WEBVTT 00:00:10.466 --> 00:00:18.901 - Underwriting for this showcase has been provided by John and Beth Drews, and George and Kathy Karenik, 00:00:18.901 --> 00:00:27.091 - and we would like to thank them for their generosity. Please let us show our appreciation by giving 00:00:27.091 --> 00:00:35.691 - them a round of applause. And while this is a very happy occasion this afternoon, we've all been touched 00:00:35.691 --> 00:00:39.294 - by the sadness of the deaths of some of our 00:00:39.714 --> 00:00:46.828 - colleagues and students, we would like to dedicate today's program to the memory of Georgina Joshi, 00:00:46.828 --> 00:00:53.943 - Robert Samuels, Garth Epley, Zachary Novak, and Chris Carducci. These five budding young artists at 00:00:53.943 --> 00:01:01.413 - the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music were, as you know, killed in a plane crash this last week. 00:01:01.413 --> 00:01:08.670 - I'd like to ask you to please stand for a few moments silence as a mark of respect to these students. 00:01:24.290 --> 00:01:32.770 - Thank you very much. Our first performer this afternoon, Stephanie Lampe hails from Syracuse, New York. 00:01:32.770 --> 00:01:41.005 - And she is a junior honors college student at Indiana University pursuing dual degrees in ballet and 00:01:41.005 --> 00:01:49.648 - mathematics. She graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy, where she was honored with the Young Artist 00:01:49.648 --> 00:01:52.094 - Award, a Young Scholar Award, 00:01:52.578 --> 00:01:59.865 - and designation as co-salutatorian of her class. I think I mispronounced that. Salutatorian of her class. 00:01:59.865 --> 00:02:07.151 - We don't have those in South Africa. At Indiana University, she has been featured in the ballet theater's 00:02:07.151 --> 00:02:13.751 - productions of Cinderella and The Nutcracker and appeared in Serenade, Sleeping Beauty Act III, 00:02:13.751 --> 00:02:18.494 - Viva Vivaldi, The Final Point, and Wins from the South. In addition, 00:02:18.818 --> 00:02:25.802 - She danced in the IU Contemporary Dance Faculty Dance Concert in 2005 and 2006, and with the IU Opera 00:02:25.802 --> 00:02:32.786 - Theater in 2003 and 2004. Stephanie will be representing the Bloomington Chapter at the NSAL National 00:02:32.786 --> 00:02:39.838 - Dance Competition next month in Jacksonville, Florida. Since the requirements of the preliminary phase 00:02:39.838 --> 00:02:46.206 - of the competition include two solos, one ballet variation, and a modern dance or jazz solo, 00:02:46.850 --> 00:02:53.874 - Both our dancers today will be doing two numbers. Stephanie's first piece is a modern dance solo entitled 00:02:53.874 --> 00:02:57.054 - Reflection and is choreographed by Laura Poole. 00:05:46.210 --> 00:05:53.346 - Christina Harvey is a fiction writer in the second year of the Master of Fine Arts program in creative 00:05:53.346 --> 00:06:00.691 - writing at Indiana University. She received her BA from Stanford and is most recently from San Francisco, 00:06:00.691 --> 00:06:07.689 - California, where she worked at Google as a creative maximizer. Chris was the nominee for fiction in 00:06:07.689 --> 00:06:15.518 - Indiana University's 2005-2006 AWP intro journal project. She also received the 2005 Gene Shepard Literary Award 00:06:16.098 --> 00:06:24.144 - 2004-2005 Ernest Hemingway Fellowship, and the 2004-2005 William E. Wilson Fellowship from IU. Chris 00:06:24.144 --> 00:06:32.190 - will be reading a selection from her short story, Cross Your Heart. Please welcome Christina Harvey. 00:06:43.522 --> 00:06:50.193 - I'm going to be reading the beginning of my short story, Cross Your Heart, which is about a little girl 00:06:50.193 --> 00:06:56.735 - named Danica who has kind of a troubled relationship with her parents, which as a result leads her to 00:06:56.735 --> 00:07:03.277 - kind of enact a certain power over her peers on the playground. It's also a story about a little girl 00:07:03.277 --> 00:07:09.820 - kind of investigating the differences between telling a lie, not telling the truth, joking, and using 00:07:09.820 --> 00:07:10.910 - her imagination. 00:07:13.058 --> 00:07:21.321 - crossed your heart. When Danica was nine, she began to throw away her food. It started with the Brussels 00:07:21.321 --> 00:07:29.585 - sprouts. She hated the leafy green balls that looked fun to roll, but tasted so bitter her tongue wanted 00:07:29.585 --> 00:07:37.533 - to curl up and die. One night, with four left on her plate, she wanted to give up. The rule was that 00:07:37.533 --> 00:07:42.334 - she couldn't leave the table until she had cleaned her plate 00:07:43.074 --> 00:07:50.372 - but she couldn't see how to do it. Eating Brussels sprouts felt like a slow choking. She had already 00:07:50.372 --> 00:07:57.814 - eaten two, cutting each one in half and forcing herself to chew fast like a machine, trying not to let 00:07:57.814 --> 00:08:05.184 - anything touch her tongue, nearly gagging, then rinsing it down with apple juice. She had to save the 00:08:05.184 --> 00:08:11.326 - apple juice, make it last the whole meal. But with all the apple juice in the world, 00:08:11.810 --> 00:08:18.974 - She was certain she couldn't eat the last four Brussels sprouts. She swung her legs under the table 00:08:18.974 --> 00:08:26.281 - and put her chin on her hands, looking anywhere but her plate. She felt sleepy. Her mother and father 00:08:26.281 --> 00:08:33.516 - were in the living room and she could hear Dan Rather's voice droning, pausing. She had once knocked 00:08:33.516 --> 00:08:39.390 - her TV tray with her knee and spilled everything when they let her eat with them. 00:08:40.098 --> 00:08:46.547 - So now she had to eat at the kitchen table alone. She didn't mind too much, except when the news was 00:08:46.547 --> 00:08:53.124 - over and one of her parents' shows came on and she heard the laugh track. It made her feel lonely, and 00:08:53.124 --> 00:08:59.701 - she pressed her lips together and wiggled them with her fingers. If she finished her supper, she would 00:08:59.701 --> 00:09:06.151 - be allowed to watch with them until the end of the show. She cut another Brussels sprout in half and 00:09:06.151 --> 00:09:09.982 - stabbed it with her fork. The kitchen lamp glared over her, 00:09:10.466 --> 00:09:17.282 - but the windows were big and blank, and anything could be out there watching her. Her father came in 00:09:17.282 --> 00:09:24.164 - to put his plate in the sink. He liked to let the dishes soak before he washed them. On weekends, she 00:09:24.164 --> 00:09:31.182 - helped him do the dishes. She was the official rencer and stacker. He looked at her plate. Still having 00:09:31.182 --> 00:09:38.403 - trouble with the Brussels sprouts, he asked, and she nodded. Here, I'll eat one and help you out a little. 00:09:38.403 --> 00:09:39.550 - She picked it up 00:09:39.842 --> 00:09:46.551 - He picked it up with his fingers and popped it in his mouth like a gumdrop. She smiled to see it disappear 00:09:46.551 --> 00:09:52.947 - so easily. Delicious. Now you eat the rest. Eat one while I'm watching. She raised the fork with half 00:09:52.947 --> 00:09:59.280 - a Brussels sprout on it and put it in her mouth and chewed her teeth into it. She pressed her tongue 00:09:59.280 --> 00:10:05.550 - against the roof of her mouth to protect it, but she could still taste and she started to gag. When 00:10:05.550 --> 00:10:09.438 - she made a noise, her father pressed his hand over her mouth. 00:10:10.178 --> 00:10:17.080 - Finish it, he said, and she kept chewing and swallowed it, tiny, swimmy tears, squeezing out of the 00:10:17.080 --> 00:10:24.120 - corners of her eyes. Good, he said, keep going. When Danica was nine, her parents worked and couldn't 00:10:24.120 --> 00:10:31.505 - pick her up right after school, so every day she stayed at after-school care and played on the playground. 