For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://www.unl.edu/finearts.
• Nebraska National Collegiate Juried Art Exhibition. Sept. 6-27 in the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Opening reception: First Friday, Sept. 6 from 6-8 p.m. in the gallery. The Dan and Barbara Howard Awards will be announced shortly after 6 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 12:30-4:30 p.m. The Nebraska National features the work of the best undergraduate student artists from across the nation. This year's exhibition includes painting, drawing and sculpture.
• Clark Potter, viola; Kate Butler, mezzo-soprano; Ann Chang, piano; and David Neely, violin. Sept. 8 at 3 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Free. Presenting the music of English composer and violist Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979). To be performed is Clarke's prize-winning "Viola Sonata;" "Dumka" (Duo Concertante for Violin and Viola with Piano); and two sets of songs: "Irish Country Songs" for Voice and Violin (arranged for Viola by Potter) and "Three Old English Songs" for voice and violin.
• Rebecca Fischer, violin. Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Free. Fischer's program includes 6 Fantasies for Solo Violin by Georg Telemann and "Kafka Songs" (selections) by Lisa Bielawa for singing violinist.
• ASCAP New Musical Theatre and Festival, Sept. 10-13. Free and open to the public. Visit http://www.liedcenter.org for a full schedule and to register.
• Carson Lecture: Wil Shriner. Sept. 13 at 3:30 p.m. Howell Theatre in the Temple Building. Free, but tickets required. Tickets available at unltheatretickets.com while supplies last.
• Jamie Reimer, soprano. Sept. 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Free.
• Leonard Bernstein's Music for Brass. Sept. 22 at 3 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. Leonard Bernstein completed his suite of brass pieces on April 8, 1959. They were written for members of the New York Philharmonic and received their premier at Carnegie Hall. The pieces were commissioned by the Juilliard Musical Foundation. This set of pieces is rarely performed as a set and are all influenced by Bernstein's love of jazz. Each member of the brass faculty (K. Craig Bircher, Alan Mattingly, Scott Anderson and Craig Fuller) will perform a solo sonata accompanied by Michael Cotton in the second half of the program.
• Trans-Nebraska Players. Sept. 28 at 3 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. Featuring Franziska Brech, flute (UNK); James Margetts, piano (Chadron State); David Neely, violin (UNL); Clark Potter, viola (UNL); and Noah Rogoff, cello (UNK). They will be performing works by Diamond, Janitsch, Bonis and the Nebraska premier of a commissioned work by Maria Newman.
• William McMullen. Sept. 29 at 3 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Free. McMullen will be performing all works for oboe by British composers and will be joined by pianist Catherine Herbener. The five works will include Thomas Vincent's "Sonata op. 1, No. 6," Malcolm Arnold's "Sonatina," York Bowen's "Sonata, op. 85," Andrew Downes, "Idyll: In the Gardens of Burdwan" and Elizabeth Lutyens' "Presages for oboe solo."
• Diane Barger, clarinet. Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Free. "Duos, Dances and Other Delights." Barger will be performing works she played in Assisi, Italy, at the International Clarinet Association's ClarinetFest® by Giacomo Panizza, William Bolcom and Amilcare Ponchielli; those works, in addition to the short clarinet duo, Little Cabbage, are works she will be performing on E-flat clarinet (most often heard as an orchestral instrument rather than a solo instrument). The last half of the program features a delightful work by Paul Reade based on music used in the 13-part British Broadcasting Corporation television series from 1987, "The Victorian Kitchen Garden", and a duo clarinet sonata by Gary Schocker (both of which she will be performing on B-flat clarinet). Denise Gainey, Associate Professor of Clarinet from the University of Alabama-Birmingham, will be her clarinet duo partner on the Sheng, Ponchielli and Schocker duos. Mark Clinton, piano, will join her on the Sheng duo.
• University of Nebraska Brass Quintet. Sept. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general/$3 students and seniors available at the door. The program includes a selection of original compositions from the 20th Century, including the opus 65 Quintet by Jan Koetsier, the Suite Francais by Eugene Bozza, Andrew Previn's Four Outings for Brass and one of the first original compositions for the New York Brass Quintet by Collier Jones. The program will also include Prayerdance by Omaha composer Margo Romig.