I_■ Courtesy of Stan Strange The Prairie Wind Quintet (from left): Karen Sandene, bas soon; April Stevenson, flute; Melisa Knoll, clarinet; John Walker, oboe; Susan LaFever, horn. Woodwind quintet to perform works by famous composers Bv Mick Dyer Senior Reporter The Prairie Wind Quintet, one of Lincoln’s newest professional cham ber groups, will present the first part of their Spring 1988 Concert Series at 8 p.m. Friday at Grace Lutheran Church, 22nd and Washington streets. The concert will feature some of the first music written specifically for a woodwind quintet Works by such notable wind com posers as French oboist and inventor Henri Brod and Czechoslovakian composer Anton Reicha will be per formed. Pieces by Giuseppe Cambini, an Italian emigre and contemporary of Brod and Reicha, also will be per formed. The evening will begin with a light overture by the 20th-century com poser Hcdwige Chretien. The Prairie Wind Quintet consists of April Stevenson, flute; Melisa Knoll, clarinet; Karen Sandcnc, bas soon; Susan La Fever, horn; and John L. Walker, oboe. Walker is a doctor of musical arts student at the University of Ncbraska Lincoln. La Fever will complete her master of music studies at UNL this May. Tickets will be available at the door. They arc $5 for adults, and S3 for students and children under 12. The second part of the Spring Concert Series will be performed at Grace Lutheran Church on May 27. Literary magazine announces 1987 writing award winners The University of Nebraska Lincoln’s literary magazine, Prairie Schooner, has announced four writ ing prizes for 1987, each worth $500, including the new Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing. The new prize was awarded to Howard Ncmcrov for his memorial tribute, “Loren Eiseley 1907-1977,” a poem, “The Revised Version,” (both from the fall, 1987 issue) and for “On Weldon Kccs,” an essay which appeared in winter, 1987. Nemcrov is a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louisand winnerof the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Award, the Bollingen Prize and many others. The recipient of the Bernice Slotc Award for best work by a beginning writer is Kathleen Hill for her story I ^*7 “Solstice” from the spring, 1987 is sue. Hill is a teacher and writer from New York City. The Lawrence Foundation Award for the best short story published in 1987’s Prairie Schooner goes to Lynne Sharon Schwartz for “What I Did for Love,” which appeared in summer, 1987. Schwartz is the au thor of two novels and four books. Patricia Gocdicke is the winner of the Prairie Schooner Slroussc Award given for the best poem or group of poems published during the year. A group of Gocdickc’s five winning poems appeared in the winter, 1987 issue of the magazine. Gocdicke teaches creative writing at the Uni versity of Montana and has eight books of poetry published. Ferguson House plush HOUSE from Page 6 servants in the house or out to the chauffeur in the carriage house. The kitchen usually isn’t shown to visitors because it has many modern appliances in it. Neither are the basement or the top floor. These rooms arc eerily deserted, without furniture or rugs. The carriage house can be seen from the kitchen. “Bigger than most houses,” as Zephier said, the garage had room for a butler’s apartmenl and several vehicles. TROPICAL THURSDAY & ROCK NIGHT 50