00:10:31.505 --> 00:10:39.166 - Erica and Allison and the new girl Heather, who'd just transferred into school a week before, had to stay too. 00:10:40.162 --> 00:10:47.923 - One day, after drinking purple Kool-Aid at 4 p.m. snack, competing to see who could jump off the swings 00:10:47.923 --> 00:10:55.535 - from the highest point and investigating half a dead beetle covered in swarming ants, they sat on the 00:10:55.535 --> 00:11:02.998 - monkey bars and swung their legs. Allison hung upside down, her blonde ponytail nearly touching the 00:11:02.998 --> 00:11:08.446 - ground, all the blood running to her head. Danica wanted hair like that. 00:11:08.706 --> 00:11:15.814 - long and straight and light, and when she saw it swishing in the air like a magic broom, she wanted 00:11:15.814 --> 00:11:22.921 - to pull it right off. What should we do, Erica asked? Let's play witch, Danica said. Heather looked 00:11:22.921 --> 00:11:30.242 - up from the ground, her knuckles white as she held the metal bar. She looked nervous. How do you play? 00:11:30.242 --> 00:11:37.918 - Danica, Allison, and Erica looked at each other. Allison swung upright again. Danica's the witch, she said. 00:11:38.274 --> 00:11:45.540 - and we're good little girls playing in the forest. You have to do what I say," Danica said. We can tell 00:11:45.540 --> 00:11:52.666 - you how to play if you want to play with us. Heather nodded and stuck out her chest. Of course I want 00:11:52.666 --> 00:11:59.793 - to play. First we run away, Erica told her, and Danica has to catch us so she can cut out our hearts. 00:11:59.793 --> 00:12:06.430 - So the girls swung off the bars, small puffs of dust rising from the ground where they landed. 00:12:07.426 --> 00:12:14.536 - They ran in separate directions across the fenced-in playground, Erica toward the swings, Allison toward 00:12:14.536 --> 00:12:21.713 - the outside wall of the gymnasium, Heather toward the log forts where the boys staked their claim. Danica 00:12:21.713 --> 00:12:28.620 - took her time sliding down the bars, watching the boys play Ninja Turtles and chase each other around 00:12:28.620 --> 00:12:35.662 - the playground. She knew she was faster and could catch the other girls almost too easily. Danica liked 00:12:35.662 --> 00:12:36.542 - the running, 00:12:36.802 --> 00:12:44.341 - the pounding in her chest and head, the way the air sliced and whistled against her body. As she caught 00:12:44.341 --> 00:12:51.881 - each girl, she dragged her back across the playground to the monkey bars, the witch's castle, squeezing 00:12:51.881 --> 00:12:59.202 - her wrist as tightly as she could. Thought you could escape from me, my pretty? She asked. The first 00:12:59.202 --> 00:13:03.262 - time she threw something away, it happened by accident. 00:13:03.970 --> 00:13:11.176 - Even with only two and a half Brussels sprouts left on her plate, she couldn't make herself keep going. 00:13:11.176 --> 00:13:18.243 - She picked up a whole one with her hand the way her father had and imagined sticking it in her mouth. 00:13:18.243 --> 00:13:25.171 - She thought it might make her choke. It looked like a tiny green alien head. She wiggled it between 00:13:25.171 --> 00:13:32.862 - her fingers and pretended it was talking to her. When she heard her mother in the hall, almost to the kitchen, 00:13:33.026 --> 00:13:39.407 - She was startled and accidentally dropped the Brussels sprout. It fell in her lap on her napkin, and 00:13:39.407 --> 00:13:45.787 - Danica squeezed it with her legs so it wouldn't fall on the ground. Her mother didn't notice and saw 00:13:45.787 --> 00:13:52.484 - only that there was one less Brussels sprout on her plate. Danica could feel it making a wet spot against 00:13:52.484 --> 00:13:59.180 - her leg through the napkin, and she felt like gagging again, but she didn't. Good, sweetheart, her mother 00:13:59.180 --> 00:14:02.718 - said. You're almost done. Just eat up. Don't be a baby. 00:14:04.322 --> 00:14:10.927 - After her mother went back to the living room to watch more TV, Danica looked at her plate and saw how 00:14:10.927 --> 00:14:17.661 - much nicer it looked with only one whole Brussels sprout and another half left. She lifted up her napkin 00:14:17.661 --> 00:14:24.074 - and looked at the green ball inside the damp translucent white film. It had been so easy to get rid 00:14:24.074 --> 00:14:30.487 - of it. She picked up the other whole one and dropped it in her napkin. She would eat the last half, 00:14:30.487 --> 00:14:34.078 - she told herself, but she twirled her fork on her plate 00:14:34.338 --> 00:14:40.681 - and crossed her legs like an Indian, then uncrossed them and sat like a lady, and finally decided she 00:14:40.681 --> 00:14:46.963 - couldn't make herself eat the half if she didn't have to eat the rest. She tore at the corner of the 00:14:46.963 --> 00:14:53.244 - napkin with her fingers and made a line of tiny white balls that were ants marching to take her last 00:14:53.244 --> 00:14:59.525 - half of Brussels sprout away. When she dropped it into the white pocket of her napkin, she pretended 00:14:59.525 --> 00:15:03.070 - the white ants had eaten it. Her napkin bulged slightly, 00:15:03.426 --> 00:15:13.131 - but she threw it in the trash can anyway, lifting up the potato peels to hide it underneath. Thank you. 00:15:13.131 --> 00:15:22.557 - A master of fine arts candidate in acting at Indiana University, Eric Van Telen is about to complete 00:15:22.557 --> 00:15:32.542 - his second year of study. He was born and reared in Salt Lake City and grew up singing, playing the piano, 00:15:32.802 --> 00:15:39.799 - and acting. He received his BFA from the Utah State University in 2003 and acted professionally until 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:47.002 - moving to Bloomington. His favorite roles include the MC in Cabaret, Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened 00:15:47.002 --> 00:15:54.547 - on the Way to the Forum, and George in Our Town. You may have seen him locally in the IU Theaters production, 00:15:54.547 --> 00:15:59.006 - The Scarlet Letter, Arcadia, Macbeth, and She Stoops to Conquer. 00:16:00.066 --> 00:16:06.260 - Eric represented the Bloomington chapter of the NSAL at the National Acting Competition in Hawaii last 00:16:06.260 --> 00:16:12.274 - year, and he will be joining the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival for a second season 00:16:12.274 --> 00:16:18.588 - this summer. His performance for us this afternoon will include portions of Remember from A Little Night 00:16:18.588 --> 00:16:23.038 - Music, Yvonne's monologue from Art, and Martin Guerre from Martin Guerre. 00:16:46.978 --> 00:16:57.026 - Funny little games that we played, remember? The unexpected knock of the maid, remember? The wine that 00:16:57.026 --> 00:17:06.879 - made us both rather merry and oh so very frank. Ah, how we laughed. Ah, how we drank. You acquiesced 00:17:06.879 --> 00:17:16.830 - and the rest is a blank. What we did with your perfume, remember, darling? The condition of the room, 00:17:16.962 --> 00:17:32.690 - When we were through Our inventions were unique Remember, darling I was limping for a week You caught 00:17:32.690 --> 00:17:45.950 - the flu I'm sure it was you My friend Serge has bought a painting It's a canvas about 00:17:46.242 --> 00:17:54.604 - Five feet by four, white. The background is white, and if you screw up your eyes a little bit, you can 00:17:54.604 --> 00:18:02.723 - just make out some fine white diagonal lines. He'd been lusting after it for months, this painting, 00:18:02.723 --> 00:18:10.841 - this white painting with white lines, but just got ahold of it on Saturday. It's unsettled me. It's 00:18:10.841 --> 00:18:15.550 - filled me with some sort of indefinable unease. $200,000. 