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Continuing through January 27, 2013
"The Way We Worked," a Smithsonian Institution
traveling exhibition explores the stories of America's
workers, the culture of work, and the changes in our
workplace over time and across generations.
Through photographs from the National Archives,
audio and video clips, and hands-on components, visitors of all ages will discover how, together, our work
makes America.
High Plains Museum, Goodland
* * *
April 18 to June 20
Exhibition that looks at agriculture and agribusiness
that supported farming on the high plains. The project
is part of KHC's "The Way We Worked in Kansas," a
statewide initiative highlighting Kansans' relationship to
work over time and across generations.
Winter/Spring PROGRAM HIGHLIGHS
January 31; Church Basement Ladies
February 10, Jeff Davidson and Band
February 24, Pride of the Prairie Orchestra
March 1, The Marvelous Wonderettes
March 7, U.S. Navy Sea Chanters
March 10, Michael Fitzsimmons
April 7, Jim Salestrom
April 21, Diamond Wranglers
BRING A STUDENT
If you haven’t taken advantage of the offer to
“bring a student” to a WPAA concert you may
still do so. At any time during the current season
the ticket holder is encouraged to bring up to
three students, either one at a time or up to the
three, to a concert until the spaces on the coupon are filled in. The coupon on page 3 can be
clipped and kept with your season tickets.
Northwest Kansas
“A KALEIDOSCOPE OF THE ARTS”
Volume 19, Issue 1
January, 2013
43rd SEASON CONTINUES
Thursday, January 31, 7:30 p.m. Troupe America is servin’ it
up again in the church basement kitchen musical comedy,
Church Basement Ladies 2: a Second Helping. The ladies of
East Cornucopia Lutheran Church of the Prairie are back in this
hilarious new musical
inspired by “Growing
up Lutheran”, by Greta Grosch.
Better
than a second helping of cherry marshmallow fluff. The performance will be at
the Oakley H.S. Auditorium.
Sunday, February 10, 3:00 p.m. Jeff Davidson and the Trail
Riders Band combine a unique blend of songs, historical facts,
and pictures, Jeff Davidson revisits the history of the west and
its tremendous influence on the shaping of the U.S. economy,
ideology and heroism. They appear at the Quinter High School
Auditorium.
Sunday, February 24, 3:00 p.m. a variety of selections will
be performed by Pride of the Prairie Orchestra at the Hoxie
High School Auditorium.
Friday, March 1, 7:30 p.m., Cultural Arts Center, Colby A
cotton-candy colored, nonstop pop musical blast from the past!
Featuring your favorite songs from the '50s and '60s, The Marvelous Wonderettes takes you to the 1958 Springfield High
School prom where we meet the Wonderettes.
Thursday, March 7, 7:30 p.m. The 23 member Navy Band
Sea Chanters is the United States Navy’s official chorus. The
ensemble performs a variety of music ranging from traditional
choral music, including sea chanteys and patriotic fare, to
opera, Broadway, and contemporary music. A special free ticket will be required for admission to the performance at the Colby High School Auditorium.
Sunday, March 10, 3:00 p.m.(2:00 p.m. M.T.) Sharon
Springs High School Auditorium. International touring artist
Michael Fitzsimmons will present Drums of the World featuring
rare instruments from Switzerland called Hang Drums as well
43rd SEASON continued on page 3
PLAYLISTS: Our holiday music obsession continues
by Eric & Roxie Yonkey
Last issue we discussed making playlists for your
electronic devices. We promised to talk about holiday
playlists this time.
New Year's Eve is the final day of the year, but we
will start with that since it's the most recent holiday.
That list is a combination of New Year's specific
songs such as Auld Lang Syne, dance music and
tunes about the passage of time.
Kansas became a state Jan. 29, 1861. We are currently developing a list for Kansas Day that features
19th century music and tunes that would fit Kansas,
such as "Dust in the Wind" -- by Kansas, of course.
Roxie is from Nebraska and Nebraska Day is March
1, 1867. Many of the songs for Kansas would work for
Nebraska as well.
We celebrate Mardi Gras, Kansas Style at our
house. And parties here require their own playlist. We
actually have several Mardi Gras-related lists: Dixieland, Ragtime, Blues, Pop Swing and the one actually
named Mardi Gras. The one named Mardi Gras includes our one zydeco album, Mardi Gras-specific
music and music that references Louisiana and/or the
Mississippi Delta region.
Valentine's Day includes songs that specifically reference Valentine's Day and love songs across all
genres and musical eras.
Celtic Tunes is our March playlist. Everything Celtic or specifically Irish goes into this list for St. Patrick's
Day.
For Easter, we have Easter Bunny songs that
mostly celebrate eating candy and numerous religious songs, including the Bethany College Oratorio
Society's performance of The Messiah and St. Matthew's Passion.
May brings graduation, the end of school and the
beginning of summer activities. We play Graduation
Day for graduation. After school gets out on the last
day, we crank up School's Out. If we spend a weekend at the lake, we often play Beach Party, songs
about summer. If we have a cookout, we can play
Good Eats, songs about food and eating.
Summer also brings the patriotic holidays, Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. We have
two mixes for them, Patriotic Mix and Geography Lesson. Patriotic Mix features songs like "The StarSpangled Banner" and "God Bless the USA". Geography Lesson is filled with songs about American cities
and states.
Fall brings Halloween and Thanksgiving.
We discussed our Halloween lists last time.
For Thanksgiving, our list features Renaissance and Baroque music, plus songs about
being grateful. Why Renaissance and Baroque music? Because the original settlers
came during those periods.
People fussed over the Mayan calendar
ending. We found that absurd, but we couldn't resist developing a list. The End of the
World was a major downer to listen to, but
we enjoyed the irony of it all.
