For an updated listing of upcoming events, please visit our website at http://arts.unl.edu.
• Jan. 24: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Doug Casebeer. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Casebeer is the Associate Director and Artistic Director for Ceramics at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center. He is also Chair of the Artist in Residency Program. He is in his 32nd year of running workshops at the Ranch. He received his M.F.A. in ceramics from Alfred University and his B.F.A. from Wichita State University.
• Jan. 25: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Kris Graves. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Graves is an artist and publisher based in New York and London. He received his B.F.A. in Visual Arts from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College and has been published and exhibited globally.
• Jan. 25: Faculty Recital: John Bailey, flute; and Christopher Marks, organ. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Free. This concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. Featured on the program will be American composer Daniel Pinkham’s "Miracles for flute and organ," based on five miracles of Jesus from the New Testament. The 17-minute work, first performed in 1978 by Boston Symphony principal flutist Doriot Anthony Dwyer and organist Yuko Hayashi, is colorful, inventive and evocative. Other works on the program include an Italian baroque sonata by Leonardo Vinci (no relation to the famous artist and inventor); a Suite by Paris Conservatory flutist, conductor and composer Philippe Gaubert; a work for solo flute by Leipzig composer Sigfrid Karg-Elert; and the Ballade by Swiss composer Frank Martin, which he wrote for the 1939 Geneva international flute competition.
• Jan. 25: Flyover New Music Series. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building. Free.
• Jan. 29: Celebration of American Song. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door.
• Jan. 31: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Jenny Polak and Dread Scott. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Polak makes site/community responsive art that reframes immigrant-citizen relations, amplifying demands for social justice. Scott makes revolutionary art to propel history forward. In 1989, the entire U.S. Senate denounced and outlawed his artwork and President Bush declared it "disgraceful" because of its use of the American flag. The couple's collaborations on state violence and transgression complement their solo work.
• Jan. 31: Chiara String Quartet. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $20 adults, $10 seniors and $5 students. For advanced ticket sales, contact the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747.
• Feb. 6: Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: $5 general and $3 students/seniors, available at the door. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link.
• Feb. 10: Double Reed Day. All-day. Westbrook Music Building. The guest oboist this year is Aaron Hill, adjunct assistant professor of oboe at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. For more information or to register, visit https://go.unl.edu/bhe9.
Feb. 16-17: Graduate Audition Days for the Glenn Korff School of Music. For more information or to sign up for an audition, visit https://go.unl.edu/zuwq.
• Feb. 21: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Sarah McEneaney. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. McEneaney’s paintings, drawings and prints are in many public collections, including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Woodmere Art Museum, The Neuberger Museum SUNY Purchase, Rhode Island School of Design, Mills College Museum of Art, The Hood Museum at Dartmouth College, Johnson and Johnson and Microsoft Corporation.
• Feb. 22-25: Theatrix presents "Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom" by Jennifer Haley and directed by Kaitlin Triplett. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22-24 and 2 p.m. Feb. 25. Lab Theatre, 3rd floor of Temple Building. Tickets are $7 each and available in advance at http://go.unl.edu/theatretix or at the door. In a suburban subdivision with identical houses, parents find their teenagers addicted to an online horror video game. The game setting? A subdivision with identical houses. The goal? Smash through an army of zombies to escape the neighborhood for good. But as the line blurs between virtual and reality, both parents and players realize that fear has a life of its own. Intense adult themes, strong language.
• Feb. 23-24: Honors Spring Strings. All-day. Lied Commons. The Honors Spring Strings Festival welcomes all grades of high school musicians. Students work directly with the Glenn Korff School of Music's award-winning string faculty, including the Chiara String Quartet, David Neely, Clark Potter, Karen Becker and Hans Sturm. Featuring special guest conductor Steven Trinkle, conductor and music director of the Powder River Symphony. For more information or to register, visit https://go.unl.edu/mhnn.
• Feb. 23-24: Glenn Korff School of Music Undergraduate Audition Days. Westbrook Music Building. All aspiring music and dance majors/minors are invited to audition for admission to the Glenn Korff School of Music. For more information or to sign up for an audition time, visit https://go.unl.edu/ygxj.
• Feb. 23 and 25: Opera: "Cosi fan tutte." Performances at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 23 and 3 p.m. on Feb. 25. Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets are $20 adults, $10 students/seniors, available in advance through the Lied Center Box Office at (402) 472-4747 or at the door. The opera’s full title Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti means "Thus do they all, or The School for Lovers." The story begins with a wily old cynic and experimental philosopher, Don Alfonso, who determines to overturn the perfect, formulaic worlds of two young men, named Ferrando and Gugliemo.
• Feb. 27: Flyover New Music Series. 7:30 p.m. Westbrook Music Building. Free and open to the public. The concert will also be live webcast. Visit http://music.unl.edu the day of the performance for the link. The Flyover New Music Series is the new music series from the composition studio at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Glenn Korff School of Music. The series is administered and overseen by composition faculty and students.
• Feb. 27: University Singers. 7:30 p.m. First Plymouth Church, 2000 D St. in Lincoln. Free and open to the public. Directed by Professor and Director of Choral Activities Peter Eklund.
• Feb. 28: Hixson-Lied Visiting Artist Lecture: Trevor Amery. 5:30 p.m. Richards Hall Rm. 15. Free and open to the public. Amery represented the U.S. at the 2012 Kathmandu International Art Festival and has exhibited at such venues as Kiasma, the Skanzen Museum, MAMU Galerie, Moore College, and Gallery Protocol. He is currently exhibiting at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and is an artist in residence (A.I.R.) at Bemis in Omaha.