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NewsNovember 22, 1997

Appropriately, music will be one of the attractions Sunday during the first Friends of Music Home Tour. The musical offerings will range from classical to contemporary. The tour will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday and will include three older homes near the center of town and two contemporary houses in the northern residential area. "The tour is a circle of the city," says Sina Kaiser, a member of the Friends of Music board...

Appropriately, music will be one of the attractions Sunday during the first Friends of Music Home Tour.

The musical offerings will range from classical to contemporary.

The tour will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday and will include three older homes near the center of town and two contemporary houses in the northern residential area. "The tour is a circle of the city," says Sina Kaiser, a member of the Friends of Music board.

Tickets will be available at any of the houses.

Friends of Music, which has about 60 members, plans to use proceeds to fund music scholarships and to pay for performances by guest and Southeast faculty artists.

The musicians performing Sunday will include pianists Dr. James Sifferman and Dr. Gary Miller, a trio that includes cellist Dr. Sarah Edgerton and two students, rock 'n' roll piano player Bobby Bower, and the duo of Bob Krone and Mike Smith.

Tour stops are:

-- The Cliff and Lynette Shirrell home, 14 Morgan Oak. The Shirrells, who refer to themselves as "the Trolls who live under the bridge," own a three-story house that was built in 1889 as a summer home for a New Orleans riverboat captain.

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When the Mississippi River Bridge was being built, the government took the house through eminent domain as housing for bridge workers. It reverted to a private residence afterward and for a time was a nursing home.

The Shirrells are involved in a complete redecoration which is focused on the kitchen at the moment. The house's 55 windows afford a view of the river from almost every room.

-- Longview, located on Longview Place at the crest of Whitener Street. The house will be decorated for Christmas. Antique music boxes will be displayed. Construction on the house began in 1870, and plumbing and electricity were added in 1916.

The house is on the National Register of Historic Places, and many of the furnishings are original. Owner Marjorie Thompson is a fourth-generation descendent of the Thilenius family that built Longview.

-- Wildwood, home of Southeast Missouri State University President Dr. Nitzschke and his wife, Linda, on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The tour's refreshments will be served at this site.

Visitors will be able to peek into the wine cellar that runs beneath one wing of the house.

-- The Mike and Bonnie Smith home, a three-year-old ranch-style house at 1549 Greenbrier Drive.

Smith was the leader of a well-known band from Cape Girardeau's past, Mike Smith and the Runaways. He and Bob Krone will provide music.

-- The Wayne and Julie Davenport home, a contemporary house at 1621 Greenbrier Drive. Wayne Davenport is the director of the Southeast Missouri University Foundation and vice president of development for the university.

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