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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1991)
All-woman quartet using fresh ideas By Mark Baldridge Staff Reporter . The musical scene in Lincoln is alive and well with room for more of everything. Some people are taking the hint. Lincoln’s Aidan String Quartet is out to make its mark with the cre dentials to do it. Formed in May of . this year, it is a new group with new ideas. None of the quartet members are new to professional music, nor to the music scene in Nebraska. The quartet features Margaret Car penter and JoAnne Ingram on vio lin, Angela Schroeder on viola and Susan Wilson on cello. The four women all are prac ticed and talented performers. They can be found playing with the Lincoln and Omaha Symphony Orchestras and with the Nebraska Chamber Orchestra Three of the four are native Lin colnites and have studied music in a variety of settings. The group boasts several graduate students in music performance, and Carpenter is a graduate of Oberlin College. The group’s all-woman compo sition has irffluenced its musical emphasis. Although the members aren’t concerned with gender is sues as such while performing, they do feel uniquely qualified to bring the music of women composers to a larger audience. “We certainly celebrate our femi ninity," Ingram said. “Women in. music — composers, etc. — is just one area where women’s artistic, political, social comments can be heard. It is not a gender issue, only a common respect among human ity.” It seems that Aidan is “gender un conscious.” The members are interested in the quality of music, not the sex of the composer. The group takes its name from an inversion of "Nadia," after the French composer Nadia Boulanger —a woman all the musicians admire. « a_r_1_a iiai wii vwpiauu oiuvti vvi un^v* her. She was a real influence," Ingram said. Nadia also happens, bv coinci dence, to be a Celtic word for “fire.” Ingram said the members of Aidan think Boulanger and other women composers have been taken less seriously than their male counter parts and have sometimes been overshadowed by them. But she said the members be lieve the music is worth hearing — and worth playing. “We want to play what people like to hear,” Ingram said. “We’ll read anything that someone re quests." The group will perform a free, public concert at Kimball Recital Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m. Ingram said the group would like to see some non-music majors at the concert. “A lot of things like this go on, but nobody knows about them,” she said. “It’s too bad.” The members of the Aidan String Quartet rehearse together Sunday evening at the home of violinist Margaret Carpenter (far left). The other members are (left to right) JoAnne Ingram, a UNL senior violin performance major; Angela Schroeder, who plays the viola; and Susan Wilson, who plays the cello. I-1 "I fell in love with a modem woman. Only a diamond this exquisite could reduce her to old-fashioned tears." The Diamond Engagement Ring Special student financing available off”! C*, // $k all wedding bands* J •Excluding llamann Comfort I JIWILIM Fit wedding bands iGateway Downtown •Good through Dec 31.1991 _ J467-2509 12th & 'O' 476-8561 Anay pwgwipww & Custom Photo Calendars & Gift Certificates sfc Personalized Stationery s£ Colorful Photo Enlargements # Unique Bookmarks, Placemats & Ornaments # Holiday Cards & Invitations si* Colorful Holiday Newsletters Open 24 Hours 475-2679 1201 "Q" Street 466-8159 330 N. 48th St. kinkn'C
