Mon, Jan 22, 2007
January 22, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents Evening of Jazz
Paul Haar will present an evening of jazz, featuring such hits as "Fried Bananas" by Dexter Gordon and based on "I Could Happen to You" by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen, "Trois Petit Pas" by Peter Bouffard based on John Coltrane's "Giant Steps," "Thing In" by Lee Konitz based on Jerome Kern's "All the Things You Are" and so many more. Taking the stage with Paul will be Tom Larson, piano, Peter Bouffard, guitar, Rusty White, bass, and Steven Helfand, drums.
Tickets are $5 general admission, $3 for students and seniors and will be available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
SHELDON ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 1
'Architect's Brother' Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Art Gallery
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's "The Architect's Brother" continues at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition features 42 large-scale, mixed-media images creating a mythical world that mirrors ours, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The show will be on view through April 1.
The exhibition considers the state, and possible fate, of the Earth. The ParkeHarrisons came of age in a United States newly altered by environmental awareness, which encouraged personal and cultural commentary by artists. They conjure a destiny in which humankind's overuse of the land has led to environments spent and abandoned with the exception of one indefatigable spirit, portrayed by Robert ParkeHarrison. The protagonist takes up ironic and often futile tasks of preservation or renewal amid landscapes spent and abandoned either because of war or industrial intrusion.more...
SHELDON ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland Shows at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland. It will play through February 1.
In The Last King of Scotland, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
MacDonald, director of the acclaimed documentaries One Day In September and Touching The Void, makes a startlingly assured transition into fictional filmmaking with The Last King of Scotland. Working with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle (The Celebration) and editor Justine Wright, MacDonald brings 1970s Uganda to pulsating life, perfectly recreating that tumultuous era. But ultimately the film belongs to Whitaker: as he shifts from charming to maniacal in the space of a short, unexpected breath, he infuses Amin with startling humanity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
