Wartburg College - Fortress Yearbook (Waverly, IA)

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Baroque To Broadway Annals Of Art Season Artist Series Spanning time from the 1500 ' s to the 1920 ' s to the present, the Artist Series program offered a wide selection of entertainment. By far the most appealing show of the season was the Broadway smash, Bubbling Brown Sugar. Featuring the big band music of Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Guy Lombardo, Cab Calloway and Chick Webb, the show went back to the Golden Age of Harlem through the eyes of a young black couple and a young white couple. Though the expense of bringing a Broadway musical hit to Neumann Auditorium was immense, the rest of the series did not suffer from mediocrity. Berthold Brecht ' s Mother Courage and Her Children, performed by The Acting Company, was set in the 17th century Thirty Years ' War as a plea for pacifism. David Shifrin, principal clarinetist of the Cleveland Orchestra won a competition that interfered with his date with the Artist Series. In the fall he won the Munich International Competition which included a solo with the Berlin Radio Orchestra just one day after he was to have been at Wartburg originally. The Artist Series complied with the new date, but the weather did not and attendance to Shifrin ' s recital fell victim to an Iowa blizzard. The itinerary of The Waverly Consort started at Waverly Place in New York City and ended in Waverly, lA. The group of New York musicians, specializing in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque music, displayed the best in musical harmony and cohesion in their program of Spanish music from the Age of Exploration. Jose Molina Bailes Espanoles gave the series a festive climax. Spanish dance flashed across Neumann Auditorium with colorful costumes and music to match. Students faced long lines at the box office for all Artist Series shows. But the longest wait of the season, accompanied with the threat of not getting a ticket anyway, is for the sell-out Broadway hit, Bubbling Brown Sugar. 28 Artist Series

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The Bubbling Brown Sugar cast gives the Midwest a taste of the dazzle and glamor of Broadway in their journey to the sights and sounds of the Harlem night life of the ' 20 ' s, ' 30 ' s and ' 40 ' s. Ushers Club-FRONT ROW: Barb Lamb, Nancy Kruschke, Denise Norton, Kathy Charlson, Rhonda Sears, Beth Purcell ROW 2: Linda Droessler, Denise Lamon, Patrice Johnson, Paula Eggers ROW 3: Bill Wessels, Valerie Eng, Robin Patschureck, Diane Nienow, Deb Krabbe ROW 4: Darla Zumbach, Evonne Sackrison, Beth Dameier, Judy Niedert, Kim Meyer, Lucinda Reuther, Cyndi Spears, Sandy Poock ROW 5: Mark Sundet, John Sundet, Eric Branson, Jane Allen, Tim Schumacher, Jim Mertz, Bevan Bloemendaal, Greg Diercks, Bill Bartels Artist Series 29