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Students anticipate performances .
Recitals required in music
training
By James Finley
Staff Reporter
The audience quiets; a faint rustl
ing of programs is the only sound.
The lights go down, and the feature
performer crosses the stage, entering
the spotlight in the center. Standing
alone, the performer starts to play,
offering all for the approval of the
audience.
This is a dream for some people;
for others, their nightmare. For Lindy
Welch, a senior music education major,
and for all music majors at UNL, this
is a reality.
Thursday night, Welch will give
her senior vocal recital. This semes
ter alone, more than 60 other under
graduate and graduate students also
will give recitals.
The recital is a requirement for
graduation with a degree in music, so
every music major must do one, usu
ally in their junior or senior year. All
masters and doctoral students also
must give at least one recitai.
While a recital is a requirement,
most people will give one anyway,
just for their own benefit.
“Even if I wasn’t required. I’d
probably do it anyway... the greatest
thing for me is getting to hear my
music played,” said Jody Landers, a
doctoral composition candidate.
Preparation for these recitals starts
long before the players step into the
spotlight.
“I started preparing for this (re
cital) about a year in advance,” W elch
said.
Students start getting ideas about
works they would like to perform and
discuss the ideas with their applied
lesson instructors. If student and teacher
both feel the time is right, planning
can begin.
The reasons for wanting to take on
this formidable task vary from person
to person. Some perform primarily to
fulfill the requirement, but most stu
dents have other reasons.
“I decided to do it this year be
cause I felt that I was ready to have a
public performance, and I think it
will be good for me to get that kind of
exposure, “ said senior music educa
tion major Paul Piskorski. “And also
I wanted to perform a piece that I
wrote first semester for trombone and
piano.”
Students wishing to do recitals
schedule a date that they, their in
structor, and their accompanist can
attend. Then they find a time and
place that isn’t already being used.
This is hard enough for people doing
solo recitals, but for conducting or
composition students this can be a
nightmare, as they have to juggle the
schedules of all their performers.
Once that is done, the performers
can worry about programming and
practicing. Most people try to show
case their abilities by playing in a
variety of styles on their recital, but
some seek a narrower focus.
“I want to program stuff that I’ve
just written. This concert will have
two premieres on it, and most of these
pieces have been written while I’ve
been at Nebraska,” Landers said.
As the “big day” gets nearer, the
players start to concentrate on the
little things that will make a good
performance even better.
“This past week, I’ve been doing
real detailed work, working out tiny
little sections.” Welch said.
The end result of all this work is
open for all to see at the recital. Per
formers live and die for this day; it
can make many a nervous wreck, but
most get through successfully.
“Basically, you go to one, and
you re essentially hearing someone
playing their best,” Piskorski said.
“For me, it’s also a way to show
my family and friends how far I’ve
come and what I’ve been doing all
these years,” Welch said.
Note: Student recitais are posted outside
Westbrook Music Budding 119, and are free
and open to the public
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Even if it wasn’t required, Vdprobably do it any
way ... the greatest thing for me is getting to hear
my music played. , ,
Landers
doctoral composition candidate
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ers and organizations dealing with
battered women, abused children,
veterans’ rights, ex-offenders
programs, the death penalty and the
gay community. He also has served
as a public service spokesperson for
women’s shelters, Planned Parenthood,
Meals to the Homcbound and hand
gun control.
The thread that ties these diverse
organizations together, Farrell said,
is that each deals in some way with
human rights and tries to help in
cases in which the issue is a
human’s value and the way in
which this value is compromised.
CONCERN is not a membership or
ganization, Farrell said. Instead, the
group sends volunteers to refugee
emergencies around the globe and
its work is largely field-oriented.
Since 1980, Farrell has been the
group’s American spokesman, and
under its auspices, has visited refugee
campus in Asia and in Central Amer
ica. He has helped with fund-raising
for the group.
Farrell said most of his speaking
recently has dealt with the Persian
Gulf war and with a death penalty
case in Virginia involving convicted
murderer Joe Giarratano.
Farrell said he has done a great
I deal of work with CONCERN, an
' international human rights group
founded in Ireland in the ’60s.
On a political front, Farrell is
anti-war and encourages dialogue as
a means of mediation. He said he
can’t believe the current situation in
the Middle East.
“I guess, on some level... I’m
surprised that I tend to be so naive
and optimistic,” Farrell said.
His speeches on the Persian Gulf
have been about his experiences in
the Middle East and why he
believes U.S. involvement in the
region is wrong.
“What we’re doing is ensuring
the ongoing hatred and scorn of the
average person in Islamic countries
for generations by demonstrating
that we are willing to wage war first
and ask questions later,” he said.
He said the Persian Gulf war is
composed of a complex set of issues,
but on some levels, it’s simple.
“It’s been reduced to an ego con
test between two men, and that’s
wrong.”
Farrell said he believes his enter
tainment career has provided
certain advantages for his activism.
“This business provides me the
opportunity — one, the money, and
two, the notoriety, if you will — to
pursue my other interests, which I
think in some ways arc more impor
tant.”
Farrell said that because society
tends to focus on celebrities, his
fame has given him the opportunity
and forum to share his views on
activism.
“It gives me access to the
media,” he said. “I’m given a forum
that a homemaker or a carpenter or
a plumber might not have.”
Farrell said all American citizens
have the opportunity to make a dif
ference in their communities, in the
United States and in the world.
The attitude that “one person
can’t make a difference" is common
but completely wrong, he said.
“That’s one of the things that I
try to address,” Farrell said. “(That
attitude) is one of the real problems
in our society.... It is only one
person that can make a difference.
“Understand your own signifi
cance. My sense is that most people
today do not understand their own
significance. I think that if people
did that, the rest would lake care of
itself.”
Farrell said there are many ave
nues open to those who wish to get
involved.
“It’s really up to the individual.
.. one could be tremendously
helpful in their own community,
whether it’s working with the
elderly or with children or with
their peers. There is work to be
done with drug and alcohol pro
grams. There are members of their
own families that need straightfor
ward communication.”
If people would apply that idea
to local, state and national levels,
he said, the same principles would
i hold true.
“It’s just a question of how one
decides to put herself or himself to
i work, how to put their talents and
their energies to work.”
People should seek out informa
tion about their concerns and
interest groups that address them,
he said, because groups exist for
everything from environmental
issues to human rights, and each has
value.
“We’re an interdependent world,
and each person can have a positive
I effect on the world around them,”
; he said. “In many cases, people are
i already having a positive effect on
the world around them; they’re just
l not aware of it.
“If I could leave people with
anything, my wish would be that it
would be an appreciation for
themselves, their place in the world,
the responsibility they have as
citizens in the United States.”
Farrell will speak tonight at 7
p.m. in the Centennial Ballroom of
the Nebraska Union.
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