March 15, 2016 www.broadcasteronline.com Shakespeare's First Folio on Display at NMM By Sarah Wetzel Wednesday marked the beginning of a historic few weeks for Vermillion. Shakespeare's First Folio, a 400-year old text is temporarily on display at the National Music Museum (NMM) in Vermillion. The exhibit features not only ‘First Folio! The book that gave us Shakespeare,’ but also rare instruments actually mentioned in Shakespeare’s works. It runs now through April 2 with free museum admittance during this time. The museum celebrated the opening of the exhibit with a special reception Wednesday featuring 'Shakespeare' himself and the Mount Rushmore mascots from the South Dakota Department of tourism. “They represent the state of South Dakota,” Said Patricia Bornhofen, Museum spokesperson. “So it’s been a very nice treat and a privilege that we were allowed to have them here for this. You don’t usually get a chance to see them inside the state because they’re usually doing things outside the state to encourage people to come. It’s a great legitimization from the state saying, ‘you guys matter and this is a tourism venue that should have that kind of attention.’” The First Folio exhibit certainly merits special attention. “The First Folio, the book that gave us Shakespeare is a traveling exhibition from the Folger Shakespeare Library celebrating the 400 year anniversary since Shakespeare's death,” said Darlene Farabee, Associate Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of South Dakota College of Arts and Sciences. “It is produced in association with the American Library Association and the Cincinnati Music Center and is made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor. Also with support from Google.org and Vinton and Sigrid Cerf.” The exhibition will visit each state in the nation only once and this is South Dakota’s chance. Special requirements were looked for in venues to host the Folio, requirements that the NMM fit like a glove. “We had to put ourselves out there, auditioning in a sense for it,” Bornhofen said. “They decided one site and we fit the bill. Plus Vermillion is a very intellectual, artistic community with the university here. It’s a great hotbed of culture. So we really encourage people within a 200 mile radius of us to make us their destination to see the folio.” One aspect of the museum that makes it perfect to host the exhibit is the fact that the building is well-regulated in humidity, aridity, temperature and security as the many sensitive and rare instruments require, much like the delicate book. Light in the exhibit itself will be kept fairly dim and visitors are discouraged from using flash photography in order to preserve the Folio. According to Bornhofen, the NMM and the First Folio perfectly compliment each other in a unique way. “We have these great Shakespeare era instruments that we can put around the Shakespeare Folio and give it some historical context that other places really can’t do,” she said. “A lot of the other venues where the Folio will be going to or has gone to already are libraries and universities, and some other museums as well, but very few of them have the ability to do the incredible historic bedding that we can do. We can put two incredibly valuable and rare instruments right in the era of Shakespeare’s works in there. They’re instruments that he would refer to.” The two instruments referred to are a Viol and a Citern, both from the Broadcaster Press 5 Ten Attendance Marks Set At 2016 Men’s And Women’s Tournaments SIOUX FALLS – The Summit League Basketball Championship set 10 attendance marks in 2016. In the second year at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, session marks fell each round as new standards were established for both the men’s and women’s tournaments. Both the men’s and women’s championship games, tournaments and the combined total set new standards. In total, the combined attendance for the entire event (men’s and women’s) was 65,533, surpassing the previous record set last season by over 5,000. Tuesday’s women’s championship game set a new record at 8,647 and pushed the women’s tournament total to 28,872, eclipsing the previous record set last season by over 4,000. On day one, both the men’s and women’s quarterfinals set new all-time Summit League attendance standards. The men’s draw of 10,306 was not only the highest for the round, but marked the top figure for any session in the event’s 32 years. With a crowd of 9,816, the women’s quarterfinal was the highest attended women’s tournament session and ranked as the third-largest of any men’s or women’s session in league history. “The remarkable turnout at our tournament raises the bar higher and higher each year,” said Summit League Commissioner Tom Douple. “In our first year at the Denny Sanford PREMIER Center, we set 11 attendance records and we followed that up with nearly the same number in year two. The support is