WEBVTT 00:00:05.506 --> 00:00:11.874 - Good afternoon and welcome to the 53rd Annual Showcase of the Arts presented by the Bloomington Chapter 00:00:11.874 --> 00:00:18.059 - of the National Society of Arts and Letters. My name is Drew Bratton and I will be your emcee today. 00:00:18.059 --> 00:00:24.182 - The mission of the National Society of Arts and Letters is to identify, encourage, and assist young 00:00:24.182 --> 00:00:28.958 - people talented in art, dance, drama, literature, music, and musical theater. 00:00:29.858 --> 00:00:36.821 - The Bloomington Chapter, one of 18 in the United States, does that through a series of eight competitions 00:00:36.821 --> 00:00:43.389 - each spring. The winners of those competitions will receive awards of almost $34,000 today, and the 00:00:43.389 --> 00:00:49.958 - top winners will perform for you this afternoon. We'd like to start everything off with Bloomington 00:00:49.958 --> 00:00:57.118 - native Felix Mirbach. He is just finishing up his junior year at IU, where he is studying theater and drama. 00:00:57.602 --> 00:01:03.840 - Last fall, he performed the role of Morris Townsend in The Heiress at IU. For IU Theater, he has also 00:01:03.840 --> 00:01:10.139 - been seen in The Duchess of Malfi, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Machinon. For Ivy Tech, he performed 00:01:10.139 --> 00:01:16.438 - the role of Luke in Coffee Break. And for the Bloomington Playwrights Project, he was Jacob in Apropos 00:01:16.438 --> 00:01:22.615 - of Nothing. He is in rehearsals now for Waiting for Godot in late April. Felix will perform the role 00:01:22.615 --> 00:01:26.590 - of Ford from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and Flick. 00:01:26.850 --> 00:01:29.310 - from Lanford Wilson's Balm and Gilead. 00:02:09.602 --> 00:02:18.792 - is ready to crack with impatience. Who says that this is improvident jealousy? My wife hath sent to 00:02:18.792 --> 00:02:28.350 - him, the hour is fixed, the match is set. See the hell of having a false woman? My bed shall be abused, 00:02:28.350 --> 00:02:32.670 - my coffers ransacked, my reputation non-acted. 00:02:34.114 --> 00:02:44.157 - and I shall not only receive this villain's throne, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, 00:02:44.157 --> 00:02:53.904 - and by him who does meet this wrong. Terms. Names. A name on sounds well. Barbason, well. Lucifer, 00:02:53.904 --> 00:03:03.454 - well yet. These are the devil's additions. The names of fiends. What, Cuckold? Whittle? Cuckold? 00:03:05.186 --> 00:03:14.058 - I am not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass. He shall trust his wife. He shall not be jealous. 00:03:14.058 --> 00:03:22.931 - I would rather trust a Fleming with my butter, Parson Hughes the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman 00:03:22.931 --> 00:03:30.846 - with my aqua vitae a lot, or a thief to walk my England gelding than my wife with herself. 00:03:31.234 --> 00:03:47.535 - and then she talks, and then she ruminates, and then she divides. Eleven o'clock the hour. I shall detect 00:03:47.535 --> 00:04:00.606 - this, prevent my wife, get my revenge on Falstaff, and laugh at Page. I'll be bound. 00:04:01.858 --> 00:04:07.006 - It's too late. Five, five, five. Cutthole, cutthole, cutthole. 00:05:02.914 --> 00:05:10.079 - down the street and they come up on me like they're important or something, you know? And then they 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:17.459 - just start pushing me down this alley, but it's not like an alley, it's like a dark hallway, you know? 00:05:17.459 --> 00:05:24.767 - And then they just start punching and kicking, you know? So I curl up on the floor so they can't hurt 00:05:24.767 --> 00:05:26.558 - me or nothing, you know? 00:05:30.786 --> 00:05:38.556 - to start fighting one or two guys there, you know? Some fighters, some friends, doesn't have to be you. 00:05:38.556 --> 00:05:46.102 - I mean, I mean just a couple of buddies, you know? Just a couple of guys, you know? Just a couple of 00:05:46.102 --> 00:05:53.648 - big guys and some fighters, you know, just to show my good buddies too, you know? And I'm on H right 00:05:53.648 --> 00:05:59.774 - now and I'm flying high and I got a doctor, but I'm serious about this, you know? 00:06:01.218 --> 00:06:14.975 - of guys, you know, just a couple of big guys, some fighters, you know, and maybe they'd leave me alone 00:06:14.975 --> 00:06:28.331 - because they'd see I've got guys looking out for me too, you know. Because they kicked me up pretty 00:06:28.331 --> 00:06:30.334 - bad, you know. 00:06:31.458 --> 00:06:36.542 - And as if I weren't high, I need some, you know. 00:07:22.082 --> 00:07:34.846 - big guys, some fighters you know, some guys that if you were walking around with them, you could do anything. 00:07:57.666 --> 00:08:04.217 - Savannah Lewis is currently a sophomore at Indiana University, where she is dual majoring in contemporary 00:08:04.217 --> 00:08:10.830 - dance and media production. She grew up in Los Angeles and started dancing at the age of three at Carousel 00:08:10.830 --> 00:08:17.072 - Dance Studios. Her studies focused on ballet, jazz, tap, and hip hop. She spent six years as part of 00:08:17.072 --> 00:08:23.870 - the competitive team at her studio, which gave her the opportunity to perform and compete across the country. 00:08:24.578 --> 00:08:31.908 - She has been seen in works entitled Home, set by Rene Harris, and Five Pillars, set by Dr. Naya McCarthy 00:08:31.908 --> 00:08:36.446 - Brown. Today she performs Back Masking, which she choreographed. 00:12:07.330 --> 00:12:14.627 - Jananne Alexandra Scott is a Lebanese-American poet and first-year MFA in creative writing at IU. She 00:12:14.627 --> 00:12:22.211 - was born in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her writing is informed by a determined belief in the radical and liberatory 00:12:22.211 --> 00:12:29.795 - work of paying attention through both language and rigorous imagination. She has a BA in African-American 00:12:29.795 --> 00:12:34.302 - studies and poetry from Smith College and was a 2013 resident. 00:12:35.074 --> 00:12:43.665 - the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. Her work can be found in the Adroit Journal, Misna, Plowshares, 00:12:43.665 --> 00:12:52.256 - and Rusted Radishes, a literary journal coming out of Beirut, Lebanon. She will read We Walk in Weather 00:12:52.256 --> 00:12:54.238 - and Swan Tells a Story. 00:13:08.962 --> 00:13:16.914 - Everybody, can you hear me okay? Yes? This is such a pleasure. I have not been backstage with dancers 00:13:16.914 --> 00:13:24.398 - and musicians and actors and actresses in a really long time, probably not since middle school. 00:13:24.398 --> 00:13:32.350 - So as a poet, it's really wonderful to see and be in conversation with all these different art forms. 00:13:32.514 --> 00:13:44.389 - Deep thanks also to Ruth Albright and Carolyn Emmert and all of the good people who make this event 00:13:44.389 --> 00:13:57.214 - happen. And special, special thanks to Rick and Lois Hall. So I'm going to read two poems. This first poem, 00:13:57.474 --> 00:14:05.668 - I wrote a couple of years ago when I was still living in Maine, and at the time I was working on a farm, 00:14:05.668 --> 00:14:13.705 - and we were experiencing a major drought that summer. And I wrote this after the first rain in months. 