Winter arrived with "the end of the world",
so we created Winter list, songs about snow,
ice and cold. "Winter Wonderland" and
"Frosty the Snowman" cannot be found in
any of our Christmas lists. They are in Winter, along with Vivaldi's "Winter" from his
"Four Seasons" suite and "Skaters' Waltz".
We copied our Christmas music CDs into
iTunes this year. After weeding out duplicates and songs we disliked, we ended up
with 527 songs. That's too much for one
playlist. So we split them into Christmas Religious and Christmas Secular, then further
into Christmas Classical, Christmas Crooners (like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra),
Christmas Fusion (like Mannheim Steamroller and Trans-Siberian Orchestra), Christmas
Instrumentals, Christmas Jazz, Christmas
Smooth Jazz, Christmas Swings. Bach's
Christmas Oratorio and Handel's Messiah
each had their own list.
Then we wound up the old year and began the new with New Year's Eve.
Yes, we are obsessed with playlists.
Rev. Carol Rahn retires from board
Carol Rahn was named as a honorary
board member after serving on the WPAA
board more than ten years. She retired as
pastor of the Presbyterian Churches in Colby and Hoxie and is moving to San Antonio,
TX to be closer to family.
The Kansas Citizens for the Arts, a nonprofit organization
comprised of individuals and businesses who care about the
future of our state, is working to build that support among the
public, community leadership and elected officials. For more
information go to www.kansasarts.org.
43rd SEASON
continued
as a variety of drums, flutes, pan pipes, and kalimbas
from other parts of the world. A school performance
will follow on Monday March 11.
The Kansas Arts Foundation is a charitable foundation that
secures private funds and empowers Kansas Arts communities
and talent, while impacting, inspiring and sustaining the future
of the Arts culture for generations of Kansans to come. For
more information go to www.kansasartsfoundation.com.
Sunday, April 7, 3:00
p.m. St. Francis High
School Auditorium. Jim
Salestrom will perform
songs by John Denver as
well as some of his own
orginals.
Letter from Winona School:
We would like to express our many thanks (to WPAA) for
sponsoring the Wichita Children’s Threatre production of
“Three Little Kittens” held in the Triplains Auditorium in
Winona, KS Oct 16th. Our entire K-12 student body (98), teachers, and staff attended the program. Brewster school grades 14 (21 students) along with teachers and staff also attended.
The students look forward to each year’s production, and it is
such a valuable part of their education. Lamar Bergsten, K-12
Principal/Superintendent.
Letter from Grainfield School:
Sunday, April 21, 3:00 p.m. One of the finest
Western Music groups in the country makes their
home in Kansas. The Diamond W Wranglers have taken their brand across the globe.
This is music that every age enjoys. From the oldest
ballads like "Streets of Laredo" to the thundering
"Ghost Riders in the Sky", the Diamond W Wranglers
bring people to their feet with their inspiring harmonies, quirky humor, and galloping guitars. They will
perform at the Colby High School Auditorium.
Thank you for coming to Hoxie to put on “The Three Little
Pigs”. We really enjoyed it! Wheatland Elem. School, Grainfield.
STUDENT COUPON
This coupon entitles an adult member ticket
holder to bring up to three non-member K-12
students to any WPAA program during the
2012-13 season.
To redeem coupon fill in member name and
student names. Present to ticket taker at
WPAA concert to have the student name
checked off. Coupon can be used until three
student names have been checked.
Member: ___________________________
Students:
 _______________________________
 _______________________________
 _______________________________
COMMUNITY CALENDARS
COLBY
Northwest Kansas Piano Clinic and MultiKeyboard at Cultural Arts Center, CCC all day
Saturday, January 26
PRIDE OF THE PRAIRIE ORCHESTRA;
Sunday Feb. 23, 3:00 p.m. at Hoxie High
School Auditorium, Bev Rucker, conductor. This
is a WPAA program.
Sunday April. 28, 3:30 p.m. Frahm Theatre,
CCC, Andy Salvadore conducting.
GOODLAND
Carnegie Arts Center,
Tues-Sat 10-5,
Sunday 1-4,
Mon 1-6
785-890-6442
http://www.goodlandnet.com/artscenter
WPAA BOARD MEMBERS
Cheyenne County
St Francis; Helene Landenberger, *Althea Lebow, Marsha Magley
Decatur County
Jennings; Lynn Tacha
Oberlin; Susan Nelson
Gove County
Grainfield, *Alma Golden, Denise Packard
Grinnell, *Leona Dickman
Quinter, Denise and Randy Wittman
Logan County
Oakley, Evelyn Engel, Connie Singer, Shane Stephenson,
*Marguerite Walz
Winona, *Jean Lowe,
Rawlins County
Atwood, Julie Britton, Millie Fisher, Carole Luedders, Charles
Peckham
Sheridan County
Hoxie, Bette James *Doreen Kennedy, David Leopold, CPA,
treasurer, Marilyn Meier
Sherman County
Goodland, Curtis Duncan *Eric and Roxie Yonkey
Thomas County
Colby, Joan Albers, Terrel Harrison, Kevin Juenemann, Amie
Kendrick, Kathy Sherlock, Sandy Wilks.
C C C, Pat Ziegelmeier, Executive Director
Rexford, Janell Antholz
Wallace County
Sharon Springs, William and *Wilma Mai
Wallace, Cecil & Jayne Humphrey Pearce
Weskan, Vernon and Mary Beth Akers
* denotes community contact person
WEBSITES OF INTEREST
http://kansasarts.org/ Kansas Citizens for the Arts
www.maaa.org/ Mid America Arts Alliance
www.kansasartsfoundation.com/ Kansas Arts Foundation
www.hppr.org High Plains Public
Radio
www.colbycc.edu/ Colby Community College
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