Clark Potter celebrates his 20th year as viola professor at UNL with a musical party for violas of epic proportions. Former students are coming back from as far away as Reno, Tulsa, and Lexington, KY to perform and enjoy the reunion. Music for both recitals will feature music for multiple violas, including an octet and a quintet for violas composed by Jonathan Crosmer (MM, Composition (2008) and DMA, Viola Performance (2011)). Crosmer will also perform two movements of his own Autumn Suite for solo viola, and Potter’s friend and viola colleague Jonah Sirota will also perform. Current UNL violists will perform the music and the drama in an arrangement of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” as well as Potter’s arrangement of the “Sanctus” from Fauré’s Requiem. Plenty of additional surprises are planned, including a Grande Finale in which all violists in attendance will storm the stage to play a rousing rendition of an old Motown tune from Potter’s youth arranged by current viola student Tanner Pfeiffer.