00:14:13.705 --> 00:14:21.586 - And funnily enough, it's after Ross Gay, who I now have the deep pleasure of working with at Indiana 00:14:21.586 --> 00:14:25.566 - University. And it's also after Natasha Trethewey, 00:14:26.242 --> 00:14:35.425 - who wrote a poem about the word please a few years ago, and I decided to sort of write a companion piece, 00:14:35.425 --> 00:14:44.176 - which is in honor of thank you, which I think is one of the kindest things we can say to each other. 00:14:44.176 --> 00:14:49.374 - We walk in weather, after Roske and also Natasha Trethewey. 00:14:51.010 --> 00:15:00.275 - Today after rain, my feet pad across valleys of mud, sinking here and here, heels new as a bar of soap. 00:15:00.275 --> 00:15:09.806 - These months have been too yellow and we have all been thirsty, especially the bees. Summer, you stiffened 00:15:09.806 --> 00:15:18.804 - us with your bad sun. But last night we woke half drenched and in our throats whispered and sang and 00:15:18.804 --> 00:15:20.318 - sang, thank you. 00:15:21.762 --> 00:15:29.884 - For the water we had forgotten somehow and so missed those thousand liquid needles dropping, forgot 00:15:29.884 --> 00:15:38.330 - how July had turned us thankless and hoarse from heat, forgot even how to say those two words that love 00:15:38.330 --> 00:15:46.046 - and need each other, thank and you. For the clean towels tightly rolled on the bathroom shelf, 00:15:46.146 --> 00:15:54.134 - for the wooden house with its one red wall, for the violin with her cracked and glued again scroll. 00:15:54.134 --> 00:15:59.006 - And still, thank you for the way this wind scatters my skin. 00:15:59.138 --> 00:16:07.232 - how it slips through the roof like a spell. I'm telling you, the wind is my best and baddest prayer. 00:16:07.232 --> 00:16:15.726 - A long-legged woman who dances with her eyebrows and her elbows, ankles clicking to the high brass notes, 00:16:15.726 --> 00:16:23.980 - eyes wrapped shut to the very last beat. Thank you for the rain. The gestating cabbages are violet and 00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:25.182 - gleeful again. 00:16:25.282 --> 00:16:33.922 - The bees have gone back to making order out of chaos and no longer hover loudly around the sweet August 00:16:33.922 --> 00:16:42.479 - reds. The dogs are napping in all the places I try to spread mulch, and the mulch is soaked black from 00:16:42.479 --> 00:16:49.790 - rain. The sun has folded. Night has come. We still walk in weather. We still thank you. 00:17:01.986 --> 00:17:11.009 - This next piece is part of a bigger sequence that I've just started working on, which is still somewhat 00:17:11.009 --> 00:17:19.945 - mysterious to me, but involves a character called Swan. And it seems like Swan is kind of a myth maker 00:17:19.945 --> 00:17:29.054 - or a storyteller. She comes into the poems and conjures a story. That's as much that I can say about it. 00:17:29.602 --> 00:17:39.026 - So this is called Swan Tells a Story. Swan sits on my ribs. On the porch is a morning dark. She dips 00:17:39.026 --> 00:17:48.637 - her head and lifts her feathers, sings a lost call even when I am here. In the windows, the sky climbs 00:17:48.637 --> 00:17:57.502 - rose gold. In my hands, I squeeze two oranges fresh. A clump of pulp I drop to drink it whole. 00:17:58.594 --> 00:18:07.262 - Swan begins to sing. She tells a story. Last night with your mother and father, a kind of family house, 00:18:07.262 --> 00:18:15.680 - a notion of home and of being crowded there with many of you sitting at once in chairs. And both the 00:18:15.680 --> 00:18:21.598 - mother and father were younger and thinner in their faces and middles. 00:18:21.666 --> 00:18:29.574 - Even your one grandmother with strong calves and sleek black stockings that stretched over her ankles 00:18:29.574 --> 00:18:37.328 - like stones she loved and blessed to her wrists blue-green rivers and her teeth and lips that loved 00:18:37.328 --> 00:18:44.926 - poems. And your father cried and cried in his chair, which in the French would mean in his flesh. 00:18:45.026 --> 00:18:53.330 - But his face was smooth as new fruit, with eyes like honey sweetly bright, a liquid strange and low 00:18:53.330 --> 00:19:00.222 - pooled in the throat of your father, who crouched there in his chair, which rocked 00:19:00.290 --> 00:19:08.263 - and so in this way made him brave and soft, made a sound of wooden hooves on the floor with his chair, 00:19:08.263 --> 00:19:16.624 - and the thousand clocks of time measured in hooves and the rockings of chair, and here you saw the pleasure 00:19:16.624 --> 00:19:24.984 - of your father's neck grown silken with new grass, and what was broken of the skin had been softly re-sewn, 00:19:24.984 --> 00:19:28.158 - and here was now meant to last and last. 00:19:30.370 --> 00:19:56.350 - Thank you. Sarah Benson began her ballet training at Northern Cincinnati Youth Ballet in 2015. 00:19:56.514 --> 00:20:04.010 - She then continued her ballet education, joining the Cincinnati Ballet as a trainee in 2017. She trained 00:20:04.010 --> 00:20:11.434 - for two summers at Pacific Northwest Ballet before coming to IU. She has enjoyed performing in Paquita, 00:20:11.434 --> 00:20:18.715 - Ramonda, Valspergesnacht, Beauty and the Beast, and the Cincinnati Ballet's Nutcracker. Sarah will be 00:20:18.715 --> 00:20:22.142 - performing a variation from Act Two of Ramonda. 00:22:18.754 --> 00:22:26.115 - Max P. Fowler is a senior musical theater student from Rockville, Maryland. He is currently making his 00:22:26.115 --> 00:22:33.262 - final appearance on the IU theater stage as Bob Baker in Wonderful Town. After graduation, Max will 00:22:33.262 --> 00:22:40.409 - spend his summer performing with the Utah Festival Opera before moving to New York City to pursue a 00:22:40.409 --> 00:22:48.414 - career as an actor and director. Today, he will perform a monologue from This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. 00:22:48.642 --> 00:23:06.548 - and sing Poor Unfortunate Souls from The Little Mermaid. Max will be accompanied by Ray Feldman. This 00:23:06.548 --> 00:23:14.974 - is so typical of you, man. I mean, this is like 00:23:15.522 --> 00:23:22.172 - This is like the proto-type moronic move we've all come to expect from your corner. You drive a guy 00:23:22.172 --> 00:23:29.222 - crazy because you're such a sniveling little obnoxious punk. You grate on the guy until he finally throws 00:23:29.222 --> 00:23:35.872 - you out and then you steal his money and bring it to my house and expect me to like, what, hide you 00:23:35.872 --> 00:23:42.656 - or something? No, no, see, this is why nobody likes you, man, because you're always provoking people. 00:23:42.656 --> 00:23:43.454 - Yeah, okay. 00:23:43.586 --> 00:23:49.619 - Now everybody's provoked, but only you're the one that they all fricking hate. Would you listen to me? 00:23:49.619 --> 00:23:55.476 - I'm trying to tell you something. No, this is good for you. No, it is. Answer me, listen. You're an 00:23:55.476 --> 00:24:01.391 - agent. You never have any money. Nobody can stand to have you around. Man, you can't get laid. Like, 00:24:01.391 --> 00:24:06.896 - you cannot get laid. Like, you would never get laid. Like, the last girl you had was in what, 00:24:06.896 --> 00:24:11.582 - ninth grade? And it lasted for two weeks, and that girl still hasn't recovered. 