For a full listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• March 1: Play with the Chiaras. 7 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 119. Free and open to the public.
• March 2: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Robert Bubp Lecture. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Bubp is associate professor of art and design at Wichita State University. his current projects include research into traditions and local politics of street vending in different cultures.
• March 2-4 and 7-12: University Theatre presents "This Random World." Performances are 7:30 p.m. March 2-4 and March 7-11 and 2 p.m. on March 12. Studio Theatre, first floor of the Temple Building. Tickets: $18 general, $16 faculty/staff/seniors and $12 students with ID, available at the door. For advance tickets, contact the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or buy online at http://go.unl.edu/theatretix. Have you ever wondered with whom you are traveling a parallel path through this world, but you didn’t even notice? Paul Steger directs a comedy of missed connections.
• March 5: Evening of Choirs. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link. Evening of Choirs includes the All-Collegiate Choir, the University Chorale and the Varsity Chorus.
• March 6: Large Brass Ensembles. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Recital Hall Rm. 199. Free and open to the public. he featured ensembles include the Husker Horn Choir, the UNL Tuba and Euphonium Ensemble and the Nebraska Trombone Ensemble.
• March 7: Symphonic Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link. 2016 was a year of significant public and personal loss and change for many people. With their program titled "Transitions," conducted by Tony Falcone, the Symphonic Band musically reflects on the concepts of letting go and moving forward. Music by Anthony O’Toole, Richard Wagner, Aaron Perrine, David Maslanka, Jay Ungar, and the late Karel Husa will be featured.
• March 8: Wind Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The Wind Ensemble is the university’s premiere concert band.
• March 9: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist & Scholar Rob Forbes Lecture. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Forbes is a designer and entrepreneur. He has held executive positions at numerous retail companies, but is best known as the Founder of Design Within Reach (1998) and PUBLIC Bikes (2010).
• March 9: Jazz Orchestra & Big Band. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• March 10-24: Nebraska Young Artist Awards and the Statewide High School Invitational Exhibition. Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall. Opening reception on Friday, March 10 from 6-8 p.m., where the visual art winners of the Nebraska Young Artist Awards will be announced.
• March 12: Chamber Singers. 3 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• March 13: University of Nebraska Brass Quintet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public.
• March 14: Symphony Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• March 15: Faculty Recital: Jonah Sirota, viola. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link. Sirota is Research Associate Professor of Viola and Artist-in-Residence as a member of the Chiara String Quartet.
• March 15-17: Theatrix presents Women's Week Staged Reading Series. 7:30 p.m. each night. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of the Temple Building. Tickets: $7 available one hour prior to the performance at the door or in advance online at http://go.unl.edu/theatretix.
• March 16: University Singers. 7:30 p.m. Boys Town's Dowd Chapel in Omaha (13943 Dowd Dr, Boys Town, Nebraska). Free and open to the public.
• March 17: Faculty Recital: Greg Beaver, cello. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. Beaver is Research Associate Professor of Cello and Artist-in-Residence as a member of the Chiara String Quartet.
• March 27: A Celebration of American Song. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general or $3 students/seniors, available at the door. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the concert for the link.
• March 29: Chiara String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults/$10 seniors/$5 students, available at the door. For advance ticket sales, contact the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747. Their program is titled "Beyond Their Years." A celebration of mature younger voices, this program features Mendelssohn's gratifying String Quartet in A minor, Op. 13, written when the composer was only 18 years old, as well as the winner of the 2016 Play with the Chiaras Competition, a current Glenn Korff School of Music student who will prove, through two rounds of judging, their readiness to perform on the Hixson-Lied Concert Series stage.