12 Mar 2014
Glenn Korff School of Music family pulls together for Foley
The Westbrook Music Building in the Glenn Korff School of Music is known for its closeness. The practice rooms are filled to the brim throughout the day – morning and night. Students sit, study and converse on the floor or benches all times of the day too. It’s like a tight-knit family.
And when one of them within the building/school/family is going through something everyone pulls together.
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.
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.
27 Feb 2014
Student Ensembles take the stage for the first half of March
The month of March is full of student ensembles at the Glenn Korff School of Music starting with the inaugural Guitar Ensemble on Sunday.
Here is a look at each of the upcoming student ensembles:
25 Feb 2014
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts is seeking Ambassadors
The Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts is currently seeking qualified applicants to serve as Ambassadors for the 2014-2015 school year.