00:18:16.322 --> 00:18:23.956 - He's comfortable, but he's not rich. Just comfortable, and he spends $200,000 on this white painting 00:18:23.956 --> 00:18:31.665 - with white lines? I could have used a less aggressive tone. I could have been nicer. Even if it makes 00:18:31.665 --> 00:18:39.072 - me physically ill that my friend has bought this painting for $200,000, I should have been nicer. 00:18:39.072 --> 00:18:42.398 - From now on, I will be on my best behavior. 00:19:07.522 --> 00:19:08.478 - Satan's child. 00:19:41.090 --> 00:19:51.511 - know the man that they plead, as if a man can love on demand except his life is already planned. There's 00:19:51.511 --> 00:20:01.436 - no demon inside, just a man full of pride, for my old salmon died. Look. Look, I'm Martin Gare. Too 00:20:01.436 --> 00:20:06.398 - young to love, but still above the lie they live. 00:20:11.810 --> 00:20:14.782 - Father, I'm brave and from your grave you'll keep me strong. 00:21:01.378 --> 00:21:07.772 - Christopher Noctrab is completing his final semester at Indiana University, pursuing a Bachelor of Science 00:21:07.772 --> 00:21:13.927 - in ballet performance with an outside field in comparative literature. He is a member of Phi Eta Sigma 00:21:13.927 --> 00:21:20.202 - and the Golden Key Honor Societies. He originally trained under the guidance of his mother in his native 00:21:20.202 --> 00:21:26.417 - New York. During his years with the IU Ballet Theater, he has been featured in The Nutcracker, Sleeping 00:21:26.417 --> 00:21:31.198 - Beauty Act III, Cinderella, Winds from the South, Spring Waters, and Who Cares? 00:21:31.650 --> 00:21:38.091 - And he's also appeared in Serenade, Glassworks, Viva Vivaldi, and The Final Point. In addition, he has 00:21:38.091 --> 00:21:44.344 - performed in productions of the IU Theater and the IU Opera Theater, most notably as Puck, Benjamin 00:21:44.344 --> 00:21:50.785 - Britten's operatic staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and very recently, A Chorus Line. Christopher 00:21:50.785 --> 00:21:57.039 - performed as an apprentice with the Chautauqua Ballet Company in 2004 and received the diamond, the 00:21:57.039 --> 00:22:00.478 - Mark Diamond Award for best choreography for his work. 00:22:01.570 --> 00:22:08.958 - His first solo today will be the male variation from the Act III pas de deux of Swan Lake, Christopher Noctrath. 00:23:50.050 --> 00:23:56.410 - as a BFA in musical theater performance from Western Michigan University. After college, she did summer 00:23:56.410 --> 00:24:02.832 - theater in Colorado, where she met her husband John, and then soon afterwards moved to New York to begin 00:24:02.832 --> 00:24:09.008 - an acting career. Since then, she has appeared in a national tour of the NBC series, Ed, and in many 00:24:09.008 --> 00:24:15.552 - other productions. In 2004, she moved to Bloomington, where her husband is now getting an MFA from Indiana 00:24:15.552 --> 00:24:16.286 - University. 00:24:17.154 --> 00:24:23.082 - Since arriving here, she's played in the importance of being earnest at the Brown County Playhouse, 00:24:23.082 --> 00:24:29.247 - Bicentennial Babies at the Bloomington Player Arts Project, and the Cardinal Stage Company's production 00:24:29.247 --> 00:24:35.175 - of Our Town at the Buskirk Chumley Theatre. Her favorite role to date, however, is wife to John and 00:24:35.175 --> 00:24:41.281 - mother of son, Jack. For us today, Anginette will do monologues by Amanda from Nicky Silver's The Food 00:24:41.281 --> 00:24:44.126 - Chain and by Salome from Salome by Oscar Wilde. 00:25:01.666 --> 00:25:08.846 - and asks if I'm alone. I'm at a booth by myself. What, did he think I had my imaginary friend with me? 00:25:08.846 --> 00:25:16.306 - I was alone, you know? And I can't imagine that he's not alone every single day of his miserable, pathetic 00:25:16.306 --> 00:25:23.416 - life. He has bad skin and it's not attractive. I'm not the way that, you know, bad skin is attractive 00:25:23.416 --> 00:25:25.438 - on some people, on some men. 00:25:26.370 --> 00:25:35.140 - never attractive on women. Have you noticed that? Just one more of the injustices we are forced to face. 00:25:35.140 --> 00:25:43.826 - We have bad skin, we're grotesque. Let a man have bad skin and he can be Richard Burton for God's sake. 00:25:43.826 --> 00:25:52.429 - I'm straight. So, I simply respond, no, I'm married, thank you. Well, he leans back in really the most 00:25:52.429 --> 00:25:55.102 - super silliest manner. He says, 00:25:55.746 --> 00:26:03.761 - I meant, were you eating alone? I knew what you meant. I know what he meant. I would just like at some 00:26:03.761 --> 00:26:11.776 - point in my life to cling with whatever energy I have to my dignity. What have we got but our dignity? 00:26:11.776 --> 00:26:19.868 - Women are worthless in this world. Every aspect of our culture keeps us subjugated under the oppressive 00:26:19.868 --> 00:26:24.926 - thumb of the beauty myth. If you're attractive, congratulations. 00:26:25.314 --> 00:26:33.567 - because you own it all. You run the world. But God forbid you should have bad skin, or gain a pound, 00:26:33.567 --> 00:26:42.148 - or lose a leg, or in any other way deviate from what the magazines and the television and the government 00:26:42.148 --> 00:26:50.320 - and the oil companies who own all the other stuff to begin with. God forbid you should deviate from 00:26:50.320 --> 00:26:54.814 - what the president of Shell Oil decides is attractive. 00:26:55.906 --> 00:27:05.530 - Not that I'm unattractive, mind you. I just wasn't feeling very attractive today while I was being stared 00:27:05.530 --> 00:27:14.972 - at. I just stood there in that diner for what seemed like hours, and with all the composure and dignity 00:27:14.972 --> 00:27:23.870 - that I could muster, which was considerable, I said, I've changed my mind, thank you, and I left. 00:27:24.834 --> 00:27:40.071 - I was all the way on 43rd Street before I realized I'd left my purse. Thou wouldst not suffer me to 00:27:40.071 --> 00:27:53.022 - kiss thy mouth, your cannon. Well, I will kiss it now. I will bite it with my teeth. 00:27:53.410 --> 00:28:02.597 - as one bites a ripe fruit. But wherefore dost thou not look at me, O cannon? Thine eyes, that were so 00:28:02.597 --> 00:28:11.514 - terrible, so full of rage and scorn, are shut now. Wherefore are they shut? Lift up thine eyelids, 00:28:11.514 --> 00:28:17.278 - O cannon. Art thou afraid of me, that thou wilt not look at me? 00:28:22.914 --> 00:28:33.115 - serpent that spat its venom upon me. How is it that the red viper stirs no longer? Thou wouldst have 00:28:33.115 --> 00:28:43.417 - none of me, O Cammy. Thou didst speak evil words against me. Thou didst bear thyself towards me as to 00:28:43.417 --> 00:28:49.982 - a harlot, as to a woman that is a wanton to me, Salome, daughter 00:29:12.002 --> 00:29:21.707 - the man I loved alone among all men. My body was a column of ivory set upon feet of silver. My voice 00:29:21.707 --> 00:29:31.893 - was a sensor that scattered strange perfumes. And when I looked on thee, I heard strange music. Wherefore 00:29:31.893 --> 00:29:41.694 - didst thou not look at me? Thou didst put upon thine eyes the covering of him that would see his God. 00:29:43.650 --> 00:29:58.420 - Well, thou hast seen thy God, Yocannon. But me, me thou didst never see. I saw thee, and I loved thee. 00:29:58.420 --> 00:30:07.454 - Oh, I loved thee. I loved thee still, and what shall I do now? 00:30:13.474 --> 00:30:24.099 - thou wouldst have looked at me, thou wouldst have loved me. Well, I know thou wouldst have loved me, 00:30:24.099 --> 00:30:30.622 - and the mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death. 