 - Performance at IU. He received a Bachelor of Music from Seoul National University of Music and Career 01:15:24.521 --> 01:15:31.782 - and a Performer Diploma from Indiana University. In addition, he has completed the St. Louis Opera Young 01:15:31.782 --> 01:15:39.390 - Artist Program. While at IU, Jinhwan has appeared in productions of Lucia de la Mamua, La Traviata, Falstaff, 01:15:39.714 --> 01:15:46.318 - and most recently La Boheme. He has also sung roles with the Indianapolis Opera and the Nashville Opera, 01:15:46.318 --> 01:15:52.860 - and he's been engaged by the Florida Grand Opera for 2005-2006 to perform main stage roles and to cover 01:15:52.860 --> 01:15:58.709 - others. Jin Hwan has received a number of honors. He has been a finalist in the Austin Lyric 01:15:58.709 --> 01:16:05.125 - Opera Competition, and a semi-finalist in the Washington International Competition, won the Primavera 01:16:05.125 --> 01:16:09.150 - Award in the Bel Canto Competition 2004, and took the top prize 01:16:09.250 --> 01:16:15.550 - in the IU travel grant competition this spring. Today he will sing an aria from Puccini's La Boheme. 01:21:32.002 --> 01:21:40.117 - This concludes our performances. I'm always reminded at this time of year what a wonderful place Bloomington 01:21:40.117 --> 01:21:47.860 - is to live. I would now like to introduce David Albright, President of the Bloomington Chapter of NSAL, 01:21:47.860 --> 01:21:54.859 - who will preside over the remainder of the program, and I wish you all a very good afternoon. 01:21:54.859 --> 01:21:59.326 - Thank you, Murray. First of all, I would like to express my 01:21:59.490 --> 01:22:12.672 - deepest appreciation to Murray for a job well done. Let's give him a big round of applause. I also want 01:22:12.672 --> 01:22:25.854 - to thank our sponsor for this year's showcase, Curry Buick Cadillac Pontiac GM truck. We'd hope to have 01:22:25.854 --> 01:22:29.150 - Kerry Curry, the owner of 01:22:29.346 --> 01:22:39.052 - with us today, but he had to be out of town. However, he is with us in spirit. This event would have 01:22:39.052 --> 01:22:49.431 - been impossible without the dedication and hard work of Tina Jurgensen, who is our competition coordinator, 01:22:49.431 --> 01:22:56.446 - and the area chairs and co-chairs who ran the competitions that produced 01:22:56.898 --> 01:23:08.296 - 44 award winners that we're honoring today. I want to pay tribute to them by discipline as we hand out 01:23:08.296 --> 01:23:20.137 - the awards. Let's begin with the visual arts. There are three co-chairs, Kathy Koronek, Lydia Finkelstein, 01:23:20.137 --> 01:23:26.334 - and Jane Otten. And Kathy will be presenting the awards 01:23:26.434 --> 01:23:43.328 - for this area today. Thank you, David. As I call your names, would the visual arts winners please come 01:23:43.328 --> 01:23:56.286 - up? Ricardo Alvarez, Jared Landberg, Molly Mitchell, Hun Jun Chun, Ann Potter, 01:23:57.794 --> 01:24:08.556 - Melanie Lawrence, David T. Hannon, and Ollie Brareton. I hope all of you will go down and see the work 01:24:08.556 --> 01:24:19.109 - in the gallery of these artists and others. They were a wonderful show this year. To Ricardo Alvarez 01:24:19.109 --> 01:24:26.110 - for the Alan K. Kahn Memorial Award and the Pygmalion Merit Award. 01:24:35.138 --> 01:24:58.400 - Jared Landberg receives the Carter and Schnicki Merit Award. Oh, okay. Okay. To Molly Mitchell for her 01:24:58.400 --> 01:25:02.014 - twist tie coat. 01:25:02.658 --> 01:25:14.669 - The Grace Dyer Memorial Award and the Klein Merit Award. Thank you very much. For Hong Jun Jun, and 01:25:14.669 --> 01:25:24.158 - I hope I pronounced, I tried. The Chris Khan Merit Award. Thank you very much. 01:25:32.962 --> 01:25:42.865 - Also, I forgot to mention that Ricardo Alvarez also received the Pygmalion Merit Award, and Melanie 01:25:42.865 --> 01:25:52.966 - Lawrence received another Pygmalion Merit Award. I forgot to include those. Sorry. To Ann Potter, for 01:25:52.966 --> 01:25:57.918 - her Beatrice, the Alma Eichermann Memorial Award. 01:26:06.018 --> 01:26:20.771 - Okay, now Melanie Laurence for the Neuroprimo Merit Award and the Pygmalion Merit Award for her conversation. 