00:24:11.746 --> 00:24:23.400 - I'd like to leave now. I'll admit that in the past I've been nasty. They weren't kidding when they called 00:24:23.400 --> 00:24:34.723 - me well, a witch. But you'll find that nowadays I've mended all my ways, repented, seen the light, and 00:24:34.723 --> 00:24:40.990 - made a switch. True, yes. And I've always been a little, 00:24:42.338 --> 00:24:50.124 - It's a talent that I always have possessed. And to your lately peaceful laugh, I use it on behalf of 00:24:50.124 --> 00:24:53.054 - the miserable, lonely, and depressed. 00:25:55.394 --> 00:26:03.346 - Brano Haley Lipke is a native of Racine, Wisconsin, who is pursuing a performance diploma under the 00:26:03.346 --> 00:26:11.298 - tutelage of Jane Dutton and Gary Arvin at the Jacobs School of Music. At IU, Haley has performed as 00:26:11.298 --> 00:26:19.250 - Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Gertrude Mutter in Hansel and Gretel, Rosalba Montalban in Florencia in 00:26:19.250 --> 00:26:25.214 - El Amazonas, Alma Hicks in The Music Man, and Gertie Cummings in Oklahoma. 00:26:25.442 --> 00:26:33.139 - Haley looks forward to singing as the soprano soloist in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the Louisville 00:26:33.139 --> 00:26:40.910 - Orchestra in May. Today, she will be singing Du Prix du Jour from Louis and Dick Turhal from Tannhauser. 00:26:40.910 --> 00:26:43.870 - She will be accompanied by Soyeon Park. 00:36:08.386 --> 00:36:15.447 - Sun Choi is a 26-year-old pianist from South Korea. She graduated summa cum laude from Seoul National 00:36:15.447 --> 00:36:22.854 - University with a degree in piano and musicology. She's won top prizes in numerous competitions, including 00:36:22.854 --> 00:36:29.777 - the Lion International Piano Competition, Milady Virtuosi International Competition, and in Charles 00:36:29.777 --> 00:36:31.646 - Eisman International Young 00:36:31.778 --> 00:36:39.792 - Artist Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Award, and Dong A Music Competition. Yongsan 00:36:39.792 --> 00:36:47.579 - is currently pursuing a master's degree with Arnaldo Cohen at Jacobs School of Music, where she serves 00:36:47.579 --> 00:36:53.854 - as an associate instructor in piano. She will play Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 3. 00:45:40.098 --> 00:45:46.578 - Before we take our intermission break, we are going to present two awards to IU Jazz students who have 00:45:46.578 --> 00:45:52.995 - to get back to IU for a 4 p.m. rehearsal. Excuse me, a recital, not just a rehearsal. The awards will 00:45:52.995 --> 00:45:57.022 - be presented by Tom Walsh, Chair of IU Jazz Studies Department. 00:46:04.514 --> 00:46:10.796 - Thank you very much. It's that time of year. We've got many concerts every day of the week from now 00:46:10.796 --> 00:46:17.330 - to the end of the semester. Last year, Harlan Lewis approached me about establishing a National Society 00:46:17.330 --> 00:46:23.675 - of Arts and Letters Award for jazz students. And he and Doris Wittenberg have very graciously funded 00:46:23.675 --> 00:46:30.208 - an award for two students. And he specified that he would like us to choose juniors. And we've expanded 00:46:30.208 --> 00:46:33.726 - that to mean people who have maybe one more year to go. 00:46:33.858 --> 00:46:46.439 - this year. And so the jazz faculty have selected two very fine young musicians who we'll recognize here 00:46:46.439 --> 00:46:58.174 - today. We have Jimmy Farace. Jimmy is a baritone saxophonist. And we have vocalist April Farner. 00:47:04.546 --> 00:47:10.292 - Thank you very much. And I've meant to say the official name of this award is the National Society of 00:47:10.292 --> 00:47:15.926 - Arts and Letters, Harlan Lewis and Doris Wittenberg Jazz Scholarship. So much gratitude. Harlan and 00:47:15.926 --> 00:47:21.278 - Doris could not be with us today, so he asked me to present the award. So thank you very much. 00:47:34.562 --> 00:47:42.784 - Now we will take a brief intermission. Thank you very much. Places, everyone, places. A reference for 00:47:42.784 --> 00:47:51.571 - very few people that were old enough to remember Fantasy Island. Welcome back. It's my pleasure to introduce 00:47:51.571 --> 00:47:59.632 - Noah Davis. Noah is an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University. His poetry has been published 00:47:59.632 --> 00:48:03.582 - in North American Review, the Holland's Critics, 00:48:03.714 --> 00:48:11.197 - Atlantic Review, Waterstone Review, and Chautauqua, among others. Noah has received Pushcart 00:48:11.197 --> 00:48:19.727 - Prize nominations for poetry from both Poet Lore and Natural Bridge. His prose is published in So Wester, 00:48:19.727 --> 00:48:28.256 - Kestrel, and Chariton Review, I hope, American Angler, The Fly Fish Journal, Angler's Journal, The Drake, 00:48:28.256 --> 00:48:33.406 - Fly Fishing and Tying Journal, and Southern Culture on the Fly. 00:48:34.242 --> 00:48:55.970 - This afternoon, he will read his poems, Oil and Small Histories. Good afternoon, everyone. Can everyone 00:48:55.970 --> 00:49:02.238 - hear me? I'm enunciating. OK. 00:49:02.658 --> 00:49:10.700 - Oh, a little bit closer, okay, there we go. A lot of fishing in those locations. Thank you very much, 00:49:10.700 --> 00:49:18.584 - first of all, to Ruth Albright and Carolyn Emmert. Carolyn, for letting all of us send our poems to 00:49:18.584 --> 00:49:26.231 - you and stories and we inundate your mailbox, so thank you very much for pointing out with that. 00:49:26.231 --> 00:49:31.198 - And then, all the members of the NSAL here, very appreciative. 00:49:31.810 --> 00:49:39.773 - I wish I could do a lot of the things that everyone who is performing here, I wanted to be a ballet 00:49:39.773 --> 00:49:47.736 - dancer so badly, and then I got these big legs, and so I played basketball instead. But to sing and 00:49:47.736 --> 00:49:55.938 - to act and to play beautiful, beautiful music is just an absolute joy. And so to be here and to listen 00:49:55.938 --> 00:50:00.158 - to this and hopefully perform a little bit myself is 00:50:00.354 --> 00:50:07.784 - really wonderful. So thank you to all the performers and thank you to all of you who are here today. 00:50:07.784 --> 00:50:14.846 - I grew up in central Pennsylvania in Appalachia. Appalachia is just, it's the same region, just 00:50:15.074 --> 00:50:23.002 - pronounced differently. Appalachia, though, is a little bit more northern pronunciation along the border 00:50:23.002 --> 00:50:30.854 - of New York and Pennsylvania, but so I'm in that southern Appalachia. And my poems and a lot about what 00:50:30.854 --> 00:50:38.479 - I write is focused on how we learn, how the actions and the landscaped impact, how we learn, and how 00:50:38.479 --> 00:50:41.726 - we continue on with that. Small histories. 