00:30:49.826 --> 00:30:56.030 - From the native of New York, baritone Christopher Bolduck has completed his work on a Master of Music 00:30:56.030 --> 00:31:02.538 - degree at IU, and this summer he will perform the role of massette in Don Giovanni with Colorado's Central 00:31:02.538 --> 00:31:08.742 - City Opera. And then in the fall, he heads to Philadelphia, where he will be an artist at the Academy 00:31:08.742 --> 00:31:14.947 - of Vocal Arts. For two seasons, he was an apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera, where he covered massetto 00:31:14.947 --> 00:31:19.326 - in Don Giovanni and calchas in La Belle Hélène. The opera awarded him 00:31:19.714 --> 00:31:26.268 - Richard Tucker Music Foundation Award in 2003, and the Donald and Luke Graham Memorial Award in 2004 00:31:26.268 --> 00:31:32.692 - for his outstanding potential on the operatic stage. Christopher has also won prizes from numerous 00:31:32.692 --> 00:31:39.180 - organizations, including the Metropolitan Opera National Council auditions at the Tri-State Region, 00:31:39.180 --> 00:31:45.864 - the Liederkranz Foundation Awards for Voice, the Fritz and Lavinia Jensen Competition, the Connecticut 00:31:45.864 --> 00:31:47.486 - Opera Guild Competition, 00:31:47.938 --> 00:31:53.871 - and the classical singer convention competition. Christopher is here this afternoon, but unfortunately 00:31:53.871 --> 00:31:59.632 - he cannot sing due to his doctor's orders. You will be able to meet him a little bit later when the 00:31:59.632 --> 00:32:05.680 - awards are presented, however. We will now take a short break. The restrooms are out the door and across 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:11.671 - the hall for those who need to use them. And I've been asked to ask you to please be back in your seats 00:32:11.671 --> 00:32:13.630 - in seven minutes time. Thank you. 00:32:27.106 --> 00:32:34.286 - Come on, Ms. Norris. You've got three seconds. Returning to our program, we begin with a reading by 00:32:34.286 --> 00:32:41.609 - the poet Robin Vogelsang. Robin comes from Jericho, Vermont, and is a fourth-year graduate student in 00:32:41.609 --> 00:32:49.147 - the English department at IU, pursuing both a PhD in American literature and an MFA in creative writing. 00:32:49.147 --> 00:32:53.886 - She loves to travel and has lived in Austria, England, and Spain. 00:32:55.106 --> 00:33:01.841 - She translates from Catalan and is currently working on a book project of translation of Catalan poetry. 00:33:01.841 --> 00:33:08.768 - Her poetry weaves together her interests in music, language, philosophy, and religion, as well as cognitive 00:33:08.768 --> 00:33:15.567 - and anatomical science. For her, poetry is a way to allow words to bear the full weight of their multiple 00:33:15.567 --> 00:33:22.686 - meanings and sounds, an exploration of the familiar by making it new. She will read three of her poems for us. 00:33:30.754 --> 00:33:39.587 - Three poems are from a series about the life of Wilson Bentley, who was a Vermont farmer from my hometown 00:33:39.587 --> 00:33:48.337 - who invented a way to combine a microscope and a camera and discovered that no two snowflakes are alike. 00:33:48.337 --> 00:33:57.087 - Wilson Snowflake Bentley, age 16. It's a question I like to think on when bailing hay or sugaring maples 00:33:57.087 --> 00:34:00.254 - yoked by sap buckets. The singularity 00:34:00.418 --> 00:34:07.550 - of snowflakes. Clouds make such quantity of crystals that surely a few might repeat. But the more I 00:34:07.550 --> 00:34:15.110 - worry it, the more I'm certain. Each is unique, miracle made to melt. Grandmother's lace doesn't compare, 00:34:15.110 --> 00:34:22.599 - though I study those orderly asterisks, too. I've looked at hundreds, thousands maybe, under my mother's 00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:26.878 - old microscope from teaching days, best present of my life. 00:34:27.778 --> 00:34:35.497 - Other boys play with pop guns or slingshots, but I watch water drops or feathers from a bird wing, tiny 00:34:35.497 --> 00:34:43.364 - stones, everything veined or slivered under my lens. Mary Blood sometimes watches me with solemn gleaming 00:34:43.364 --> 00:34:50.934 - eyes. She doesn't mind the cold when I'm at work. She likes to peer into the scope. I tell Mary Blood 00:34:50.934 --> 00:34:54.942 - to go inside or at least wrap up in a wool barn coat. 00:34:55.266 --> 00:35:02.135 - but she prefers to wait with her straight spine, observes the movements of my mittened hands. My parents 00:35:02.135 --> 00:35:08.874 - took in Mary Blood when she was nine, her mother sick with the cancer and her father with three girls. 00:35:08.874 --> 00:35:15.547 - That was last year and ever since she finds time to watch despite the chores. Her eyes could ruin the 00:35:15.547 --> 00:35:22.285 - crystals just by looking they've got so much fire. But they're spangled enough to remake the snowflake 00:35:22.285 --> 00:35:23.070 - she melted. 00:35:24.130 --> 00:35:31.165 - On the coldest day, I told her, even your name won't warm you, Mary Blood, and she went inside. She's 00:35:31.165 --> 00:35:38.201 - unique for sure, and I want her with me, but I'm nervous when she's here. Best times is winter, snow, 00:35:38.201 --> 00:35:45.236 - silent ticker tape spin, hat throw hurrah just for me and my scope. I look and sketch, wonder if I'll 00:35:45.236 --> 00:35:48.478 - ever find one crystal's twin, knowing I won't. 00:35:49.218 --> 00:35:56.750 - So I hope for snow every day I wake, which in our Vermont Valley sometimes comes late as May, which 00:35:56.750 --> 00:36:04.734 - is sometimes my name for Mary. Seance. In High Spirits, Mother tells us to look for her after she passes, 00:36:04.734 --> 00:36:12.416 - says, sleep in my bedroom and I'll visit you in the night. Don't cover the mirrors. My nieces giggle, 00:36:12.416 --> 00:36:17.086 - but such jests don't make me smile. She's been sick too much. 00:36:17.826 --> 00:36:25.010 - My mother Fanny, school teacher who taught me all she knew, who cajoled my father from microscope money, 00:36:25.010 --> 00:36:31.852 - who always believed in truths of science, who hardly went to the congregational church on the green 00:36:31.852 --> 00:36:38.763 - in Jericho, now hosts seances, which want things to float up, knocks to sound in the silence. Around 00:36:38.763 --> 00:36:44.510 - a table in a darkened room, heavy with cloth and closed eyes, hands and breath held 00:36:45.282 --> 00:36:52.855 - Voices more present for being of the past. When the ladies gather, I leave the house for my own divining 00:36:52.855 --> 00:37:00.357 - out of doors. Like a dowser with his split stick pointed to the sky, I see freshets and streams of snow 00:37:00.357 --> 00:37:07.569 - crystals to come, vibrate, and spin my eyes. Lenses almost adept enough to magnify flakes in motion 00:37:07.569 --> 00:37:10.238 - to see what floats down as a beckon. 00:37:12.034 --> 00:37:18.666 - Snowflakes break more often than you may think. In fact, they're just clumps, conglomerate crystals 00:37:18.666 --> 00:37:25.498 - that fracture and smash in jostling as they fall, sky-crowded shoulder to crystalline shoulder, ghosts 00:37:25.498 --> 00:37:32.395 - bumping elbows in midair. In a light, dry flurry, a crystal might find its way alone. It's what I hunt, 00:37:32.395 --> 00:37:37.502 - the perfect lonely sample, unbroken and ripe for a phantasmic shudder click. 00:37:38.466 --> 00:37:46.725 - I hold out my homemade tray, painted black for the catch, handles wired to keep body heat apart. When 00:37:46.725 --> 00:37:55.551 - I spot that tiny cog wheel, I prod gently with a broom straw until it sticks and drop it onto the microscope 00:37:55.551 --> 00:38:03.810 - slide, adjust the depth and bellows, photograph my subject, Sunday soul in the parlor. Silver Screen. 