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Arturo Sandoval looks out at the crowd at last week’s Jazz in June concert. Sandoval, a well acknowledged guardian of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, opened the concert series’ 25th anniversary season Tuesday, June 7 to a large crowd of University of Nebraska-Lincoln students and Lincoln community members.

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A crowd gathers at last week’s Jazz in June concert near the University of NebraskaLincoln’s Sheldon Museum of Art for the series’ opening performance Tuesday, June 7.

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TONIGHT’S JAZZ IN JUNE PERFORMANCE FEATURES LAO TIZER, OF THE TIZER QUARTET, AND ERIC MARIENTHAL, A GRAMMY-WINNING SAXOPHONIST. BRITTANY HAMOR DN The Daily Nebraskan: Tell us a little about your history. Where are you from? When did you first take interest in jazz music? Why did you decide to pursue a jazz music career? Who are your inspirations?

Lao Tizer: I started piano lessons at age 9 with classical music like most young pianists, but improvisation and composing always came very naturally to me. I’ve been writing since I first started playing, and as an instrumentalist it was kind of a natural progression to get into jazz. I did not really study jazz till I was 19. As for my career, it just kind of happened to me. When I was 14 my parents loaned me money to buy my first electronic keyboard, and I had to repay about 60 percent of it, so I started performing in downtown Boulder, Colorado (my hometown). People quickly asked me to record an album, so at 15 I released my first cassette. By the time I graduated high school I was about to release my 3rd self-produced solo album. So the road was kinda paved for me naturally to pursue music further. I have many inspirations, but as for favorite pianists; Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Wynton Kelly, Bruce Horsnby, Lyle Mays, Hiromi, etc…

DN: You’ve performed at Jazz in June before – once in 2008 and again in 2012. What are your favorite Jazz in June memories? How will your performance this year be different from your previous Jazz in June performances?

LT: Both previous appearances there were SUPER fun! Great audiences who really appreciated what we were doing musically, and we are really looking forward to returning this summer! As for the performance, this band lineup is different than last time, so it will be very fresh as a quartet with the great Eric Marienthal on sax, Ric Fierbracci on bass & drum phenom Gene Coye! We’re also working new music from our forthcoming album into the show. There will be a mix of catalog material traveling through music and sharing what we of mine and some new stuff. I think people will do with different audiences and cultures, it’s really dig it! very rewarding!

DN: You have a number of accomplishDN: You have performed in many states ments under your belt, including being nomi- this summer such as Texas, Pennsylvania, nated for Jazz Group of the Year in 2011. What North Carolina and Virginia. What has been are a few of your proudyour most memorable est accomplishments in performance this sumyour career? What makes Every show is mer and what made it those accomplishments so special? You are also different and the stand out from the rest? performing in MinneLT: I suppose both band really plays off each sota, Kansas, Colorado, that nomination and California, West Virginother, so the music goes my “Best New Jazz Artia, New York, Maryland, ist” nomination in 2002 new places every night.”

Connecticut and Indiana are both nice feathers in after your Nebraska perthe cap, so-to-speak. But LAO TIZER formance. What state are for me, the accomplishthe tizer quartet you most excited about ments that matter most performing in and why? are growing as a pianist, LT: I love traveling composer and bandleader. So it’s an everand can’t say I look forward to particular states evolving process, as it should be! Of course or countries more than others. It’s all part of performing on some of the premier interna- the journey! I’m a Colorado native, so it’s altional events we’ve had the pleasure of appearways special to go home to perform and see ing on are some of the high points too… I love

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DN: What should the audience expect from your performance at Jazz in June? What do you want listeners to take away from your music?

LT: Our performances are always fresh.

Every show is different, and the band really plays off each other, so the music goes new places every night. That’s the true spirit of jazz, letting the spontaneity of the setting, audience, ambience come out through the interpretation of the music. We listen to each other and from there you never know where things will go! I think audiences generally really connect with the energy and synergy we share on stage. I mostly just want to connect with the audience through music and hopefully take them on a bit of a journey, the highs and lows, funk to ballads to world, etc and leave them wanting more.. Which by the way, there will be CD’s they can take home with them!

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Three UNL museums participate in Blue Star program RAFE PARKER DN Local military members and their families have the opportunity to visit three University of Nebraska-Lincoln museums this summer, free of charge.

The Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska State Museum at Morrill Hall and the International Quilt Study Center and Museum are just three of 21 Nebraska museums, and more than 2,000 museums nationwide, to partner with the National Endowment for the Arts Blue Star Museums program, allowing free admission for activeduty military members and their families.

Wendy Clark, the director of museums and visual arts for the NEA in Washington D.C., said this is the seventh year the NEA has partnered with the Blue Star Families and Department of Defense to offer free admission for active-duty military families at museums across the country.

Clark said museum participation has grown throughout the years and has held fast at about 2,000 museums each year since 2013.

The main goal of the Blue Star Museums program is to show active-duty military men and women and their families that they’re appreciated, she said.

“It’s one small way to express our appreciation and gratitude for those deployed, especially with the children in mind,” Clark said.

Clark said the summer months can be busy for military families, as they often experience a change of station, which is when a military member and their family are relocated to a different community or military base.

She said the Blue Star Museums program is a great opportunity for families to relieve

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MUSEUMS: SEE PAGE 13

LUCKE: College brought me closer to my parents ALEX LUKE APRIL 11, 2016 My dad woke me up at 5:50 a.m.

He wanted to see the eagles in Lawrence, Kansas. He heard they flew around Clinton Lake, and he wanted to use his new camera lens.

We left the house early enough that coffee shops had barely turned their lights on.

My dad ordered us Americanos — his was half caf. Ever since he started experiencing vertigo, he’s had to be careful drinking caffeine. It can trigger a flashback or make the room spin.

He cruised in his Mini Cooper. Somehow, being able to lift 500 pounds for fun and standing 6-foot-2, he thought it would be a good idea to buy a bigger version of a traditionally and comically small car. His shoulders stretch wider than the back of the seat and the top of his almost always backward turned hat occasionally skims the top of the car. But he loves it. He loves driving stick and how he

We didn’t find any eagles after 30 minactually has to commit most of his conscious utes of circling. My dad self when manipulating shifted gears and asked the pedals for a smooth I’ve always been if I wanted to learn how ride. We made it to Clinton State Park about 7 close to my parents. to drive stick. He put the car in park and we a.m. The sun had just switched seats. He told risen but remained hid- My mom jokes about me stories about how he den behind a curtain how we’re a team and learned by a lake, too, of grey clouds. Storms but his teacher put the were coming, and deer, whenever one of us is car face-to-face with the in groups of three to gone, the whole dynamic lake on a ramp. four, were close to the is thrown off.

Since leaving Switch. road. We stopped to It was much harder, snap a few pictures. My for Lincoln, I realized it was he explained to me. He dad set the ISO and the didn’t have the techwhite balance. He hand- one of those jokes that nology we have now. ed me a camera with a isn’t a joke at all.”

We circled more until lens that hurt my wrist I wedged myself into if I held it too long and ALEX LUCKE a three-point turn. I told me how to adjust daily nebraskan columnist fumbled with the pedthe focus on this specific als, killing the car a few lens. A deer stood on its times and roaring it to life a few others. We hind legs to reach a bloom on a taller branch. I made it back to the front of the park, then I stuck the lens out the window and shot.

had an audience.

In front of strangers, I killed the car.

For some reason, it was too much for me.

Yeah, it’s petty. But in that instant, not being able to move that all-too-small car had a different meaning to me.

My dad and I stopped talking about the election like we had the whole way up. We stopped talking altogether. I didn’t feel like it.

He asked what was wrong and clumsily commented about things that happened at work and at home, things I had missed and things that filled space.

Finally, I started crying. I told him I wasn’t happy with where I was, I wanted out, I wanted to be good at driving stick and I wanted school to be over and to be somewhere else - anywhere but here.

This was the first time I’d ever told my dad anything like this. He and I had always stayed floating at the surface, refusing to dive deeper than bands and everyday updates.

Driving stick cannon-balled us into

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OUR FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM LAST WEEK’S CONCERT

PHOTO BY ZACH HENKE | DN

Arturo Sandoval dances with audience members at last week’s Jazz in June concert.

An Emmy Award recipient for his composing work on the underscore of a Golden Globe-nominated biographical drama based on his life, Sandoval’s performance was the first in the concert series’ 25th anniversary season Tuesday, June 7.

