Thu, Oct 26, 2006
October 26, 2006
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 6:30PM
UNL Concert Choir Gives Recital
Starting at 6:30 p.m. this evening at Kimball Recital Hall, the UNL Concert Choir and All-Collegiate Choir will perform in a concert of vocal music featuring a variety of works. Their performances will include Carl Orff's popular Carmina Burana.
Tickets for the performance are $5 general admission or $3 students / senior citizen and will be available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
110 HAMILTON HALL, 3:30PM
School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series - "Human Herpesvirus and Host Interactions"
Luwen Zhang, Biological Sciences, UNL
ANDREWS HALL, 3:30PM
Women's and Gender Studies Fall Colloquium Series 2006 - "Pink Icing and Island Blues: a reading by Pam Mordecai"
Jamaican-born Poet and Scholar, Dr. Pamela Mordecai
OTHMER HALL, 3:30PM
Engineering Mechanics Seminar Series - "Multiscale modeling of transdermal drug delivery"
Peter M. Pinsky, Chair, Division of Mechanics and Computation, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, in 105 Othmer Hall. Preceded at 3 p.m. by a reception in W317.1 Nebraska Hall
NEBRASKA UNION, 4PM
Medieval/Renaissance Program's Lecture Series - "The Historical Relationship Between Christians, Jews, and Muslims"
James Shapiro
STUDIO THEATRE, TEMPLE BUILDING, 7:30PM
University Theatre Presents Premier of Broadcast
UNL's Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film's University Theatre and the School of Music present the premier of Broadcast, a new musical about the early history of radio with music by Scott Murphy and book & lyrics by Nathan Christensen. Performances are in the Lied Center's Johnny Carson Theater October 26, 27 at 7:30 p.m. and October 28 and 29 at both 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $16, $14 faculty/staff and senior citizens, and $10 students with ID. 4-Admission Season Passes are $50, $40 faculty/staff and senior citizens. Tickets and passes are available at the Lied Center Ticket Office, 301 North 12th Street or by credit card at 402-472-4747 or 800-432-3231 Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
The show's story spans 1901 to 1950, when visionaries and skeptics dealt with the new world of global possibilities sparked by the evolution of wireless communication. The audience will meet a wide variety of characters at pivotal moments in their lives forever changed by the presence of radio. As the characters so succinctly summarize: "The sound of a new age of history. You wanna listen? Freedom to choose if you think about it. Miracles at the touch of a dial." In 2005, Broadcast won the Daryl Roth Award, the Jonathan Larson Award, and the Richard Rodgers Award.
The production is directed by Coordinator of Musical Theatre Studies, Alisa Belflower, musically directed by Assistant Professor Therees Hibbard, choreographed by guest artist, Daniel Kubert, and designed by Associate Professor Wenhai Ma (scenic), alum Jeff O'Brien (sound), graduate student Cassie Vorbach (lighting-thesis project), and undergraduate Joy Barlean (costumes).
UNL THEATRE ARTS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Science Of Sleep, Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields And Crossroads Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Science Of Sleep and Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields And Crossroads. Both films will be showing through October 26.
The Science Of Sleep, a playful romantic fantasy set inside the topsy-turvy brain of Stephane Miroux (Gael Garcia Bernal) an eccentric young man whose dreams constantly invade his waking life. While slumbering, he is the charismatic host of "Stephane TV," expounding on "The Science of Sleep" in front of cardboard cameras. In "real life," he has a boring job at a Parisian calendar publisher and pines for Stephanie (Charlotte Gainsbourg), the girl in the apartment across the hall. While Stephanie is initially charmed by Stephane, she is confused by his childishness and shaky connection to reality. Unable to find the secret to Stephanies heart while awake, Stephane searches for the answer in his dreams. Written and directed by Michel Gondry, the boundlessly inventive creator of award-winning films ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), music videos and commercials. The Science Of Sleep is a whimsical trip into a cut-and-paste wonderland fashioned from cardboard tubes, cellophane, and imagination.
After a childhood of playing cantinas and honky tonks from Texas to Tennessee, Los Lonely Boys rocked their way to the top of the American music industry, determined to fulfill their father’s long held dream. Los Lonely Boys: Cottonfields And Crossroads tells the story of three Mexican American brothers from San Angelo Texas who are creating a unique sound that melds the core of the early San Angelo music scene of the 1950s and 60s with a signature style they call "Texican." The film weaves a historical and cultural perspective on brothers Henry, JoJo and Ringo Garza, highlighting their Mexican American roots and musical influences. The Garza brothers come from a long line of working musicians-music has always been a way of life for them. Like work in the cotton fields, music brought the family a means of survival. The film traces the early days as the young family band cuts its teeth learning from their father as they play in country bars and Mexican cantinas in and around San Angelo, Texas. The film travels with them to Nashville where they endure turmoil and heartbreak. These life experiences captured so eloquently by Galan's camera reveal a compelling portrait of a young band of brothers who against all odds, break out of poverty and find the American rock n roll dream.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP | LOS LONELY BOYS: COTTONFIELDS AND CROSSROADS