00:38:03.810 --> 00:38:07.454 - In high winter when the road is snowed over, 00:38:07.586 --> 00:38:14.481 - I can't go out to see the pictures with Mary Pickford and her feisty smile or Laura LaPlante's clever 00:38:14.481 --> 00:38:21.444 - grin. Stars like Mary Miles Minter have a symmetry to their mouths. They shine a singular light. Right 00:38:21.444 --> 00:38:28.204 - here in Jericho, Helen Shiner's light is her tidy mouth, teeth arrayed like snow, and just as grand 00:38:28.204 --> 00:38:33.950 - as those in motion picture. Snipping them out, I've noticed no two smiles are alike. 00:38:34.818 --> 00:38:41.470 - Whether local charmers or starlets, their secret beauty is the lips' curved symmetry. Helen, though 00:38:41.470 --> 00:38:48.256 - just a girl, loves the symmetry of the universe as I do. The northern lights enchanted her, as did my 00:38:48.256 --> 00:38:55.041 - trove of snowflakes, magnified, collected in mirror-etched pictures. She favored delicate, lacy ones, 00:38:55.041 --> 00:38:59.166 - and her smiles were bright as when we'd telescoped the stars. 00:39:00.354 --> 00:39:07.396 - But much as I'm fond of those grinning stars, human company wants something of symmetry. Preferable 00:39:07.396 --> 00:39:14.720 - the prism of crisp morning light, my daily hunt to capture fast-falling snow, stilled by silver nitrate 00:39:14.720 --> 00:39:22.185 - onto glass plate pictures. The small mouths of snowflakes always smile. I can't see much beyond a woman's 00:39:22.185 --> 00:39:26.270 - smiles, so it's best to admire the silver screen's stars. 00:39:27.074 --> 00:39:33.997 - I suppose marriage makes a kind of symmetry, but I have always worked by solitary light, and my only 00:39:33.997 --> 00:39:41.262 - real sweetheart is the snow. Six-sided valentines are versed in my pictures. I haven't seen her in years, 00:39:41.262 --> 00:39:48.253 - not even a picture, but the best I ever saw was Mary Blood's smile. Her eyes were fire, her eyes were 00:39:48.253 --> 00:39:55.313 - always stars. Maybe her life has forged its own symmetry. Just look how her and Charles's wedded light 00:39:55.313 --> 00:39:56.478 - was overexposed. 00:39:56.802 --> 00:40:08.999 - a union cold as snow. In clipped cameos and snow crystal pictures, I can hold the silver smile of moving 00:40:08.999 --> 00:40:20.963 - stars, their silent speech, and symmetry of light. Thank you. Christopher Noctreb returns now to dance 00:40:20.963 --> 00:40:25.726 - his second number. This is a jazz piece. 00:40:26.178 --> 00:40:29.150 - Too Darn Hot and is choreographed by George Penny. 00:41:15.362 --> 00:41:26.999 - I like to coo with my baby tonight And pitch the woo with my baby tonight I like to coo with my baby 00:41:26.999 --> 00:41:32.414 - tonight And pitch the woo with my baby tonight 00:41:51.394 --> 00:42:01.252 - The thermometer goes way up, and the weather is sizzlin' hot. Mr. Gov, for his squad. A Marine, 00:42:01.252 --> 00:42:06.078 - for his queen. A GI, for his cutie pie is not. 00:42:26.146 --> 00:42:32.670 - It's too darn hard. It's too darn hard. 00:43:09.506 --> 00:43:17.384 - I think George Penny deserves a round of applause too. Vanessa Ballem is finishing her third and final 00:43:17.384 --> 00:43:25.492 - year in the MFA acting program at IU. Her credits here include major roles in Macbeth, The Cherry Orchard 00:43:25.492 --> 00:43:33.218 - and Pal Joey, and appearances in the ensembles in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris 00:43:33.218 --> 00:43:38.878 - and The Laramie Project. A recording artist with covenant communications, 00:43:39.170 --> 00:43:45.747 - Vanessa currently studies with Patricia Wise in the IU Jacobs School of Music. She's a former Miss Utah 00:43:45.747 --> 00:43:52.324 - and received the Burke Parks Talent Award in the Miss America Pageant. She's been a recurrent performer 00:43:52.324 --> 00:43:58.648 - with the Utah Festival Opera, the Old Lyric Repertory Company, and the Utah Shakespearean Festival. 00:43:58.648 --> 00:44:05.351 - After graduation, she can be seen playing Desdemona in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival's production 00:44:05.351 --> 00:44:06.110 - of Othello. 00:44:07.426 --> 00:44:20.922 - Today, Vanessa will be doing monologues by Cynthia from Reality by Curtis Cook and by Martine from Molière's 00:44:20.922 --> 00:44:33.315 - The Learned Ladies. Please welcome Vanessa Vallum. We've been married for five years, and I love you 00:44:33.315 --> 00:44:36.382 - more than I love myself. 00:44:37.794 --> 00:44:45.636 - I'm sorry that I can't give you what you want. I know that you say that it doesn't matter and in time 00:44:45.636 --> 00:44:53.477 - it will take care of itself, but I look in your eyes when we make love and I see how much it means to 00:44:53.477 --> 00:45:01.395 - you. I see you almost wishing for it. Maybe this will be the time if I just hold her a little tighter, 00:45:01.395 --> 00:45:05.470 - if I just love her a little more. I see that, Jimmy. 00:45:07.010 --> 00:45:16.401 - and I feel it inside of me. I want a baby as much as you do, and I'm so afraid that you're going to 00:45:16.401 --> 00:45:26.074 - leave me. I know that you say that you don't want to, but part of me feels that if you did, you'd have 00:45:26.074 --> 00:45:30.206 - every right to. Don't! Jimmy, please don't. 00:45:36.290 --> 00:45:44.286 - asking when we're going to have a baby and I keep saying that we're just not ready. That we just don't 00:45:44.286 --> 00:45:52.593 - want a child right now. That's a lie. And they know it's a lie and they laugh. Well, they're not laughing, 00:45:52.593 --> 00:46:00.356 - but I can hear them laughing at us. They don't know how much I love you and you love me. They don't 00:46:00.356 --> 00:46:05.790 - know how much pain we're going through. They just know they're books. 00:46:06.018 --> 00:46:14.455 - And there, TV shows that point and blame and find alternate methods, other ways of doing what's natural, 00:46:14.455 --> 00:46:22.651 - what was meant to be done with the one that you love, the way that God meant it to be done. They make 00:46:22.651 --> 00:46:31.007 - me so angry. The ones that have no right having babies, three or four children, no money, three or four 00:46:31.007 --> 00:46:34.462 - different men, children, dirty and crying, 00:46:35.074 --> 00:46:46.280 - They shouldn't have that child. I should. I want a baby and I can't have one, but they have three or 00:46:46.280 --> 00:46:57.376 - four. Three or four. I have none. Zero. None. And it makes me angry. Makes me want to hurt them. To 00:46:57.376 --> 00:46:59.262 - hurt their baby. 00:47:02.210 --> 00:47:11.603 - she had no right to having that child and I don't have one. She is a whore. She sleeps with so many 00:47:11.603 --> 00:47:21.278 - men. She's sick. Her baby is sick, but she has one. I have none. Now she has none because I don't want 00:47:21.278 --> 00:47:28.510 - her to have one. If I can't, she can't. If I can't, I did it for you, Jimmy. 