PHOTO BY ZACH HENKE | DN

Arturo Sandoval performs in front of a large crowd of Jazz in June concert-goers last week. A protege of trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie, Sandoval began playing trumpet at the age of 10. Sandoval’s June 7 performance at the Sheldon Museum of Art was much anticipated by many in attendance.

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Vigil honors those affected by Orlando shooting SUNDAY MORNING, THE WORLD WOKE TO NEWS OF THE WORST MASS SHOOTING IN U.S. HISTORY. AT LEAST 50 PEOPLE WERE KILLED – INCLUDING THE SHOOTER – AND DOZENS MORE INJURED AFTER A GUNMAN OPENED FIRE IN A CROWDED GAY NIGHTCLUB IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA. SUNDAY EVENING, A CROWD GATHERED AT THE NEBRASKA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING FOR A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL IN HONOR OF THOSE AFFECTED BY THE SHOOTING.

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STEVEN LAWHEAD

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SHELBY CLAUSEN

BRENDON HENNING

“I’ve been coming since I was a kid. I wasn’t born in Lincoln, but my aunt would take me every time. Now it’s me and (my girlfriend); it’s our third year coming. I introduced her to Jazz in June three years ago, and we’ve been coming ever since.”

“This will be my second time. The fact that it’s outside is really nice. There are a variety of artists and it’s free, what more could you ask for? They’re all good memories, we’re very excited to come here, and it’s just to come and listen to good music.”

“I first came to Jazz in June the summer after my freshman year of college, so that was four years ago. And I’ve come a summer since then. It’s fun, I get to hang out with people that I don’t get to see all the time in the summer. We would play Frisbee sometimes while listening to the music.”

“I’m from Lincoln originally, and it’s one of those things you do if you’ve been in Lincoln.

You just come here and see everyone you know.

It’s kind of hard to avoid. Normally I sit in the same spot and then count the number of people who walk by that I know.”

AUDIENCE MEMORIES AS JAZZ IN JUNE REVVED INTO ACTION LAST WEEK, THE DAILY NEBRASKAN SPOKE TO CONCERT-GOERS ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE CONCERT SERIES MEMORIES.

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“I’ve been coming since my kids were young... and my oldest son is now 38. I’m a jazz fan, my youngest son is a professional jazz player in New York. It’s the music that talks to me. It lets me think, and I use it when I’m doing art. Jazz music is a conversation, more so than any other form of music.

People go back and forth, and they’re not necessarily playing anything that’s heavily charted.”

“This is my first time in a very long time I’ve been to the event. I don’t really remember much of it. I remember hanging out with my mom’s friends and just having a good time in general. It’s just something fun that Lincoln does.”

“(I’ve been coming to Jazz in June for) six years or seven years. Our daughter and son-in-law live here, and they’ve been here prior to that. They brought us along. All good memories. I like it.”

“I just came to check out the crowd and meet some new people. I’m new to Nebraska.

I was given a Lincoln, Nebraska pamphlet so I decided to come on out.”

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Young, local band begins to look forward ELIZABETH REMBERT DN Imagining The Wildwoods playing hard rock is like imagining Ozzy Osborne crooning the band’s gentle love song “Spark to a Fire,” but that’s exactly where the band found its roots.

Noah Gose and siblings Chloe and Noah Pinkman began their musical careers young, with Gose finding his parent’s old acoustic guitar in fourth grade and Chloe and Noah performing in Lincoln’s Academy of Rock. There they formed Rabbits with Death Masks, but soon found they “weren’t really feeling the whole hard rock thing,” Gose said.

Realizing they worked better as a trio, Gose and the Pinkmans formed The Wildwoods in June of 2012, and the trio became distinctive for their old time, acoustic country songs. Playing every weekend at venues in Lincoln and across Nebraska, the band has gained a following and a maturity that surpasses their ages. Chloe and Gose’s voices blend against the acoustic background to produce full, melodic songs, a sound that Chloe credits to the addition of bassist Tony Connot and drummer Matt Sievert.

“When we started there was a threeyear time period where we struggled to

two CDs are very up tempo, with faster sound more full,” Chloe said, “But then Noah was like, ‘What about Tony and blue grass and higher voices.

“I mean, we were 14 when we startMatt, they’re really talented musicians,’ and we added them and it’s been great.” ed,” Gose explained.

