Mon, Jan 29, 2007
January 29, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents "Celebration of American Song: Richard Rodgers"
The School of Music presents the third annual Celebration of American Song at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 29 in Kimball Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus. The American composer Richard Rodgers will be celebrated in an evening of song performed by the School of Music's voice faculty.
Faculty performers include Alisa Belflower, Kate Butler, Ariel Bybee, Kevin Hanrahan, Donna Harler-Smith, William Shomos and Therees Hibbard (choral). Also performing will be UNL's advanced vocal students and returning alumni. Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for students and seniors and are only available at the door. The show is presented in two acts with an approximate running time of 90 minutes.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
TRIPLES ARCHIVES' COLLECTION OF CATHER LETTERS
Family Donates Hundreds of Willa Cather Letters to UNL Libraries
A new collection containing a large amount of Willa Cather's personal correspondence was donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The collection of more than 350 letters is the largest ever donated and triples the University Archives' collection of Cather letters. The correspondence also opens new doors to Cather's life.
"The letters and other materials donated are previously unknown resources for Cather scholars to study. I firmly believe that the Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection will change the face of Cather scholarship, and the University Libraries are honored to be entrusted with the materials," said Katherine Walter, chair of Digital Initiatives and Special Collections and co-chair of the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at UNL. more...
UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland and Volver. The Last King of Scotland will play through February 1, while Volver, shows through February 15.
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.
Volver is not a surreal comedy, though it might seem so at times. The living and the dead live together without problems, but provoking hilarious situations and others full of deep and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my native region, La Mancha. My folks there live it in astonishing simplicity. The way in which the dead are still present in their lifes, the richness and humanity of their rites makes it possible for the dead to never really die. Volver shatters all cliches of a dark Spain and shows a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white Spain, spontaneous, fun, fearless, fair and with solidarity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