00:47:29.058 --> 00:47:36.779 - we don't have to watch her coming to church every Sunday with that sick baby that we don't have. 00:47:36.779 --> 00:47:45.056 - It was wrong. It was so wrong, but I couldn't stop myself. I just, I just jumped down there and stopped 00:47:45.056 --> 00:47:51.742 - it from breathing. I just, I jumped down and I covered its mouth as everybody yells 00:48:12.130 --> 00:48:31.038 - I did mean it. I killed her baby. It just ain't right for the wife to run the shop. The man, I say, 00:48:31.038 --> 00:48:39.358 - should always be on top, though I've sacked 00:48:39.490 --> 00:48:49.499 - Ten times for saying so. Its cocks, not hens, should be the ones to crow. If I had a husband, I wouldn't 00:48:49.499 --> 00:48:59.030 - wish for him to be all meek and womanish. No, no. He'd be the captain of my ship. And if I happened 00:48:59.030 --> 00:49:02.462 - to give him any lip or crossed him, 00:49:03.202 --> 00:49:12.489 - He'd be right to slap my face a time or two to put me in my place. The master's heart is rightly set 00:49:12.489 --> 00:49:21.960 - on finding a proper man for Henriette. Well then, here's Pletandra. Why deny the girl a fine young man 00:49:21.960 --> 00:49:31.523 - like he? And why give her a learned fool who prates and drones? She needs a husband, not a bag of bones 00:49:31.523 --> 00:49:33.086 - who'll teach her 00:49:37.954 --> 00:49:47.767 - I tell you, just don't suit her. Talk! Talk, as all these pedants know how to do. If I had a husband, 00:49:47.767 --> 00:49:57.773 - I've always said it wouldn't be no learned man I'd wed. Wit is not the thing you need around the house, 00:49:57.773 --> 00:50:05.854 - and it's no joy to have a bookish spouse. When I get married, you can bet your life 00:50:06.466 --> 00:50:17.218 - My man will study nothing but his wife. He'll have no other book to read but me and won't, so please 00:50:17.218 --> 00:50:19.454 - you, ma'am, no eggs. 00:50:38.018 --> 00:50:44.857 - Born in Ukraine, Marina Rosnitovsky immigrated to Israel when she was six years old, and she began studying 00:50:44.857 --> 00:50:51.442 - the harp at the age of 12. She earned her Bachelor of Music from Indiana University under distinguished 00:50:51.442 --> 00:50:57.204 - professor of harp, Suzanne McDonald, and she is currently pursuing a master's degree at IU 00:50:57.204 --> 00:51:03.726 - in harp performance and pedagogy. She has received the American Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship 00:51:03.726 --> 00:51:05.246 - four consecutive times, 00:51:05.634 --> 00:51:12.265 - as well as a number of other awards from the Dooney Wiseman Conservatory in Haifa, Israel. Marina has 00:51:12.265 --> 00:51:18.962 - performed with a number of professional orchestras in Israel and the United States, and several of her 00:51:18.962 --> 00:51:25.853 - performances have been broadcast on national Israeli television. She plans to follow a career of teaching 00:51:25.853 --> 00:51:32.094 - and performing as a soloist and orchestral harpist. She will play Abesidoles by Bernard Andres. 00:57:53.730 --> 00:57:59.991 - Armstrong is in his second year in the MFA acting program at Indiana University. He began his career 00:57:59.991 --> 00:58:06.251 - at IU in 1996 and graduated with a degree in musical theater. During his undergraduate years, he had 00:58:06.251 --> 00:58:12.574 - major roles in Into the Woods, The Pirates of Penzance, and Parade. Since returning to IU, he has had 00:58:12.574 --> 00:58:18.649 - key roles in the Indiana University Theater's productions of Dracula, Happy Birthday, Wanderdune, 00:58:18.649 --> 00:58:21.438 - Pal Joey, Falsettos, and Our Country's Good. 00:58:21.826 --> 00:58:27.880 - as well as at the Brown County Playhouse in the production of Forever Played. His non-IU credits include 00:58:27.880 --> 00:58:34.107 - roles in the productions of Into the Woods by the Rocky Mountain Repertory Theater in Grand Lake, Colorado, 00:58:34.107 --> 00:58:39.930 - where he met his wife, and Company by the Broward Stage Door Theater in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as 00:58:39.930 --> 00:58:45.696 - well as the National Touring Company of Seussical the Musical. But thus far, he claims his favorite 00:58:45.696 --> 00:58:50.654 - roles would have to be husband to Anjanette and father to Jack. Who wrote the script? 00:58:51.650 --> 00:58:59.463 - David. His performance today will include parts of Undressing Girls from So Long, 174th Street, Alan's 00:58:59.463 --> 00:59:06.366 - monologue from The Lion That Picked Up A Thousand Babes, and me from Beauty and the Beast. 00:59:30.114 --> 00:59:39.191 - that you'll never breathe a word. What I'm about to tell you now, Marvin, promise you'll forget you 00:59:39.191 --> 00:59:48.268 - ever heard. Each time I see a girl walking down the street, I start undressing her with my eyes. It 00:59:48.268 --> 00:59:57.799 - doesn't seem to matter what girl I meet, I start undressing her with my eyes. Her every who's and what's 00:59:57.799 --> 00:59:59.614 - in that thingamabob 01:00:00.322 --> 01:00:08.063 - Inside my head I visualize I must be a pervert or a sexual deviator Day and night my brain is just a 01:00:08.063 --> 01:00:16.340 - non-stop burlesque theater You think a guy can stop me tries But it's out of control now I start undressing 01:00:16.340 --> 01:00:24.081 - girls with my eyes Sales girls and waitresses and relations too I start undressing them with my eyes 01:00:24.081 --> 01:00:29.982 - Without so much as even a how do you do I start undressing them with my eyes 01:00:31.682 --> 01:00:39.261 - I do it every day to a thousand girls of every shape and color and size. Cindy Dorfman, Jenny Greenblatt, 01:00:39.261 --> 01:00:46.626 - even her sister Sheila. One time in that movie show, I did it to Ruby Keeler. Boy, would my mother get 01:00:46.626 --> 01:00:54.134 - a surprise. She would die if she found out. I start undressing girls with mine. How I'm undressing girls 01:00:54.134 --> 01:00:58.782 - with mine. I keep undressing girls with my eyes. I'm a nice guy. 01:00:59.906 --> 01:01:06.311 - I'm a really nice guy. And I say that, not because I think it's true, but because that's what everybody 01:01:06.311 --> 01:01:12.593 - says. I mean, if you ask any girl who's known me for more than a week, that's how she'll describe me. 01:01:12.593 --> 01:01:18.875 - Oh, Alan? Oh, he's a nice guy. And they say that because, well, you know nice guys, right? They don't 01:01:18.875 --> 01:01:25.157 - try to hurt people, try to be a gentleman, and treat people right, because that's what we learn girls 01:01:25.157 --> 01:01:28.606 - are attracted to. They want to be treated right, right? 01:01:28.930 --> 01:01:34.441 - I mean, if you get girls together and get them talking about guys, you know, they'll dream you up a 01:01:34.441 --> 01:01:39.952 - perfect gentleman. But in real life? Okay, that's very different, because if you get girls together 01:01:39.952 --> 01:01:45.573 - and get them talking about real guys, not figments of their imagination, but real people, what do you 01:01:45.573 --> 01:01:51.084 - get? Men are stupid, and men are scumbags, and men are slime. And you'll notice how all those words 01:01:51.084 --> 01:01:56.816 - start with the letter S, and I think there's something to that. But anyway, guys are all these S words. 01:01:56.816 --> 01:01:58.910 - You know, all these and more, but who 01:01:59.426 --> 01:02:05.407 - girls date. You know, who comes on to them at the bars? And who do they go home with? The scumbags! 01:02:05.407 --> 01:02:11.507 - The slime! And then when they get hurt, and they always do, they call me up to confide in me because, 01:02:11.507 --> 01:02:17.189 - long go, we decided that we were just gonna be friends. I swear, you girls need to get a whole 01:02:17.189 --> 01:02:23.349 - new vocabulary, okay? You've started so many cliches, it's not even funny. So anyway, these girls call 01:02:23.349 --> 01:02:26.878 - me up and they say, Allen, Allen! Oh, guys, they're slime! 01:02:27.554 --> 01:02:33.291 - And then they realize they're talking to a guy, and they say, oh, except you, Alan. You're a nice guy. 01:02:33.291 --> 01:02:38.973 - And when you find a girlfriend, she's going to be so lucky. But it can't be me, because I'm attracted 01:02:38.973 --> 01:02:44.766 - to guys who are going to shit all over me. So great. Now I've got all the friends I need. So why should 01:02:44.766 --> 01:02:50.559 - I be a nice guy anymore, huh? Yeah, I think I'll be a scumbag now. Yeah, I think I'll learn some stupid 01:02:50.559 --> 01:02:56.185 - pick-up lines and use them on girls who are dressed to get laid. I think I'll be proud of how loud I 01:02:56.185 --> 01:02:56.798 - can belch. 