00:50:43.234 --> 00:50:52.822 - At the bridge above the town, boys dare each other to dive into the green water and swim inside the 00:50:52.822 --> 00:51:02.506 - fossil of a refrigerator dumped in this river so long ago that stone has grown around the open door. 00:51:02.506 --> 00:51:11.710 - Carp shadows quiver the white metal while boys try to judge light's refraction, current's path, 00:51:12.514 --> 00:51:22.645 - They bring rocks flecked with mica, rusted railroad spikes, elk antlers, offerings with weight to take 00:51:22.645 --> 00:51:32.480 - the boys down to where they can swim below the river's flow and exchange their gifts with ones boys 00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:41.726 - before them have left. The teeth of so many dogs, a bag of brass rifle shells, a crow's wing, 00:51:42.082 --> 00:51:54.353 - wrapped in bike chain and tied to a horse's jaw. And another way we learn things is through food, and 00:51:54.353 --> 00:52:06.504 - how we get that food, and just the nourishment, how land and different places provide that different 00:52:06.504 --> 00:52:08.670 - nourishment. Oil. 00:52:10.370 --> 00:52:19.682 - Graham kept snapping turtles and oil drums by the garage. Barrels full of spring water, not oil. We 00:52:19.682 --> 00:52:29.274 - fed the turtles watermelon until shit petals covered the water's surface. My brother and I skimmed off 00:52:29.274 --> 00:52:31.230 - the flakes like oil. 00:52:32.450 --> 00:52:40.958 - When Graham was ready, we turned the barrels over in the yard and she shot the turtles in the head with 00:52:40.958 --> 00:52:49.630 - the .22 Pap gave her. He loved her and believed you gave guns to the people you loved. She used a hatchet 00:52:49.630 --> 00:52:58.383 - to splinter shells. The shards in the grass were sharp and cut into our feet. The meat simmered in vinegar 00:52:58.383 --> 00:53:00.510 - for an hour on the stove. 00:53:01.314 --> 00:53:09.280 - My brother and I watched Graham blow hell-breaths of cigarette out the window. She stared at the pump 00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:17.480 - jack in the backfield that brought oil to the surface from beneath the hooves of grazing sheep. Graham's 00:53:17.480 --> 00:53:25.290 - thumbnail was orange from tar, and my brother asked why it wasn't black. That's why turtle meat was 00:53:25.290 --> 00:53:28.414 - pink, because watermelon meat was pink. 00:53:29.506 --> 00:53:37.647 - Graham laughed and said if we peeled her far enough, she'd be dark as oil. My brother dipped the meat 00:53:37.647 --> 00:53:46.028 - into the yellow egg wash, and I forked together flour, cornmeal, cayenne. Graham heated lard that turned 00:53:46.028 --> 00:53:54.169 - to oil, the pink meat disappearing into bubbles. We waited for the meat to float to the surface so we 00:53:54.169 --> 00:53:58.878 - could pick out what looked like golden tongues with tongs. 00:53:59.906 --> 00:54:08.984 - Graham dabbed a piece on a paper towel. She kept an ashtray by the sink and with her left hand stubbed 00:54:08.984 --> 00:54:17.887 - out a cigarette while she held out the meat. My lips curled back from the heat and I tore the muscle 00:54:17.887 --> 00:54:27.582 - away with my teeth. How much oil was in me? How much oil was in her? Someday, when we both become the ground, 00:54:27.906 --> 00:54:50.416 - Would a pump jack find the oil that pooled in the places our bodies had been? Meredith Johnson is from 00:54:50.416 --> 00:54:55.006 - Arlington, Virginia. 00:54:55.330 --> 00:55:02.201 - and is a senior at IU pursuing a BFA in contemporary dance. At IU, she has had the privilege of performing 00:55:02.201 --> 00:55:08.622 - many professional works as well as original works choreographed by IU faculty members and students. 00:55:08.622 --> 00:55:15.172 - Meredith spent last spring studying contemporary dance at the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in 00:55:15.172 --> 00:55:21.850 - Israel. And last summer, she worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago faculty at their pre-professional 00:55:21.850 --> 00:55:23.006 - summer intensive. 00:55:23.618 --> 00:55:30.525 - After graduation, she hopes to dance professionally with a contemporary dance company. She will be performing 00:55:30.525 --> 00:55:32.158 - her own work, Antithesis. 00:58:37.602 --> 00:58:44.164 - Kaylee Howland is studying theater and journalism. She was just on stage as Susan in Vinegar Tom for 00:58:44.164 --> 00:58:50.791 - IU Theater, and she plans to move to Los Angeles in the fall to pursue her acting and writing career. 00:58:50.791 --> 00:58:57.613 - Since she's graduating next month, she's increasingly grateful for the chances she's had to tell women's 00:58:57.613 --> 00:59:03.006 - stories honestly. She hopes you continue to listen to those women when they speak. 00:59:04.386 --> 00:59:19.896 - This afternoon, she will be performing the role of Ashby in Am I Blue by Beth Henley and Constance in 00:59:19.896 --> 00:59:33.886 - King John by William Shakespeare. You know, we're alive because I don't like dances either. 00:59:35.298 --> 00:59:42.939 - Well, I like dancing. I just don't like dances. At least, I know that our school was throwing tonight. 00:59:42.939 --> 00:59:50.505 - They're so corny. All they serve is potato chips and fruit punch and then this stupid baby band plays 00:59:50.505 --> 00:59:58.146 - and they all dance around like they're so hot. I frankly would not dance there. I would prefer to wait 00:59:58.146 --> 01:00:03.710 - until I am invited to an exclusive ball. Doesn't really matter which ball. 01:00:04.962 --> 01:00:13.599 - There's just one where they have golden chandeliers and silver fountains and these were done in season 01:00:13.599 --> 01:00:22.152 - all sorts and will all arrive in a pink silk cape. I'm gonna dance in pink. I don't live in a fantasy 01:00:22.152 --> 01:00:30.789 - world. I accept reality as well as anyone. Anyway, you can talk to me, remember? Well, I know what you 01:00:30.789 --> 01:00:34.814 - mean by the kind of girls it's hard to talk to. 01:00:35.362 --> 01:00:42.491 - There are girls a lot that way in the small clique at my school. Really tacky and mean. Well, they expect 01:00:42.491 --> 01:00:49.486 - everyone to be as stylish as they are, and they won't even speak to you in the hall. Well, I don't care 01:00:49.486 --> 01:00:57.086 - if they don't speak to me, but I really love the orphans, and it hurts my feelings when they're so mean to them. 01:01:00.386 --> 01:01:08.872 - They sometimes snicker at the orphans' dresses, like the orphans usually are like drab hand-me-down 01:01:08.872 --> 01:01:17.528 - ugly dresses. Once, Shelley Maxwell wouldn't let Linda bar her pencil even though she had to. It hurt 01:01:17.528 --> 01:01:22.110 - her feelings. I hardly know them. They're really shy. 01:03:17.762 --> 01:03:26.782 - I'm not mad. This hair I tear is mine. My name is Constance. I am Jeffrey's wife. Young Arthur is my son. 01:04:58.530 --> 01:05:06.314 - Anderson De Silva is a 19-year-old sophomore from Tampa, Florida, where he received his ballet training 01:05:06.314 --> 01:05:14.098 - at America's Ballet School. He has performed leading roles in The Nutcracker, Le Corsaire, Don Quixote, 01:05:14.098 --> 01:05:22.032 - Coppelia, and Diana and Estone. He has also performed many leading roles for IU Ballet Theater, including 01:05:22.032 --> 01:05:28.094 - this spring's Vals Purgastante. Today, he will perform a variation from Paquita. 01:07:00.098 --> 01:07:09.580 - in Spain received early instruction on the violin from her mother. At a very young age, she began playing 01:07:09.580 --> 01:07:18.078 - concerts in Spain, Bulgaria, and Germany. When she was only nine, she won the San Andrew de la 01:07:18.370 --> 01:07:26.205 - Barca competition in Barcelona, and has since won many other international competitions. She pursued 01:07:26.205 --> 01:07:34.505 - her master's degree with the prestigious violinist Ilya Kaller at DePaul University in Chicago. Currently, 01:07:34.505 --> 01:07:42.418 - she is doing her artist diploma under the guidance of Professor Mauricio Fuchs at Indiana University. 