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Madrigal
Music students from
Iowa Lakes Community College will host their Annual
Elizabethan Madrigal Feaste in December. While dining in
high Renaissance style, attendees will marvel and enjoy the
audience-oriented performances of the Royal Iowa Lakes
Chamber Singers, Her Majesty’s Recorder Consort, The King’s
Brass Ensemble, Ye Olde Percussion Ensemble and My Lady of
the Lakers Hand Bell Ringers.
Individuals attending will be treated like Royalty by
indulging in a delicious five course meal fit for a King (or
Queen!). Along with many English customs such as the
procession of the Boar’s Head, a Jester, flaming pudding,
and the strolling carolers, the evening also includes
wassail, and a special Royal Dessert.
The
college’s madrigal feast is a true to form re-enactment of a
Renaissance English dinner, with one small exception: guests
will have access to silverware! This dinner is based on
what a person might have encountered in the 16th Century.
During that time, a Lord and Lady would host a party for
area Royalty. The guests, in this case, are the audience.
Brett Fuelberth, Director
Carol Ayres, Director
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Musical
In alternating years, the
Iowa Lakes’ Music Department joins with area community
members to produce a musical. Recent productions have
included: The Music Man, The Fantasticks,
The Melody Lingers On, and Damn Yankees. The
2008 musical was the family comedy, Once Upon a Mattress.
Based on a Hans Christian Andersen
fairytale, The Princess And The Pea, this classical Broadway
musical spins the tale of a medieval kingdom's search for a proper
princess to marry the prince. Everyone wants to see the lonely
prince engaged – no one can get married until he is. Everyone, that
is, except the domineering Queen Aggravain, who is unwilling to cut
the royal apron strings. Enter Princess Winnifred the Woebegone,
loud, brave and dripping wet (having swam the moat!). She boldly
declares herself a contender for the Prince's hand. But to show she
is a true princess, she must prove that she is too delicate to sleep
on 20 mattresses if there is even a tiny pea underneath them. The
Queen plots a huge party to make sure the Princess will be up all
night dancing and be so tired she would fall asleep on a pile of
rocks!
Once Upon a Mattress
was performed on April 3, 4 & 5 in the gymnasium of the Estherville
campus of Iowa Lakes Community College. Once Upon A Mattress
had music by Mary Rodgers; lyrics by Marshall Barer; and book by Jay
Thompson, Dean Fuller and Marshall Barer. Once Upon A Mattress
was presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals,
1065 Avenue of The Americas, Suite 2400, New York, NY 10018.
www.rnhtheatricals.com.
Coffeehouses
If you can hear it on the radio, you can perform it at the
Iowa Lakes Coffeehouse! From Shania Twain to Chopin to
Frank Sinatra, it’s all on the program! The coffeehouse is
an opportunity to perform solo voice, piano, instruments,
poetry or anything else you would like to perform. The
coffeehouse is open to all students and community members.
Call the music department if you’d like to
participate!
Brett Fuelberth, Coordinator
Special Events
Annual Church Choir Festival
When Thanksgiving approaches, Iowa Lakes Community College
hosts the Annual Church Choir Festival. The concert is
traditionally the Sunday before Thanksgiving at a different
church each year. Area residents are invited to come and
sing with a mass “Festival Choir.” Each participating church
choir has the option of performing one selection
individually as well as joining in one mass choir for three
festival pieces.
This festival provides a chance for the public to hear some
of the area’s best church choirs and share in the joys of
music worship. It also provides an opportunity to hear a
large festival choir that in past years has been around 100
singers strong. The choirs will rehearse together at 2 p.m.
in the afternoon, and anyone who would like to sing in the
festival choir is invited to come to the rehearsal. The
concert starts at 4 p.m. A free will donation will be taken
with the money going to a local charity.
Brett Fuelberth, Director
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