30 Sep 2022
Wind Ensemble concert is Oct. 8
Lincoln, Neb.—The Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Ron and Carol Cope Professor of Music and Director of Bands Carolyn Barber, will perform Saturday, Oct. 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
The concert is free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit https://music.unl.edu/webcasts the day of the performance for the link.
30 Sep 2022
Symphony Orchestra performs Oct. 7
Lincoln, Neb.--The University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Professor of Music and Director of Orchestras Tyler White, presents “Danny Elfman and the Classical Tradition” on Friday, Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
The performance includes the Nebraska premiere of Danny Elfman’s concerto for amplified violin and large orchestra titled “Eleven Eleven,” guest conducted by John Mauceri and featuring guest artist Sandy Cameron, violin.
29 Sep 2022
Chamber Singers earn 2nd place in American Prize competition
Lincoln, Neb.--The Glenn Korff School of Music’s Chamber Singers, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music in Choral Activities Marques L.A. Garrett, won second place in The American Prize in choral performance in the college/university division (larger program) for 2022.
28 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
Carson School alumna Lenosky returns for Geske Cinema Showcase
Lincoln, Neb.--Film producer and Husker alumna Tory Lenosky (B.F.A. 2007) returned to Lincoln on Sept. 2 for the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts’ Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase, where she did a Q&A with the audience following a screening of her recent film, “Resurrection.”
While back in Lincoln, Lenosky also met with students in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, as well as local high school students from Lincoln Public Schools’ Arts and Humanities Focus Program.
28 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
EMA students work at VR experience at Tribeca Film Festival
Lincoln, Neb.--Eight emerging media arts students traveled to New York City to work at the premiere of Marshmallow Laser Feast’s “Evolver” at the Tribeca Film Festival’s immersive festival in June.
“Evolver” is a collective virtual reality experience that drops audiences deep inside the landscape of a body, following the flow of oxygen through our branching ecosystem, to a single “breathing” cell. It becomes clear that breath not only sparks life, but also connects us to the natural world through the cycle of respiration.
28 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
Twomey presents Three Stage Drawing Transfer research at SIGGRAPH
Lincoln, Neb.--Robert Twomey, assistant professor of emerging media arts in the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, presented his research project, “Three Stage Drawing Transfer” at SIGGRAPH in August.
SIGGRAPH is the premier conference for computer graphics and interactive techniques worldwide. The conference showcases new technologies and applications.
In addition to presenting and publishing his research, Twomey also showed Three Stage Drawing Transfer in the art gallery program at the conference.
28 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
First EMA study abroad course takes students to London
Lincoln, Neb.--Eleven students in the Emerging Media Arts program in the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts traveled to London last May for the study abroad course, “Story Abroad: Future Fictions, London, U.K.,” led by Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Ash Eliza Smith with Carson Center Founding Director Megan Elliott.
“We were using the city as a kind of laboratory,” Smith said. “The city is very generous with giving lots of material, stories and viewpoints of the world. It was a total immersion out in the streets of London every day.”
22 Sep 2022
Fleming co-creates groundbreaking ‘The Wilds’
Lincoln, Neb.--“I think what audiences can be sure to expect is a very engaging event that has a lot of immersive qualities; is highly experimental; is sonic, kinetic and visual; and touches upon both our most primary, innate being and our potential in an uncertain future.”
This is the description of “The Wilds” by Assistant Professor of Emerging Media Arts Jesse Fleming, who created this groundbreaking new performance experience with acclaimed choreographer Laurel Jenkins and Grammy-nominated producer/composer Lewis Pesacov.
21 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
Nebraska Rep’s ‘ShakesFear’ returns Oct. 13
Lincoln, Neb.--The Nebraska Repertory Theatre’s “ShakesFear at the Haunted Temple” returns Oct. 13-30 in the Studio Theatre for a scary immersive theatre experience.
For showtimes and ticket information, visit https://nebraskarep.org. Shows run every 15 minutes.
16 Sep 2022 By Kathe C. Andersen
Korff School presents ‘Words Like Freedom’ vocal recital
Lincoln, Neb.—The Glenn Korff School of Music presents a vocal recital titled “Words Like Freedom” on Friday, Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
The concert is free and open to the public. All the works on the concert are composed by Black artists.
The performers include Jamie Reimer, soprano, the Richard H. Larson Distinguished Professor of Music (Voice), and guest artists Byron Jones, baritone, and Stacie Haneline, piano.
The program includes two world premieres: “Words Like Freedom” by Shawn Okpebholo and “Undoing Poems” by André Myers.