20 Sep 2015
Ceramics alum is part of Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour Oct. 3-4
Lincoln, Neb.--Amy Smith (MFA 2000) is among the ceramic artists featured in the Omaha North Hills Pottery Tour, an annual event featuring 18 local and national clay artists with stops at four working studios.Easily done in a day, pottery tourists can meet up with nationally recognized clay artists and their works at four stops located between Omaha and Herman, Nebraska. The tour runs Oct. 3 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Oct. 4 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
20 Sep 2015
Chiara String Quartet’s opening concert set for September 25
LINCOLN, Neb.— On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 7:30pm, the Chiara String Quartet will be performing the first concert of the 2015-2016 Hixson-Lied Concert Series at Kimball Recital Hall (11th and R Streets). The program, titled Brahms by Heart, will include Brahms’ String Quartet Op. 51, No. 1 in C minor; his String Quartet Op. 51, No. 1 in A minor; and his String Quartet Op. 67 in B-flat Major played entirely from memory.
20 Sep 2015
Pat Hazell to present next Carson Lecture Sept. 25
Lincoln, Neb.--Comedian and former “Seinfeld” writer Pat Hazell will present the next Carson Lecture on Friday, Sept. 25.
Hazell’s Carson Lecture will be at 3:30 p.m. in Howell Theatre, which is located on the first floor of the Temple Building, on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s City Campus at 12th and R sts. The event is free and open to the public, but a free ticket is required for entry. Reserve your free tickets at https://go.unl.edu/theatretix.
19 Sep 2015
Collaboration key in upcoming vocal recital
LINCOLN, Neb.— University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music’s Jamie Reimer, soprano, and Kevin Hanrahan, tenor, will collaborate with guest pianist Matthew Larson in a vocal recital of German Lieder by Robert and Clara Schumann on Thursday, September 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
These composers (husband and wife) are pillars in the solo vocal repertoire tradition. Repertoire includes Dichterliebe, Liebst du um Schönheit, and the Op. 78 duets.
18 Sep 2015
Theatrix opens season with 'Facing East'
Lincoln, Neb,--Theatrix, a student-run theatre company within the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, will begin its season with the play "Facing East" by Carol Lynn Pearson.Chadwick Taylor, a second-year MFA directing student at UNL, will be directing the play.
Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 1, 2 and 3, and at 2 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Lab Theatre third floor of the Temple Building.
18 Sep 2015
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists in Ceramics to present lectures Sept. 22
Lincoln, Neb.--The Department of Art and Art History's Clay Club, with support from the Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Series, presents three emerging artists in ceramics as guest artists: Bri Murphy, Jana Evans and Lauren Karle. The three artists will give consecutive lectures beginning at 2:30 p.m. on Sept. 22 in Richards Hall Rm. 218. The lectures are free and open to the public.
10 Sep 2015
Director Bob Byington will be at the Ross Sept. 25
Lincoln, Neb.--The Norman A. Geske Cinema Showcase Presents Director Bob Byington who will be appearing at the Friday, Sept. 25 opening night screening of 7 CHINESE BROTHERS at 7:30 p.m. for a question and answer session with the audience.
"[Jason Schwartzman] smarms his way through Bob Byington's very funny 7 CHINESE BROTHERS as if the pic had been drawn up especially for him."—John DeFore, Variety.
08 Sep 2015
The Alloy Orchestra returns to the Ross Sept. 19
Lincoln, Neb.--The Alloy Orchestra returns to The Ross on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 7 p.m. performing their original score to the newly restored 1929 documentary classic MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA by Dziga Vertov. Further details are available at www.TheRoss.org, by consulting your newspaper, or by calling the MRRMAC film information line at (402) 472-5353.
03 Sep 2015
From Husker to American Ninja Warrior: Graff competes on hit NBC show
Lincoln, Neb.--Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film Alumna and Professional Stuntwoman Jessie Graff (B.A. 2007) competed this summer on the NBC television show, “American Ninja Warrior,” becoming the only woman to qualify for the Las Vegas finals, which began airing on Aug. 31.This was Graff’s second time competing on “American Ninja Warrior,” but her first time qualifying for the national finals in Las Vegas. Only those competitors who place in the top 15 of their regional finals make it to the final round in Las Vegas.
01 Sep 2015
Clinton to present Three Musical Postcards from Vienna
LINCOLN, Neb.— University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Hixson-Lied Professor of Piano Mark Clinton will present Three Musical Postcards from Vienna during his faculty recital Thursday, September 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
“The recital represents three very distinct musical “snapshots” from Vienna (Schubert in 1823, Brahms in 1861, and Schoenberg in 1909),” Clinton said. “Each of the three works holds an important place in the canon that we call the standard piano repertoire.”