08 Mar 2014
UNL Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Announces 2014 Nebraska Young Artist Award Winners
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts has announced the winners of the 17th annual Nebraska Young Artist Awards.
The Nebraska Young Artist Awards annually recognize 11th grade students from Nebraska who are gifted and talented in the areas of visual art, dance, music, theatre, and film and new media. These students exemplify the pinnacles of creativity in one of the fine and performing arts.
07 Mar 2014
Potter, Guest Artist McCright performance coming on April 2
UNL Glenn Korff School of Music's Clark Potter, Viola, along with Guest Artist Matthew McCright, Piano, will perform at 7:30 p.m. on April 2 in Kimball Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Music to be performed includes: Bax: Sonata for Viola and Piano; Hindemith: Sonata, Op. 11, No. 4 for Viola and Piano; Vaughan Williams: Romance and Milhaud: Four Visages.
06 Mar 2014
Chiara combines performance, CD release
On Thursday, March 20 at 7:30pm, the Chiara String Quartet will be performing the final concert of their Hixson-Lied Concert Series 2013-2014 Season at Kimball Recital Hall (11th and R Streets). The concert will celebrate their newest album, Brahms by Heart, due out on March 25, 2014, and include Brahms' String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 67, String Quartet in a minor, Op. 51, No. 2, and Sextet in B Flat Major, Op. 18 with violist Clark Potter and cellist Karen Becker.
06 Mar 2014
Moran Woodwind Quintet plans upcoming performance
The Moran Woodwind Quintet, the resident Faculty Quintet at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (John Bailey, flute; William McMullen, oboe; Diane Barger, clarinet; Jeffrey McCray, bassoon and Alan Mattingly, horn), will perform starting at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19 in Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for students/seniors.
The four pieces (in order) include:
Rengaines, which means "old songs"--a light non-standard opener, in which a simple theme is transformed into a march, a polka, a waltz, a romance, a cadenza, etc.
04 Mar 2014
UNL Faculty Jazz Group prepares for upcoming performance
LINCOLN, Neb.— The UNL Glenn Korff School of Music Faculty Jazz Group will present its spring concert at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 18 in Kimball Recital Hall. The event will be featuring works by Bill Mobley, Harold Danko, UNL OTHERMER FELLOW/DMA STUDIES Fellow David Stamps and new works by Tom Larson. The cost is $5 for general admission and $3 for students/seniors.
03 Mar 2014
University Theatre presents 'Really Really' in March
University Theatre presents “Really Really” by Paul Downs Colaizzo and directed by Lecturer Laura Lippman.
“Really Really” premiered at The Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., in 2012 and ran Off-Broadway in a 2013 production directed by David Cromer.
“It’s exciting to work on material that is so current.” Lippman said. “The language reflects the audience that is going to come and see it. It’s perfect for a college campus—the play speaks to that generation.”
The play focuses on what the writer, and others, have dubbed “Generation Me.”
01 Mar 2014
Paul Barnes' faculty recital honors Scribante Professorship
Marguerite Scribante Professor of Piano Paul Barnes presents a faculty recital titled “Homage: A Program of Music Inspired by Music” on Thursday, April 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska–Lincoln city campus. The performance is free and open to the public.
The program also pays homage to Scribante, who endowed his recently awarded professorship in the Glenn Korff School of Music.
01 Mar 2014
Jazz Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis to present public lecture April 14
Jazz Trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis will present a free public lecture titled “Sweet Thunder: Ellington, Shakespeare and the Blues” on Monday, April 14 at 5 p.m. in Love Library Rm. 102.
Marsalis will discuss how Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn translated Shakespearean characters and works into their 1957 jazz suite “Such Sweet Thunder,” his archival research into their compositional processes and his own musical reinterpretation of the suite, released in 2011 as “Sweet Thunder: Duke and Shak.”
28 Feb 2014
The Glenn Korff School of Music presents "At The Threshold"
“AT THE THRESHOLD” is an exciting collaborative performance and community engagement project that is bringing together many artistic forces to reach out to the community in one voice and raise awareness for “Doorways to Hope”; a public art collaboration between Lincoln/Lancaster County Habitat for Humanity and Hildegard Center for the Arts. The concert is scheduled for Sunday, March 9, 2014, 3 p.m. at the Sheldon Museum of Art, Great Hall.
28 Feb 2014
UNL's IAS Brings Multi-disciplinary Artist Richard Move to Lincoln
The Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium at the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln celebrates its fifth annual season this spring with an exploration of “Performing Partnerships: Great American Collaborations of the Stage, ” looking at how artistic partnerships form, what sustains them, and what new hybrid forms are born from them—in American modern dance, musical composition, choral singing, visual arts, and filmmaking.