01:02:57.058 --> 01:03:05.418 - And I think I'll use women like the Black and Decker screwdrivers because obviously that's what they 01:03:05.418 --> 01:03:13.695 - really want to hear. So, oh great, great. Life begins now. Come on, babe. Let's go back to my house 01:03:13.695 --> 01:03:21.972 - and do it. I can see that we will share all that love implies. We shall be the perfect pair, rather 01:03:21.972 --> 01:03:26.110 - like my voice. You are face to face with destiny. 01:03:28.194 --> 01:03:28.702 - Thanks. 01:04:11.586 --> 01:04:18.243 - Back again is Stephanie Lampe who will be representing the Bloomington Chapter at the National NSAL 01:04:18.243 --> 01:04:23.902 - Dance Competition. This time she will dance the variation with fan from Don Quixote. 01:06:14.370 --> 01:06:21.216 - is in her final year of a Master of Music program at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, 01:06:21.216 --> 01:06:28.404 - where she is a student of Costanza Cucaro. She received her B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, 01:06:28.404 --> 01:06:35.318 - where she had roles in many productions, including Alcina, Die Fledermaus, The Rape of Lucretia, and 01:06:35.318 --> 01:06:41.822 - The Barted Bride. At IU, she has sung in the Magic Flute, The Merry Widow, and Cosy Fan Tutte. 01:06:42.594 --> 01:06:50.018 - Vera spent two summers at the Chautauqua Institute, where she was seen in A Midsummer Night's Dream 01:06:50.018 --> 01:06:56.254 - and Le Mamel de Teresias. Today, she will sing an aria from Semera Midi by Rossini. 01:13:43.906 --> 01:13:52.715 - That concludes our performances. Now I will turn things over to David Albright, President of the Bloomington 01:13:52.715 --> 01:14:00.958 - Chapter of the NSAL. He will introduce the area chairs who will in turn present the awards to all the 01:14:00.958 --> 01:14:09.281 - award winners in the 2006 NSAL competitions. It has been a pleasure being with you, and I wish you all 01:14:09.281 --> 01:14:13.726 - a very good afternoon. Before I proceed, I want to say 01:14:13.922 --> 01:14:27.120 - We really should give Murray a big, big hand. And I also want to thank our underwriters again, John 01:14:27.120 --> 01:14:40.318 - and Beth Drews and George and Kathy Koenig. They have been very generous with us. Now, as you know, 01:14:40.318 --> 01:14:43.486 - competitions don't play 01:14:43.618 --> 01:14:52.958 - take place without hard, lengthy work. And our area chairmen have really, really labored in the vineyards 01:14:52.958 --> 01:15:01.945 - this year, some very difficult competitions and so forth. I'm going to introduce all of the chairmen, 01:15:01.945 --> 01:15:11.020 - then in each case, one of them will wind up making the presentations. Our visual arts chairs have been 01:15:11.020 --> 01:15:12.254 - Kathy Kornak, 01:15:12.770 --> 01:15:35.454 - Lady Finkelstein, Gladys Devane, and Jane Otten. Kathy will make the presentations. Thank you, David. 01:15:35.554 --> 01:15:42.488 - We have a wonderful art show downstairs and I do hope everyone joins us there after this program along 01:15:42.488 --> 01:15:49.220 - with the reception. We do not have any white paintings with white diagonal stripes and none of them 01:15:49.220 --> 01:15:56.222 - are worth $200,000 but we have some wonderful paintings and each one is tagged and has the price on it. 01:15:56.322 --> 01:16:05.935 - that the artists would like to receive for it. We had 32 artists that entered 57 works of art in the 01:16:05.935 --> 01:16:15.453 - competition with slides. We narrowed those down to 20 artists with 28 pieces of work, and those are 01:16:15.453 --> 01:16:22.686 - in the show downstairs. And I want to thank my co-chairs, Linda Finkelstein 01:16:22.850 --> 01:16:30.768 - Glass Devane and Jane Otten for all the work they helped with, and the judges who were Robert Kingsley, 01:16:30.768 --> 01:16:38.458 - Betsy Stewart, and Lydia Finkelstein. And I also want to thank all the wonderful donors that donated 01:16:38.458 --> 01:16:46.224 - money for the awards. Now I'm going to call the artists up here, visual artists up here, and if you'd 01:16:46.224 --> 01:16:51.934 - come and stand here, I'd appreciate it. It's Melanie Lawrence, Ann Potter, 01:16:53.154 --> 01:17:03.605 - Ari Pescovitz, Michelle Rosic, Gregory Witt, and Jessica Held. If you'll kind of line up the way I called 01:17:03.605 --> 01:17:10.014 - you so that I don't get confused, but I'm giving the awards out. 01:17:17.858 --> 01:17:28.235 - Now, I will give the awards out, and I will ask that you hold your applause for all of them until afterwards. 01:17:28.235 --> 01:17:37.670 - To Melanie Lawrence, went the Klein Merit Award. Congratulations, Melanie. To Anne Potter, went the 01:17:37.670 --> 01:17:47.198 - Shiner Merit Award. Congratulations, Anne. To Irie Paskowitz, went the Alma Eichmann Memorial Award. 01:17:48.130 --> 01:17:57.217 - Congratulations, Ari. To Michelle Rosick went the Nur Primo Merit Award. Congratulations, Michelle. 01:17:57.217 --> 01:18:06.759 - To Gregory Witt went the Chris Kahn Merit Award and a Pygmalion gift certificate. The gift certificate's 01:18:06.759 --> 01:18:12.030 - not in here, but we will give it to you. Congratulations. 01:18:13.090 --> 01:18:21.800 - To Jessica Held, went the Rosemary Frazier Merit Award, and also a Pygmalion gift certificate. 01:18:21.800 --> 01:18:31.244 - And as I said, we don't have the gift certificates yet, but we will get them to you. And to Amy Klein, 01:18:31.244 --> 01:18:41.054 - who didn't come up. Oh, I'm sorry. And Amy Klein won our chapter award. I'm sorry. Congratulations to you. 01:19:01.282 --> 01:19:10.333 - Joanne Athanas and Mary Stroh were our dance chairs and boy did they work. Mary will do the presentations 01:19:10.333 --> 01:19:11.614 - for the dance. 01:19:19.746 --> 01:19:28.057 - As you've heard, this year the focus of the national competition is dance. And it was a little bit different 01:19:28.057 --> 01:19:35.758 - this year because we had the ballet element, but we also had a contemporary dance and a jazz element 01:19:35.758 --> 01:19:43.383 - as well. So the dancers had to be quite versatile in all the styles. Stephanie and Chris, where are 01:19:43.383 --> 01:19:44.222 - you? Come. 01:19:49.698 --> 01:19:59.026 - while they're coming up. The local competition was held on February 5th in the IU School of Hyper Dance 01:19:59.026 --> 01:20:08.353 - Studio. And they had, all the participants had classes in ballet, contemporary, and jazz. And they also 01:20:08.353 --> 01:20:18.398 - performed a classical ballet variation as well as an original piece of jazz or contemporary dance choreography. 01:20:18.594 --> 01:20:27.170 - I'd like to say many thanks to our three judges who were David Ho Choi. He is artistic director of Dance 01:20:27.170 --> 01:20:35.828 - Kaleidoscope. Alan Jones, former artistic director of the Louisville Ballet and a prolific choreographer. 01:20:35.828 --> 01:20:44.894 - And Cynthia Pratt, who is a dance faculty member from Butler University. And we had teachers from our own NSAL 01:20:45.186 --> 01:20:53.160 - gang, George Penny and Liz Shea and Violette Verity. It now gives me great pleasure to present these 01:20:53.160 --> 01:21:01.213 - two awards. Winner of the Robert Sullivan Memorial Award, the Marjorie K. Borkenstein Memorial Award, 01:21:01.213 --> 01:21:05.950 - and the Violette Verity Merit Award, Christopher Nochtraub. 01:21:21.506 --> 01:21:30.440 - And winner of the Mrs. Granville Wells Memorial Award and the Lila and Stephen Hughes Travel Award, 01:21:30.440 --> 01:21:31.870 - Stephanie Lamp. 01:21:50.338 --> 01:22:01.909 - Our Drama Award Chair is Marilyn Norris, and Marilyn will do the presentations. I think she will refuse 01:22:01.909 --> 01:22:10.142 - to use the microphone, but that's Marilyn. Will you please come on stage? 01:22:23.106 --> 01:22:32.600 - is the interaction of the voice of the heart with the voice of the soul. Few arts better realize Yates' 01:22:32.600 --> 01:22:41.912 - definition of art than does theater. And of the 31 very talented competitors in the drama competition 01:22:41.912 --> 01:22:51.132 - this year, the three judges acknowledge these actors as those who best realize that synthesis of the 01:22:51.132 --> 01:22:52.958 - voice of the heart. 