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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1996)
MSSSM^—MBW2aSg8gSggMggggW98WWW8wWga288M^—B L-------J—gSM—B—.In I ————M Photo courtesy of the St. Olaf Choir Dr. Anton Armstrong, music director and conductor of the St. Olaf Choir, will lead the world-renowned vocal group into Nebraska Wesleyan’s O’Donnell' Auditorium on Saturday night. St. Olaf Choir to perform World-renowned group makes tour stop at Wesleyan By Emily Wray Staff Reporter The St. Olaf Choir will bring its world-re nowned choral mastery to Lincoln in a concert this Saturday evening. Nebraska Wesleyan University will play host to the prestigious group as it presents its classi cal sacred efforts at 7:30 p.m. in O’Donnell Auditorium, 51st and Huntington streets. “They’re always auditioning to fill a niche in the choir,” said Dan Jorgensen, director of public relations for St. Olaf College. The choir, from Northfield, Minn., was formed in 1912 and is famous for what’s known as the “St. Olaf sound.” The “St. Olaf sound,” Jorgensen said, is a capella and is studied nationwide as a specific form of singing. Another aspect of the St. Olaf Choir is that only one-fourth of its singers are music majors. Jorgensen said that of the 3,000 students en rolled at St. Olaf College, 1,200 were in some facet of music, but only 200 of them were mu sic majors. The choir, which opened its 1996 tour in Washington, D.C., highlights composers from the 16th century to contemporary times in its two-hour offering. Other cultures from around the world also are featured in the performance, Jorgensen said. Jorgensen said making audiences aware of the musical perfection that could be achieved by blending and training voices was one of the choir’s main goals. John Ferguson, a St. Olaf professor of or gan, will accompany the choir on a few pieces during the tour. Other accompanists are students who come out of the choir to play their instru ments. Dr. Anton Armstrong, music director and conductor of the St. Olaf Choir, will conduct at Saturday’s performance. “It will be an uplifting evening, and people will go home feeling good,” Jorgensen said. Tickets for Saturday’s performance are $10 for the general public and $6 for students. They can be obtained at the door or by calling 483 4577. Visiting instructor to perform on tuba at Kimball Hall tonight By Lane Hickenbottom Staff Reporter UNL faculty member Craig Fuller and his tuba will take the stage tonight at Kimball Re cital Hall. Fuller, a visiting instructor of tuba and eu phonium as well as a member of the Omaha Symphony, will play a variety of music tonight, including works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The newest piece Fuller will perform is by Polish composer Krzysztov Penderecki. “It’s a very contemporary, wild piece for solo tuba,” Fuller said. Fuller described some of the pieces as “crazy and on the edge.” Others, like Mozart, are “soft and eloquent.” The tuba, a relatively new instrument, has had music written for it since only 1935. Be cause of this. Fuller said, sometimes tuba play ers have to take music from other instruments. “I’m playing a French horn piece from Mozart. Since he didn’t write anything for tuba, we have to grab and steal music,” Fuller said. “I think that the tuba is certainly a capable solo instrument, and we have to pick music that sounds good when we play it, one that works well.” Fuller said he was excited about the perfor mance and his accompanist. “She is just a really fantastic player, and she has been great to work with,” Fuller said of Nicole Narboni, who is an assistant professor of piano. Tonight’s performance will begin at 8 in Kimball Recital Hall. Admission is free. Demo Continued from Page 9 Jared Alberico, Nebraska’s self-styled “Theremin Virtuoso” will demonstrate and per form a Theremin in a special concert Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater. The performances coincide with the Ross Theater’s presentation of the Steve M. Martin documentary “Theremin: An Electronic Odys sey.” Alberico built his Theremin from a kit. “I soldered it together with a Bic lighter,” he said, “Toward the end I had to use my Zippo ‘cause I needed more heat.” The Theremin is unusual in that the player does not touch the instrument but rather con trols pitch and volume by passing his or her hands through invisible electromagnetic fields. Nevertheless, Alberico said, it’s relatively easy to play. “If you can hum, you can play the Theremin,” he said. Alberico has built several other Theremins and offers to build them for others. “They’re horrendously expensive, but well worth it,” he said. He and his Theremin are also available for parties. Though he usually uses the Theremin for “noise generation,” he plans a more conven tional mini-concert for the Ross Theater. “I’m going to play the Comhusker song,” he said, “You know, ‘TTiere is no other place like Nebraska, la de de da de dum.’ I just hope the audience doesn’t tear down the goal posts.” But Alberico is sure the audience will enjoy his electronic music. “Theremin, it drives the chics crazy,” he said. Theremin Continued from Page 9 cated listening devices for Cold-War espio nage. In his absence, his old associates (among them the world’s foremost Theremin vir tuoso, Clara Rockmore) carried on as best they could. ' * In the end, Theremin was all but forgot ten, except by those whose passions include electronic and experimental music. 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