The group expects their music to Connot and Sievert also started music young, learning on $20 garage- continue evolving. The music they’re sale guitars and elementary band snare currently working on is more indie-folk and moves away from blue grass with drums. slower, jazzier sounds, Gose and Sievert Each member uniquely contributes said. to the blue grass, folk sound: Chloe “We’re bringing in a little R&B in sings and plays the mandolin and violin; Noah sings and plays the guitar and there, sprinkling in a little soul,” Connot said. ukulele; Gose sings The group and plays the guiWhen I wrote my hopes they’ll be tar, banjo, harmonable to look back ica and kick drum first song I was like and see the evoluand writes most of ‘Oh man, I have to keep tion. the group’s songs; “You should Connot plays the doing this, and that’s been always experibass and guitar; my life.” ment with differand Sievert plays ent sounds and percussion.

NOAH GOSE styles,” Connot Gose rememthe wildwoods said. bers writing songs “Anything can in the fourth grade. happen, honestly,” “They were bad,” Gose said, but they showed him Chloe agreed.

And things will happen, the band what he wanted to do. “When I wrote said. Chloe and Gose just graduated my first song I was like ‘Oh man, I have high school, and will attend the Unito keep doing this, and that’s been my versity of Nebraska-Lincoln in the fall. life.”

Chloe plans to major in fashion design The Wildwoods’ sound has evolved over the years, the band said. The first and merchandising, and Gose hopes

to pursue a degree in musical composition. The other three members have also graduated high school, with Noah studying computer engineering at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and Sievert going pre-dental with a biology degree at UNL. Chloe and Gose’s admission into college will not change things, the group said, except perhaps the quality of songs.

“Maybe Noah (Gose) will learn something from musical composition and write some better songs,” Connot joked.

The group plans to go on a summer 2017 month-long tour to the East Coast.

“We want to get our music out there as far as possible,” Gose said.

The Pinkman’s mom also shares that goal.

“She sends all of our videos and songs to Ellen (DeGeneres),” Gose said.

As for this summer, the group is looking forward to the Flatwater Music Festival in Hastings, and all of the chances to share their music. Booked weekends and demanding schedules are easily worth it.

“It’s what we live for,” Gose explained. “It’s our lives.”

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Don’t miss these Lied shows INTO THE WOODS

JACOB ELLIOTT DN The Lied Center for Performing Arts announced its 2016-17 season schedule May 12, which includes country star Clint Black, political satire group The Capitol Steps, blues legend Buddy Guy, and Broadway, film and television star Idina Menzel.

The Glenn Korff Broadway Series will also feature musicals “Once,” Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella,” “Into The Woods,” “Mamma Mia” and “Defying Gravity.”

Here are five of the shows we’re most looking forward to.

SOUNDS OF CHINA

Featuring an eight-member group of outstanding Chinese contemporary folk music, The Sounds of China will open at the Lied Center on September 28, 2016. Featuring a mixture of Chinese music and a western compositions, Jiuyue Ma leads the orchestra fresh from engagements in Vancouver, Denver and with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

IDINA MENZEL

Idina Menzel will appear at the Lied Center on September 30, 2016. Menzel has a number of renowned roles under her belt such as her voice work as Elsa in the Blockbuster movie “Frozen,” her Tony Award winning role as Maureen in the hit movie “Rent” and as the original Elphaba in the Broadway musical “Wicked.” To any young theater fan, Menzel’s performance is a must see at the Lied Center stage.

Modern fairy tales always seem to end happily. The princes get princesses, the paupers get gold and the fools and jesters sing of happily ever after. So often do we see these bowdlerized tales that we forget the originals were far more macabre. Into the Woods is set to send you into the world of Little Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, Cinderella and Jack and the Bean Stalk on February 16 and 17, 2017. Follow a story of curses, wishes and a cast of characters all searching for their happily ever after.

MAMMA MIA!

Here we go again. Mamma Mia will be returning to the Lied Center on March 3 to 5, 2017. The story follows Sophie, a bride-to-be who surprises her mother by inviting three of her possible dads to her wedding. The music is a collection of ABBA’s smash hits, including the songs Dancing Queen, Money Money Money and of course, Mama Mia.

MATILDA

Matilda is the story of an intelligent, young girl, plagued by horrid parents and brutish principles. However, a special power allows her to push back against these fowl adults, taking revenge as she sees fit.