01:07:42.418 --> 01:07:48.158 - Elina plays an 1862 JB volume violin, generously loaned to her by Mr. and 01:07:48.738 --> 01:07:56.333 - Mrs. Ullman from Switzerland. This afternoon, she will play Eugenia Say's Sonata for solo violin, parts 01:07:56.333 --> 01:07:57.502 - three and four. 01:16:10.402 --> 01:16:16.873 - soprano Michelle Zink-Munoz is a senior at Indiana University. In May, she will graduate with her BFA 01:16:16.873 --> 01:16:23.407 - in musical theater with a minor in media and creative advertising. She is originally from Wyckoff, New 01:16:23.407 --> 01:16:30.068 - Jersey and plans to move to New York City in the next year. This summer, she will be joining the company 01:16:30.068 --> 01:16:36.920 - at Weathervane Theater in New Hampshire. This is her second year as the NSAL Chapter Career Award recipient 01:16:36.920 --> 01:16:39.838 - for musical theater. She will be singing Life 01:16:41.314 --> 01:16:47.917 - Harold from The Full Monty by David Yazbek, and The Man I Love from Strike Up the Band by George and 01:16:47.917 --> 01:16:51.774 - Ira Gershwin. Michelle will be accompanied by Ray Feldman. 01:21:12.258 --> 01:21:19.661 - soprano Avery Butcher has performed a wide array of roles in both the United States and abroad, ranging 01:21:19.661 --> 01:21:27.207 - from Susanna and Mozart's La Noce di Figaro, Corlinda and Rossini's La Senratola, and Le Leiter Apparetta 01:21:27.207 --> 01:21:34.611 - musical theater roles. In February, Avery debuted the role of Adina in Donizetti's El Istiada Amor with 01:21:34.611 --> 01:21:42.014 - Indiana University Opera Theater. This year, she was named the third place winner in the central region 01:21:42.338 --> 01:21:49.690 - Appalachian Opera National Council auditions. In the fall, Avery will join Michigan Opera Theater's 01:21:49.690 --> 01:21:57.263 - roster as the company's resident soprano, where she will begin the season debuting the role of Zerlina 01:21:57.263 --> 01:22:04.910 - in Don Giovanni. This afternoon, she will perform Forse Lui Sempre Libre from Verdes La Traviata. Avery 01:22:04.910 --> 01:22:07.998 - will be accompanied by Pietro Wisniewski. 01:31:26.274 --> 01:31:32.263 - Thank you to all of our wonderful performers and congratulations to all the young artists on the awards 01:31:32.263 --> 01:31:38.079 - you are receiving from the National Society of Arts and Letters. I now turn over the program to Ruth 01:31:38.079 --> 01:31:43.550 - Albright, President of the Bloomington Chapter, who will handle the awards presentation. Ruth. 01:32:07.106 --> 01:32:14.578 - If Avery could have a mysterious tenor in the wings, I could have a mysterious handsome man escort me 01:32:14.578 --> 01:32:22.490 - to the podium. Falling flat on this floor is not how I wanted to start. Anyway, what a wonderful, wonderful 01:32:22.490 --> 01:32:29.963 - show of talent. I hope you all enjoyed the performances as much as I did. It takes a lot of work from 01:32:29.963 --> 01:32:33.406 - a lot of people to make this happen each year. 01:32:33.666 --> 01:32:42.479 - gives me a greater understanding of the world that these young artists live in and look forward to succeeding 01:32:42.479 --> 01:32:50.652 - in. I know we all wish them well. We are honoring a record number of award winners today, 63. I mean, 01:32:50.652 --> 01:32:58.824 - we make our own audience. And presenting a record amount of money, a total of $32,750 in cash, $1,000 01:32:58.824 --> 01:33:02.750 - from Pygmalion's Art Supplies gift certificates, 01:33:02.946 --> 01:33:10.169 - will be awarded. Plus, three high school students will receive another 250 each at awards ceremony this 01:33:10.169 --> 01:33:17.391 - spring for a record 34,500. Thanks so much to our members and other donors who have made this possible. 01:33:17.391 --> 01:33:24.683 - It's been a fun year to ask for money. It's such a pleasure for the National Society of Arts and Letters 01:33:24.683 --> 01:33:32.670 - to be able to help outstanding young artists as they pursue their dreams. Their dreams become our dreams for them. 01:33:33.186 --> 01:33:40.254 - We hope that our support will carry them forward to wonderfully successful lives. And now to give out 01:33:40.254 --> 01:33:47.807 - the cash. Almost a hundred, I'm going to do visual arts first, almost a hundred pieces of art were submitted 01:33:47.807 --> 01:33:54.875 - this year from around the state. The visual arts judges chose about 38 of those for our NSAL Emerging 01:33:54.875 --> 01:33:59.518 - Artists exhibit in the gallery downstairs in the month of January. 01:34:00.482 --> 01:34:07.224 - Presenting the awards today will be Suzanne Halverson. We had planned to show the slides of the top 01:34:07.224 --> 01:34:14.439 - of the winners, but unfortunately Robert Kingsley, our other visual arts chair, has had a health emergency 01:34:14.439 --> 01:34:21.451 - and the rest of us were not smart enough to figure out how to do that. So anyway, I apologize for that, 01:34:21.451 --> 01:34:24.350 - but Suzanne will be presenting the awards. 01:34:31.906 --> 01:34:40.046 - My name is Suzanne Halverson, and I am the co-chair along with Bob Kingsley, who unfortunately could 01:34:40.046 --> 01:34:48.348 - not be here today. As Ruth said, this year's showcase exhibition was held in the Ivy Tech John Waldron 01:34:48.348 --> 01:34:56.650 - Arts Center Rosemary P. Miller Gallery in January. We had 95 submissions this year, and our jurors had 01:34:56.650 --> 01:35:01.566 - the difficult task of selecting only 35 pieces for the show. 01:35:02.402 --> 01:35:10.714 - All of the artists who showed in this exhibition are winners, whether or not they won awards. Being 01:35:10.714 --> 01:35:19.276 - in this competition is excellent for their resumes and for their encouragement for the future. I would 01:35:19.276 --> 01:35:27.006 - also like to thank the jurors for this year. They are Martha Uppdahl, who is a fiber artist, 01:35:27.490 --> 01:35:35.766 - Bob Pulley, who is a ceramic artist, and treat yourself to see his exhibition that is downstairs across 01:35:35.766 --> 01:35:43.724 - from where our reception will be today. David Moore, who is a photographer and the owner of Pictura 01:35:43.724 --> 01:35:52.239 - Gallery slash VAR, which is a photography gallery on 4th and Rogers. And Tina Newberry, who is a professor 01:35:52.239 --> 01:35:55.422 - at Indiana University and is a painter. 01:35:56.802 --> 01:36:04.112 - The person without whom the installation would have been possible is Julie Roberts. Julie is the director 01:36:04.112 --> 01:36:11.214 - of the Ivy Tech Waldron Art Center, and she met individually with each of the artists to determine how 01:36:11.214 --> 01:36:18.248 - their pieces would be installed. So she did a brilliant job as always. I would also like to thank our 01:36:18.248 --> 01:36:23.006 - generous donors. Their names will be read when the awards are given. 01:36:23.330 --> 01:36:30.810 - At this time, I would like to ask those artists who are present to come down on the stage and they will 01:36:30.810 --> 01:36:34.046 - receive their awards. Are there any present? 01:36:51.650 --> 01:37:03.958 - The first award is for Lacy Doerr, a Pygmalion Art Supply Award. Is she here? Nope. Okay. Kristen Hughes 01:37:03.958 --> 01:37:16.150 - is not here today. We will make sure they get their money. Yinghe Puffy Zhao is going to have the award 01:37:16.150 --> 01:37:18.494 - accepted by Gabriel 01:37:25.346 --> 01:37:37.742 - Petty Dean Lepley III. Kira Easley. Yilun Huang. No. Remember, this happened back in January. 