COLLAGE CONCERT

NOTE: All particpants in the Friday night Collage Concert meet at the Belle Mehus Auditorium for rehearsal at 2:30 p.m. Call John Darling for rehearsal information at 224-5444.

Belle Mehus Auditorium in downtown Bismarck
7:30 p.m.
Free!
Public invited and most welcome
General Seating

This seamless concert is onstage Friday night. Several acts perform without applause interruption, allowing for a special mood or effect. In addition to artists painting onstage, poets read, dancers dance, and performers sing and play.

The line-up includes faculty members Leesa Levy from Valley City State University and Matthew Padnode, from North Dakota State University performing lyrics written by children at Auschwitz set to music composed by Lori Latiman.

Luminus has been a trio of six years committed to study and performance of classical music with over 100 performances on stages and in classrooms of the upper Midwest. Jon Rumney, violin; Erik Anderson, cello; Dianna Anderson, piano; all from Minot State University will play music by Paul Schoenfield.

A dance troupe dedicated to challenging students' thinking about alcohol abuse will be onstage from Dickinson State University, led by faculty Patti Carr.

Anne Christopherson, Soprano, and Susan Tang, Piano, University of North Dakota Faculty, will be performing "Restoration" and "A Literary Dinner" from Four Songs on Poems of Vladimir Nabokov by American composer, Christopher Berg.

Royce Blackburn, University of North Dakota Faculty, will perform music composed for him by Michael Wittgraf. The music tells a dramatic story about a difficult period in U.S. History.

Dickinson State University Percussion Ensemble, along with its faculty conductor Cindy Abts will perform traditional and contemporary works.

Robert Jones, North Dakota State University Faculty, will exhibit how poetry inspired sprung rhythm in music. This rhythm expands harmonic vocabulary and cadence.

Our state's Associate State Poet Laureate will read from his new book of poetry. David Solheim is faculty at Dickinson State University.

John K. Cox, faculty from North Dakota State University, will read one of the poems he is translating of Danilo Kis, who was a towering literary figure of Balkan and Eastern European culture.

Virginia Sublett and Elizabeth Chausse, Michael Thrasher, and Benjamin Sung will sing and play classical, romantic, modern and post modern chamber music. Both are faculty at North Dakota State University.

And there will be more!!!! Arrangements still underway.