truly amazing, especially on the women’s side, where we have become a fixture at the top of the NCAA attendance charts.” Saturday’s figure at The Summit League Women’s Tournament leads the nation for highest quarterfinal round and ranks as the most-attended session of any women’s tournament through March 7. Records Set at the 2016 Summit League Tournament Men’s Quarterfinal Session I (10,306) Women’s Quarterfinal Session I (9,816) Men’s Quarterfinal Round (16,738) Men’s Championship Session/Round (10,188) Women’s Quarterfinal Round (12,988) Women’s Semifinal/Round (7,237) Women’s Championship Session/Round (8,647) Men’s Total Tournament (36,661) Women’s Total Tournament (28,872) Combined Men’s/Women’s Total Tournament (65,533) Renaissance era and referenced in Shakespeare’s work. The Citern on display, especially, is just about as impressive as the Folio itself. “That Citern is the only Renaissance Citern in existence,” Bornhofen said. “So it’s incredibly rare. When the museum got it it was a very important purchase. We actually outbid the Met for it. That’s one of the jewels of the museum. Also on display, the Viol referred to in Shakespeare works, also very rare with few in existence.” Flutes and recorders from the era are also on display with the Folio. The exhibit is a huge benefit to the university according to Dr. Jim Moran, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs. “At USD we aspire to be the nation’s best public flagship university built on a liberal arts foundation,” he said. “To do that in terms of working with the community and the national music museum and others we need these distinctive opportunities and experiences for our students and faculty and community. To be able to experience the first folio is indeed one of those rare opportunities that we are extremely excited about. I think it really does speak to our ability to give those distinctive experiences to students recognizing how Shakespeare is so important to helping us understand the human experience.” Museum Director Cleveland Johnson was thrilled to see the museum so full of activity and expressed his gratitude for all the collaboration that made the exhibit possible. “This would not have been possible were it not for our university partners,” he said. “This actually started at the university. It was just a dream initially. The English department heard about the opportunity. We involved the city, we involved the campus and we involved the museum and made things happen. So what you see here is part of that incredible process of collaboration.” Johnson has been especially glad to work with a different area of the university. “It's been a lot of fun for us particularly to work with the college of arts and sciences,” he said. “Generally the music museum is aligned with the college of fine arts but this has been a chance for us to get to know some of our colleagues in the college of arts and sciences. It is really a pretty good match to deal with historians and English professors because we're all about culture not just music. What you see in our galleries is us taking advantage of a unique opportunity of having Shakespeare here in the music museum because we've tried to build up a musical context for you and see the musical world that Shakespeare would have known.” Bornhofen hopes that the exhibit will expand the range of the museums influence. “One of the great things about this is, obviously we’re a music museum and we’re known for attracting people who are music lovers,” she said. “Music experts often consider us a Mecca for seeing great musical instruments. And we certainly get every kind of person here. But what the Shakespeare Folio exhibit will do is bring another type of person who might be interested more in literature, theatre, different field of art.” Johnson is also excited at this prospect. “What an extremely fantastic opportunity this is for us,” he said. “We live in an age you can't just function by yourself any longer. You can't live on an island, you can't work in a silo, you have to collaborate and you've got to work and share. This is such a wonderful sharing time we live in. To be closed up in a museum from 9-5 with your treasures is not what a museum is about any longer. A museum is about this. It's about bringing you here and interacting with our treasures and interacting with us so we learn together and share and we're all in this together. Particularly in a small town like Vermillion we are particularly blessed to be part of the University community as well as the city community.” The museum will also host special events during the First Folio exhibit, all free admission. For more information visit orgs.usd. edu/nmm/. Notice Turn Yo ur Clutter i nto Cash! Advertise your Garage Sale to thousands of readers! 624-4429 SHOP NOW!! SPECIAL PRICES!! We will be closed for medical leave March 16 thru March 24 SHOP NOW! 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