Tue, Jan 30, 2007
January 30, 2007
KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, 7:30PM
School of Music Presents Brahms Sonatas Performance
The School of Music presents the Complete Sonatas for Violoncello and Piano by composer Johannes Brahms at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 29 in Kimball Recital Hall on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus. Faculty artists Paul Barnes, piano, and Gregory Beaver, cello, will perform in this concert featuring Sonata in E Minor, Op. 38 (1865) and Sonata in F Major, Op. 99 (1886).
Tickets are $5 general admission and $3 student/senior, and will be available at the door approx. one hour before the performance.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
RUNS THROUGH MARCH 31
Ceramics from China, Japan, Korea' Continues at Lentz Center
"Ceramics from China, Japan and Korea" will be the 2007 spring show at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture. "The center has been celebrating its 20th anniversary since September. For this reason, and because china is the traditional (albeit a western tradition) 20th anniversary gift, it seemed a good time to pair the two and extend our celebration into 2007," said Barbara Banks, curator/director of the Lentz Center.
The show, which will run through March 31, will include the Lentz Center's extensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, and also feature Korean ceramics dating from the 14th through the 19th centuries that are on loan from the University of Nebraska State Museum. more...
LENTZ CENTER
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.
