March 31, 2005
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LIED CENTER, 7:30PM
Pianist Hersch Sets Whitman to Music
Walt Whitman's masterwork Leaves of Grass inspired jazz pianist Fred Hersch to set parts of the work to music. Hersch and his jazz ensemble present his work at a 7:30 pm concert March 31 at the Lied Center. The performance is presented in conjunction with the "Leaves of Grass 150th Anniversary Conference," March 31 through April 2, hosted by UNL.
Long inspired by the poetry of Walt Whitman, Hersch knew it would not be practical to set the entire 600-plus pages of Leaves of Grass to music. Instead, he selected a few entire poems that were particularly moving to him; he drew passages from other poems. Some of the musical pieces Hersch composed do not use Whitman's words at all, but were inspired by the mood of a particular poem. The finished works - written for instrumental octet and two vocalists - were released on CD last month.
Tom Larson, instructor with the UNL School of Music, and Kenneth Price, Hillegass professor of English at UNL, will give a pre-performance talk in the Lied's Steinhart Room 30 minutes prior to curtain.
Tickets are are $32/$27/$22, half price for students. Call 472-4747 for tickets.
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BETWEEN 10 AND 11AM
Don't be Alarmed: Severe Weather Exercise
Today
Sirens will sound at UNL this morning
between 10 and 11am. The exercise is part of Severe Weather Awareness
Week, which runs through April 1. The National Weather Service and
emergency service agencies for Lincoln and Lancaster County sponsor
the statewide Severe Weather Awareness Week each year to foster awareness
of the upcoming tornado season and to test tornado-warning systems
statewide.
At the time of the mock severe weather warning on campus, a simulated
watch message will go out on radio and TV stations statewide. If
this were an actual watch message, it would mean that conditions
were right for possible tornado activity and you should remain alert.
UNL will participate with Emergency Services for Lincoln/Lancaster
County and test its systems when the outdoor sirens are sounded.
All faculty, staff and students should familiarize themselves with
the locations of their designated shelters and the procedures to
follow should UNL be struck by a tornado.
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UNL CAMPUS, MARCH 31 - APRIL 2
UNL Hosting Whitman 105th Anniversary Event
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
will play host to an international event, the Leaves
of Grass 150th
Anniversary Conference, March 31 through April 2. The conference
will draw upon the expertise of more than two dozen distinguished
Walt Whitman and American literature experts, writers and musicians.
"The 150th anniversary conference is a major event in Whitman scholarship, bringing together the world's leading experts on the poet and helping to solidify Nebraska's role as a central location for Whitman studies," said Kenneth Price, Hillegass professor of American literature at UNL.
"Leaves of Grass is the founding book of American literary democracy," Price said. "Before Whitman, America was politically independent but culturally bound to British fashions and traditions."
Directors for the conference in addition to Price are Susan Belasco, professor of English at UNL, and Ed Folsom, Carver professor of English at the University of Iowa and the keynote speaker for the conference.
For detailed information about the conference, including registration and lodging information, biographical information on conference speakers and presenters and the full schedule of events, visit the conference web site. Students may attend scheduled events on a space-available basis.
LEAVES OF GRASS 150TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE
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HOWELL THEATRE, 7:30PM
UNL's University Theatre to Produce The Voice Of The Prairie
UNL Theatre's University Theatre completes its 2004-2005 season with a play about the development of radio in the Midwest by John Olive. The Voice Of The Prairie performances are in Howell Theatre, first floor Temple Building at 12th & R Streets, March 31, April 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $14 regular, $12 faculty/staff and senior citizen, and $10 student/youth. Tickets are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 N. 12th Street, 472-4747 or 800-432-3231, 11:00 AM to 5:30 PM Monday through Friday and one hour prior to performance in the Howell Theatre lobby.
This John Olive story begins when radio is first heard across America and tells of a teenage orphan, his youthful adventures with a spirited blind girl and their bittersweet reunion later in life. Radio and storytelling play an essential role in this vibrantly dramatic exploration of memory, fear, laughter and hope. The Voice Of The Prairie is a wonderful tribute to the art of theatrical storytelling with three actors portraying many colorful characters.
This production of The Voice Of The Prairie has been invited to the internationally acclaimed Podium Festival in Moscow, Russia in late April. In early May, this production will travel across Nebraska. Director, Associate Professor Virginia Smith, who directed the October production of Medea for University Theatre, says, "The Voice Of The Prairie is a tribute to the energy and ingenuity of the American spirit; part con artist, part dreamer. It's about rules and regulations losing, and dreamers and lovers winning. It's about the magic of radio and the transcendent power of storytelling."
Smith continued, "The Voice Of The Prairie is truly an actor's piece. Two MFA graduate and one undergraduate actors play nearly a dozen characters bouncing back and forth in time from a free wheeling
adventure in the 1890s to the 1920s and the first days of radio. Think of Garrison Keillor spinning yarns on The Prairie Home Companion and then imagine gathering in the parlor with all your neighbors listening to the adventures of Davey Quinn and Frankie the Blind Girl."
The actors are Ja'nelle Taylor and Andrew Beck, both members of the MFA Professional Actor Training Program and undergraduate theatre major Jordan Warren. Scenic design is by graduate student Stori Lauritzen with costumes by graduate student Cate Wieck. Graduate students Erik Vose and Mike Legate design lighting and sound, respectively.
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ROOM 11, HOME EC BUILDING, EAST CAMPUS, 11:30AM
International Quilt Study Center Lecture - 'The First Art Quilts: The Aesthetic Movement and Late-Victorian Fancy Quilts'
Dr. Virginia Gunn, noted costume and textile historian
210 FILLEY HALL, 1:15PM
School of Natural Resources / Water Center Lecture -
'Measuring the Relative Importance of Capital Investment, Land Reallocation, and Management Changes on Water Conservation'
Karina Schoengold, University of California at Berkeley
110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar
Stefan Schnitzer, Univ. of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
115 AVERY HALL, 4PM
Computer Science & Engineering Lecture
David S. Rosenblum, University College, London
KRUGER GALLERY, 4:30PM
Opening reception and lecture in conjunction with 'A Global View of Interior Design'
Susan S. Szenasy, editor in chief of Metropolis Magazine, followed by a reception
NEBRASKA UNION, 8PM
Sigma Xi Public Lecture on Science and Science Issues -
'Chiral Drugs: The Jekyl/Hyde Behavior of These Molecules in Biological Systems'
Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University Sponsored by Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society, UNL Chapter
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