Time magazine has rated the play as its #1 show of the year, so expectations are high.

The show opens in March 2017.

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YEARLY JAZZ AFFORDS OODLES OF FUN FOR CHEAP IN CELEBRATION OF JAZZ IN JUNE’S 25TH YEAR, THE DAILY NEBRASKAN TOOK TO ITS ARCHIVES IN SEARCH OF STORIES FROM THE CONCERT SERIES’ PAST. THE FOLLOWING IS A COLUMN FROM A FORMER DAILY NEBRASKAN STAFF WRITER, WRITTEN AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF JAZZ IN JUNE’S 18TH SEASON. HEATHER BERNEY JUNE 1, 2009 I love Lincoln in the summertime.

I love watching people. I love sunshine. I love music. And for these reasons and more, I am a serious proponent of Jazz in June.

I’ve lived in Lincoln for about five years now and attended at least one Tuesday of Jazz in June every year. In retrospect, the magnitude of how awesome each summer is might directly relate to the number of Tuesdays attended.

As I said previously, I love to watch people. For this reason, I love huge crowds of people. This does not necessarily mean that I like to be one among the crowd: At Jazz in June, it’s perfectly acceptable to sit on the

fringes. There’s ample butt space for introverts and extroverts alike. You can be immersed in chattering people, drooling babies and yipping dogs. Or not.

Highlights of my people-watching include those beautiful couples who have been married for 50 years, shiny-eyed newlyweds and awkward first-daters. I also like the skinny, jean-wearing emo kids and the hippies.

I believe that people are happier, and dare I say smarter, in the summertime.

Jazz in June is an opportunity to sit among friends and talk about the physicality of the cosmos. I’ve played Uno with cards about 1 x 1.5 inches in size, caught up with old friends, had business meetings and talked lots and lots of philosophy. I’ve hula-hooped with an eight-foot Hula Hoop, shared ice cream and

told some boy I was crushing on about how great I am.

Jazz in June is also a place for laying down your blanket and playing the “what do the clouds look like?” game. As modernday humans, we don’t synthesize enough Vitamin D. What I mean is, we don’t spend enough time outside.

Girls, Jazz in June is a wonderful opportunity to wear that cute, little sundress.

Guys, Jazz in June is a wonderful opportunity to see lots of girls in cute, little sundresses.

I’ve barely mentioned the music. I truly love the music, and admittedly, I don’t know that much about jazz. You needn’t be a jazz aficionado to enjoy the tunes.

Check out each week’s band profile and see what they’re all about (you can talk about

the band without talking about the music).

Then, you can intelligibly inform your date or the person sitting next to you about where the band is from or what their musical influences are.

But really, the most important part for me is community. I love to see hundreds of fellow Lincolnites come together for the simple act of sitting in their lawn chairs and listening to music. I love that most everyone attending will meet someone new. I love that people will get to know each other better.

And I love that Jazz in June is yet another way to bring us all closer together.

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Avoid parking annoyances with help from Bike UNL KATE FIEDLER DN

are enjoying getting outdoors.”

This is Hoffman’s second year working with the program.

Contact information is collected at drop For years, Jazz in June concert-goers have off and photo identification is required to forgone the hassle of parking meters and garetrieve bikes. Owners of bikes not retrieved rages for a more sustainable option: biking. within an hour after the performer ’s final Three years ago, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Bike UNL program made number will be charged a $35 handling and storage fee. it even easier for students and community Although there is no members alike to ride charge for the service, their bikes to the conThe best thing riders are encouraged cert each Tuesday. to donate to the proabout working Bike A bike valet program. Donations will gram makes parking Valet at Jazz in June is the be used to improve cybikes simple and easy cling on campus, said for concert-goers and, atmosphere. Summer is in Jordan Messerer, assisduring the fall, Husker the air, jazz melodies float tant director of UNL’s football fans as well.

Outdoor Adventures Starting at 5 p.m., down the street from the Center. riders can drop off their concert and cyclists are Supporters can also bikes at the valet station purchase T-shirts for at 13th and R streets, enjoying getting outdoors. $15 to support the prowhere Bike UNL staff gram. members will check in CHRISTINE HOFFMAN Six air pumps and bike unl volunteer the bikes and hold them several work stations for up to an hour after throughout campus aim the concert ends. to make biking easier and more accessible for Christine Hoffman said she loves working the Jazz in June bike valet because of the students. Donations help with improving cycling in Lincoln, and at the same time, eduatmosphere the families and friends bring.

