Nebraska Brass to perform during festival ■
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter_
Little boy Blue, come blow your
horn...
Well, the boys arc neither little or
blue, but they plan to blow their horns
on Saturday at Summertime Nebraska.
The Nebraska Brass, the only pro
fessional brass quintet in the Lincoln
and Omaha area, plays a mixture of
classical, popular, Dixie and ragtime
music, said Dean Haist, trumpeter for
the band. They play in the style of the
Canadian Brass, he said.
“It’s really been a fun group,”
Haist said.
The group, which practices in its
members’ homes, has performed about
20 times this year, he said.
And he anticipates that it will be
even busier in the next year, Haist
said.
Haist, a Lincolnite, said he is look
ing forward to performing at Sum
mertime Nebraska.
The Brass performed at First Night,
Lincoln’s New Year’s Eve celebra
tion. They arc planning a Christmas
scries with organ accompaniment and
another series in which they will in
vite other brass instrumentalists to
play with them.
Other members of the group in
clude Mike Anderson, trumpet player
from Blair; Tim Anderson, French
m —p - ' mumm——
horn player from Plattsmouth: Tim’s
brother Scott Anderson, trombone
player from Omaha, and John Tho
mason , tuba player from Plattsmouth.
The Brass’ members, all profes
sional musicians, arc active in other
bands as well, Haist said, ranging
from the Strategic Air Command
concert band to the Omaha Symphony.
The Nebraska Brass performs Sat
urday at 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at
the Great Hall of the Depot.
Rcichenberg tells tale of cowboy poetry
By Cindy Wostrel
Staff Reporter
When Monlc Rcichcnberg comes
to town, cowboys and cowgirls of all
ages will, too.
Rcichcnberg, 40, of Baird, will
bring them to life by telling cowboy
poetry Saturday and Sunday at Sum
mertime Nebraska.
Rcichcnberg said he hopes that by
telling the mixture of traditional and
original cowboy poetry, he can leach
people about it.
Rcichcnberg, who works with the
Nebraska Arts Council’s Artists in
Schools and Communities program,
said cowboy poetry began more than
100 years ago when cowboys on cattle
drives sat around campfires and talked
about their girlfriends and the drives.
One person would tell a story, an
other would pul the story into a poem
and another would set the poem to
music.
The cowboys couldn’t read or write,
he said, so they had to remember the
songs. If they forgot a word, he said,
they would make up a rhyming word
to fit the song. This caused regional
variations in the songs, as different
words were used in the same songs,
and as different cowboys adapted the
songs to their situations.
Most of the cowboys’ songs had a
moral or a lesson, he said, even when
the songs were made just for fun.
Reichenberg said he plans to use
one traditional cowboy song, but most
will be his original work.
One of his songs is about the de
cline in the use of horses, he said.
Cowboys now use fewer horses and
more motorized vehicles than they
used to, Reichenberg said.
The traditional song is about cooks,
he said.
“They were mostly a disgruntled
lot,” Reichenberg said.
Cooking was a demeaning job, he !
said, and was done by men who were
“too broken up or too old to ride.” |
He said he found the traditional f
poem in a book written about 1911 by |
Katy Lee, a singer and entertainer
who gathered the songs from riders
and gunfighters.
Although much of the cowboy
poetry was sung, he said, he will
recite it.
Reichenberg also will juggle, he
said. He said he saw a friend juggle
and decided he wanted to leam how.
He said he hopes his juggling will
show children that they can do any
thing that they want to do.
And although he didn’t use a book j
to figure out how to juggle, he wants
them to know they can leam to juggle
or perform magic tricks from books.
“You can actually leam to do these
things by reading,” he said.
“I learned to snow ski by read
ing.”
Reichenberg has more than just a
passing interest in reading, as he has
written a book, “It’ll Feel Better when
it Quits Hurting.”
Reichenberg performs at the Hil
ton Hotel, 141 N. 9th St., Saturday at J
1:30,5:15 and 7 p.m., and Sunday at
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