More than 20 UNL Glenn Korff School of Music student ensembles to perform in April

As the Spring semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln draws to a close, there will be more than 20 student ensemble performances during the month of April as a part of the Glenn Korff School of Music.
As the Spring semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln draws to a close, there will be more than 20 student ensemble performances during the month of April as a part of the Glenn Korff School of Music.

As the Spring semester at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln draws to a close, there will be more than 20 student ensemble performances during the month of April as a part of the Glenn Korff School of Music.

Here is a look at each of the upcoming student ensembles:

Singing Small Festival Performance, April 1, 7 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

Groups include: UNL Vocal Jazz, Pitch Please, Rocktavo, and Chamber Singers and more. Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Women's Choir Festival Performance, April 8, 7 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

Women enrolled in Nebraska high school choral programs are invited to participate in the Nebraska Women's Choral Festival to be held Tuesday, April 8th, on the UNL City Campus. This year our "FAB" FESTIVAL is featuring music FOR, ABOUT, and BY women, and will celebrate the continuing tradition of the power and beauty of women's voices raised in song. Individual choirs may also perform on the final evening concert at 7 p.m. in the Kimball Recital Hall. Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Wet Ink, April 9-10, 7:30 p.m., Westbrook Music Building

WET INK! concerts, featuring original works by student composers, will be April 9-10 at 7:30 pm in Westbrook Recital Hall, Room 119. Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Chamber Singers, April 13, 3 p.m., Nebraska State Capitol

The Chamber Singers will present "Sounding Art at the Capitol" on April 13th, at 3 p.m. in the Capitol Rotunda. This beautiful centerpiece to our state Capitol building is the perfect atmosphere, both visually and acoustically, to perform a broad variety of choral music for chamber chorus. Early music selections such as "Pastime in Good Company" by Henry VIII, will be sung around the space, as well as the double chorus "Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen" by Mendelssohn, and modern works by Argento and Leftridge, written specifically for choral performance in just such a rich, resonant environment. This event moved locations from the Sheldon Museum of Art to the Nebraska State Capitol. Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Large Brass Ensembles, April 14, 7:30 p.m., Westbrook Music Building

The Large Brass Ensembles within the Glenn Korff School of Music will perform a recital at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 14 in the Westbrook Recital Hall. The recital will feature works by well-known composers such as Rachmaninoff, but will also include pieces by younger composers such as James Naigus and UNL composition student Daniel Baldwin. This concert showcases three of the Glenn Korff School of Music brass ensembles: The Husker Horn Choir, directed by Dr. Alan Mattingly; the Nebraska Trombone Ensemble, directed by Dr. Scott Anderson; and the UNL Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble, directed by Professor Craig Fuller. Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Jazz Combos, April 15, 7:30 p.m., Westbrook Music Building

The Jazz Studies Area in the Glenn Korff School of Music at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is pleased to announce its Spring event in Westbrook's Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. This evening of music will feature jazz and popular American standards as well as original compositions by our graduate and undergraduate students. Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Sax Ensembles, April 16, 7:30 p.m., Westbrook Music Building

The masters are missing!! Many of the great composers and their works have been stolen from the orchestra library. They have been reworked and arranged for saxophone. IF YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM THOSE COMPOSER AGAIN, come to the UNL Saxophone Choir Spring Recital, Music Stolen For Saxophone, April 16, 2014 in the Westbrook Recital Hall at 7:30 pm. Here you will hear the UNL Saxophone Choir perform works by, Albinoni, Bach, Baldwin, Beethoven, Debussy, Grainger, Vivaldi and Von Kampen. You won't believe your ears!! Missing this recital would truly be a crime. Tickets: Free and open to the public.

University Singers, April 17, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

On Maundy Thursday, April 17, in Kimball Recital Hall, UNL's University Singers will give a Nebraska premiere of the “London version” of Johannes Brahms's Requiem (also known as the German Requiem or Ein deutsches Requiem). Brahms composed the four-hand piano score at the request of his publisher in 1869, the year after he completed the Requiem's fifth movement (the last to be composed). While this edition is often referred to as the "London version," this title is a bit misleading. Performed with more than 30 of the best professional singers in London and two recognized concert pianists, this now-complete seven-movement July 10, 1871 London premiere version of the Requiem was held in the parlor of the stately high-society English home of Sir Henry Thompson and his wife, the pianist Kate Loder (Lady Thompson). The pianists were Kate Loder and Cipriani Potter and at this performance, they used the four-hand piano score. The chorus sang in a Victorian English translation that is now lost to the ages. That Victorian edition had already been in circulation for over a year at the time of the 1871 performance. Over the past 150 years, it has become apparent through letters written by Brahms himself, that he had always intended the text to be 'audience-friendly' rather than in a language foreign to the listener, a personal version, so to speak, one for those remaining after the loved one’s passing—and most believe that Brahms’s mother’s recent passing inspired the masterpiece. UNL's version is an updated American-English version compiled by conductor and Professor of Music at UNL, Dr. Peter A. Eklund. It omits the frequent Victorian "thee," "thou," "thine," and "thy" references and puts the text in a refined, modern manner. The University Singers will be joined by collaborative artists: Dr. Paul Barnes, the Marguerite Scribante Professor of Music and Co-Area Head for Keyboard and also Dr. Brenda Wristen, Associate Professor of Piano Pedagogy at UNL. They will be on two nine-foot grand pianos downstage. The soloists will be doctoral students in vocal performance at UNL.

Tickets: General Admission $5; Students/Seniors $3.

Percussion Ensemble, April 22, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

Tickets: General Admission $5; Students/Seniors $3.

UNL Jazz Orchestra and UNL Big Band, April 24, 7:30 p.m., Sheldon Museum of Art

Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Evenings of Dance, April 24-25-26, 7:30 p.m., April 27, 3 p.m., Johnny Carson Theatre

Tickets: General Admission $7; Students/Seniors $5, available approx.. 1 hour prior to performance at the door

Wind Ensemble, April 25, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

A tour de force of dazzling colors, intriguing forms, intimate and expansive emotions, manic energy and complete repose, inspiration, desolation, and redemption – all in a single evening featuring Pann's "Slalom," Maslanka's "A Child's Garden of Dreams," Grainger's "Hill Song No. 2," and the Nebraska premiere of Mackey's "The Frozen Cathedral." Truly an event not to be missed. Tickets: General Admission $5; Students/Seniors $3.

ChamberFest, April 27, 1, 4, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

Tickets: General Admission $5; Students/Seniors $3.

Choral Concert (Varsity Men's Chorus, University Women's Chorale, City Campus Choir), April 28, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

Tickets: General Admission $5; Students/Seniors $3.

Graduate Jazz Combos and Vocal Jazz, April 29, 7:30 p.m., Westbrook Music Building

Tickets: Free and open to the public.

Symphonic Band, April 30, 7:30 p.m., Kimball Recital Hall

Tickets: General Admission $5; Students/Seniors $3.

More details at: http://go.unl.edu/o7bv