“The best thing about working Bike Valet cate students about cycling.

Messerer said the valet service usually at Jazz in June is the atmosphere,” she said.

“Summer is in the air, jazz melodies float handles 30 to 80 bikes during each Jazz in down the street from the concert and cyclists June season.

“The appreciation and smiles make me

PHOTO BY KATE FIEDLER | DN feel both rewarded and satisfied about the advocacy role for biking I play for Bike UNL,” Hoffman said. “I am inspired by the

people I get to interact with.”

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VIGIL FOCUSES ON MESSAGE OF LOVE ELIZABETH REMBERT DN Andira Losh was in a community support circle when she heard the news.

“There was a sinking feeling,” she said.

Ayat Aribi woke up to a text.

“Please don’t be Muslims, please don’t be Muslims,” she prayed.

Aryn Huck learned from a friend who said she was “heartbroken.”

“What’s wrong?” Huck asked.

Early Sunday morning ISIS-pledged and American-born Omar Mateen opened fire at a gay nightclub in Orlando, killing 49 and wounding 53. June 12, 2016, marks the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and the largest terrorist strike since 9/11.

Most of all, Huck said, it represents an attack against the LGBTQA+ community.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Graduate Student Assembly and LGBTQA+ Resource Center hosted a candlelight vigil Monday evening on the Nebraska Union Plaza. The vigil featured six speakers and included a moment of silence in honor of those affected by the shooting.

Attendees wore solemn expressions that contrasted their rainbow shirts. Speakers

mentioned solidarity and determination, and dinator of services at Doane College also voiced her opinion on what steps should be all focused their speeches on love.

Kristin Grosskopf, president of Lincoln’s taken. She said the 49 victims have found rest, but now it is up to chapter of Parents, those who remain to deFamilies and Friends After the tears cide where to go. of Lesbians and Gays are gone, after “After the tears are (PFLAG), said it can be gone, after the names hard to look past the the names are no longer are no longer rememhate and violence. bered and after the can“But you are sur- remembered and after the dles are extinguished, rounded by an even candles are extinguished, what are you going greater love,” Grossto do next?” Cooper kopf reminded attend- what are you going to do asked. “Because what ees.

Others spoke of us- next? Because what you do you do really matters.”

Cooper advised ating that love to inspire really matters.” tendees to live and love change. with purpose, and said “We will come back REV. KARLA COOPER doane college she will be back soon, stronger,” promised for the “next time and Rev. Steve Griffith, rethe next time and the tired pastor at Lincoln’s next time.”

Saint Paul United Methodist Church.

Although she doubts the shootings will Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler also spoke inspire change, Andira Losh said the events at the event. He said through the strength represent how necessary conversation is. of America’s democratic republic, “we will not bend to chaotic and dysfunctional phi- Losh, a board member for Common Root – which provides resources to LGBTQA+ comlosophies and we will not give way to lunatic fringes should they strike us a thousand munity members -- said people have to be aware of how our culture is “growing” these times.” attacks through its emphasis on toxic mascuRev. Karla Cooper, chaplain and coor-

linity and glorified violence.

“We’ve been feeling these things, enduring these attacks, and we haven’t seen it inform our perspective,” Losh said.

Losh said, as a member of the LGBTQA+ community, she felt the violence viscerally.

LGBTQA+ Resource Center member Aryn Huck also said they felt the violence directly.

“Going to LGBTQA+ events and being a part of the community is inherently dangerous,” they said. “And this kind of brought that back. And we’ve always known, but I think the shootings opened some people’s eyes to that. Just how dangerous it is to exist.”

UNL students in need of additional support are encouraged to contact Counseling and Psychological Services at the University Health Center at 402-472-7450.

UNL’s LGBTQA+ Resource Center also offers a support group to students; the group’s next meeting is June 14 at 3 p.m. in Benton Hall Room 118.

For more information on LGBTQA+ resources offered at UNL, send email to lgbtqa@unl.edu or go to involved.unl.edu/ lgbtqa.

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portunity to say “thank you” to service men and women and their families by providing them with free admission to the museum.

