Tue, Feb 06, 2007
February 6, 2007
SAINT PAUL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 7:30PM
UNL Combined Choirs Present "Music For Grand Spaces"
The combined choirs of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln School of Music will come together for a concert entitled Music for Grand Spaces. Under the direction of Dr. Peter A. Eklund, Dr. Rhonda J. Fuelberth, Dr. Therees T. Hibbard, and graduate student Sean M. Burton, the voices of the All-Collegiate Chorus, Concert Choir, Chamber Singers, University Chorale, University Singers, and the Varsity Men's Chorus will rise up in song featuring works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Rosephanye Powell, and Eric Whitacre. Featured works will include "Sanctus" for Requiem by Gabriel Faure, and Magnificat by A. Michael Brewer as well as a host of choral works to stir the hears of the audience.
This concert is FREE and open to the public.
SCHOOL OF MUSIC
BEADLE CENTER, 4PM
Center for Biological Chemistry & Redox Biology Center Seminar - "Carrying Coals to Newcastle: Structure and Function of PutA and Proline Dehydrogenases"
Dr. Jack Tanner, University of Missouri-Columbia Chemistry Department
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 29
Sheldon Exhibit to Focus on Relationship Between Comic, High Art
Drawn from the permanent collection and loans from collectors, "Comic Art," a new exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, plots the relationship between comic and high art.
Chris Ware, one of the leading comic artists in the United States today, has written an essay for the gallery guide to the exhibition. In it, he shares his views on the place that comic art occupies in American culture and in the high art world today. The exhibition, on view from Feb. 6 through April 29, will include works from Enrique Chagoya, Jon E. Gierlich and S. Clay Wilson, Howard Finster, Red Grooms, Philip Guston, George Herriman, Roger Shimomura, Saul Steinberg, Art Spiegelman and Walt Kelly, among many others. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Black Gold, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Black Gold and Volver. Black Gold will play through February 8, while Volver, shows through February 15.
"In an increasingly global economy, where the profit margins of huge multinational coffee companies continue to rise, prices paid for coffee harvests have reached an all-time low, forcing farmers in some of the world's poorest countries to abandon their once bountiful fields. Among the hardest hit by the devastating effects of this crisis is Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee. Tadesse Meskela is one man on a mission to bring a fair-trade market to the more than 70,000 struggling farmers whom he represents. As these hard-working people strive to keep the rich cultural heritage of their country intact by continuing to harvest some of the highest-quality coffee beans available, Tadesse travels the world in an attempt to find a fair price for the fruits of their labor. This seemingly Sisyphean endeavor takes him on an international journey to some of the biggest coffee marketplaces in the world, where he discovers that there are no easy solutions for the trade issues facing his impoverished countrymen. Black Gold is a moving and eye-opening look into the 80-billion-dollar global coffee industry, whose spoils are sparsely shared with the farmers who make it all possible." - Sundance Film Festival
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.