01:37:37.742 --> 01:37:50.270 - So Jenny Reed, I know she's not here today. She's one of my students. Andy Bullard. Yay, Andy! 01:37:56.578 --> 01:38:07.664 - Rachel DeCubo was here earlier, but she's seven months pregnant and needed to leave, so I will make 01:38:07.664 --> 01:38:18.972 - sure she gets this. She was not feeling well, so... Clarissa Pizone? No? Caroline Zerbrick, I do know 01:38:18.972 --> 01:38:24.958 - you. What? Oh, I'm sorry, yes, okay. Emily Yurkovich? 01:38:31.170 --> 01:38:42.462 - The Alma Eichermann Memorial Award goes to Gabriel Noh. Our top prize and the Career Chapter Award in 01:38:42.462 --> 01:38:46.558 - Visual Arts goes to Gabriel O'Brien. 01:38:54.562 --> 01:39:02.328 - Before I let them leave the stage, I do want to list the names of the donors. I forgot to do that. There 01:39:02.328 --> 01:39:10.243 - was the Klein Merit Award, the Reeva Shiner Memorial Award, and then several Pygmalions Art Supply Awards. 01:39:10.243 --> 01:39:11.870 - So thank you so much. 01:39:28.258 --> 01:39:36.560 - Thank you, Suzanne. Sarah Roth, Chair of the IU Ballet Theater Department. Is that, yes, ballet theater, 01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:44.704 - that's right. And Chair of the NSAL Ballet Competition will present the awards. Sarah won the top NSAL 01:39:44.704 --> 01:39:52.770 - award in 2003 and danced right here on this very stage in the showcase. So it's wonderful to have her 01:39:52.770 --> 01:39:54.430 - back in Bloomington. 01:39:54.530 --> 01:40:01.526 - Many years she danced with the Boston Ballet, but now she's back and training tomorrow's professional 01:40:01.526 --> 01:40:08.453 - dancers. One thing that one of our audience members asked me to do was mention that we no longer are 01:40:08.453 --> 01:40:15.586 - putting down a Marley floor, which is what ballet dancers dance on normally. And so this floor is slick 01:40:15.586 --> 01:40:20.318 - for them. So that's why Sarah Benson was not able to dance on point. 01:40:20.418 --> 01:40:26.445 - We also mopped the floor and they put a little water on their shoes and they did just fine. 01:40:26.445 --> 01:40:32.734 - But you know, it would break our hearts if any of them got hurt. So Sarah, where are you? Okay. 01:40:42.978 --> 01:40:49.157 - I feel very privileged to be here today. This is my first year as the chair of the National Society 01:40:49.157 --> 01:40:55.582 - of Arts and Letters Ballet Competition. I was very privileged to win this in 2003. And the process that 01:40:55.582 --> 01:41:01.761 - these students go to to win these awards, and I'm sure the same is true in other art forms, is very 01:41:01.761 --> 01:41:07.939 - similar to the rigorous process that they have to go through when they audition for a company, when 01:41:07.939 --> 01:41:12.944 - they go to get a job, when they go to train themselves to perform under pressure 01:41:12.944 --> 01:41:20.846 - in front of a panel of judges deciding their fate. I'd love to bring the beautiful group of dancers 01:41:20.846 --> 01:41:29.300 - that won the awards this year down to the stage so they can stand awkwardly while I announce their awards. 01:41:29.300 --> 01:41:37.518 - We don't stand still well in pedestrian clothing. Please come, Andy, come. Is Sarah here still? Sarah's 01:41:37.518 --> 01:41:38.782 - here still too. 01:41:43.778 --> 01:41:49.955 - of these students prepared a variation much like the one you saw Andy and Sarah perform. And they performed 01:41:49.955 --> 01:41:56.247 - that variation for three wonderful judges that we were very lucky to have. Oljan Barova drove from Cincinnati 01:41:56.247 --> 01:42:02.024 - Ballet. He's artistic staff. And will someday be one of those deciders of their fate looking at them 01:42:02.024 --> 01:42:07.858 - for company positions someday. So it was good to have him as a judge. Roberta Wong also came to us as 01:42:07.858 --> 01:42:10.718 - a judge. And then we had Michael Johnson from our 01:42:10.786 --> 01:42:18.540 - fellow university for ballet, Butler University in Indianapolis. So my first award that I'd like to 01:42:18.540 --> 01:42:26.526 - present is the Marina Svetlova Memorial Award in Ballet for 2019 to Andrew Rossi. And I'm going to hug 01:42:26.526 --> 01:42:34.590 - all of them. The next award is to Daisy Yee, again, the Marina Svetlova Memorial Award in Ballet, 2019. 01:42:39.394 --> 01:42:45.815 - For those of you who don't know, Marina Svetlova was a pillar of the Jacobs School of Music 01:42:45.815 --> 01:42:52.934 - Ballet Department, where I now work, where these dancers now train. And she left a legacy through the 01:42:52.934 --> 01:42:59.913 - National Society of Arts and Letters. So she's really still with us, still present. Jack Roman, the 01:42:59.913 --> 01:43:07.102 - Marina Svetlova Memorial Award in Ballet. The Marina Svetlova Memorial Award in Ballet for 2019, Marie 01:43:07.102 --> 01:43:07.870 - McCormick. 01:43:13.378 --> 01:43:22.662 - And the final Marina Svetlova Memorial Award this year is for Sarah Benson, who performed so beautifully 01:43:22.662 --> 01:43:31.592 - for you today. And this last award, the Superstar of the World Award, is the Joanne Athanas Memorial 01:43:31.592 --> 01:43:41.406 - Award in ballet for 2019. And that was by Lila and Stephen Hughes. And this is presented to Anderson De Silva. 01:43:59.682 --> 01:44:08.366 - My gosh, I love ballet people. They are huggers. And I'm going to get a big button that says, hug me, 01:44:08.366 --> 01:44:10.750 - just in case people wonder. 01:44:10.914 --> 01:44:17.103 - The next awards will be in Contemporary Dance, and Celine Carter, who was expecting to be out of town 01:44:17.103 --> 01:44:23.353 - and drove all the way back from Ohio because the person she had gotten to present awards got sick, and 01:44:23.353 --> 01:44:29.421 - she came all the way back, so she's going to present awards. She's our chair in Contemporary Dance. 01:44:29.421 --> 01:44:32.030 - And I'm giving you a hug. And a hug, okay. 01:44:35.874 --> 01:44:46.770 - Because contemporary dancers are huckers, too. Could I please invite the awardees to come down and join 01:44:46.770 --> 01:44:57.246 - me on the stage? Zadie Smith, the writer, recently wrote an editorial about the 65th anniversary of 01:44:57.246 --> 01:45:03.742 - the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in the New York Times. 01:45:03.938 --> 01:45:10.183 - And she wrote about a really galvanizing experience as a 12-year-old being taken to see the Alvin Ailey 01:45:10.183 --> 01:45:16.187 - American Dance Company and how transformative that was for her. And just wanting to note that Alvin 01:45:16.187 --> 01:45:22.612 - Ailey's vision for dance, his dance company, was that it was dance was for everybody. And when the company 01:45:22.612 --> 01:45:28.677 - came to the IU Auditorium, the stipulation of the contract was they would do the performance for the 01:45:28.677 --> 01:45:29.758 - evening, but that 01:45:30.242 --> 01:45:37.009 - the community had to come. That's part of their stipulation in the contract. So the day after the concert, 01:45:37.009 --> 01:45:43.461 - the IU Auditorium arranged to have every middle schooler in Monroe County bust to the auditorium. And 01:45:43.461 --> 01:45:49.849 - I just was really moved by that, and also by all of you for supporting the arts. So Zadie Smith said 01:45:49.849 --> 01:45:56.300 - that all dance is a discourse on freedom. And I would argue that all arts are a discourse on freedom. 