12 Mar 2019 By Brian G Reetz
YouTube helped bring Seung-Kyung Baek to the GKSOM
YouTube’s reach and wealth of information is truly mind-blowing. You can watch videos about anything including how to make your favorite food, view gamers actually playing your favorite video game and of course, listen to music.
YouTube is also what helped bring Seung-Kyung Baek to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. What, you might say? How is that possible?
Here’s how:
11 Mar 2019
Saxophone Quartets performances combined into one night
LINCOLN, Neb.— The Glenn Korff School of Music’s Saxophone Quartets performances have been combined into one night, Tuesday, April 9 at 7:30 p.m. in the Westbrook Recital Hall.
It was previously scheduled for both Monday, April 8 and Tuesday, April 9.
For a full listing of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music events, visit music.unl.edu.
07 Mar 2019
Solo Competition winners in the spotlight at Symphony Orchestra recital
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music’s Symphony Orchestra Student Soloist Night (featuring winners of the 2018-19 Undergraduate and Graduate Solo Competitions) will take place on Thursday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall.
06 Mar 2019
2nd Annual Arts Advocacy Day is March 13
Lincoln, Neb.--The 2nd annual Arts Advocacy Day at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will take place on Wednesday, March 13 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Lied Commons at 12th and R streets. The events is free and open to students, faculty, staff and community members.
The goal of the event is to celebrate student artwork, as well as expose the univeristy community to statewide arts advocacy efforts.
04 Mar 2019 By Mekita Rivas for the Nebraska Alumni Association
Blue returns for Alumni Masters Week
Lincoln, Neb.--Last May, Anthony Blue (B.F.A. 2011) nearly missed the opportunity of a lifetime.
“I was taking a nap, woke up to check my email, and got this message asking if I could do this shoot and be there in 40 minutes,” recalled Blue, a freelance photographer and multimedia artist based in New York City. “I felt bad because I was napping and not even prepared. I had to stop at a camera place and rent some more batteries because my camera wasn’t charged.”
02 Mar 2019
UNL Opera Nebraska Tour performance in Ord canceled
LINCOLN, Neb.— The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music’s Opera Nebraska Tour performance, scheduled for tonight (Saturday, March 2) in Ord at the Golden Husk Theatre, has been canceled due to the weather.
For a full listing of University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music events, visit music.unl.edu.
01 Mar 2019
Nebraska Young Artist Awards Statewide High School Invitational opens March 1
Lincoln, Neb.--"The Statewide High School Invitational Exhibition” opens Friday, March 1 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall.
The exhibition, which is part of the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts’ Nebraska Young Artist Awards (NYAA) visual arts component and sponsored by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Art, Art History & Design, runs March 1-12. A reception will be held on Friday, March 8 from 6-8 p.m. in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery.
28 Feb 2019
Theatrix presents 'Speech & Debate'
Lincoln, Neb.--Theatrix, the student-run theatre company within the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, continues its 2018-2019 season with Speech & Debate, written by Stephen Karam and directed by University of Nebraska student, Ethan Greenlee.
Performances are 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 and March 1-2 and 2 p.m. on March 3. All performances take place in the Lab Theatre in the Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Speech & Debate contains mature content that may not be suitable for all audiences.
28 Feb 2019
Art historian Mazow presents next Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture on “Edward Hopper’s ‘Hotel Consciousness’”
Lincoln, Neb.—Art Historian Leo G. Mazow will present the next Hixson-Lied Visiting Scholar Lecture on Wednesday, March 13 at 5:30 p.m. in the Sheldon Museum of Art’s auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Mazow will be discussing “Edward Hopper’s ‘Hotel Consciousness.’” He will consider Edward Hopper’s iconic painting “Room in New York,” which is owned by the Sheldon, alongside his commercial work for hotel trade journals.
His book, “Hopper’s Hotels,” explores the hotel, motel and boarding house subjects of Hopper’s body of work.
27 Feb 2019
Moran Woodwind Quintet to perform ‘Modern American Masterworks’
LINCOLN, Neb.— On Wednesday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Glenn Korff School of Music’s Kimball Recital Hall, the Moran Woodwind Quintet presents a recital titled “Modern American Masterworks”, with works by American composers Alec Wilder, Amanda Harberg, and John Steinmetz. Steinmetz’s work, titled What’s Going On, written in 2018, explores layering of simple musical lines, based on the melodic interval of a third.