01:26:20.771 --> 01:26:32.574 - And for the Rosemary Frazier Merit Award, David Hannon for his work between the fields. 01:26:40.962 --> 01:26:52.366 - And our top winner for the Career Chapter Award is Oli Brereton for his video Sign of the Times. 01:26:52.366 --> 01:27:04.710 - Congratulations. Congratulations to all the winners and I'd like to thank Lydia Fechelstein, Jane Otten, 01:27:04.710 --> 01:27:06.238 - Beth Molnar, 01:27:06.530 --> 01:27:16.193 - Maya Michelson, Rachel Greenhoe, and Bob Appelman for all their help in setting up this show and for 01:27:16.193 --> 01:27:26.238 - getting the judges. And the judges were Rudy Pizzotti, Mary Hambly, and Nan Brewer. Thank you very much. 01:27:26.238 --> 01:27:35.710 - Our dance chairs were Joanne Athanas and Mary Stroh. And Mary will be presenting the awards today. 01:27:43.042 --> 01:27:50.028 - Thank you. This was a groundbreaking year for dance and then NSAL competitions. For the first time, 01:27:50.028 --> 01:27:57.223 - we held two competitions. One was in ballet, one was in contemporary dance. The ballet competition was 01:27:57.223 --> 01:28:04.768 - held the end of January in the ballet studios at the IU School of Music. And a week later, the contemporary 01:28:04.768 --> 01:28:11.614 - competition was held in the IU School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Dance Studio. 01:28:12.834 --> 01:28:20.895 - Judges for the ballet competition were Jane Hachia Weiner from the Butler Academy of Dance, Bruce Simpson 01:28:20.895 --> 01:28:28.577 - from the Louisville Ballet, Michael Tevlin from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. And judges for 01:28:28.577 --> 01:28:36.182 - the contemporary competition were Larry Attaway from the Butler Academy of Dance, Elizabeth Monnier 01:28:36.182 --> 01:28:42.494 - from Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Patty Willie from the Terre Haute Dance Academy. 01:28:44.002 --> 01:28:51.894 - Many people assisted with the planning and running of both competitions, and in particular, I would 01:28:51.894 --> 01:28:59.943 - like to thank Violette Verde, Glenda Lucina, my co-chair, Joanne Athanas, who couldn't be here today, 01:28:59.943 --> 01:29:08.466 - Elizabeth Shea, Laura Poole, Mike Lucas, and David Albright. Now, if the dancers would please come forward, 01:29:08.466 --> 01:29:11.070 - ballet and contemporary dancers. 01:29:19.682 --> 01:29:31.300 - Yeah. And unfortunately, all of them couldn't be here today. Let me just start with the Ballet Awards. 01:29:31.300 --> 01:29:42.692 - First of all, to Lauren Collier went the Stroh Chapter Award. And unfortunately, Lauren had to go to 01:29:42.692 --> 01:29:44.158 - a rehearsal. 01:29:44.322 --> 01:29:52.741 - as well as Claire Blatz, who won the Athanas Organ Merit Award. She is at rehearsal as well. 01:29:52.741 --> 01:30:01.793 - And Erin Jin, who won the Verdi Chapter Award. All three of them are rehearsing for a choreographic 01:30:01.793 --> 01:30:10.846 - showcase later this week. Sarah Durham, is she here? Yes, good. The Barbera Merit Award for Ballad. 01:30:21.058 --> 01:30:41.687 - And the Chapter Award went to Christopher Nochtrab. And the Lila and Stephen Hughes Merit Award went 01:30:41.687 --> 01:30:50.878 - to Michelle Mahowald. In Contemporary Dance, 01:30:52.226 --> 01:31:07.677 - uh... the stro shea merit award went to molly burkett the athanas merit award went to andrea martin 01:31:07.677 --> 01:31:22.046 - uh... the shiner merit award went to rachel belati and unfortunately rachel couldn't be here 01:31:22.242 --> 01:31:36.804 - to accept this. The Roy Battenhouse Memorial Award went to Ricardo Alvarez. And finally, the Jane Fox 01:31:36.804 --> 01:31:46.654 - Merit and Chapter Award in Contemporary Dance went to Sarah Wilkins. 01:31:55.170 --> 01:32:09.745 - to all of you. Mera Norris was the chair of our drama competition and she will be presenting those awards. 01:32:09.745 --> 01:32:23.230 - Drama winners, on stage. As they are coming up, I want to tell you that we have our audience today 01:32:24.034 --> 01:32:34.085 - who won the national competition several years ago in music as a representative of the Indiana chapter. 