The SALT Quintet will share the multifaceted process of transforming personal narrative into musical drama during a concert at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. An acronym for share, affirm, lift and tell, the SALT Quintet tells stories through the medium of micro-operas. The concert’s intention is to offer – via music and drama – a unique perspective of women’s personal histories and to explore the strength and endurance of women through the lens of family experiences.

Four UNK students, Sophie Fiedler, Catherine Moritz, Nicole Smith, and TruLee Jo White, will join five music professors, mezzo-soprano Dr. Sharon Campbell (University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney, NE), pianist Dr. Young Kim (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY), soprano Dr. Suna Gunther (University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, NE), soprano Dr. Anne Jennifer Nash (Concordia College, Moorhead, MN), and soprano Dr. Sylvia Stoner (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY), in a concert of micro-operas, staged choral works, and a piano solo that all draw from memoirs by women connected to the quintet and the composers.

The performance and a dress rehearsal scheduled for 4 p.m. Oct. 9 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall are both free and open to the public.

Five UNK faculty members – Janet Graham (English), Sandra Loughrin (sociology/women’s and gender studies), Suzanne Maughan Spencer (sociology), Linda Van Ingen (history) and Theodora Ziolkowski (English) – are contributed the insights of their research areas to the performance’s program notes.