30 Sep 2015
'Hey, Kids! Comics!" Exhibition on display through Oct. 23
Lincoln, Neb.--The exhibition “Hey, Kids! Comics!” opens Oct. 9 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall and continues through Oct. 23. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 9 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery.“Hey, Kids! Comics!” is curated by Richard Graham and Bob Hall. Graham is teaching “A History of Comics,” and Hall, a current graduate student and well-known comic artist, is teaching Sequential Drawing.
29 Sep 2015
UNL Symphonic Band presents ‘I Raise My Song To You’
LINCOLN, Neb.— Join the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Symphonic Band, conducted by Prof. Tony Falcone, for their season debut with a program, I Raise My Song To You, on Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kimball Recital Hall.
Music by Leonard Bernstein, Christopher Nelson, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Jeff Krauklis will be featured. Craig Fuller, Professor of Tuba, will also join the Band for Libby Larsen’s Ursa for Tuba and Wind Symphony.
25 Sep 2015
Mozart, Schubert, Franck will be featured by UNL Symphony Orchestra
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music Symphony Orchestra will feature W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture, Franz Schubert’s “Unfinished” Symphony, and Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D minor during its Friday, October 9 performance in the Kimball Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m.
25 Sep 2015
Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist David Kramer presents public lecture Oct. 1
Lincoln, Neb.--The Department of Art and Art History welcomes Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist David Kramer. Kramer will present a free public lecture on Thursday, Oct. 1 at 5:30 p.m. in Richards Hall Rm. 218.Kramer has exhibited throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East. His videos were recently included in Stand Up! at Muse du Pompidou in Paris, and his recent solo show Kramerica! opened two weeks ago at Galerie Tanit in Munich. His videos and Sculptures have been exhibited at both the Whitney Museum and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City.
24 Sep 2015
Contemporary Music Ensemble performance to explore wide range
LINCOLN, Neb.— The purpose of the Contemporary Music Ensemble at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music is to explore the wide range of musical expression and composers that are (for one reason or another) still considered “new,” from the early modernists of the 20th Century to the present day.
23 Sep 2015
UNL Wind Ensemble presents ‘Unending Stream of Life’ Concert
LINCOLN, Neb.— An endangered species, a chanson by Ockeghem, a poem by Rilke, a private remark by Aaron Copland, an exclamation by a Buddhist monk, and a rare specimen of organum by Pérotin: these are the seeds of inspiration from which the music came to life. Karel Husa, Kathryn Salfelder, Morton Lauridsen, Wayne Oquin, David Maslanka, and Ron Nelson each have crafted a facet of a program that reflects the broad spectrum of the human condition.
23 Sep 2015
University Theatre opens season with "Dancing at Lughnasa"
Lincoln, Neb.--University Theatre opens its 2015-2016 in October with Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa.”Performances are Oct. 8-9 and 13-17 at 7:30 p.m. and Oct. 11 and 18 at 2 p.m. in the Studio Theatre, located on the first floor of the Temple Building.
Director Laura Lippman describes “Dancing at Lughnasa” as a “memory play,” told through the narrator, Michael, who was once a part of the world he describes, but has since escaped.
22 Sep 2015
Sturm’s recital to feature 1960s and 70s overlooked jazz gems
LINCOLN, Neb.— Glenn Korff School of Music faculty members Hans Sturm and Tom Larson will present a set of historically overlooked gems from the jazz canon of the 1960s and 70s, including works by Ornette Coleman, Charlie Haden and Sam Rivers in the Westbrook Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus on Tuesday, October 6 at 7:30 p.m.
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.