She added that quiltmaking has long supported and honored the military. The museum hosts a local Quilts of Valor chapter at the museum one Saturday each month, where quilters make quilts that are given to veterans as a way to say thank you for their service.

Susan Weller, the director of the University of Nebraska State Museum, expressed the importance of the program and why the museum continues to participate year-afteryear.

“I think it’s a very important way that we can support our military families who have already sacrificed so much for us,” Weller said. “It’s a way for families that have been relocated to a new community or perhaps have returned from deployment to reconnect with the community. It really offers military families an opportunity to feel welcomed and be thanked for their service.”

Admission to the University of Nebraska State Museum at Morrill Hall is free through the program, but that does not include the Mueller Planetarium.

Weller also said that one thing many people don’t know is that the Ashfall Fossil Beds

State Historical Park, near Norfolk, and the Trailside Museum of Natural History at Fort Robinson State Park in the Nebraska panhandle, also participate in the program, as both are affiliates of the University of Nebraska State Museum.

The Blue Stars Museums program admits any active-duty military member plus five family members for free at any participating museum from Memorial Day through Labor Day. JAZZINJUNE@ DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM

explore. My family was one of the first places I went. I’m incredibly lucky to have the relationship with my family I do. My mom reminds me I’m always welcome home, and my sister always asks me not to leave.

But leaving is the reason I’m so close to them. As cliche as it is, the distance brought us together. I cried in front of my dad the day we went looking for eagles and found that our goals were much more similar than we had thought. My mom danced with me in aisles of the grocery store. They’re where it all started, and they were there when things fell apart.

In high school, because of boyfriends and empty ambitions, I wasn’t kind to my parents.

I was convinced that staying in with them screamed a lack of a social life. C’mon, no one in high school stayed home and watched movies with their parents, pausing the movie and talking about life when conversations were too important. Of course, no one did that, I convinced myself. There was no way.

Looking back, one of my biggest regrets is thinking I was too good for them. The angsty “you wouldn’t get it” mentality, the hearing but not listening, the rebellion and the intentional separation. I severed myself from the two people who loved me the most and wanted nothing but the best for me, and it took being away from home to figure that out.

I started to miss the dancing, the comfort,

the bad movies, the hugs, the advice, the unconditional care and being able to cry into a plate of biscuits and gravy on a rainy, eagleless day.

Leaving brought me closer to my family.

The distance was the best thing to ever happen, and appreciating the people who have been there all along is something that comes with expensive textbooks and newfound independence.

Remember the people who care, whoever they may be, and realize that one of those nights staying in with a movie always was, and always will be, worth it.

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MUSEUMS: FROM 4 stress and venture out into their new community.

“It’s a good activity, and free, for the families to do during the summertime, and it welcomes them to the community,” Clark said.

Laura Chapman, communications coordinator with the International Quilt Study Center and Museum on UNL’s East Campus, said the museum has had a longstanding tradition of partnering with the Blue Star Museums since soon after the museum opened in 2008.

She said being a Blue Star Museums partner is important as it gives the center the op-

LUCKE: FROM 4 depths we’d never before explored.

Going to college sent us deep sea diving.

I’ve always been close to my parents.

My mom jokes about how we’re a team and whenever one of us is gone, the whole dynamic is thrown off. Since leaving for Lincoln, I realized it was one of those jokes that isn’t a joke at all.

Leaving for school is one of the most bittersweet transitions I’ve experienced in life so far. It’s scary and exciting. One day, the whole world is at your finger tips, and the next day, there’s nothing to even reach out for.

That’s when I started searching for stability, consistency, something (anything) that would provide a solid foundation for me to

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UP NEXT: JACKIE ALLEN NEXT WEEK’S JAZZ IN JUNE CONCERT BRINGS JACKIE ALLEN, A RESPECTED JAZZ PERFORMER AND EDUCATOR. ALLEN, WHO TEACHES AT DOANE COLLEGE, LIVES IN LINCOLN WITH HER BASSIST HUSBAND, HANS STURM, WHO IS ALSO AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN’S GLENN KORFF SCHOOL OF MUSIC. THE DAILY NEBRASKAN SPOKE WITH THE COUPLE IN 2013 ABOUT THEIR RELATIONSHIP WITH MUSIC AND EACH OTHER. GABRIELLA MARTINEZ-GARRO JAN. 24, 2013 Hans Sturm and Jackie Allen’s love, for music and for one another, has stretched across continents and decades.