01:45:56.300 --> 01:46:00.158 - So I'm so grateful to everyone here for supporting the arts. 01:46:00.258 --> 01:46:08.482 - to the young artists for being artists in this time, and also to every supporter, certainly financially, 01:46:08.482 --> 01:46:16.706 - but parents who drive your children to dance classes and trust them to major in dance or ballet or music 01:46:16.706 --> 01:46:25.086 - in college, and for taking kids to libraries and just supporting the arts. So thank you, it's such a gift. 01:46:25.698 --> 01:46:34.385 - I'm now going to present the awards, and I will be hugging Chelsea Cummeth for the Marina Svetlova Memorial 01:46:34.385 --> 01:46:42.669 - Award in Contemporary Dance. Corey Boatner is not here. I'll make sure he gets the award. Kaia Hunter, 01:46:42.669 --> 01:46:48.862 - the Koronek Merit Award in Contemporary Dance, who is a high school student. 01:46:56.130 --> 01:47:08.578 - The Marina Svetlova Memorial Award goes to Megan Kudla. The Reva Shiner Memorial Award goes to Savannah 01:47:08.578 --> 01:47:19.710 - Lewis. And finally, the Chapter Career Award in Contemporary Dance goes to Meredith Johnson. 01:47:27.074 --> 01:47:38.147 - Thank you. The drama competition chair, Paul Daly, who's the artistic director here at Ivy Tech, 01:47:38.147 --> 01:47:50.133 - for Ivy Tech, is not able to be with us today. So he asked Ray Feldman, who's the musical theater chair, 01:47:50.133 --> 01:47:54.014 - to present the Drama Awards, too. 01:47:54.754 --> 01:48:02.184 - The National Society of Arts and Letters Competition is in drama this year, and Kaylee Howland, our 01:48:02.184 --> 01:48:09.763 - top winner, will be representing the Bloomington Chapter in Washington, D.C. in late May. She will be 01:48:09.763 --> 01:48:17.194 - competing for a top award of $12,000. Ray, while you're up here, do you want to do musical theater, 01:48:17.194 --> 01:48:21.726 - too? Sure. I mean, hey. Why not? Right. Great. Hi, everyone. 01:48:22.114 --> 01:48:31.133 - I'm Ray Feldman, professor of musical theater from the IU Department of Theater, Drama, and Contemporary 01:48:31.133 --> 01:48:39.809 - Dance. And yes, Paul Daly was the chair, as Ruth just said, so I'm here in his stead. Let's start by 01:48:39.809 --> 01:48:45.822 - inviting the winners down, the drama winners. Let's applaud them now. 01:48:57.634 --> 01:49:09.297 - So the Katherine P. Borkenstein Memorial Award and Shakespeare Merit Award goes to Courtney Relias-Bivak. 01:49:09.297 --> 01:49:20.410 - Not you. The family von Trapp. Okay, great. The Dr. Frank Hestermalos Memorial Award goes to Allison 01:49:20.410 --> 01:49:26.462 - Marshall. The Helen and Linton Caldwell Memorial Award 01:49:26.562 --> 01:49:37.707 - goes to Caleb Curtis. Not here. It's OK. They're working very hard. The Dennis Organ Tribute Award and 01:49:37.707 --> 01:49:49.502 - Hegarty Merritt Award goes to Julia Kleinensteiber. The Laura Scheiner Memorial Award goes to Felix Murbach. 01:49:56.898 --> 01:50:09.305 - And the Lenneth Brockett, Carol Moody, and Fran Snig Memorial Award goes to Kaylee Howland. Good. Moving 01:50:09.305 --> 01:50:20.530 - right along, you may all go back to your seats. Let's have those musical theater kids up here. 01:50:20.530 --> 01:50:23.838 - Get up there. Look at them. 01:50:25.634 --> 01:50:41.056 - all young and musical theater-y. Fantastic. So, the Robinson Merritt Award goes to Katie Swaney. Scott 01:50:41.056 --> 01:50:48.542 - Burgess Jones Tribute Award goes to Lisa Paducah. 01:50:54.594 --> 01:51:09.255 - The Nelson Merit Award goes to Jake McCutcheon. The Bob Shettle Row Memorial Award goes to Maya McQueen. 01:51:09.255 --> 01:51:17.214 - The Carolyn Covener Memorial Award goes to Cole Winston. 01:51:23.362 --> 01:51:39.910 - The Robinson Merritt Award goes to Max Fowler. And the Chapter Career Award in Musical Theater for 2019 01:51:39.910 --> 01:51:47.230 - goes to Michelle Zink Munoz. Thank you, Ruth. 01:52:06.754 --> 01:52:14.267 - I've just found out today that all arts people are huggers, which is the reason I dedicate most of my 01:52:14.267 --> 01:52:22.075 - time to working with young artists in Bloomington. Literature is next, and Carolyn Emmert, our literature 01:52:22.075 --> 01:52:29.514 - chair, is in her second year as literature chair, and she'll be presenting the awards today. She was 01:52:29.514 --> 01:52:34.302 - a judge this year, and I think she really enjoyed that. Carolyn? 01:52:44.770 --> 01:52:54.241 - I did enjoy it very much. I feel a real privilege to be able to see these young performers and I think 01:52:54.241 --> 01:53:03.712 - that we owe them a huge debt of gratitude. I look at a writer who often goes does his work or her work 01:53:03.712 --> 01:53:13.918 - alone at a desk or somewhere very quiet who puts his or her heart and soul on paper for us to look at and then 01:53:14.722 --> 01:53:22.577 - very trustingly puts it out there. I'm not that brave, but I think our world needs you folks who are 01:53:22.577 --> 01:53:30.354 - willing to do that kind of work. All of you who are here today, it doesn't always know how badly it 01:53:30.354 --> 01:53:38.598 - needs it, but it does. And I am very happy to be part of this program. Would the Literature Award winners 01:53:38.598 --> 01:53:39.998 - please come down? 01:53:53.154 --> 01:54:07.863 - who all is here. Irene Zhao, short story writer. Carrie Compton, Carrie. Wins the Hull Merit Award and 01:54:07.863 --> 01:54:18.430 - Bailey Merit Award for 2019. John Leonard and Elijah Babcock both live in 01:54:19.010 --> 01:54:28.252 - Northern Indiana, and John had to work and Elijah lost his ride down here, so they will get their awards 01:54:28.252 --> 01:54:34.238 - by mail. Janann Scott, the Howe Merit Award in Literature for 2019. 01:54:42.594 --> 01:54:49.822 - And finally, the Chapter Career Award for 2019 and a second time NSAL winner, Noah Davis. 01:55:13.058 --> 01:55:21.374 - Okay, the next category is an interesting one because NSAL member Alan Barker, who's the director of 01:55:21.374 --> 01:55:30.018 - the Jacobs School of Music Entrepreneurship Program and is obviously a very busy man, he is the presumed 01:55:30.018 --> 01:55:38.334 - chair of this competition with the help of his graduate students, whom I think did most of the work. 01:55:38.498 --> 01:55:45.444 - So I'm just delighted to have Juliana Idle, who's a graduate student in flute performance, and guitarist 01:55:45.444 --> 01:55:52.126 - Carlo Fearens, who's a PhD candidate, present these awards today. They both did just a terrific job, 01:55:52.126 --> 01:55:58.940 - and it was so wonderful to work with them. I'm hoping that some of what they did can go with them into 01:55:58.940 --> 01:56:05.621 - their careers as different experiences that they've had and will help them in their careers. Anyway, 01:56:05.621 --> 01:56:06.878 - Juliana and Carlo. 01:56:15.586 --> 01:56:25.308 - Yeah, so Carlo and I helped coordinate this year's instrumental music competition. It was, I think, 01:56:25.308 --> 01:56:35.127 - a real joy for us to put together and hear some incredible artists. Yeah, the competition took place 01:56:35.127 --> 01:56:43.390 - in early February, and we heard around 27 performers that played various selections. 