29 Mar 2018
Moran Woodwind Quintet performance includes World Premiere
LINCOLN, Neb.— The Moran Woodwind Quintet’s upcoming recital will be on Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Westbrook Recital Hall, and will feature the premiere of a new woodwind quintet by California bassoonist and composer, John Steinmetz, titled “All the Difference”. The work was commissioned by the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Cast in four movements, the piece explores and exploits the variety of sounds available to a woodwind quintet.
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27 Mar 2018 By Kathe C. Andersen
Carson School students to perform first-ever English translation of 'La capeadora'
Lincoln, Neb.--In April, Associate Professor of Theatre Ian Borden and five students from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film will travel to the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre Conference in El Paso, Texas, to perform a translation of “La capeadora” for the first time ever in English.
“La capeadora,” written by Luis Quiñones de Benavente, is an entremés or short, comic theatrical performances of one act, performed on their own or in conjunction with longer works from the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain.
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27 Mar 2018
Obituary | Ariel Bybee
Lincoln, Neb.--Former Glenn Korff School of Music Artist-in-Residence and Associate Professor of Voice Ariel Bybee, 75, died March 20 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Bybee was a renowned opera singer, according to Opera News, “a prominent mezzo at the Metropolitan Opera for 18 seasons.” She was also distinguished as a soloist, voice teacher, university professor and opera director.
Bybee taught in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's Glenn Korff School of Music from 1998-2008 and saw the opera program grow and improve during that time.
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27 Mar 2018
Graphic design senior wins poster contest for March for Our Lives
Lincoln, Neb.--Natalie Dettmer, a senior art major in the School of Art, Art History & Design from Lincoln, won a national poster contest sponsored by Amplifier and Adobe Project 1324 to create posters for the March for Our Lives event in Washington, D.C., on March 24. The march was organized to bring attention to the issue of ending gun violence in response to the February shooting at Florida’s Stoneman Douglas High School.
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26 Mar 2018
An Evening of Cello highlights students at Glenn Korff School of Music
LINCOLN, Neb.— Come hear from the cello students from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music as they present An Evening of Cello on Friday, April 6 at 5:30 p.m. in Westbrook Recital Hall.
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26 Mar 2018
Art at Cedar Point taking residency apps through March 31
Lincoln, Neb.--Art at Cedar Point is currently taking applications for its artist in residence program and enrolling students in its summer course offering.
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26 Mar 2018
Doctoral student to premiere her first opera
Elysia Arntzen, a third-year Doctor of Musical Arts student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music, will have her first-ever opera premiere – The Cask of Amontillado, on Saturday, March 31 at 7 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.
The Cask of Amontillado is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It’s about a man who gets revenge on another man, who has insulted him. The original story is only about five pages long, and it is unclear exactly what the two men were fighting about or who they are.
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22 Mar 2018
Prague Spring 50 concerts scheduled for April 4
LINCOLN, Neb.— A trio of University of Nebraska–Lincoln performance groups will play music by Czech composers in a 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 4 concert in Kimball Recital Hall. The concert, “Prague Spring 50: From Dvorak to Husa, and Beyond,” will feature the UNL Wind Ensemble, directed by Carolyn Barber; the University of Nebraska Faculty Brass Quintet; and the Chiara String Quartet with pianist Mark Clinton.
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22 Mar 2018
Nebraska Repertory Theatre presents one-night only 'The Rep's Rising Stars'
Lincoln, Neb.--The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, the state’s only regional professional theatre, associated with the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts, continues its first year-round season March 30 with a one-night only celebration of Johnny Carson School student work with "The Rep's Rising Stars."
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22 Mar 2018
Follow the Baton: The Story of the Wagner Siegfried Idyll Baton
Many music-lovers know the famous story of Richard Wagner's birthday present to his beloved wife, Cosima – the performance of a new composition in the stairwell outside her bedroom on Christmas morning, 1870. Those scholars who have read Cosima's diary might also know that the baton Wagner used to conduct the ensemble was engraved by a local artisan to memorialize the event: the date of the performance inscribed along one face and the title of the work, Tribschener Idyll, along the opposite side.
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