Nebraska native to promote
book, speak about hard life
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By Ann Stack
Senior Reporter
A Nebraska native who has led
quite a life has decided it’s time to
tell her story.
Barnes and Noble Booksellers
„ is bringing Lisa Dale Norton to
town tonight for a special talk and
book signing.
She’s promoting her first book,
“Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the
Heart of the Sandhills.” The book
is about her childhood home of
Lake Ericson in the Sandhills of
western Nebraska.
The title came from a hike she
took in Colorado.
“I was up in the mountains by
myself, just stomping along, when
something told me, ‘look up now,’”
she said. “I looked up, and this hawk
was coming right at my head.”
She said the hawk was a talis
man of her upcoming project.
“For me, it was a way of saying
I’d be safe on my journey of telling
my story,” she said. “The story I had
to tell was hard, and I needed pro
tection.”
Her story is contained in the
pages of her novel, which was writ
ten in three parts. The first part is
about her childhood, about the in
nocence and beauty of the lake and
her youth.
Norton is originally from
Osceola, but spent summers at her
family’s cabin. Her mother left the
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The story I had
to tell was hard,
and I needed
protection.”
Lisa Dale Norton
author
family when Norton was 12, and
that was the event that shattered her
childhood memories. That’s where
the first part ends.
The second part begins after her
assault in 1980, where she was bru
tally raped and beaten.
“It’s not just that I was raped, I
was almost murdered,” she said.
“When you come close to death,
you take a lode at your life.”
The third part of the book is a
reflection of her changing home
land, a land ravaged by overuse—
lakes polluted, soil depleted, water
wasted.
Besides being a writer, Norton
has also worked as a journalist and
a college professor. She currently
teaches writing at the Neahkanie
Institute in Manszanita, Ore.
She will be at Barnes and Noble
tonight at 8 to read from her book
and answer questions. Autographs
are free.
Music contrasts in Kimball recitals
By Emily Wray
StaffReporter
They’re both considered 20th cen
tury art forms.
One draws from an organized chaos
known as improvisation in the form of
swing. The other associates itself with
marches, suites, rhythm and organiza
tion. When different types of music are
mixed, it’s usually called noise.
But not this time.
Two School of Music ensembles
celebrating contrasting types of music
play at Kimball Recital Hall this week
end.
The first group, the UNL Jazz En
semble, will perform a free concert
Friday at 8 p.m.
The group of 17 jazz musicians
brings a big band feel to the stage, said
director Rusty White, associate profes
sor of double bass and jazz perfor
mance.
The ensemble’s program spans the
history and artistic diversity of the big
band’s repertoire. The pieces range
from Concerto for Cootie, written and
performed by Duke Ellington in the
1930s, to Road Time Shuffle, written
in the 1970s by Toshiko Akiyoshi.
“Tunes span from a black male to a
Japanese-American female and every
thing in between, including an arrange
ment called the 4222 Blues by Peter
BoufFard, instructor in the School of
Music,” White said. ^
Road Time Shuffle challenges stu
dents technically, he said.
“The lines she writes are challeng
ing for any musical medium,” White
said. “It’s awkward for the instruments,
not idiomatic for particular instru
ments. It’s like rapid sixteenth notes for
the tuba instead of the piccolo.
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We thought it appropriate to focus on the
musical and career success of educators,
particularly our graduates.”'
Rusty White
band director
“Played well by a good band, it
sounds good, it’s just a little harder.”
Two Jazz Ensemble alumni play
with the group as guest artists. Trum
peter Bob Krueger contributes to Con
certo for Cootie, while Scott Vicroy
plays saxophone on Road Time Shuffle.
“They’re among the best local jazz
musicians,” White said. “We thought
it appropriate to focus on the musical
and career success of educators, par
ticularly our graduates.”
“Bob and Scott teach the children
of Lincoln while maintaining active
performing careers,” he said. “They’re
part of the musical and educational
sulture of Lincoln.”
White encourages students to get a
seat early because attendance is usu
ally high.
The Concert Band will also perform
a free concert this weekend at Kimball
Recital Hall.
Sunday’s 3 p.m. concert covers a
wide variety of styles that will be fun
for the average listener, said Rod
Chesnutt, assistant director of bands
and director of the Comhusker march
ing band.
The traditional march, National
Emblem by E.E. Bagley, balances the
ipntraditional piece, Apollo by John
Pennington.
Aleatoric music, which is the cat
egory of music Apollo falls under,
builds on the premise that every per
formance of a work is a new creation,
Chesnutt said. The performers are al
lowed to create within a particular set
of guidelines.
“It’s full of nontraditional sound en
velopes, like instruments making a per
cussive sound,” he said.
Graduate student Karin Beckstrand
conducts Apollo. Along with other
young composers, Pennington received
a grant in die 1960s to introduce stu
dents to 20th century compositional
techniques in public schools.is
one of the large number of works writ
ten in that setting, Chesnutt said.
Jack Stamp’s Antithigram and Sa
vannah River Holiday by Ron Nelson
feature contemporary harmonies and
brilliant fanfares that are balanced with
a subtle woodwind section, Chesnutt
said.
“They reflect die power and bril
liance that’s capable in such an en
semble,” he said. “All the pieces have
certain challenges to them. The very
things that make pieces work and in
teresting are the same things that make
it challenging.”
Students will enjoy the concert and
be back for more, Chesnutt said.
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