01:56:43.554 --> 01:56:49.499 - It's a really wonderful competition. And I'd like to thank our jurors, Chi-Yi Chen, professor of piano 01:56:49.499 --> 01:56:55.444 - at the Jacobs School, Lawrence Hurst, emeritus professor at the Jacobs School, and Catherine Marchese, 01:56:55.444 --> 01:57:01.274 - member of the Bloomington Symphony and an international bassoon soloist. So I guess at this time, if 01:57:01.274 --> 01:57:06.526 - all the instrumental music competition award winners could come down, that would be great. 01:57:22.370 --> 01:57:33.431 - So the Catherine MacDonald Memorial Award and the Lyndon Stroman Tribute Award, donated by Susan MacDonald 01:57:33.431 --> 01:57:44.183 - and Ellen Stroman, goes to Mark Levesque, piano. The Hagerty Award, donated by Harv and Connie Hagerty, 01:57:44.183 --> 01:57:46.974 - goes to Boyong Kim, piano. 01:57:55.106 --> 01:58:09.758 - The Spence Merit Award, donated by Dr. Craig Spence, goes to John Wen Liang. No. The Bloomington Chapter 01:58:09.758 --> 01:58:23.294 - Merit Award goes to Mingyuan Yang. It's not here. Yeah. A bassoon, for those who are interested. 01:58:24.130 --> 01:58:38.232 - The Dennis Organ Tribute Award, donated by Ling Organ, goes to Yunjie Lin. Let me get the name of the 01:58:38.232 --> 01:58:53.854 - donors. OK, the Ham Merit Award and O'Meara Merit Award, donated by Joe Allen and Steve Ham and Patrick O'Meara. 01:58:54.370 --> 01:59:06.361 - goes to Young-Sung Choi, piano. Finally, the Mrs. Granville Wells Memorial Award, donated by the Wells 01:59:06.361 --> 01:59:11.134 - Endowment, goes to Elinor Rubio, violin. 01:59:26.178 --> 01:59:36.339 - lovely to have a presenter from Italy. The next awards are in voice, and Mary Alice Cox, our longtime 01:59:36.339 --> 01:59:46.898 - voice chair, will be presenting those awards. I love the voice competition. It lasts from about 1 o'clock 01:59:46.898 --> 01:59:48.990 - to 5.30 or so, and I 01:59:49.474 --> 01:59:55.482 - get there. And I think how can I ever sit through this? And I mean, I want 27 more to listen to after 01:59:55.482 --> 02:00:01.549 - I've heard the first 27. So anyway, thank you, Mary Alice, for a wonderful afternoon. No one loves the 02:00:01.549 --> 02:00:07.262 - voice competition more than I do. I don't say that. Could the voice winners please come forward? 02:00:32.450 --> 02:00:42.228 - I actually... Hello? I actually have two voice awards to talk a little bit about. As a chapter, we, 02:00:42.228 --> 02:00:52.104 - along with every other NSAL chapter in the country, also submit two applications electronically to a 02:00:52.104 --> 02:00:58.558 - national competition called the Shirley Rabe Winston Competition. 02:00:58.658 --> 02:01:07.163 - That's for generally younger singers than our Bloomington chapter other people. But our two applications 02:01:07.163 --> 02:01:15.345 - then go against all of the national chapters for a series of awards to be used to further education. 02:01:15.345 --> 02:01:23.607 - And luckily, one of our winners that we submitted did win an award, and he was able to join us today. 02:01:23.607 --> 02:01:25.470 - So I wanted to mention 02:01:25.794 --> 02:01:33.687 - Bo Shimon is his name. He is just finishing his undergraduate degree in music and voice at DePaul University 02:01:33.687 --> 02:01:41.073 - in Green Castle. Actually, last night he had a senior recital, and I wish I could have been there. He 02:01:41.073 --> 02:01:48.460 - has a wonderful tenor voice. I know that. And he is going to use his award to go to Savannah, Georgia 02:01:48.460 --> 02:01:51.646 - to study in the Cheryl Mills Voice Academy. 02:01:52.450 --> 02:02:05.719 - So Bo, to commemorate this, we have a certificate for you. On to the Bloomington chapter. We had 27 02:02:05.719 --> 02:02:19.518 - people enter the competition this year with a long waiting list. We did. We did. We had a waiting list. 02:02:19.714 --> 02:02:26.100 - Everyone came on the day of the competition, which is always a little bit of a unknown in February if 02:02:26.100 --> 02:02:32.423 - you're a singer, but everyone survived. And you were able to hear two of them this afternoon. I wish 02:02:32.423 --> 02:02:38.934 - you could have heard all 27. They're amazing. So I will start with the awards with one person who could 02:02:38.934 --> 02:02:45.382 - not be here today. His name is Young Jung Long Lee. And he is the winner of the Kubler and Evans Merit 02:02:45.382 --> 02:02:48.638 - Award. He is actually at an audition in Ohio today. 02:02:49.890 --> 02:02:58.450 - The next award winner also is not here. His name is Sungjin Kim, and he is the Pock and Bloomberg Merit 02:02:58.450 --> 02:03:07.339 - Award winner. He is competing today for a scholarship. The winner of the Helen and Linton Caldwell Memorial 02:03:07.339 --> 02:03:10.302 - Award in voice is Nicholas Santoro. 02:03:17.762 --> 02:03:29.886 - The next person also is not here. Liz Culpepper is the winner of the David Albright Memorial Award donated 02:03:29.886 --> 02:03:41.671 - by Ruth. The Helen and Linton Caldwell Memorial Award is the winner is Tabang Masango. The Donald Traub 02:03:41.671 --> 02:03:46.430 - Memorial Award was won by Gretchen Krepp. 02:03:53.602 --> 02:04:12.919 - The Cox and Cook Merit Award was won by Haley Lipke. The Chapter Career Award winner this year was won 02:04:12.919 --> 02:04:23.422 - by Scarlett's mama, Avery Betcher. Thank you, everyone. 02:04:32.834 --> 02:04:41.673 - We have very much enjoyed having Scarlett with us for the last couple of years, and I know she helps 02:04:41.673 --> 02:04:50.775 - mom very much in her voice training. Let's give these young artists another round of applause. I'd like 02:04:50.775 --> 02:04:59.614 - to thank our behind the scenes crew. If any of them can hear me, they might come out and take a bow. 02:05:00.418 --> 02:05:07.684 - That's Molly and Connor and Deborah Alex are our stage managers and Brennan Edwards, who's up running 02:05:07.684 --> 02:05:15.378 - the lights, is our lighting technician. All of these students are studying in the IU Department of Theater, 02:05:15.378 --> 02:05:22.645 - Drama and Contemporary Dance. And it's wonderful to be able to help these young artists too. And they 02:05:22.645 --> 02:05:27.774 - do a terrific job. Also big thanks to Drew Bratton, who's our MC today. 02:05:32.418 --> 02:05:38.696 - And to Tina Jernigan, our treasurer, who made all the certificates and wrote all the checks, and of 02:05:38.696 --> 02:05:44.975 - course she made sure that we had money in the bank to cover them. I'm so grateful to be able to use 02:05:44.975 --> 02:05:51.505 - this wonderful auditorium every year. Thanks to Ivy Tech Community College, an educational partner with 02:05:51.505 --> 02:05:57.846 - the Bloomington Arts Community for partnering with the National Society of Arts and Letters. My last 02:05:57.846 --> 02:06:00.734 - thanks of the day go to our audience, to you. 02:06:00.866 --> 02:06:06.740 - Thanks so much for coming to support these young artists. Your support means the world to them. Now 02:06:06.740 --> 02:06:12.791 - please join us one flight down where we're going to have a reception. If you're interested in learning 02:06:12.791 --> 02:06:18.783 - more about NSAO membership, I have some brand new brochures that Tina created, which I would be happy 02:06:18.783 --> 02:06:24.716 - to share with anyone who would be interested in membership. I think we do a wonderful job of helping 02:06:24.716 --> 02:06:30.238 - young artists in our community and actually throughout Indiana. So thanks so much for coming. 02:06:30.722 --> 02:06:34.398 - and I hope to meet you all at the reception. Thank you.