25 Aug 2023
41 students selected for new Carson Center cohort
Lincoln, Neb.—Forty-one students, including 28 first-year students and 13 transfer students, have been selected to join the latest cohort of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.
This is the fifth cohort for the center, which opened in the fall of 2019. There will be a total of 136 emerging media arts majors this fall.
While 32 of the 41 students hail from Nebraska, this year’s cohort also includes students from Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New York and South Dakota.
24 Aug 2023
Falcone earns distinguished service award from national honorary band fraternity
Lincoln, Neb.--Tony Falcone, associate director of bands and director of the Cornhusker Marching Band in the Glenn Korff School of Music, received the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal at the Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma National Convention in Orlando in July.
The Distinguished Service to Music Medal is the highest award presented by the national honorary band fraternity. It was instituted in 1963 to honor outstanding individual contributions to bands.
24 Aug 2023
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist series begins Sept. 7 with painter Morales
Lincoln, Neb.--Seven artists will be presenting Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar lectures this fall in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History & Design. The series begins with painter Arely Morales on Thursday, Sept. 7.
The School of Art, Art History & Design’s Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture Series brings notable artists, scholars and designers to Nebraska each semester to enhance the education of students.
23 Aug 2023
Barger’s Amicitia Duo performs Sept. 6
Lincoln, Neb.--The Amicitia Duo, which includes Glenn Korff School of Music professor Diane Barger, E-flat and B-flat clarinets, and University of Alabama at Birmingham professor Denise Gainey, B-flat clarinet, along with Professor of Piano Mark Clinton, will perform in a faculty recital on Wednesday, Sept. 6.
![Fernando Andrades, “Paisaje III [Landscape III],” circa 1973.](https://arts.unl.edu/styles/large/public/images/news/Fernando%20Andrades%20Paisaje.jpeg?itok=yu9VlzXm "Fernando Andrades, “Paisaje III [Landscape III],” circa 1973.")
21 Aug 2023
Student curators organize ‘Mundos Enteros’ exhibition
Lincoln, Neb.--The School of Art, Art History & Design presents “Mundos Enteros [Entire Worlds]: Selections from the Gloria Rodriguez Calero Collection of Puerto Rican Works on Paper,” an exhibition now on display at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall through Sept. 1.
A closing reception for the exhibition will be Friday, Sept. 1 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. Regular gallery hours are Monday-Thursday, 12:00-5:00 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
09 Aug 2023
Clinton receives Steinway Hall of Fame honor
Lincoln, Neb.--Glenn Korff School of Music Professor of Piano Mark Clinton will be inducted into the Steinway & Sons Teacher Hall of Fame at the historic Steinway factory in New York in October.
04 Aug 2023
Cornhusker Marching Band Exhibition is Aug. 18
Lincoln, Neb.--The Cornhusker Marching Band will hold its annual exhibition concert on Friday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. in Memorial Stadium. The event is free and open to the public.
Fans attending the exhibition should enter Memorial Stadium through Gate 3 (southwest entrance) and Gate 11 (northwest entrance). The gates will open at 6 p.m.
04 Aug 2023
Learn to play the piano through Community Piano Experience
Lincoln, Neb.—Have you always wanted to play the piano? Or have you forgotten how to play piano since you were a child? Join Lincoln’s Community Piano Experience (CPE), a group piano class offered as an outreach of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music piano pedagogy program.
This program offers group piano classes that center on helping students develop basic music reading and piano-playing skills. Designed specifically for adults, this program offers classes at beginning and intermediate levels.
03 Aug 2023
White a finalist for The American Prize
Lincoln, Neb.--Tyler White, professor of composition and director of orchestras in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music, is one of 17 finalists for The American Prize in the division of Composers (opera/theater/film/dance-professional division) for his opera “The Gambler’s Son.” Winners will be announced later this year.
25 Jul 2023 By Kristina Jackson, University Communication and Marketing
Carson EMA grads get opportunity of a lifetime through Lola partnership
Lincoln, Neb.--A team of Huskers helped bring “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” to the big screen, part of a growing partnership between the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts and Lola Visual Effects.