Sturm, who teaches double bass at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Allen, who teaches jazz vocals and songwriting at Doane College, first met in college while attending the University of Wisconsin-Madison and playing in various music combos.

“We performed together quite a bit. Hans even convinced me to do a little duo with him, just voice and bass, so we would perform in coffee shops and things like that,” Allen said. “I had a quartet that he also

played in, but we never dated at the time.

Many years later, I was living and working in Chicago in the club scene and Hans was working on his doctorate at Northwestern.

He saw me in the listings and remembered his old friend, Jackie, and came out to one of our gigs. We both found out we were available, and that was sort of the end of it.”

After a whirlwind audition process, the couple – now married with a nine-year-old son, Wolfgang – relocated to Lincoln after Sturm was offered a job teaching music at UNL. “I hadn’t even seen the house until we closed on it, so he had like two days to find a house and buy it,” Allen said. “I hadn’t even been to Lincoln until we drove down here.”

Although they had just moved to Lin-

coln, Sturm said it didn’t slow them down.

“I rented the moving truck to come down here and once we hired the moving company here in Lincoln to unload the truck, I took the shuttle the next morning and flew to China for five weeks to teach and play,” Sturm said.

In addition to touring nationally and performing locally, the musical couple has traveled across the globe – sometimes even bringing their son along with them.

“Traveling-wise, I’ve done a lot. A lot with Jackie and sometimes just as a duo, just bass and voice stuff,” Sturm said. “As either a duo or a group, we’ve been to Taiwan, China – we were the first jazz artists to play the Beijing Music Festival – Brazil and Europe.”

Although the couple does perform together frequently, Allen said their partner-

ship does not translate well into one facet of their music process: songwriting.

“We almost never write music together,” Allen said. “Hans is a stronger writer than I am, but Hans is also a faster writer and he knows my voice and my style, and he knows the type of material that I choose. Because we perform so well together, and he knows the combination of musicians that we like to work with, it works well. So when he writes, he’s writing specifically for me.”

Since their arrival in Lincoln, Sturm and Allen have also worked and traveled with fellow music professor, Thomas Larson.

Sturm said he first met Larson while auditioning for the job at UNL.

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“I was immediately struck by his phenom- tiation to get the best thing that you can posenal abilities,” Sturm said. “We’ve played all sibly get, but it’s still a statement of the now.

If you try to make everything absolutely perover the country with different piano players fect, well, you’re never going to succeed.” and Tom is a very, very fine pianist, and he’s Allen also said she teaches outside of Dowritten a lot of music, so he plays piano with a composer and arranger ’s ear. He’s very ane with a project called Torch Singer 101, in which eight adult singchameleon-like, and he ers can work on two will find a really wonThere’s always going standards. The group derful way to play mumeets once a week for sic. You could say he’s to be a negotiation two-hour sessions for not the flashiest pianist, five-to-six weeks. but I don’t care about to get the best thing that “I teach (“Torch flashy. I care about makyou can possibly get, but Singer 101”) out of the ing music together, and house,” Allen said. “We that’s why I love mak- it’s still a statement of the meet down at a club ing music with him so now.” and they invite all of much. Tom is a gem.” their family and friends Both Sturm and AlHANS STURM to a packed house at a len have been involved UNL ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR free concert. It’s like a in numerous recordings lounge singer class, so both together and apart. they get to pull out their Allen, who is currently working on multiple projects, has put out inner Frank Sinatra or Billie Holiday.”

As for the couple’s upcoming live events, nine albums, while Sturm said he has been involved with nearly 50 recordings. In addi- the couple said they will be featured next Tuesday with the Nebraska Jazz Orchestra. tion to performing in recordings, Sturm has “We are also going to be the featured artalso worked as either a composer or producists at the Sheldon on Valentine’s Day,” Allen er on many projects, including Allen’s.

“We’re not working on projects that have said.

Hans added, “How romantic.” $500,000 budgets,” Sturm said. “So, you’re JAZZINJUNE@ always going to get into a situation where DAILYNEBRASKAN.COM you have what you dream to have happen and then you have the reality, there’s a pragmatism. So there’s always going to be a nego-

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