01:32:34.085 --> 01:32:42.590 - Michael Bowell, who is the father of one of our winners today. Michael Bowell, Michael. 01:32:53.954 --> 01:33:02.499 - But we have a saying, dying is easy, comedy is hard. And it is hard. It is hard in the context of a 01:33:02.499 --> 01:33:11.300 - complete play in which you have three acts in which to establish the comic situation, set up the comic 01:33:11.300 --> 01:33:20.102 - characters and dialogue. It is exceedingly difficult when you have to do that in five minutes. Without 01:33:20.102 --> 01:33:22.238 - the context of the play, 01:33:22.338 --> 01:33:31.501 - and create two contrasting comic characters. These winners today not only accepted that hard challenge, 01:33:31.501 --> 01:33:40.752 - but excelled. And we're very proud of the winners of this competition. And please greet them. The winner 01:33:40.752 --> 01:33:45.950 - of the Borgenstein Memorial Award is Jessica Lynn Rothert. 01:33:54.850 --> 01:34:13.371 - of the Collins-Jakins-Coner Merit Award is John Robert Armstrong. The winner of the Hersamalas Merit 01:34:13.371 --> 01:34:24.190 - Award is Alexander Ross Meisner. Vanessa Ballem Brinchley. 01:34:24.578 --> 01:34:36.358 - is the winner of the Lyneth Brockett Carol Moody Franz Nigg Memorial Award. And of course she's a double 01:34:36.358 --> 01:34:48.138 - winner in both musical theater and in drama. Anjanette Hall Armstrong is also a double winner in musical 01:34:48.138 --> 01:34:50.270 - theater and drama. 01:34:50.466 --> 01:35:03.778 - And she is the recipient of a Laura Schneider Memorial Award. And yes, they are a pair. They are our 01:35:03.778 --> 01:35:16.958 - third drama couple. And the one who will come visit us in Hawaii in May in the national competition 01:35:17.730 --> 01:35:22.590 - The winner of our Mrs. Randall Wells Memorial Award, Eric Ventura. 01:35:41.858 --> 01:35:54.641 - Elizabeth Albright serves as chair of the Literature Committee and she will present the awards in that 01:35:54.641 --> 01:36:08.542 - area. Dying is easy. Following Marilyn Norris on stage is hard. Will all the literature winners please come up? 01:36:21.058 --> 01:36:28.676 - Wonderful. We had 37 literature entries this year, and the judges felt that they were a wonderful, wonderful 01:36:28.676 --> 01:36:36.015 - group. The judges were Dorian Gossie, Mary McGann, and Roger Finxton. And I'm delighted today to present 01:36:36.015 --> 01:36:43.004 - these awards. Our first winner is 15 years old. And this is a special award because we don't really 01:36:43.004 --> 01:36:47.198 - expect him to compete with people in the MFA program at IU. 01:36:47.298 --> 01:36:53.214 - And so after the judging was done, I asked the judges, we had several high school students in the competition 01:36:53.214 --> 01:36:58.592 - and they picked out Carson Day as a person whose poetry was excellent for a high school student and 01:36:58.592 --> 01:37:02.142 - felt that he needed this high school encouragement award. Carson? 01:37:16.194 --> 01:37:24.453 - Misty Lee Harper is a two-time winner in our competitions. And the last time she won, she went to the 01:37:24.453 --> 01:37:32.873 - national competition and won second place in what, $6,000 or something? So she was a very happy winner. 01:37:32.873 --> 01:37:41.698 - This year, she won the Will H. Hayes Jr. Memorial Award for her poetry. Misty. And Anne Elizabeth Timberlake 01:37:41.698 --> 01:37:45.342 - has won the O'Mara Wilson Merit Award, Anne. 01:37:51.586 --> 01:38:03.373 - Daniel Castro has won the Albright-Peercy-Drews Merit Award. Kay Keener, whose first name is Kay without 01:38:03.373 --> 01:38:11.006 - a period, has won the Roy Battenhouse Memorial Award in Literature. 01:38:16.706 --> 01:38:24.557 - And our top award, the Chapter Per Award, goes to Emily Elizabeth Doak this year. And by the way, her 01:38:24.557 --> 01:38:32.948 - novel is finished, and she's going to use this as incentive to polish it this summer. Emily. Congratulations 01:38:32.948 --> 01:38:34.718 - to all of our winners. 01:38:44.770 --> 01:39:00.472 - Our music co-chairs, and boy did they have a long, long competition, were Stan and Hillary Hamilton. 