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JOHNNY CARSON THEATER, 7:30PM
Cypress Quartet to Perform at
Lied
Now here's a string quartet with
the Gen X difference. The twenty- and thirty-somethings of
the Cypress String Quartet are devising ingenious ways to render
even the most familiar sounds newly exciting. Borrowing from
the African-American practice of "call and response," the quartet
annually commissions a contemporary composer to "respond" to
the "call" of selections from the standard repertoire.
Across musical, social, and historical boundaries, the musicians
make connections that refresh the familiar and welcome the
new. Somehow they manage to make it all entertaining as well
as thought-provoking. This performance has been co-commissioned
by the Lied Center and the University of Kansas Lied Center
for Performing Arts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of
the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
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THROUGH SATURDAY NOV. 6
Engage. Connect. Balance. Essay Deadline
Extended
The entry deadline for the 'Engage. Connect.
Balance.' essay contest, sponsored by Subway, has been extended through
Nov. 6. The contest will award $1,000 each to authors of the top
five essays, as judged by members of the Chancellor's Leadership
Class.
To enter, explain in 250 words or fewer how you have been helped
by a UNL professor to engage, connect and balance in order to better
succeed in school. For more information, including an online entry
form, go to engage.unl.edu.
ENGAGE.UNL.EDU | UNDERGRADUATE
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WICK ALUMNI CENTER, 7:30PM
Czech diplomat to discuss 1989's
'Velvet Revolution'
Vratislav Janda, deputy chief
of mission of the Czech Embassy in Washington, D.C., will speak Nov.
4 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in a talk that will mark
the 15th anniversary of the "Velvet Revolution" in the former Czechoslovakia
in 1989.
Janda's talk will focus on the past 15
years since the generally nonviolent revolution, which played a significant
part in undermining communist regimes in several central and eastern
European countries.
The lecture is free and open to the public and will begin at approximately
7:30 p.m. in the Wick Alumni Center, 1520 R St. (following a reservation-only
dinner).
The "Velvet Revolution" began Nov. 17, 1989, when Czech students
gathered to commemorate a protest held on the same day 50 years earlier
in opposition to Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. The student demonstration
rapidly turned into a protest against the oppressive communist regime.
Janda, the second-ranking official in the Czech Republic's Washington
embassy, received his law degree from Charles University in Prague
in 1989. As a journalist, he has served as the Middle East desk of
the Czechoslovak News Agency, a Gulf War correspondent for the Czechoslovak
News Agency in Saudi Arabia, the head of the foreign desk for Reflex
Magazine in such countries as Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria
and Bosnia. As a diplomat, he has served in Czech embassies in Egypt,
Yemen, Jordan and Iran; and as head of the NATO unit for the Czech
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He graduated from the Centre for Security
Policy in Geneva, Switzerland, in June 2000, and was the deputy director
of the Security Policy Department, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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FILM CREW RETURNS TODAY
Reality Show To Continue Shooting
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Tommy Lee performing at the Nebraska vs. Baylor game
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NBC is currently shooting footage for
a proposed reality show featuring Tommy Lee on the University of
Nebraska Lincoln campus. Filming has taken place at various locales
around campus during the past month and the film crew returns today
after a two-week hiatus to continue filming.
UNL is a university with first-rate academics, championship athletics
and world-class research, and by allowing UNL to be the background
scene for this program, we are inviting a nationwide audience to
learn about UNL's campus, programs and professors. The segments that
tell the UNL story depict our students, faculty and classroom scenarios
in a positive light. For more information, please see the full Tommy
Lee Frequently Asked Questions list linked below.
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STUDIO THEATER, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Continues Theatric
Run of Woyzeck
UNL Theatre's University Theatre presents
the world premiere of a new translation of the Georg Buchner play Woyzeck. Dr.
William Grange, professor of Theatre Arts at UNL and a German Drama
specialist, translated the play from the German during the summer. Grange
also directs the production, with performances on November 3, 4,
5, 6 at 7:30 PM. All performances are in the Studio Theatre, third
floor Temple Building at 12th and R Streets. Tickets are available
at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th Street, Monday through
Friday 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM and one hour prior to performance in the
Studio Theatre lobby. The Ticket Office may be reached at 472-4747
or 800-432-3231. Tickets for the sneak preview are $5.00 and may
only be purchased at the door. Regular performance tickets are $14.00
regular, $12.00 faculty/staff and senior citizen, $10.00 student. The
production is not recommended for children.
Woyzeck tells the story of Franz
Woyzeck, the servant of a German captain. Woyzeck leads the life
of the poor in the 1800s. Considered by the upper classes, because
of his lot in life, to be amoral and stupid, Woyzeck tries to think,
to be a philosopher, but is chided for his attempt. In order to
earn additional money, Woyzeck allows the Doctor to experiment on
him. The latest test is eating nothing but peas in order to prove
some unstated scientific premise. To add to his trials, Woyzeck
discovers his girlfriend Marie, with whom he has had a son, is having
an affair. Stripped of all humanity, Woyzeck resorts to desperate
measures.
Buchner wrote Woyzeck sometime between 1835 and his untimely
death of typhoid in 1837. His work on the play was incomplete at
his death; the manuscripts consisting of several incomplete drafts. No
one really knows, had Buchner lived beyond his twenty-four years,
how he might have arranged the play's scenes. The manuscripts were
unpublished and largely unread until the 1870s.
Dr. Grange comments that "the play is a fragment, and it will always
remain so." The play has been translated several times and has even
been made into an opera. Said Grange, An "important reason for Woyzeck's popularity
in recent decades is the perceived victimhood of the title character." The
cast of seventeen undergraduates is led by Ivan Lovegren as Franz,
and Courtney Pearson as Marie. The Captain is played by William
Heafer, and the Doctor by Robert Krecklow. Additional cast members
include Darin Hemmer, Erin Dinnenn, Sean Connealy, Jordan Warren,
Adam O'Rourke, Ryan Lueders, Misty Madden, Gerald Temple, Brady Leffler,
Zachary Schmahl, Matt Miller, Kestrel Hauptmann, and Rachel Miller.
The tech/design team is made up of faculty members Ed Stauffer (scenery)
and Heath Lane (technical direction), graduate students Cassie Vorbach
(lights), Jenny Ploughman (makeup) and Jeff O'Brien (sound/composer),
and undergraduates Ashley Evans (costumes) and Mark Romano (stage
manager).
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NEBRASKA UNION, 3:30PM
Women's Studies Lecture - 'LGBQT/Sexuality
Studies: Planning a Program, Planning Courses'
John C. Younger, University of Kansas
115 AVERY HALL, 3:45PM
Computer Science and Engineering Colloquium
- 'Embedded Reasoning for Highly Reconfigurable Systems'
Markus Fromherz, Palo Alto Research Center
ARCHITECTURE HALL GALLERY, 4:30PM
Fall 2004 Hyde Chair Lecture Series -
'In Progress'
Martin Hogue, professor, Syracuse University
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