The combined String Orchestras West and South and Sinfonia are featured.

Love in all its glory is celebrated in this tuneful and witty musical comedy revue. Revealing the joys and frustrations of relationships – at nearly every stage of life – has never been so fun.

When Caroline, a veteran social worker, removes infant Luna Gale from the custody of her struggling young parents, the best course of action seems clear and Baby Luna is placed temporarily with her devoted grandmother. However Caroline quickly realizes that the situation is more complicated as she uncovers a shadowy and secretive family past. Struggling with the limitations of an overburdened bureaucracy, Caroline is forced to make a risky decision with potentially dangerous consequences. LUNA GALE explores the tough situations welfare workers must contend with daily to ensure the well-being of children and their families.

Earthen dams, stone lined water reservoirs and stone built sacred pool monuments constitute some of the most vibrant landscape features in the Hittite world during the Late Bronze Age in Central Anatolia (ca 1400-1175 BCE). Such water monuments materialize in various architectural forms and building technologies and constitute important elements of both urban and rural infrastructures, while they also serve as sites of ritual interaction with the Underworld, the mythical subterranean world where certain divinities and dead ancestors reside. Since 2010, Yalburt Yaylasi Archaeological Landscape Research project has been investigating the long term history of the borderland region in the vicinity of two imperial Hittite water monuments of Tudhaliya IV (1237-1209 BCE) in west-central Turkey: a sacred pool complex at the site of Yalburt Yaylasi and the earthen dam of Koyutolu Yayla. Both of these sites revealed monumental inscriptions in Hieroglyphic Luwian, and suggest a comprehensive program of water management and monumentalization of sacred springs in the region. The preliminary results of the systematic regional survey in the region suggests an intensified settlement at the time of their construction. This paper will discuss the politics of landscape between imperial politics and local identity, and especially the ritualized politics of water at the time of the last few centuries of the Hittite Empire, just prior to its collapse in the early 12th century BCE. Ömür Harmanşah is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Art and Art History. He is an archaeologist and architectural historian specializing in the Ancient Near East.

The Old Vaudevillian Yodels Again! Stephen Lee Rich is a singer/songwriter, yodeler, comedian, and harmless crazy person who has been performing for over 40 years and is still at it! He puts heart and humor into his colorful array of folk, old-time pop and novelty songs. Stephen doesn't take himself too seriously – he plays parodies of old folk chestnuts, doo-wop, and even a couple of kazoo solos. Stephen is a model of topical and thought-provoking songwriting that's thoroughly entertaining.