01:39:00.472 --> 01:39:09.022 - And Hillary will present the awards. Hello, musicians. 01:39:09.634 --> 01:39:18.532 - Allison, I guess our performers didn't come. Please come. Did our performers stay? Oh, yes. My husband 01:39:18.532 --> 01:39:27.171 - Stan and I were initiated into coordinating the music competition this year with the wonderful help 01:39:27.171 --> 01:39:35.896 - of Dee Lane, David and Ruth Albright, and Tina Jernigan. We had an exciting two-day competition with 01:39:35.896 --> 01:39:37.278 - 49 competitors. 01:39:37.602 --> 01:39:47.171 - You read in the detailed, wonderful newsletter by Ruth Albright about our superb judges. They were David 01:39:47.171 --> 01:39:56.648 - Canfield, composer, David Zube, professor of composition, Fred Fox, Julia Copeland, Brandsby, Catherine 01:39:56.648 --> 01:40:05.214 - Lucas, Sheiko Nariki, Marion Kajaka-Bates, George Caller, Roger Havernack, and Roy Samuelson. 01:40:06.146 --> 01:40:13.936 - We also had wonderful help with room management from Ruth and Jim Witten, Ruth and David Albright, and 01:40:13.936 --> 01:40:21.500 - Tina Jernigan. And you read about our sandwiches. I know you're jealous. You've already experienced 01:40:21.500 --> 01:40:29.139 - the lovely voice of Elizabeth Marshall, who had to leave due to being in the University Singers this 01:40:29.139 --> 01:40:35.870 - afternoon. She won the Caldwell Merit Award. Another winner this afternoon was Jamie and 01:40:36.130 --> 01:40:45.508 - Barton, who also was singing with the University Singers. And she won the Donald Felton Memorial Award. 01:40:45.508 --> 01:40:54.526 - So both of those people have already received their certificate. Allison Wonderland-Basich has been 01:40:54.526 --> 01:40:59.486 - awarded the Stravolopoulos Chapter Member Merit Award. 01:41:09.474 --> 01:41:19.974 - Xia Yuxin has been awarded the Hatfield Jacoby Merritt Award in Music, and this is a violinist who is 01:41:19.974 --> 01:41:30.782 - not here today. Benjamin Boren won the Kornick Tatlock McDonald Merritt Award, and Benjamin is a pianist 01:41:30.782 --> 01:41:39.326 - who is not here today. Chai-Lin Yang won the Margaret Mueller White Memorial Award 01:41:39.426 --> 01:42:08.574 - in piano. Umiko Nishioka won the Ralston Merit Award for the Most Outstanding Instrumentalist. And Yuen Huan Yun 01:42:08.674 --> 01:42:25.332 - won the chapter career award for the most outstanding vocalist. Last but by no means least, George Penny 01:42:25.332 --> 01:42:35.486 - was our musical theater chair and he will present those awards. 01:42:42.242 --> 01:42:49.510 - While the winners approach, we had a very exciting contest this year with 22 participants. The judges 01:42:49.510 --> 01:42:56.920 - were Tony-nominated and Emmy winners, Jonathan Vanderkhoff and Jim Moore, and our third judge was Vince 01:42:56.920 --> 01:43:04.330 - Leota from the IU Opera Theater. On with the winners. The winner of the Carl Jernigan Award on Jeanette 01:43:04.330 --> 01:43:05.470 - Hall Armstrong. 01:43:14.882 --> 01:43:28.026 - The Scott Burgess Jones Tribute Award goes to Thomas Matthew Hirschner, who unfortunately is not here 01:43:28.026 --> 01:43:40.911 - today. The Albright Bachman Merit Award goes to Amy Elise Linden. The Caldwell Merit Award, Vanessa 01:43:40.911 --> 01:43:43.102 - Balem Brinchley. 01:43:50.498 --> 01:44:05.542 - And finally, the Chapter Career Award, Rebecca Falconberry. A hearty congratulations to all of our winners. 01:44:05.542 --> 01:44:20.446 - That concludes our formal program. I want to thank you all for coming, and I want to invite you to join us 01:44:20.674 --> 01:44:30.348 - downstairs in the lobby for a reception. Anne Call and her helpers have put out a nice spread for everybody. 01:44:30.348 --> 01:44:39.755 - And I also would like to ask you to be sure and go into the gallery to see the exhibition, which includes 01:44:39.755 --> 01:44:45.790 - the top award winners. One final thing, may I ask the award winners 01:44:45.986 --> 01:44:53.168 - together briefly up here for a group picture and to take care of one minor administrative matter. Thank 01:44:53.168 --> 01:44:56.414 - you all and I hope we see you again next year.