01:22:53.410 --> 01:23:02.883 - and the voice of the son. Our congratulations, and we ask again that you hold the applause until they 01:23:02.883 --> 01:23:11.891 - have all received the awards, go for the Roy Matten House Memorial Award to Rebecca Falkenberry. 01:23:11.891 --> 01:23:18.206 - Congratulations. Yes. The Hersamalas Merit Award to Zachary Spicer. 01:23:23.714 --> 01:23:40.215 - Rocket, Carol Moody, and Fran Snig Memorial Award to John Armstrong. The Laura Shiner Memorial Award 01:23:40.215 --> 01:23:52.958 - to Anjanette Hull Armstrong. And the Chapter Career Award in Drama to Vanessa 01:23:54.594 --> 01:24:17.465 - Congratulations. Thank you. The literature chair this year stayed right in my home, I guess. My wife 01:24:17.465 --> 01:24:20.862 - was all right. 01:24:29.314 --> 01:24:36.810 - Thank you, David, and thank you for having me in your home. Thirty-one wonderful young writers entered 01:24:36.810 --> 01:24:44.234 - the competition this year and they submitted, one was a playwright and several submitted novels, some 01:24:44.234 --> 01:24:51.294 - submitted poetry, short stories. We even had several high school students enter the competition. 01:24:51.426 --> 01:24:58.240 - I want to thank the judges this year, Dorian Gossie, Mary McGann, and Roger Finxton, who did a wonderful 01:24:58.240 --> 01:25:04.925 - job of sorting through the excellent entries and coming up with our winners this year. Will all of the 01:25:04.925 --> 01:25:11.674 - literature winners please come forward? I'm not going to read your names in case I skip one, so I leave 01:25:11.674 --> 01:25:18.878 - it to you to know if you're a literature winner. For the first time this year, we had two winners from Purdue. 01:25:19.042 --> 01:25:27.773 - University and our competition. Okay, the Bachman Merit Award goes to Elizabeth Snow, who I think is 01:25:27.773 --> 01:25:36.676 - not here. I did not see that her name tag was picked up. I do see you are Brian, right? We do have one 01:25:36.676 --> 01:25:44.542 - Purdue person here. The Albright Merit Award goes to Ann Timberlake. Ann, congratulations. 01:25:44.674 --> 01:25:51.224 - Josephine K. Piercy Memorial Award and the Wilson Merit Award goes to Michelle Ross. And Michelle is 01:25:51.224 --> 01:25:57.839 - not here. Michelle has won probably four or five awards in our literature competition over the years. 01:25:57.839 --> 01:26:03.740 - This is her last competition because our age limit stops at 29 and she's about to turn 30. 01:26:03.740 --> 01:26:10.484 - Anyway, congratulations to Michelle. The O'Mara Merit Award and the Will H. Hayes Junior Memorial Award 01:26:10.484 --> 01:26:13.662 - to Brian Dunn, who is one of our Purdue winners. 01:26:13.954 --> 01:26:23.468 - I'm delighted, and I hope Purdue keeps entering our competition. And I hope we may just stay in Bloomington 01:26:23.468 --> 01:26:32.366 - Pleasant. We don't always with Purdue visitors. The Roy Battenhouse Memorial Award goes to Christina 01:26:32.366 --> 01:26:39.326 - Harvey. Congratulations. And our Chapter Career Award goes to Robin Vogelsang. 01:26:59.202 --> 01:27:08.844 - The music chair this year was Stan Hamilton, and I'm going to let him tell you what kind of dilemmas 01:27:08.844 --> 01:27:18.485 - that he confronted in conducting this competition, which incidentally included both instrumental and 01:27:18.485 --> 01:27:28.318 - voice. Thank you very much, David. Will the music award winners please come and join me at the podium? 01:27:29.410 --> 01:27:39.035 - without your names being called. And as usual, we request that the applause be held until we're finished. 01:27:39.035 --> 01:27:48.389 - David asked me to summarize the wonderful difficulties in the 47 auditioners for the two days of music 01:27:48.389 --> 01:27:58.014 - auditions. Perhaps a comment regarding one of the prize winners will tell you, if you don't already know, 01:27:58.146 --> 01:28:05.727 - of the talent and perseverance, and I should say charm, that all of our student of music bring to the 01:28:05.727 --> 01:28:13.308 - competition. The one musician whom I know, who I know is not here, Zhao Zhang, who is a winner of the 01:28:13.308 --> 01:28:20.741 - Margaret Bueller White Memorial Award, she is in Beijing at the International Flute Competition. So 01:28:20.741 --> 01:28:26.910 - I think that in alone self suffices to tell you of the difficulties of our judges. 01:28:27.170 --> 01:28:36.762 - Winning the Hatfield Merit Award is Nino Cocharella. Is Nino here? No. Winner of the Jacobi Merit Award, 01:28:36.762 --> 01:28:46.080 - the McDonald Merit Award, and the Davis Merit Award is Mark Chapman. Congratulations, Mark. Winner of 01:28:46.080 --> 01:28:53.662 - the Barbara Merit Award and the Tatlock Merit Award is Yunbei Li. Congratulations. 01:28:56.354 --> 01:29:06.460 - Winner of the Donald Felton Award is Christia Starnes. Winner of the Caldwell Merit Award and 01:29:06.460 --> 01:29:17.427 - the Stavropoulos Merit Award is Christopher Bolduc. We couldn't hear today, but he's kindly graced us 01:29:17.427 --> 01:29:25.598 - with his silent presence. Winner of the Ralston Merit Award is Vera Savage. 01:29:30.946 --> 01:29:36.126 - And winner of the chapter career award is Marina Rosnitovsky. 01:29:57.474 --> 01:30:08.214 - And needless to say that the chair of our musical theater competition is George Penny. That's monster 01:30:08.214 --> 01:30:19.902 - of a choreographer for Christopher Noctav. Thank you. With the musical theater award winners, please approach. 01:30:20.642 --> 01:30:30.256 - There were 23 entries in this year's competition. Our judges were from the Indiana Repertory Theater, 01:30:30.256 --> 01:30:40.247 - Richard Roberts and Megan McKinney, who was a past winner of the NSAL in drama. The Albright Merit Award, 01:30:40.247 --> 01:30:46.750 - Alexander Meisner. The Scott Berges Jones Tribute Award, Amy Linden. 01:30:51.202 --> 01:31:00.550 - Rory Battenhouse Memorial Award, Jesse Burnett. The Caldwell Merit Award, Kinzington Blaylock, who's 01:31:00.550 --> 01:31:10.083 - in a performance of quilters in Evansville, Indiana. And they are just going down, I have the feeling. 01:31:10.083 --> 01:31:19.524 - The Robinson Merit Award and Governor Merit Award, Eric Van Telen. And the Chapter Career Award, John 01:31:19.524 --> 01:31:20.542 - Armstrong. 01:31:38.914 --> 01:31:46.841 - concludes our awards and I want to congratulate all the award winners and to remind them of two things. 01:31:46.841 --> 01:31:54.540 - That we are having a reception which Lenore Hatfield and her helpers have put together and we really 01:31:54.540 --> 01:32:02.163 - would like to have you spend some time with us and so that we can tell you how much we enjoyed your 01:32:02.163 --> 01:32:03.230 - performances. 01:32:04.002 --> 01:32:13.647 - and how much we enjoyed your exhibit and the arts exhibit. I also should tell you that you might keep 01:32:13.647 --> 01:32:23.481 - in mind that this year has been kind of banner year. We've had a former award winner from this chapter, 01:32:23.481 --> 01:32:29.438 - who got her first break here, debut at the Metropolitan Opera, 01:32:29.986 --> 01:32:38.299 - And we just had another young man who got his first break here, too, won the Richard Tucker $30,000 01:32:38.299 --> 01:32:46.945 - prize. So with that, let me say that we hope you all have bright shining futures. Will all of the award 01:32:46.945 --> 01:32:55.674 - winners stay very briefly here so we can get a group picture of you? We'd like to post our award winners 01:32:55.674 --> 01:32:58.750 - on our website. With that, I bid you 01:32:59.522 --> 01:33:00.318 - Good afternoon.