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Wed, Nov 10, 2004

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NOVEMBER 10, 2004


HOWELL THEATER, 10:30AM
Special Announcement Planned for University

At a campus celebration and announcement 10:30 this morning, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman, Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts Dean Giacomo Oliva and University of Nebraska Foundation President Terry Fairfield will announce a major donation by a notable Nebraska alumnus. The announcement will have a lasting positive impact on students and faculty. The announcement will be held at Howell Theatre in the first floor of the Temple Building, northeast corner of 12th and R streets.
 
Madama Butterfly
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
College of Fine and Performing Arts Presents Puccini's Madama Butterfly

To mark the 100th anniversary of Madama Butterfly, Puccini's most popular opera, UNL is mounting a lavish and faithful production of this tragic story of the love of a beautiful geisha for an American naval officer. The lead role will be sung by guest artist Suzan Hanson. The production will benefit from the first-hand experience of director Ariel Bybee, who performed the role of Suzuki at the Metropolitan Opera.

Lieutenant Pinkerton, sailing around the world in search of pleasure, enters into a non-binding contract to marry the beautiful Butterfly, although he is warned she might not take her vows so lightly as he does. Three years pass and Butterfly faithfully awaits Pinkerton's return to introduce him to the son he knows nothing about. When Pinkerton does arrive, it is with his new American wife. Seeing the unknown lady, Butterfly soon realizes the truth and tells the American lady that Pinkerton may take her son if he will return for him later. Alone with her son, Butterfly stabs herself, as Pinkerton desperately calls, "Butterfly! Butterfly!" He runs into the house, falls on his knees and Butterfly dies in his arms.


COLLEGE OF FINE AND PERFORMING ARTS
 
Tommy Lee
ROCOCO THEATER , THURS 9PM
Tommy Lee Performs Free 'Thank You' Concert

As filming draws to a close for the proposed reality television series starring Tommy Lee, the Rococo Theater will be host to a 'thank you' show for the UNL campus community on Thursday November 11. Lee will be performing along with his band and the show will also feature members of the UNL Marching Band as well as recording artist B.T. Tickets for the show (while they last) are available inside the Nebraska Student Union.

 
 


LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 7:30PM
Emmylou Harris to Perform at Lied

 
Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is truly a modern innovator. For over 30 years, Emmylou has flowed effortlessly between genres achieving popularity in pop, folk, country and now alternative (she duets with singer/songwriter Conor Oberst for several tracks on his forthcoming album). The common bridge is an exquisite vocal style and a gift for discovering the heart of a song.

Born in Birmingham, Alabama on April 2, 1947, the daughter of Walter and Eugenia Harris grew up near Washington, D.C. As a college student in the late 60's, she sang with a local folk duo and eventually moved to Greenwich Village. She played the clubs on the local folk scene occasionally sharing the stage with Jerry Jeff Walker and David Bromberg.

Discovered in 1971 by Chris Hillman, Hillman brought Gram Parsons to hear her sing in a small club in the Washington D.C. area. In 1972, she answered the call from Gram to join him in Los Angeles to work on his first solo album, "GP." After Gram died in 1973, Emmylou went back to the D.C. area and formed a country band, playing with them until her 1975 major label debut, Pieces of the Sky, when she formed the first version of the legendary Hot Band. Over the years the Hot Band included world class players such as Albert Lee, Rodney Crowell and Hank DeVito.

Emmylou has been called by Billboard Magazine a "truly venturesome, genre-transcending pathfinder." Throughout her career, she has been admired for her talent as an artist and song connoisseur, but it was with her 2000 album, Red Dirt Girl, for which Ms. Harris was awarded her tenth (out of eleven total to date) Grammy, that she revealed she is also a gifted songwriter. Continuing the trend with her September 2003 album, Stumble Into Grace, Emmylou wrote ten of the album's eleven tracks. Though Emmylou is the most admired and influential woman in contemporary country music, her scope extends far beyond it. She has recorded with such diverse artists as Ryan Adams, Beck, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Bob Dylan, Tammy Wynette, Neil Young, The Chieftains, Lyle Lovett, Roy Orbison, The Band, Willie Nelson and George Jones.

A longtime social activist, Harris has lent her voice to many causes. She is active in cultural preservation issues, notably the Country Music Foundation and the Grand Ole Opry. As an animal rights activist and the owner of several dogs and cats, Emmylou also supports PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) and the Humane Society. Since 1997 she has been the most visible spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World, drawing public attention and notable musical artists to the cause.


LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS
 
MARY RIEPMA ROSS FILM THEATER
Intimate Strangers Continues Theatrical Run
 
Intimate Strangers

Patrice Leconte's 20th feature film Intimate Strangers is playing its final week at the Mary Riepma Ross film theater. The follow-up to his acclaimed Man on The Train is a provocative love story masked in the guise of a suspense thriller. A beautiful Parisian woman opens the wrong door and steps into a dizzying psychological mystery that will forever change two lives.

It all begins when the troubled Anna (Sandrine Bonnaire) makes a mistake on her way to visit a psychiatrist. Accidentally choosing the wrong office, she is greeted by William Faber (Fabrice Luchini) who, unbeknownst to Anna, is actually a mild-mannered tax accountant. Anna explains that she has arrived in a state of personal emergency, and, before William can protest, begins to expose the most intimate details of her marriage and sex life. Startled and secretly riveted, William does not have the heart to tell this distraught woman his true identity. Playing along with her misconception, he accepts another appointment as her therapist.

On her second visit, William tries his best to level with Anna, but gets nowhere. Desperate to undo his error, William even attempts to hunt Anna down, asking his neighbor, the psychiatrist she was supposed to see – Dr. Monnier (Michel Duchaussoy) – for her phone number, which only leads to William momentarily becoming a patient of the endlessly philosophical doctor. Disappearing into thin air, Anna becomes William's obsession. Then comes a third visit in which Anna, aware now of who William is, angrily confronts him with his ruse, accusing him of violating her trust and very being.

And yet ... she returns again. Soon, Anna and William have resumed their weekly appointments in spite of everything. Neither can resist going forward with this most unusual, and seemingly fated, form of "therapy." William is moved and drawn out of his shell by hearing Anna's strange, juicy marital secrets – feeling he is at last privy to the things men almost never hear. Meanwhile, the more Anna talks, the more her anxiety begins to lift – as she realizes she has met a man who can listen like no one else she has ever encountered.

Yet when their sessions probe deeper, William becomes suspicious. Who is this woman who speaks of crippling accidents and controlling husbands? Is she in danger? Is she dangerous? Is she lying? William's own motivations are equally suspect. Does he think he can rescue Anna? Is he simply getting a voyeuristic thrill from her? Or is he on the verge of falling perilously in love?

In a winding game of psychological cat-and-mouse, Anna and William chase each other into places neither one ever expected - and form a bond of trust that will change one another, encounter by encounter, into new people.

MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER | INTIMATE STRANGERS
 
lecture circuit  
116 L.W. CHASE HALL, 3:30PM
School of Natural Resources Seminar - 'Fall Migration Ecology of Shorebirds Through the Mississippi Valley'
David Krementz, University of Arkansas

E103 BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Biotechnology/Life Sciences Seminar
Dr. Tianwin Lin, Scripps Research Institute, LaJolla, California